Ruth Wodak

Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University.[1] She moved from Vienna, Austria, where she was full professor of Applied Linguistics since 1991. She has stayed co-director of the Austrian National Focal Point (NFP) of the European Monitoring Centre for Racism, Xenophobia and Anti Semitism.

Her research is mainly located in Discourse Studies (DS) and in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). 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 in CDA" (DHA) which is interdisciplinary, problem-oriented, and analyzes 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 the journal Discourse and Society and editor of Critical Discourse Studies (with Norman Fairclough, Phil Graham and Jay Lemke) and of the Journal of Language and Politics (with Paul Chilton). Together with Greg Myers , she edits the book series DAPSAC (Benjamins). She was also section editor of "Language and Politics" for the Second Edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Ruth chaired the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel for the EURYI award, in the European Science Foundation, 2006 - 2008.

She has co-authored works with Teun A. van Dijk.

Awards and honors

Besides various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein-Preis in 1996. Her main projects focused on "Discourses on Un/employment in EU organizations; Debates on NATO 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."

She has held visiting professorships in Uppsala, University of Minnesota and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and was a Fulbright Austria Scholar at Stanford University. In spring 2004, she had a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

In October 2006, she was awarded the Woman's Prize of the City of Vienna.

She was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament and stayed at University of Örebro, Sweden, from March to June 2008.

In December 2011, Professor Karl Heinz Töchterle, Minister of Science and Education, presented her with the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich), in Vienna, on behalf of the President of Austria, Dr Heinz Fischer. "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."[2]

She was elected an Academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences in 2013.[3]

Selected bibliography

Books

Edited books

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Ruth Wodak, Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
  2. ↑ "Austrian Government Honours Lancaster Professor". University of Lancaster. 10 January 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Ruth Wodak neues Mitglied der British Academy of Social Sciences". University of Vienna. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.

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