I love how different kinds of spaces are devoted to food in Singapore and how iconic it is. Today, I dropped by the "Plants in Singapore's Desserts" exhibition at the Centre for Ethnobotany, which included a dessert selfie wall (who could say no?) 🍨
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
A save-the-date for the #WorldEnglishes community: IAWE27 (the conference of the International Association for World Englishes), 7-9 July 2027, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 🌐
Confs: Panel at IPC20 - The Pragmatics of Online Influence: Persuasion and Authority in Online Coaching Discourses
Confs: Panel at IPC20 - The Pragmatics of Online Influence: Persuasion and Authority in Online Coaching Discourses
From the perspective of pragmatics, coaching can be understood as a communication-based, co-constructed discourse genre in which coach and client jointly build meanings, goals, and courses of action turn by turn (see Fleischhacker & Graf 2023). Rather than merely transmitting information, coaching works through persuasion: it relies on speech acts such as advising, evaluating, goal-setting, while also managing uptake and creating an expert identity for the coach (see Weinzinger 2016, Dayter & Rü
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Airport foodscape at departure vs airport foodscape at arrival
Packed up and ready to go for the next adventure! 🙃
Upcoming book on 'Researching children's mealtimes' due out in October and aimed at researchers across the social sciences interested in interactional analyses of children's eating in everyday settings. Perfect for #EMCA, DP, & language socialisation research. www.routledge.com/Researching-...
Researching Children's Mealtimes: A Practical Guide for Interactional Analyses of Children’s Eating Practices in Everyday Settings
Offering a groundbreaking interdisciplinary guide, this book explores children’s eating practices through the lens of social interaction. It moves beyond individualistic perspectives to uncover the ri...
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Out now (in lovely collab with Nele Gerhardt): our reference article on "Food and Language" in the Oxford Bibliographies in Food Studies with 89 annotated references (categorized into 11 sections - from lexis to materialities of food discourses) #LanguageAndFood doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Food and Language
Linguistic research on language and food has always been relevant, but, until the 2010s, these studies have been published rather sporadically and scattere
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@coocho.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on online coaching discourses at next year's IPrA conference ( #IPC20) in Helsinki (27 June - 2 July). Abstracts due Oct 15. We'd be delighted to meet you there! #OnlineInfluence #Persuasion More info at: pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027
Back from vacation...let the email marathon begin! ✉️
Reminded me of this (bad) pun from the local newspaper a few years back
Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 3d ago!!! Achtung, Spezi enthält Alkohol !!!
Biber bitten wir nur von 18 bis 8 Uhr die Straße zu überqueren 🦫
Craving a homemade vegetable-forward dish after 2 weeks of traveling, bibimbap is my absolute go-to 🥣
Even bike tour fun has to come to an end. We made the most out of the 1,090 km we had this year and enjoyed every hill and pothole 🙃 now a weekend to rest before I'm off for more adventures (this time for work though)
Aaaaaaand departure! Doing a bit of digital detox too, see you in two weeks 👋🚴♀️🚴♂️
What a pleasure and an absolute honor to speak at the English Studies graduation ceremony in Heidelberg today 🎓 of course I had to make it about my two favorite subjects: #LanguageAndFood! Thank you so much to fellow foodie @theresaheyd.bsky.social for the invitation 😍
Und die andere Seite des Tisches 😀🤩 was für ein grandioser Semesterabschluss!
Theresa Heyd@theresaheyd.bsky.social · 3w agoHoher Besuch in Heidelberg: friend and fellow foodie @sofiaruediger.bsky.social hält heute die Festrede bei der Examensfeier des Anglistischen Seminars. Zuvor waren wir essen und es ist keine Untertreibung, dass wir viiiiel miteinander zu besprechen hatten ☺️
Don't miss the last #BæFoLa talk of the summer! Today at 12:30 CEST 🍩🍩🍩
Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 3w agoFinal #BæFoLa talk of Season 10 coming up this Friday, July 17, 12:30-13:30 CEST 🍩🤩🍩 Join us to hear Revathi Suresh's talk on "Chattichoru as Spectacle: Constructing Malayali Identity and Food Narratives in Online Spaces". #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
Done with teaching for the summer, one more big thing tomorrow & then I'm outta here 🤩
Today's office (aka when staying with your host feels like a writing retreat) 💚
