Prof. Dr. Sofia Rüdiger

• World Englishes/Varieties of English with a particular focus on Asian Englishes, English in South Korea, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
• Pragmatics, Complaints and Complaint Responses, Historical Pragmatics, Persuasive Language, Language and Identity
• Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Language Contact, Code-Switching, Lexical Borrowing
• Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Digital Discourse Analysis
• Syntax and Morphology, Non-Canonical Syntax
• Corpus Linguistics, Spoken Language Corpora, Corpus Construction
• Language and Food, Linguistic & Digital Ethnography

Projektleitung: 

• 2023-2026 | „The Discursive Construction of Eating as Entertainment: Carnivalesque Consumption in the Digital Sphere” (DFG-Sachbeihilfe, RU 2369/3-1)

Monographs

• Rüdiger, Sofia & Alex Baratta. 2025. Transnational Korean Englishes [Elements in World Englishes]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009519366
• Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2022. The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry. London/New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003041313
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2019. Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English [Varieties of English Around the World 62]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g62

Herausgeberschaft

• Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger & Tobias Bernaisch, eds. 2026. Evolving Englishes: Varieties through Space and Time. London/New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003522041 
• Rüdiger, Sofia, Sven Leuckert & Jakob Leimgruber, eds. 2025. World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse [Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes]. London: Bloomsbury.
• Mühleisen, Susanne & Sofia Rüdiger, eds. 2025. Focus on Language and Food. Special Issue of Anglistik 36(2). https://angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2025/2 (OA)
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter, eds. 2025. Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009105194
• Rüdiger, Sofia, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld, eds. 2025. World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Lee, Jerry Won & Sofia Rüdiger, eds. 2025. Entangled Englishes. London/New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003441304
• Pfadenhauer, Katrin, Sofia Rüdiger & Valentina Serreli, eds. 2024. Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact [Contact and Multilingualism 7]. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10438503
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Claudia Lange, eds. 2023. The Language of Science Fiction. Special Issue of Linguistics Vanguard 9(3). https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lingvan/9/s3/html
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen, eds. 2022. Formality and Informality in Online Performances. Special Issue of Internet Pragmatics 5(1). https://benjamins.com/catalog/ip.5.1
• Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger, eds. 2021. Discourse Markers and World Englishes. Special Issue of World Englishes 40(4). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467971x/2021/40/4
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter, eds. 2020. Corpus Approaches to Social Media [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen, eds. 2020. Talking About Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 47]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47 

Zeitschriftenbeiträge (mit Peer-Review)

• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter. 2026. "Affective Practices in Asynchronous Eating Shows: Co-Constructing Taste and Food Evaluation." Internet Pragmatics 9(1): 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00137.rud 
• Pham, Teresa, Sven Leuckert, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Christine Günther, Kathrin Kircili, Claudia Lange, Theresa Neumaier, Louise Mycock & Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Defining Non-Canonicity: An Integrated Approach to Modelling Syntactic Variation." Anglistik 36(3): 177-209. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2025/3/15 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2025. "Let’s Eat Together: Participation Frameworks in Multi-Party Asynchronous Eating Shows." Anglistik 36(2): 107-127. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2025/2/9
• Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Problematising Expressives: The Case of Magical Affirmations in the Pick-up Artist Paradigm." Journal of Pragmatics 241: 30-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.005
• Rüdiger, Sofia, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber & Ming-i Lydia Tseng. 2023. "English in Taiwan: Expanding the Scope of Corpus-Based Research on East Asian Englishes." English Today 39(2): 100-109.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078422000062
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2022. “Intimate Consumptions: YouTube Eating Shows and the Performance of Informality." Internet Pragmatics 5(1): 115-142. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00070.rud
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021. "Digital Food Talk: Blurring Immediacy and Distance in YouTube Eating Shows." Anglistik 32(2): 111-130. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/2/9
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021. "The Use of Like in Korean English Speech." World Englishes 40(4): 548-561. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12540
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter. 2020. "Manbragging Online: Self-Praise on Pick-Up Artists’ Forums." Journal of Pragmatics 161: 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.02.012
• Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. "Non-Canonical Syntax in an Expanding Circle Variety: Fronting in Spoken Korean(ized) English." English World-Wide 41(1): 33-58. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00039.leu
• Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2019. "In Other Words: ‘The Language of Attraction’ Used by Pick-Up Artists." English Today 35(2): 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026607841800007X
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2018. "Mixed Feelings: Attitudes towards English Loanwords and Their Use in South Korea." Open Linguistics 4(1): 184-198. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0010
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter. 2017. "The Ethics of Researching Unlikeable Subjects: Language in an Online Community." Applied Linguistics Review 8(2/3): 251-269. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2016-1038
• Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2016. "Reporting from the Field: The Narrative Reconstruction of Experience in Pick-Up Artist Online Communities." Open Linguistics 2(1): 337-351. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0016
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2014. "The Nativization of English in the Korean Context: Uncharted Territory for World Englishes." English Today 30(4): 11-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078414000340

Beiträge in Sammelbänden (mit Peer-Review)

• Gerhardt, Cornelia & Sofia Rüdiger. 2026. "Food and Language." In: Megan Elias, ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Food Studies. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197859100.003.0062 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2026.  "English in Korea." In: Hickey, Raymond, ed. New Cambridge History of the English Language: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 175-201. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009748148.010 
• Neumaier, Theresa & Sofia Rüdiger. 2026. "Books About Birds: Describing Birds from 1840 to 2000." In: Sven Leuckert, Tobias Bernaisch & Sofia Rüdiger, eds. Evolving Englishes: Varieties Through Time and Space. London/New York: Routledge. 46-63.
• Pham, Teresa, Christine Günther, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Kathrin Kircili, Sven Leuckert, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier & Sofia Rüdiger. 2026. “One of the greatest Indian ornithologist: A corpus-based study of number variation in partitives in regional Indian newspaper Englishes.” In: Sven Leuckert, Tobias Bernaisch & Sofia Rüdiger, eds. Evolving Englishes: Varieties Through Time and Space. London/New York: Routledge. 163-184.
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Sven Leuckert. 2025. "Valuing (Asian) Englishes on YouTube: Using Video Comments for World Englishes Research." In: Rüdiger, Sofia, Sven Leuckert & Jakob Leimgruber, eds. World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. London: Bloomsbury. 175-198.
• Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Talking About (Non-)Canonicity: A Study of Linguistic Terminology." In: Leuckert, Sven & Teresa Pham, eds. Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 14-39.
• Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. & Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Discourse-Pragmatic like in East Asian Englishes: Focus on Taiwan." In: Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein & Manuela Vida-Mannl, eds. World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 317-334. doi.org/10.1075/hsld.9.14lei
• Mühleisen, Susanne & Sofia Rüdiger. 2024. "Wer kocht hier eigentlich? Kochshows und Participation Frameworks im digitalen Raum." In: Diemer, Stefan, ed. Sprache und Essen: Ansichten einer linguistischen Kulinaristik [Jahrbuch Kulinaristik 6]. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 19-37. https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826077371-sprache-und-essen/ 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2023. "English in Korea—Korean English—A World Englishes Perspective." In: Chapelle, Carol A., ed. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20141 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021. "Non-Postcolonial Englishes in East Asia: Focus on Korean Popular Music.” In: Schneider, Britta & Theresa Heyd, eds. World Englishes – Volume 1: Paradigms. London: Bloomsbury. 207-223. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350065833.0021 
• Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. "Talking About Women: Elicitation, Manual Tagging, and Semantic Tagging in a Study of Pick-Up Artists’ Referential Strategies." In: Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter, eds. Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 63-86. doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.03day
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2020. "English in South Korea: Applying the EIF Model." In: Buschfeld, Sarah & Alexander Kautzsch, eds. Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach Towards Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Varieties. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 154-178. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv1453j9w.13 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2020."Dinner for One: The Use of Language in Eating Shows on YouTube." In: Rüdiger, Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen, eds. Talking About Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47.08rud 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2017. "Spoken English in Korea: An Expanding Circle English Revisited." In: Jenks, Christopher J. & Jerry Won Lee, eds. Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59788-1_4 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2016. "Cuppa Coffee? Challenges and Opportunities of Compiling a Conversational English Corpus in an Expanding Circle Setting." In: Christ, Hanna, Daniel Klenovšak, Lukas Sönning & Valentin Werner, eds. A Blend of MaLT: Selected Contributions from the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium 2015. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. 49-71.
• Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2014. "Speak Your Mind, but Watch Your Mouth: Complaints in CouchSurfing References." In: Bedijs, Kristina, Gudrun Held & Christiane Maaß, eds. Face Work and Social Media. Zürich/Berlin: LIT. 193-212.

Publikationen (ohne Peer-Review)

• Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber. 2025. "Englishes Online and Online Englishes." In: Rüdiger, Sofia, Sven Leuckert & Jakob Leimgruber, eds. World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. London: Bloomsbury. 1-11.
• Allgaier, Joachim, Tina Bartelmeß, Paulien Decorte, Rebecca Evans, Zeena Feldman, Melissa Fernandez, Francesca Forno, Katharina Graf, Rafi Grosglik, Dai-In Danny Han, Samantha L. Huey, Laura M. König, Jonatan Leer, Tania Lewis, Anders Kristian Munk, Maria Giovanna Onorati, Fabio Parasecoli, Stephanie R. Partridge, Maren C. Podszun, Sofia Rüdiger, Tanja Schneider, Gudrun Sproesser, Jan Wirsam & Martijn Zoet. 2025. "Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future." SocArXiv Papers [Preprint] https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pzmu5_v1
• Mühleisen, Susanne & Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. “Language and Food Research: Perspectives, Significance, and Outlook." Anglistik 36(2): 5-12. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2025/2/4
• Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Corpus Linguistics and Persuasion." In: Brookes, Gavin & David Wright, eds. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. Corpus Linguistics Section. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00488-9
• Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Persuasion and Influence in Linguistic Research." In: Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter, eds. Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3-18.
• Lee, Jerry Won & Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Introduction: Entangled Englishes." In: Jerry Won Lee & Sofia Rüdiger, eds. Entangled Englishes. London/New York: Routledge.
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter. 2025. "Decoding Persuasion: A Linguistic Journey Through Manipulation and Influence." Fifteen Eighty Four: Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press. Blog post.
• Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier & Sarah Buschfeld. 2025. "Synopsis: The Present and Future of the Dynamic Model." In: Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld, eds. World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 379-388.
• Neumaier, Theresa, Sven Leuckert, Sofia Rüdiger & Sarah Buschfeld. 2025. “Introduction: 20 Years of the Dynamic Model." In: Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld, eds. World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 3-21.
• Pham, Teresa, Sven Leuckert, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Christine Günther, Kathrin Kircili, Claudia Lange, Theresa Neumaier, Louise Mycock & Sofia Rüdiger. 2024. "Defining Non-Canonicity: An Integrated Approach to Modelling Syntactic Variation." OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/92zhg
• Pfadenhauer, Katrin, Sofia Rüdiger & Valentina Serreli. 2024. "Introduction." In: Pfadenhauer, Katrin, Sofia Rüdiger & Valentina Serreli, eds. Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact. Berlin: Language Science Press. iii–xi. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10497367
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Claudia Lange. 2023. “Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘The Language of Science Fiction.’” Linguistics Vanguard 9(3): 229-232. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0031
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen. 2022. “Introduction to the Special Issue: Formality and Informality in Online Performances." Internet Pragmatics 5(1): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00078.rud
• Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger. 2021. "Discourse Markers and World Englishes." World Englishes 40(4): 482-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12535
• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter. 2020. "Introduction: The Expanding Landscape of Corpus-Based Studies of Social Media Language." In: Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter, eds. Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.int
• Mühleisen, Susanne & Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. "Introduction: Food and Talk in Social Life." In: Rüdiger, Sofia & Susanne Mühleisen, eds. Talking About Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-11.

• Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter. 2019. "The Language of Pick-up Artists." Babel: The Language Magazine 27: 16-20. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47.01muh