Ruth Wodak (born 12 July 1950 in
London
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) is an
Austrian
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linguist
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, who is Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in
Discourse Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at
Lancaster University
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and Professor in Linguistics at the
University of Vienna
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.
Her research is mainly located in
discourse studies and in
critical discourse analysis. Together with her former colleagues and Ph.D students in Vienna (Rudolf de Cillia, Gertraud Benke, Helmut Gruber, Florian Menz, Martin Reisigl, Usama Suleiman, Christine Anthonissen), she elaborated the
Discourse Historical Approach, an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented approach to analysing the change of discursive practices over time and in various genres.
She is member of the editorial board of a range of linguistic journals, co-editor of ''
Discourse and Society
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''
Critical Discourse Studies and of th
Journal of Language and Politics She was the founding editor (together with
Paul Chilton
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) of the book serie
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture She was also section editor of "Language and Politics" for the Second Edition of the Elsevier ''
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics''. Ruth Wodak chaired the
Humanities
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and
Social Sciences
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Panel for
EURYI Award, in the
European Science Foundation
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from 2006 to 2008.
Awards and honours
In 1996, she was awarded the
Wittgenstein-Preis, the highest Austrian science award, for her projects focused on "Discourses on Un/employment in EU organizations; Debates on
NATO
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and Neutrality in Austria and Hungary; The Discursive Construction of European Identities; Attitudes towards EU-Enlargement; Racism at the Top. Parliamentary Debates on Immigration in Six EU countries; The Discursive Construction of the Past - Individual and Collective Memories of the German Wehrmacht and the Second World War."
In October 2006, she was awarded the Woman's Prize of the City of Vienna.
She was awarded the
Kerstin Hesselgren
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Chair of the
Swedish Parliament and stayed at
University of Örebro
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, Sweden, from March to June 2008.
In December 2011, Professor
Karl Heinz Töchterle Karl may refer to:
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, Minister of Science and Education, presented her with the
(''Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich''), in Vienna, on behalf of the President of Austria, Dr
Heinz Fischer
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. "The award citation emphasises the social relevance and impact of her outstanding research on the discursive construction of national and transnational identities and patterns of racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism."
She was elected Fellow of the
Academy of Social Sciences
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in 2013.
Ruth Wodak has been a
Fulbright Austria The Austrian-American Educational Commission/ Fulbright Austria (AAEC) is one of the 50 bi-national commissions under the Fulbright Program, which exists in order to promote “mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the pe ...
Scholar at
Stanford University
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. She has held visiting professorships at
Uppsala University
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,
University of Minnesota
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, and
Georgetown University
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, and a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the
University of East Anglia
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.
Selected bibliography
Books
*Wodak, Ruth (2015). ''The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean''. London: Sage.
*Wodak, Ruth (2011). ''The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual'' (2nd revised edition). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
*Reisigl, Martin & Wodak, Ruth (2001). ''Discourse and Discrimination.'' London: Routledge.
*Wodak, Ruth (1996). ''Disorders of Discourse.'' London: Longman.
Edited books
*Wodak, Ruth, & Forchtner, Bernhard (Eds.) (2017). ''The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics.'' London: Routledge.
*Wodak, Ruth, Mral, Brigitte, & Khosravinik, Majid (Eds.) (2013). ''Right Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse.'' London: Bloomsbury Academic.
*Wodak, Ruth (Ed.) (2013). ''Critical Discourse Analysis: Four Volumes.'' Sage.
*Wodak, Ruth, Johnstone, Barbara, & Kerswill, Paul (Eds.) (2011). ''The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics.'' Los Angeles: Sage.
*Wodak, Ruth & Meyer, Michael (Eds.) (2009). ''Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis'' (2nd revised edition). London: Sage.
*Wodak, Ruth & Reisigl, Martin (Eds.) (2009). ''The Discursive Construction of National Identity''. Edinburgh: EUP.
*Wodak, Ruth & Koller, Veronika (Eds.) (2008). ''Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere.'' Berlin: De Gruyter.
*Wodak, Ruth, & Krzyzanowski, Michal (2008). ''Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences.'' Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
*Wodak, Ruth & Chilton, Paul (Eds.) (2005). ''New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis.'' Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
*Weiss, Gilbert & Wodak, Ruth (Eds.) (2003). ''Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity.'' Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
*Wodak, Ruth, de Cillia, Rudolf, Reisigl, Martin, & Liebhart, Karin (Eds.) (1999). ''The Discursive Construction of National Identity.'' Edinburgh: EUP.
*Wodak, Ruth (Ed.) (1997). ''Gender and Discourse.'' London: Sage.
*Wodak, Ruth (Ed.) (1989). ''Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse.'' Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
References
External links
Staff page at Lancaster UniversityProfile at Academia.eduLanguage, Ideology and Power Research GroupJournal of Language and Politics*
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Linguists
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Academics of Lancaster University
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Örebro University faculty
1950 births
Living people
Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
Austrian women academics
Linguists from Austria
Women linguists
University of Vienna alumni
Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
20th-century linguists
21st-century linguists