Team > Dr. Sofia Rüdiger

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Englische Sprachwissenschaft

CV

Academic Career

Education

Guest Lectures, Invited Talks & Keynotes

• "Eating for Your Pleasure – Exploring the Genre of Eating Shows" (keynote), May 22, 67. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, University of Bayreuth, Germany (conducted virtually).
• "Travel Around the World with English – An Introduction to World Englishes" (guest lecture), October 9, 2019, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by Prof. Dr. Yun-Pi Yuan.
• "World Englishes Research Goes East Asia – South Korea and Taiwan" (guest lecture), October 7, 2019, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by Prof. Dr. Yun-Pi Yuan.
• "From English in Korea to Eating Shows on YouTube - My Life as a Linguist" (guest lecture), October 3, 2019, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by Prof. Dr. Ming-i Lydia Tseng.
• "Corpus Compilation for World Englishes" (invited workshop), October 2, 2019, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by the Department of English Language and Literature.
• "Using English in Korea - K-Pop, English Fever, and Konglish", University of Bamberg, Germany, invited by Dr. Valentin Werner for the Linguistische Werkstatt, January 23, 2019. (guest lecture)
• "Modelling World Englishes: A Case Study of South Korea", University of Regensburg, Germany, invited by Dr. Sarah Buschfeld and Prof. Dr. Edgar Schneider, June 11, 2018. (guest lecture)
• "More Than Just K-Pop: Forms and Functions of English in South Korea", University of Basel, Switzerland, invited by Prof. Dr. Miriam Locher, 6 March, 2018. (guest lecture)
• "Language Contact in South Korea: Keuriseumaseu Keikeu, Karol, and Teuri (with Best Wishes from Santa Harabeoji)", LMU Munich, Germany, invited by Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hackert, 20 December, 2017. (guest lecture)
• "More Than Meets the Eye: English in South Korea", TU Dresden, Germany, invited by Dr. des. Sven Leuckert, 1 December, 2017. (guest lecture)
• "Language Contact in Outer Space: Code-Switching on Firefly" and "The Korean Writing System", TU Dresden, Germany, invited by Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange, 29 November, 2017. (guest lectures)
• "Spoken English in South Korea: A Corpus-Based Investigation", University of Oxford, Hertford College, UK, invited by Dr. Jieun Kiaer, 23 February, 2016. (guest lecture)
• "Meri Keuriseumaseu and Santa Harabeoji: English in South Korea", University of Bayreuth, Germany, invited by faculty student council (Fachschaft), 17 December, 2015. (Christmas lecture)
• "English in Korea", Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Medellin, Columbia, invited by Dr. Raúl Mora, 3 May, 2013. (guest lecture via Skype)

Presentations at Conferences

2020

• "Persuasive Language and the Discourse of Seduction Gurus" (with Daria Dayter), November 20-21, Influence, Manipulation & Seduction - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, Basel, Switzerland/Online.
• "Chewing, Swallowing, and Enjoying Your Food: Eating as Entertainment for Others" (data session), January 30-31, Facial Gestures in Interaction, Bayreuth, Germany.

2019

• "Fresh Science, Science Buffs, and Exclusive Science Classes - A Discourse Analysis of Travel Advertising in a Popular Science Magazine", September 26-28, 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Bamberg, Germany.
• "Digital Food Talk: Blurring Immediacy and Distance in YouTube Eating Shows", September 22-25, Anglistentag 2019, Leipzig, Germany.
• "Doing a Dinner Conversation…By Yourself – The Performance of Informality in YouTube Eating Shows", June 9-14, 16^th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Hong Kong.
• "Eating Shows on YouTube as Digital Artifacts: Food Discourses Online", February 12-14, Ethnography with a Twist, Jyväskylä, Finland. (poster; funded by WiN-UBT).

2018

• "Iceberg Ahead: Self-Praise in Online and Offline Discourse" (presentation; with Daria Dayter), September 6-8, Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics (ICS2), Budapest, Hungary.
• "'Lots of Alcohol They Have' - Information Packaging Constructions in Spoken Korean(ized) English" (presentation; with Sven Leuckert), July 17-20, ISLE 5, London, UK.
• "In like South Korea: The Use of Like in Korean English Speech" at ICAME 39, Tampere, Finland, May 30-June 3. (presentation; funded by Stabsabteilung Chancengleichheit - Gleichstellungsmittel)
• "Dinner for One: The Use of Language in Eating Shows on YouTube" at Talking about Food - Local & Global Contexts, Bayreuth, Germany, 27-28 April 2018. (presentation)

2017

• "Designing SKATE: Investigating South Korean Attitudes Towards English" at ISLE Summer School - Variation in World Englishes: Advanced Issues in Theory and Methodology, Regensburg, Germany, 4-7 October 2017. (presentation)
• "Fantastic Variants and Where to Find Them: A Descriptive Account of the English Spoken by Koreans" at 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (7BICLCE2017), Vigo, Spain, 28-30 September 2017. (presentation; funded by German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD)
• "Non-Canonical Syntax in Spoken Korean(ized) English" at NoCaSynE - New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English, Dresden, Germany, 1-3 September 2017. (presentation; with Sven Leuckert)
• "Killer Hugs, Mad Skills and No One Trick Ponies: Self-Presentation on Pick-up Artists' Online Forums" at 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-21 July 2017. (presentation; with Daria Dayter; funded by Stabsabteilung Chancengleichheit - Gleichstellungsmittel)
• "Acceptable Variants, Uneducated Usage and Markers of Deficiency - Language Variation in the Field of World Englishes" at Dynamik - Variation - System, Münster, Germany, 2-4 June 2017. (presentation)
• "Preposition Overload? Examining the Use of Prepositions by Korean Speakers of English" at ICAME 38 - Corpus et Orbis: Interpreting the World through Corpora, Prague, Czech Republic, 24-28 May 2017. (presentation)

2016

• "Morpho-Syntactic Patterns of Spoken English in an Expanding Circle Context" at ISLE 4 - English in a Multilingual World: Challenges and Perspectives, Poznan, Poland, 18-21 September 2016. (presentation; funded by University of Bayreuth Graduate School )
• "Spoken English in Korea" at Language and Space Summer School, Kloster Kappel, Switzerland, 04-09 September 2016. (pecha kucha presentation; funded by Stabsabteilung Chancengleichheit - Gleichstellungsmittel)
• "Online Reports of Seduction - When Your Informants Don't Trust You" at Social Media & Society, London, UK, 11-13 July 2016. (poster; with Daria Dayter)
• "Spoken Korean English - The Morpho-Syntactic Dimension" at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain, 15-18 June 2016. (presentation; funded by German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD)

2015

• "Cuppa Coffee? Challenges and opportunities of compiling a conversational English corpus in an Expanding Circle setting" at MaLT (Methods and Linguistics Theories), Bamberg, Germany, 27-28 November 2015. (presentation)
• "Many Friend and A Lot of Thing: The Reduction of Plural Redundancy in Spoken Korean English" at IAWE 2015 - World Englishes: Bridging Cultures and Contexts, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-10 October 2015. (presentation)
• "Language in an Online Community of Pick-up Artists: Reconstructing Experience" at The Ethics of Online Research Methods (BAAL Language and New Media SIG Workshop), Cardiff, UK, 16-17 April 2015. (presentation; with Daria Dayter) 

2014

• "Konglish - What it is and what it isn't" at IAWE 2014 - Asian Contexts and World Englishes, Delhi, India, 18-20 December 2014. (presentation; funded by German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD)
• "Compiling the Corpus of Spoken Korean English" at Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), Bamberg, Germany, 26 September 2014. (presentation)
• "Explaining Emerging Patterns: A Corpus-Based Study of the Koreanization of English" at ISLE 3 - Building Bridges: Inter- and Intradisciplinary Research, Zurich, Switzerland, 24-27 August 2014. (poster; recipient of an ISLE travel bursary)

2013

• "Emerging Patterns of Korean English" at IAWE 2013 - World Englishes in the Multilingual World, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 16-18 November 2013. (presentation; funded by University of Bayreuth Graduate School)
• "Emerging Patterns of Spoken Korean English" at Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), Regensburg, Germany, 20 September 2013. (presentation)
• "Speak your mind but watch your mouth: complaints in CouchSurfing references" at Facework and Social Media, Hildesheim, Germany, 23-25 May 2013. (presentation; with Daria Dayter)
• "Spoken Korean English or English as Spoken in Korea?" at ISLE Spring School - Englishes in a Multilingual World: New Dynamics of Variation, Contact and Change, Freiburg, Germany, 15-19 April 2013. (poster and presentation)

2012

• "English Loanwords in Korean: Using English Words Is Cool?" at IAWE 2012 - World Englishes: Contexts, Challenges and Opportunities, Hong Kong / Guangzhou, China, 06-09 December 2012. (presentation)
• "English in Korea: Nativized Variety or Learners’ English?” at Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), Augsburg, Germany, 28 September 2012. (presentation)
• "Welkum to Cheezeland: Linguistic Features of lolspeak and its Relation to Attitudes and Identity” at Language and Social Media - New Challenges for Research and Teaching Linguistics (BAAL/CUP), Leicester, UK, 26-27 April 2012. (poster)

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Englische Sprachwissenschaft

• World Englishes and Variational Linguistics 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
  
• Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Language Contact, Code-Switching, Lexical Borrowing
• Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
• Syntax and Morphology, Non-Canonical Syntax
• Corpus Linguistics, Spoken Language Corpora, Corpus Construction
• Discourse Analysis
• Language and Food, Linguistic & Digital Ethnography
  

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Englische Sprachwissenschaft

Publications

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Englische Sprachwissenschaft

Dr. Sofia Rüdiger
Akademische Rätin a.Z.

Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Universitätsstr. 30

Building: GW I
Room: 0.10

95447 Bayreuth
​Germany

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3528
E-mail: sofia.ruediger@uni-bayreuth.de
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