books

Rüdiger, Sofia, Daria Dayter, eds. 2025. Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/manipulation-influence-and-deception/6921B07B9F64B33ABF647613697CB7CA

Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli, eds. 2023. Pragmatics in Translation. New Pragmatic and Beyond Series. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2022. The Language of Pick-Up Artists. Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry. London: Routledge.

Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter, eds. 2020. Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Studies in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dayter, Daria. 2016. Discursive self in microblogging. Speech acts, stories and self-praise. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dayter, Daria. 2014. “Self-disclosure online. Pragmatic repertoire of a microblogging community.”  PhD dissertation, University of Bayreuth, 2014.

peer-reviewed articles and chapters

Dayter, Daria, Theresa Heyd and Britta Schneider. forthcoming. Digital Discourse. Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (2nd edition). Routledge.

Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. Problematising expressives: The case of magical affirmations in the pick-up artist paradigm. Journal of Pragmatics, 241. Open Access.

Messerli, Thomas, Daria Dayter, Sven Leuckert, Aatu Liimatta, Hanna Mahler, Axel Bohmann, Gustavo Kozma, Rafaela Tosin. 2025. Digital debating cultures: Communicative practices on Reddit. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Open Access.

Dayter, Daria. 2025. Corpus Linguistics and Interpreting. In: International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3d edition (Corpus Linguistics, ed. by Gavin Brookes and David Wright). Elsevier.

Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. Corpus Linguistics and Persuasion. In: International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3d edition (Corpus Linguistics, ed. by Gavin Brookes and David Wright). Elsevier.

Grabowski, Lukasz and Daria Dayter. 2024. Leveling out in Translation and Interpreting. In: International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3d edition (Translation and Interpreting, ed. by Gert De Sutter). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00137-X

Locher, Miriam, Dayter, Daria and Thomas C. Messerli. 2023. Interpreting, translating, transferring: Introducing the collection Pragmatics and Translation. In Locher et al. eds., Pragmatics and Translation, pp. 1-28. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dayter, Daria, Miriam A. Locher and Thomas C. Messerli. 2023. Pragmatics in Translation. Mediality, Participation and Relational Work. Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Landert, Daniela, Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli and Miriam A. Locher. 2023. Corpus Pragmatics. Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Dayter, Daria and Grabowski, Lukasz. 2022. Corpus-based and corpus-driven research on translation and interpreting in Russian: the past, the present and the future. Przegląd Rusycystyczny 177(1): 76-97. open access

Dayter, Daria and Thomas C. Messerli. 2022. “Persuasive language and features of formality on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit.” Internet Pragmatics 5(1): 165-195. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00072.day

Dayter, Daria. 2021. “Dealing with interactionally risky speech acts in simultaneous interpreting: The case of self-praise.” Journal of Pragmatics 174: 28-42. [SI Pragmatics of Translation] open access

Dayter, Daria. 2021. “Strategies in a corpus of simultaneous interpreting. Effects of directionality, phraseological complexity, and position in speech event.” Meta: Translator’s Journal 65(3): 594–617. open access

Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. “Talking about women: Elicitation, manual tagging, and semantic tagging in a study of pick-up artists’referential strategies.“ In Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter (eds.), Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Studies in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Rüdiger, Sofia, & Dayter, Daria. 2020. "Manbragging Online: Self-Praise on Pick-up Artists’ Forums." Journal of Pragmatics 161: 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.02.012

Dayter, Daria. 2020. “Variation in non-fluencies in a corpus of simultaneous interpreting vs. non-interpreted English.” Perspectives 29(4): 489-506. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2020.1718170

Dayter, Daria. 2019. “Collocations in non-interpreted and simultaneously interpreted English: a corpus study.” In Lore Vandevoorde, Joke Daems & Bert Defrancq, eds., New Empirical Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting, Routledge, 67-91.

Dayter, Daria. 2019. „Microblogging.“ In Ritzer, George and Chris Rojek, eds. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm153.pub2

Dayter, Daria. 2018. “Describing lexical patterns in simultaneously interpreted discourse in a parallel aligned corpus of Russian-English interpreting (SIREN).” FORUM 16(2): 241-264. https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.17004.day

Dayter, Daria. 2018. “Self-praise online and offline: the hallmark speech act of social media?” Internet Pragmatics 1: 184-203. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00009.day

Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2018. “In Other Words: ‘The Language of Attraction’ Used by Pick-up Artists.” English Today 35(2): 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026607841800007X  

Dayter, Daria. 2017. "'What are you, Windows, 98?' - Playing the dozens in 21 century." In: Mühleisen, Susanne, ed. Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination, pp. 23-50. New York: Brill.

Rüdiger, Sofia & Daria Dayter. 2017. “The ethics of researching unlikeable subjects.” Applied Linguistics Review 8(2-3): 251-269. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2016-1038

Dayter, Daria & Rüdiger, Sofia. 2016. “Reporting from the Field: The Narrative Reconstruction of Experience in Pick-up Artist Online Communities.” In Personal narrative online, special issue of Open Linguistics 2(1): 337-351. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0016 open access

Dayter, Daria. 2015. “Small stories and extended narratives on Twitter.” Discourse, Context&Media 10: 19-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2015.05.003

Dayter, Daria. 2014. "Self-praise in microblogging." Journal of Pragmatics 61: 91-102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.11.021

Dayter, Daria & Rüdiger, Sofia. 2014. "Speak your mind, but watch your mouth: Objectification strategies in negative references on CouchSurfing." In: Bedijs, Kristina, Gudrun Held, and Christiane Maaß, eds. Face Work and Social Media, pp. 193-212. Wien: LIT.

Dayter, Daria. 2013. "Twitter as a means of class participation: Making student reading visible." Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice 8(1):1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/japl.v8i1.1

non-peer-reviewed publications

Dayter, Daria & Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. Introduction: The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language. In Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter (eds.), Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Studies in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dayter, Daria & Mühleisen, Susanne. 2016. “Personal narrative online. Telling Stories about Self in Digital Contexts: Same, Same, but Different?” Introduction to special issue of Open Linguistics 2(1): 572-576. open access

social media and outreach

“Words on trial.” Blog post for the University of Basel official research blog Sci Five, October 2019, https://medium.com/sci-five-university-of-basel/words-on-trial-c5df75bbc415

“Language of pick-up artists”, co-authored with Sofia Rüdiger. Article for Babel. The language magazine, May 2019.

“Seducing with words. The role of language in the pick-up artist’s make-believe.” Blog post for the University of Basel official research blog Sci Five, April 2018, https://medium.com/sci-five-university-of-basel/seducing-with-words-aed982d465cc