Team > Dr. Sofia Rüdiger
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Englische Sprachwissenschaft
CV
Academic Career
since 2018 | Akademische Rätin a.Z. at the Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen), University of Bayreuth |
October 2019 | Visiting Researcher, Fu Jen University, Taiwan (funded by DFG) |
February - March 2018 | Visiting Scholar at English Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland (invited by Prof. Dr. Miriam Locher) |
2012 - 2018 | Research Assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen), University of Bayreuth |
Education
April 2012 - November 2017 | Phd, Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen), University of Bayreuth "Characterizing the Spoken Korean English Repertoire: Morpho-Syntactic Patterns of Korean(ized) English" (summa cum laude) Submitted: March 30, 2017; Defended: November 17, 2017 |
February - August 2011 | Exchange student, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea |
October 2009 - March 2012 | MA Intercultural Anglophone Studies, University of Bayreuth MA thesis: “English Loanwords in Korean” |
August 2007 - March 2008 | Exchange student, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea |
October 2005 - April 2010 | BA English Language & Literature (Anglistik) and Applied Computer Science BA thesis: “Politeness through Honorifics: A Study of Speech Levels among Korean Students in Bayreuth (Germany) and Korea” |
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, 16th 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, Experimental 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
Book/Monograph
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
publ: Rüdiger, Sofia; Dayter, Daria
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. - 210 pp. . - (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; 98)
doi:10.1075/scl.98 ...
Talking about Food : The Social and the Global in Eating Communities
publ: Rüdiger, Sofia; Mühleisen, Susanne
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2020. - 284 pp. . - (Impact; 47)
doi:10.1075/impact.47 ...
Rüdiger, Sofia
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2019. - XVI, 228 pp. . - (Varieties of English Around the World; G62)
Article in a journal (peer-reviewed)
Rüdiger, Sofia; Dayter, Daria
Manbragging online : Self-praise on pick-up artists' forums
in Journal of Pragmatics vol. 161 (2020) . - pp. 16-27
doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2020.02.012 ...
Leuckert, Sven; Rüdiger, Sofia
Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety : Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) Engl ...
in English World-Wide vol. 41 (2020) issue 1. - pp. 33-58
doi:10.1075/eww.00039.leu ...
Dayter, Daria; Rüdiger, Sofia
In Other Words : "The Language of Attraction" Used by Pick-up Artists
in English Today vol. 35 (2019) issue 2. - pp. 13-19
doi:10.1017/S026607841800007X ...
Rüdiger, Sofia
Mixed Feelings : Attitudes towards English loanwords and their use in South Korea
in Open Linguistics vol. 4 (2018) issue 1. - pp. 184-198
doi:10.1515/opli-2018-0010 ...
Rüdiger, Sofia; Dayter, Daria
The Ethics of Researching Unlikeable Subjects: Language in an Online Community
in Applied Linguistics Review vol. 8 (2017) issue 2/3. - pp. 251-269
doi:10.1515/applirev-2016-1038 ...
Dayter, Daria; Rüdiger, Sofia
Reporting from the Field : The Narrative Reconstruction of Experience in Pick-up Artist On ...
in Open Linguistics vol. 2 (2016) issue 1. - pp. 337-351
doi:10.1515/opli-2016-0016 ...
Rüdiger, Sofia
The Nativization of English in the Korean Context : Uncharted Territory for World Englishe ...
in English Today vol. 30 (2014) issue 4. - pp. 11-14
doi:10.1017/S0266078414000340 ...
Article in a journal (not peer-reviewed)
Rüdiger, Sofia; Dayter, Daria
The Language of Pick-up Artists
in Babel : the Language Magazine (2019) issue 27. - pp. 16-20
Article in a book (peer-reviewed)
Rüdiger, Sofia
Dinner for One : The Use of Language in Eating Shows on YouTube
In: Rüdiger, Sofia ; Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.): Talking about Food : The Social and the Global in Eating Communities - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020. - pp. 145-165 . - (Impact; 47)
doi:10.1075/impact.47.08rud ...
Rüdiger, Sofia
English in South Korea : Applying the EIF Model
In: Buschfeld, Sarah ; Kautzsch, Alexander (ed.): Modelling World Englishes : A Joint Approach towards Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Varieties - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. - pp. 154-178
Dayter, Daria; Rüdiger, Sofia
Talking about Women : Elicitation, Manual Tagging, and Semantic Tagging in a Study of Pick ...
In: Rüdiger, Sofia ; Dayter, Daria (ed.): Corpus Approaches to Social Media - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. - pp. 63-86 . - (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; 98)
doi:10.1075/scl.98.03day ...
Rüdiger, Sofia
Spoken English in Korea : An Expanding Circle English Revisited
In: Jenks, Christopher J. ; Lee, Jerry Won (ed.): Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts - Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. - pp. 75-92
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-59788-1_4 ...
Rüdiger, Sofia
Cuppa Coffee? : Challenges and Opportunities of Compiling a Conversational English Corpus ...
In: Christ, Hanna ; Klenovšak, Daniel ; Sönning, Lukas ; Werner, Valentin (ed.): A Blend of MaLT : Selected Contributions from the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium 2015 - Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2016. - pp. 49-71 . - (Bamberger Beiträge zur Linguistik; 15)
Dayter, Daria; Rüdiger, Sofia
Speak Your Mind, but Watch Your Mouth : Complaints in CouchSurfing References
In: Bedijs, Kristina ; Held, Gudrun ; Maaß, Christiane (ed.): Face Work and Social Media - Zürich ; Berlin: LIT, 2014. - pp. 193-212 . - (Hildesheimer Beiträge zur Medienforschung; 2)
Article in a book (not peer-reviewed)
Mühleisen, Susanne; Rüdiger, Sofia
Introduction : Food and Talk in Social Life
In: Rüdiger, Sofia ; Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.): Talking about Food : The Social and the Global in Eating Communities - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020. - pp. 1-11 . - (Impact; 47)
doi:10.1075/impact.47.01muh ...
Rüdiger, Sofia; Dayter, Daria
Introduction: The Expanding Landscape of Corpus-based Studies of Social Media Language
In: Rüdiger, Sofia ; Dayter, Daria (ed.): Corpus Approaches to Social Media - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. - pp. 1-12 . - (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; 98)
doi:10.1075/scl.98.int ...
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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