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Dr. Dr. h. c., Dr. Hab. Ruth Wodak
Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies
Department: Linguistics and English Language
Degree: PhD (Vienna), Habilitation (Vienna), Honorary Doctorate (Orebro University, Sweden)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Language in Social Life, Dynamics of Memories, Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP)
Current Teaching
LING 442 Introduction to Discourse Studies
LING 440 Critical Discourse Analysis
Research Interests
Ruth's main research agenda focus the development of theoretical approaches in discourse studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and text linguistics); organizational communication; identity politics;language and/in politics; racism, prejudice and discrimination.
Recently, a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, edited by Lynne Pearce (English Department, Lancaster) and Ruth was published (2010), focusing the construction of regional and national identities in the media and in fiction. A special issue of Critical Discourse Studies together with John E. Richardson (Newcastle) on 'Discourse, History, and Memory' was published in October 2009. In this special issue, we present a range of different discourse theoretical approaches to the discursive construction of memory and the past(s).
The edited volume Memory and Justice (Passagen Verlag, Vienna), co-edited with Gertraud Auer (Kreisky Forum, Vienna) was also published in November 2009. This volume is dedicated to European and more global, transnationalaspects of commemoration and to the many ways societies deal with traumatic pasts. Moreover, Ruth has just published (together with P. Kerswill and B. Johnstone) a new comprehensive Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2010). Ruth's monograph The discourse of politics in action: politics as usual has been published in June 2011 in paperback (second revised edition, Palgrave). The co-edited book, with Gerard Delanty and Paul Jones, Migration, Identity and Belonging has also just been published as paperback in March 2011 (Liverpool Univ. Press).
July 1-3, 2010, an interdisciplinary and international conference "Migrations - Interdisciplinary Perspectives' took place at the University of Vienna, organised by the Interdisciplinary Dialogue - Forum (IDee) of the University of Vienna. Ruth is speaker (Sprecherin) of IDee and was co-organizer of this conference, together with Renee Schroeder. Conference Proceedings will be published with Springer Verlag.
Related to the acute and urgent European problems/ issues of transnationalism and migrationThe Forum of Concerned Citizens to which Ruth belongs, has launched an 'Open Letter to Europe' in March 2010 which draws attention to the fragile and dangerous situation of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. For the week beginning May 9, 2011, which is Europe day, openDemocracy has invited Professor Ash Amin, instigator of the 2010 Open Letter to Europe from the Forum of Concerned Citizens (see above) to edit a special issue, with the theme 'The Uses of Xenophobia'. Ruth has contributed to this special issue while focusing on 'Old and new demaguogery'.
Ruth's current research projects include DYLAN (EU funded integrated project, 6th framework, coordinated by Anne-Claude Berthoud, University of Lausanne; on European language policies and their national, regional, and local implementation); and 'New Discourses in Contemporary China' (NDCC) (together with Paul Chilton, Lancaster University). 2008, the final report for 'Asylum-seekers and Refugees in the British Press' (funded by ESRC, together with Paul Baker, Lancaster University) was submitted. Ruth has been invited to participate on the advisory boards of two 7th EU-framework projects, which both started in the spring 2010: ACCEPT (coordinated by Anna Triandafyllidou, EUI); and ELDIA (coordinated by Anneli Sarhimaa, Helsinki).
Ruth teaches on MA and PhD levels and supervises 10 PhD students at Lancaster University. She convenes the LIP group (Language, Ideology, and Power) which meets every week during term times, and is also affiliated to CPERC (Cultural Political Economy Research Centre) and DoM (Dynamics of Memory Cluster) at Lancaster University.
See full CV.
Some recent book publications
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Discourse Studies (theories, methodologies)
Identity Politics (individual, collective; national, transnational)
Language and/in Politics
Discrimination, Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Xenophobia in/via Discourse
Analysis of Media
Critical Discourse Analysis
Brief Bio
Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since 1/9/2004 (personal chair). She moved from Vienna, Austria, where she was full professor of Applied Linguistics, University Vienna, since 1991 (she is still supervising some PhD students at the Department of Linguistics, University Vienna). She has stayed co-director of the Austrian National Focal Point (NFP) of the European Monitoring Centre for Racism, Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism (see http://www.eumc.eu.int for more information on the work of the EUMC and the NFP's) (now renamed European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - FRA). In September 2009, Ruth was elected as president of the Societas Linguistica Europea. On February 6, 2010, Ruth was awarded an honorary doctorate by University Orebro, Sweden. In September 2010, Ruth became member of the Academia Europaea.
Besides various other prizes, Ruth was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 which made six years of continuous interdisciplinary team research possible. The 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." In October 2006, she was awarded the Woman's Prize of the City of Vienna.
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) in the 1990s 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 journals Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse Studies (with Norman Fairclough, Phil Graham and Jay Lemke) and Journal of Language and Politics (with Paul Chilton). Together with Greg Myers, Ruth edits the book series DAPSAC (Benjamins) (the most recently published monograph in the DAPSAC series is Journalism and Politics).
Ruth has held visiting professorships in Uppsala, Stanford University, University of Minnesota, and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. In the spring 2004, she had a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. 2007, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament and stayed at University of Örebro, Sweden, from March to June 2008.
Recent Announcements
New books and special issues of journals published
Just published: Wodak, Ruth (2011) The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual (2nd revised edition, paperback) Basingstoke: Palgrave,
Recently published:
Wodak, Ruth & Krzyzanowski, Michal (Eds.) (2011) Jakosciowa Analiza Dyskursu w Naukach Spolecznych. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Losgraf (translation of Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences Palgrave 2008).
Gerard Delanty, Ruth Wodak, Paul Jones (Eds.) (2011) Migration, Identity and Belonging. Liverpool: LUP.
Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian, Ruth Wodak (Eds.) (2010) 'New Discourses in Contemporary China', special issue of Journal of Language and Politics
Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone, Paul Kerswill (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: Sage.
Pearce, Lynne & Wodak, Ruth (2010) 'Region/nation/belonging: Textual (re)constructions and imaginings' Special Issue European Journal of Cultural Studies 13/1.>
Wodak, Ruth (2009) The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual Basingstoke: Palgrave.
R. Wodak & G. Auer-Boreo (Eds.) (2009) Justice and Memory. Confronting traumatic pasts. Vienna: Passagenverlag.
'Discourse, History, and Memory', Critical Discourse Studies 6/1 (Eds. J. E. Richardson & R. Wodak)
J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak, T. McEnery (Eds.) (2009) English Language: Description, Variation and Context Basingstoke: Palgrave.
A. Triandafyllidou, R. Wodak, M. Krzyzanowski (Eds.) (2009) Europe in Crisis: The 'European Public Sphere' and National Media in the Post-War Period Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Wodak, Ruth & Meyer, Michael (Eds.) (2009) Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis London: Sage (2nd revised edition).
Wodak, Ruth, De Cillia, Rudolf, Reisigl, Martin, Liebhart, Karin (2009) The Discursive Construction of National Identity. Edinburgh: EUP (2nd revised edition).
de Cillia, Rudolf & Wodak, Ruth (Eds.) (2009) Gedenken im 'Gedankenjahr', Innsbruck: Studienverlag.
Krzyzanowski, Michal &Wodak, Ruth(2008) The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria New Brunswick:Transaction Press.
Robert Jessop, Norman Fairclough, Ruth Wodak (Eds.) (2008) Higher Education and the Knowledge Based Economy in Europe Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Gerard Delanty, Ruth Wodak, Paul Jones (Eds.) (2008) Migration, Identity, and Belonging Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press.
Wodak, Ruth and Veronika Koller (eds) (2008) Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Ruth Wodak & Michal Krzyzanowski (Eds.) (2008) Qualitative Discourse Analysis for the Social Sciences Basingstoke: Palgrave
Hannes Heer, Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak, Ruth Wodak (Eds.) (2008) The Construction of History. Remembering the War of Annihilation Basingstoke: Palgrave.
New books in DAPSAC series:
New book in DAPSAC series: Magilchrist (2011) Journalism and Politics, Benjamins
New book in DAPSAC series: Dolon, Rosana and Julia Todoli (eds) (2008) Analysing Identities in Discourse, Benjamins.
New book in DAPSAC series: Verdoolaege, Annelies (2008) Reconciliation Discourse: The Case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Benjamins.
New book in DAPSAC series: Wilson, John & Sharon Millar (2007) The Discourse of Europe. Benjamins
New book in DAPSAC series: Hodges, Adam & Chad Nilep (2007) Discourse, War & Terrorism. Benjamins.
New book in DAPSAC series: Goatly, Andrew (2007) Washing the Brain - Metaphor and Hidden Ideology. Benjamins.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Ruth Wodak has 285 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Wodak, Ruth (2011) Language, power and identity. Language Teaching. ISSN 0261-4448
Wodak, Ruth (2011) Suppression of the Nazi Past, Coded Languages, and Discourses of Silence: Applying the Discourse-Historical Approach to Post-War Anti-Semitism in Austria. In: Political Languages in the Age of Extremes. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 351-379. ISBN 9780199602964 (In Press)
Wodak, Ruth (2010) "Communicating Europe": Analyzing, interpreting, and understanding multilingualism and the discursive construction of transnational identities. In: Globalization, Discourse, Media: In a Critical Perspective. Warsaw University Press, pp. 17-60.
Chilton, Paul and Tian, Hailong and Wodak, Ruth (2010) New discourses in contemporary China. Language and Politics, 9 (4). ISSN 1569-2159
Wodak, Ruth and Fairclough, Norman (2010) Recontextualizing European higher education policies: the cases of Austria and Romania. Critical Discourse Studies, 7 (1). pp. 19-40. ISSN 1740-5904
Chilton, Paul and Tian, Hailong and Wodak, Ruth (2010) Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West. Language and Politics, 9 (4). pp. 489-507. ISSN 1569-2159
Wodak, Ruth (2010) The glocalization of politics in television: Fiction or reality? European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13 (1). pp. 1-20.
Wodak, Ruth and Köhler, Katharina (2010) Wer oder was ist »fremd«? Diskurshistorische Analyse fremdenfeindlicher Rhetorik in Österreich. Sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, 1. pp. 33-55.
Wodak, Ruth (2009) "Von Wissensbilanzen und Benchmarking": Die fortschreitende Ökonomisierung der Universitäten. Eine Diskursanalyse. In: Diskurs und Ökonomie. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, pp. 317-336.
Bialasiewicz, Luiza and Dahlman, Carl and Apuzzo, Gian Matteo and Ciută, Felix and Jones, Alun and Rumford, Chris and Wodak, Ruth and Anderson, James and Ingram, Alan (2009) Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood’. Political Geography, 28 (2). pp. 79-89. ISSN 0962-6298.
Associated Keywords: Discourse analysis, Gender, Gender identities, Memory, Migration and diaspora, Multilingualism, National identities, New media, Non-verbal communication, Organisations, Semiotics, Sociolinguistics, Spoken language corpora
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Tel: +44 (0)1524 592437
Room: County South, C77
Office Hour: Monday, 2pm - 4pm; or by personal appointment
My Projects
DYLAN: Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity EU-Sixth-Framework Integrated Project (IP)
My News
Ruth Wodak gives keynote in Salzburg
Ruth Wodak awarded the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Silver
Ruth Wodak gives public lecture in Luxembourg
Departmental Lecture in Strathclyde, Glasgow
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