Sofia Rüdiger

A screenshot from the LL17, Linguistic Landscape 17 Workshop (4-6 June 2026 at the University of Limerick, Ireland). The screenshot shows site navigation links (Home, Programme, Travel, Stay, Contact Us) in the top right; a stylized colorful watercolor-style cityscape banner image near the top, and the greeting words "Welcome to LL17 Linguistic Landscape" and other general info centered at bottom

Next year's #LinguisticLandscape Workshop (June 4-6, @unioflimerick.bsky.social) call for papers announced around the theme of "Crisis". Researchers, practitioners, educators, artists, others working on language in public space, take a look!

www.linguisticlandscape17.com #AcademicSky #cfp

Sprechen ist Handeln, es muss sich deshalb an moralischen Standards orientieren. Wo unser Sprachgebrauch an solchen Standards scheitert, müssen wir ihn — und damit auch unser sprachliches Selbstverständnis infrage stellen.

Sprechen ist Handeln, es muss sich deshalb an moralischen Standards orientieren. Wo unser Sprachgebrauch an solchen Standards scheitert, müssen wir ihn und unser sprachliches Selbstverständnis infrage stellen.

Mit Anatol Stefanowitsch, moderiert von Rosa Hesse

userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...

a cartoon of snoopy standing next to a christmas tree with a candy cane Alt: a cartoon of snoopy dancing next to a christmas tree with a candy cane

🎄An #OpenScience countdown to Christmas! 🎄 Every day in December we highlight a different tool, service, or resource related to #RDM and/or Open Science. Add 24-days-of-open-science-11ab75.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de to your bookmarks for our advent calendar! (of course licensed under CC BY 4.0 😊)

Travel mug on a train table

Good morning from ICE270 to Berlin! This train ride brings coffee, proofs, and the ubiquitous term papers to grade 💪

A jammy sauce on top of pasta. Topped with plenty of parsley. Salad in the background

The cooking spree continues: beef check braised in kimchi. Slow heat + time = 😋

"Lernstark" (lit. 'Learn strong'), supposed to help with concentration (it's just juice but I was hoping for a placebo effect 😉)

Also makes excellent leftovers 👌

Remarkable, bowl of dinosaur-shaped crisps, mini hanuta and a drink

Bribing myself to grade some term papers 😶‍🌫️

Rice and paneer in a red sauce, another bowl with kimchi and baked cheese on top

The Korean-Indian crossover you didn't know you needed: Gochujang Paneer 😋 cheeky kimchi bake on the sode

Wikipedia screenshot Eiertunnel

Bad Kleinen, home of the famous Eiertunnel 😅

Das schaut ausnahmsweise mal nicht schlecht aus 😇

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Train station with a view

Obligatorischer Pendlercontent

title slide PPT "From Seoul to the World: Transnational K-Phenomena and Korean-English Language Contact"

four people in front of a window with a snowy landscape in the background

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

Grüße zurück aus dem ICE nach Berlin!

BaeFoLa-Flyer with a donut text: In recent years, the rise of vegetarianism and veganism has not only transformed consumer habits but also reshaped the language of food. As plant-based products enter mainstream markets, they encounter both legal challenges around labeling and the need for brands to signal innovation and authenticity. This talk explores how linguistic creativity influences product naming by drawing on a manually compiled corpus with product names from international plant-based brands. Instances from the corpus illustrate how spelling innovations, playful blends and positively connotated words, amongst others, create new ways of conveying the product’s ‘plant-based’ nature while appealing to consumer imagination and adapting to both regulatory frameworks and marketing needs. Beyond individual cases, these patterns reveal how branding contributes to a broader shift in English vocabulary, giving rise to persuasive and inventive naming. In conclusion, linguistic devices act as innovative tools for conveying specific product attributes, while fostering lexical creativity and novelty in Modern English and enhancing brand positioning, appeal, and memorability.

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 🥕🥬🥦

Civilized fitness No shirtless

Picking it up is faith Putting it back is quality

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)

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...

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 🙏

Baotou tailings dam, Inner Mongolia: Brown sludge shoots out of a pipe into a grey-brown wasteland stretching to the horizon, where tiny industrial buildings can be seen. Source: Liam Young/BBC, URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth

Lithium mining fields, Silver Peak, Nevada: An aerial photograph of a desert landscape, with what looks like a chessboard made up of swimming pools, the fields where lithium is mined, contrasting turquoise with the surrounding desert. Source: Doc Searly, Wikimedia, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Peak,_Nevada#/media/File:Chemetall_Foote_Lithium_Operation.jpg.

Differently coloured cargo containers in the port of Barcelona, stacked on top of each other like Lego bricks. Source: OneLoneClone/Wikimedia, URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-Container#/media/Datei:Puertobarcelona2.jpg.

Meta’s Stanton Springs data center in Georgia: An industrial complex illuminated in blue and yellow at night, separated from a neighbouring forest by fences. Source: Peter Essick/Fast Company, URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396678/meta-georgia-data-center-stanton-springs.

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:

Another cigarette voting system

They also had one where people could "vote" for two local schools, which I thought was kinda odd 🤔

Why is it so sad? Did nobody give it any rubbish?

A vote with your cigarette butt system " Rapunzel vs. Aschenputtel" Aschenputtel is winning

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 🤷‍♀️

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...)

Small croissants and fruit. A sign reading "Excess & Waste Workshop"

Excess, waste & tasty snacks

Staircase and vegetation

Trees in the botanical garden

Clear drink in a fancy glass

Bread bowl filled with cheese, onion sprouts on the side

#AfterWork Bern impressions

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.

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

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#langsky #linguistics #language #englishlanguage

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