Person Rüdiger Sofia

Sofia Rüdiger is a postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, with a research focus on World Englishes, digital communication, language and food, and pragmatics. In 2017, she completed her PhD work on English in South Korea, which was later published in John Benjamins’ Varieties of English Around the World series as the monograph Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English (2019). She is editor of the World Englishes special issue Discourse Markers and World Englishes (with Sven Leuckert, 2021) and her work on Asian varieties of English has resulted in the design and compilation of two spoken corpora: SPOKE (corpus of Spoken Korean English) and TASE (corpus of Taiwanese Spoken English; with Jakob R. E. Leimgruber). Her journal articles in the field of variational linguistics have appeared, among others, in English World-Wide, World Englishes, and English Today. In addition, she is author of The Language of Pick-Up Artists – Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry (with Daria Dayter, Routledge, 2022) and editor of Talking about Food (with Susanne Mühleisen, John Benjamins, 2020) and Corpus Approaches to Social Media (with Daria Dayter, John Benjamins, 2020).