Sofia Rüdiger
@sofiaruediger.bsky.social
Linguist by day, foodie by night (or the other way around?).
Guest Professor in English Linguistics @FU Berlin, PI of DFG Project on Carnivalesque Consumption Online
http://www.sofia-ruediger.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8052
Guest Professor in English Linguistics @FU Berlin, PI of DFG Project on Carnivalesque Consumption Online
http://www.sofia-ruediger.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8052
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Sofia Rüdiger
@sofiaruediger.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Hi 👋 My name is Sofia and I research the language of excessive food videos online! #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption
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November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A bit of snowy Regensburg at the beginning of the week to conduct the inaugural XE+ network meeting (sites.google.com/view/expandi...), meet a collaborator from Japan, and give a guest lecture on one of my favorite topics (English in Kora). Now back to the good old grind in Berlin
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A bit of snowy Regensburg at the beginning of the week to conduct the inaugural XE+ network meeting (sites.google.com/view/expandi...), meet a collaborator from Japan, and give a guest lecture on one of my favorite topics (English in Kora). Now back to the good old grind in Berlin
November is nearly over so it's time for our next #BæFoLa session! 🍩 This Friday, Nov 28 (12:30-13:30 CET), Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza will talk on Zoom about "VeggieWords: Lexical Innovation in Vegan and Vegetarian Product Naming". All welcome! #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #VeggieWords 🥕🥬🥦
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
November is nearly over so it's time for our next #BæFoLa session! 🍩 This Friday, Nov 28 (12:30-13:30 CET), Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza will talk on Zoom about "VeggieWords: Lexical Innovation in Vegan and Vegetarian Product Naming". All welcome! #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #VeggieWords 🥕🥬🥦
Some contributions from the gym #LinguisticLandscape in China (the only good thing about a traveling partner...ok that and the foodie presents I regularly get)
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Some contributions from the gym #LinguisticLandscape in China (the only good thing about a traveling partner...ok that and the foodie presents I regularly get)
Reposted by Sofia Rüdiger
It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
Shakespeare in the Kitchen
Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...
www.routledge.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
👋 @elpatronhimself.bsky.social @hpaulasto.bsky.social (who else from the original ISLE spring school is on here?)
The #ISLE spring/summer school was one of the first academic events I attended and one of the best experiences in my PhD. I made so many friends, can't recommend it enough 🙏
Summer Schools: International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School 2026, Uppsala, Sweden
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
👋 @elpatronhimself.bsky.social @hpaulasto.bsky.social (who else from the original ISLE spring school is on here?)
The #ISLE spring/summer school was one of the first academic events I attended and one of the best experiences in my PhD. I made so many friends, can't recommend it enough 🙏
Summer Schools: International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School 2026, Uppsala, Sweden
Summer Schools: International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School 2026, Uppsala, Sweden
Focus: Theme: 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space'
Description:
The ISLE Summer School 2026 will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden, from 7th to 13th June 2026. The Summer School theme is 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space'. The academic programme includes courses, plenaries, roundtable disucssions, poster sessions, expert consultancy, and a day trip to see selected runic inscriptions in the area.
Our six co
dlvr.it
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The #ISLE spring/summer school was one of the first academic events I attended and one of the best experiences in my PhD. I made so many friends, can't recommend it enough 🙏
Reposted by Sofia Rüdiger
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
When you see interesting rubbish discourses everywhere after visiting the crisis of waste research team...
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
When you see interesting rubbish discourses everywhere after visiting the crisis of waste research team...
It finally happened, a reviewer suggested that I read the manuscripts by Rüdiger (what an accolade!). Funnily enough, their claim re my previous work (specifically the methodology) is 100% wrong. Unfunnily enough, that was part of the reason to reject the manuscript 🤷♀️
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It finally happened, a reviewer suggested that I read the manuscripts by Rüdiger (what an accolade!). Funnily enough, their claim re my previous work (specifically the methodology) is 100% wrong. Unfunnily enough, that was part of the reason to reject the manuscript 🤷♀️
Reposted by Sofia Rüdiger
Here's a suggestion: let's create an
Association for the Abolition of Artsy Acronyms in Academic Applications and Research Groups in the Humanities.
("AAAAAARGH" for short because the full name is too long, and it has a second layer of meaning that beautifully captures the essence of the project...)
Association for the Abolition of Artsy Acronyms in Academic Applications and Research Groups in the Humanities.
("AAAAAARGH" for short because the full name is too long, and it has a second layer of meaning that beautifully captures the essence of the project...)
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Here's a suggestion: let's create an
Association for the Abolition of Artsy Acronyms in Academic Applications and Research Groups in the Humanities.
("AAAAAARGH" for short because the full name is too long, and it has a second layer of meaning that beautifully captures the essence of the project...)
Association for the Abolition of Artsy Acronyms in Academic Applications and Research Groups in the Humanities.
("AAAAAARGH" for short because the full name is too long, and it has a second layer of meaning that beautifully captures the essence of the project...)
Excess, waste & tasty snacks
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Excess, waste & tasty snacks
Reposted by Sofia Rüdiger
This is such a fun and fascinating read on the linguistics of food — & why attempts to legislate language rarely go to plan.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2nnw846p
🧵🔗
#langsky #linguistics #language #englishlanguage
🔗 tinyurl.com/2nnw846p
🧵🔗
#langsky #linguistics #language #englishlanguage
Is a veggie burger still a burger? A linguist explains
The shape of a burger is reinforced in our mental linguistic definitions every time we see a burger but there isn’t a straight-forward definition.
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is such a fun and fascinating read on the linguistics of food — & why attempts to legislate language rarely go to plan.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2nnw846p
🧵🔗
#langsky #linguistics #language #englishlanguage
🔗 tinyurl.com/2nnw846p
🧵🔗
#langsky #linguistics #language #englishlanguage
Reposted by Sofia Rüdiger
A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
wp.lancs.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!
looking forward to the Life and Afterlife of Excess workshop at the University of Bern today (turns out I took the right train after all 😉), followed by a guest lecture on Foodfluencers and the Discursive Construction of Overconsumption #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption #Excess
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
looking forward to the Life and Afterlife of Excess workshop at the University of Bern today (turns out I took the right train after all 😉), followed by a guest lecture on Foodfluencers and the Discursive Construction of Overconsumption #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption #Excess
Sollte man definitiv öfter mal machen 😇
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sollte man definitiv öfter mal machen 😇
The next #ISLE online forum takes place this Wednesday (Nov 12, 6pm CET): Julia Schlüter, Elen Le Foll & Katharina Deckert - present on "Innovations in Teaching Digital Data Literacies for Linguistics". Free & open to all. More info at: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #Linguistics
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The next #ISLE online forum takes place this Wednesday (Nov 12, 6pm CET): Julia Schlüter, Elen Le Foll & Katharina Deckert - present on "Innovations in Teaching Digital Data Literacies for Linguistics". Free & open to all. More info at: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #Linguistics
Reposted by Sofia Rüdiger
New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
Presentism as a digital language ideology in generative AI discourse
This paper gives a critical discourse-analytical account of presentism as a digital language ideology. It outlines how this ahistorical understanding of sociotechnical change centering the here-and-no...
benjamins.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
In den Zug nach Bern statt in den nach Berlin steigen, das kann einem Montag morgens schon mal passieren 🤷
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
In den Zug nach Bern statt in den nach Berlin steigen, das kann einem Montag morgens schon mal passieren 🤷
Cooking is my love language. And if I like you very much, I'll make you some kimchi-jjigae 🥰
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Cooking is my love language. And if I like you very much, I'll make you some kimchi-jjigae 🥰
Reposted by Sofia Rüdiger
Hast du genug Rizz, um Algspeak-Meister*in zu werden?
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hast du genug Rizz, um Algspeak-Meister*in zu werden?
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖
17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café
Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
I channeled my inner @lauramkoenig.bsky.social and took a power hour to reduce my email inbox pile a bit! Now on to some actual writing tasks ✍️💪
I refreshed my calendar page 5 times, but it is true: not a single meeting, appointment, or class to teach today 😱 wondering what to do with my freedom (this is where you tell me you're waiting for an email reply/review/X from me 🫣)
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I channeled my inner @lauramkoenig.bsky.social and took a power hour to reduce my email inbox pile a bit! Now on to some actual writing tasks ✍️💪
I refreshed my calendar page 5 times, but it is true: not a single meeting, appointment, or class to teach today 😱 wondering what to do with my freedom (this is where you tell me you're waiting for an email reply/review/X from me 🫣)
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I refreshed my calendar page 5 times, but it is true: not a single meeting, appointment, or class to teach today 😱 wondering what to do with my freedom (this is where you tell me you're waiting for an email reply/review/X from me 🫣)
Wiggle wiggle ⚠️
(English-only #LinguisticLandscape in Berlin)
(English-only #LinguisticLandscape in Berlin)
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Wiggle wiggle ⚠️
(English-only #LinguisticLandscape in Berlin)
(English-only #LinguisticLandscape in Berlin)