Sofia Rüdiger
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sofia Rüdiger is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
Formality and Informality in Online Performances
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 5:1 (2022) v, 195 pp.
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The contributions in Corpus Approaches to Social Media address technical,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] 2020. vi, 210 pp.
Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen
All humans eat and all humans speak – activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which contributes to establishing communities and identities. This… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 47] 2020. vi, 284 pp.
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English
Sofia Rüdiger
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.
2025 Chapter 14. Discourse-pragmatic like in East Asian Englishes: Focus on Taiwan World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.), pp. 317–334 | Chapter
The multilingual ecology of Taiwan includes the official language Mandarin, the vernaculars Hokkien and Hakka, as well as several Aboriginal Austronesian languages. In this context, English has emerged as an important additional language, not least in the education system. Research on English in… read more
2022 Intimate consumptions: YouTube eating shows and the performance of informality Formality and Informality in Online Performances, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 115–142 | Article
In this paper, I investigate how the structure of and discursive performance on North American YouTube eating shows contribute to the creation of intimacy and informality. In a typical eating show, the performer eats copious amounts of food while talking to their non-copresent audience, making… read more
2022 Introduction: Formality and informality in online performances Formality and Informality in Online Performances, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Introduction
This editorial introduction establishes the theoretical basis for the special issue Formality and Informality in Online Performances with a focus on (in)formality, Goffman’s (1959) notion of front– and backstage and the internet as a stage, as well as the performance of self. Further attention… read more
2020 Chapter 3. Talking about women: Elicitation, manual tagging, and semantic tagging in a study of pick-up artists’ referential strategies Corpus Approaches to Social Media, Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter (eds.), pp. 63–86 | Chapter
In this chapter, we examine how pick-up artists (PUAs; a male community preoccupied with interacting with women) talk about women in their online discourse. To this end, we take and test three approaches: (1) introspection and elicitation, (2) manual tagging of a small specialized corpus, and… read more
2020 Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety: Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) English English World-Wide 41:1, pp. 33–58 | Article
This paper analyzes fronting constructions in spoken Korean(ized) English. Non-canonical syntax is an important means of structuring discourse, but its use by speakers of Expanding Circle Englishes has so far received only insufficient attention in studies of World Englishes. Taking a… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Introduction: Food and talk in social life Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 8. Dinner for One: The use of language in eating shows on YouTube Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 145–166 | Chapter
In this chapter, I investigate discursive practices in eating shows, so-called Mukbang, on YouTube. Originally a South Korean phenomenon, the object of this study are the globalized, Anglophone, and asynchronous instantiations of these shows. Based on a corpus of English-language eating shows, I… read more
2020 Introduction. The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language Corpus Approaches to Social Media, Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter