Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak, Dr (PhD), Full Professor for Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna. Permanent Fellow at the Collegium Budapest (since fall 2002). Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Awards and Prizes: Körner Prize 1975, Innitzer Prize 1980, Firnberg Prize 1989, Wittgenstein Prize 1996, Prize of the City of Vienna 2001. Visiting Professorships at FUMS, Uppsala, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Washington DC, University of Minnesota.
Fields of Interest: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Organisational Research, Identity Research, Gender Studies, Comprehensability of Texts, Research on Racism, Anti-Racism, and Anti-Semitism. Director and Initiator of the Research Center: “Discourse, Politics, Identity” with the funds of the Wittgenstein Prize 1996. In the summer term 2003 Leverhulme Grant at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Key Words: Discourse analyis, theory and methods of critical discourse analysis, organizational discourse, sociolonguistics, gender-specific and class-specific language behaviour, language in politics, prejudice and discrimination, gender studies, methodologies of qualitative and linguistc fieldwork, psycholinguistics
Selected recent publications: Racism at the Top, 2000 (with Teun van Dijk); Gender and Discourse, 1997; Disorders of Discourse, 1996; Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis, 2001 (with Michael Meyer); Discourse and Discrimination, 2001 (with Martin Reisigl); Critical Discourse Analysis. Theory and Interdisciplinarity, 2003 (with Gilbert Weiss).
For further details, see www.oeaw.ac.at/wittgenstein.
