CRITICAL
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
PROFESSOR RUTH WODAK
Current Research
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 and politics of
the past; language and/in politics; racism, prejudice and discrimination.
Combining several fields in discourse studies, she continues to develop the Discourse-Historical
Approach in CDA, an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented approach which
analyses the changes of discursive practices over time and in various genres.
Her monograph
entitled
The Politics of Fear - What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean
(Sage, 2015) has just been published (
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-politics-of-fear/book237802).
In it, she focusses on the discourse, rhetoric, performance and argumentation
of populist right-wing politicians across Europe (compared with the
“tea-party/ies” movement in the US) on the front- and back-stage. Specifically,
she elaborates on the (inter)dependencies between politics and the media in
several case studies. The recontextualisation and glocalisation of images and
posters across several European right-wing political parties also form a
relevant focus of this book.
Click here for an interview
with Ruth about the rise of right-wing populist politics in Europe.
Currently, she is also preparing the
Handbook of Discourse and Politics
(with Bernhardt Forchtner, Routledge) and a new edition of
Methods of
Critical Discourse Analysis (with Michael Meyer, Sage, to be published in
October 2015).
Moreover,
Ruth's research projects, apart from the study on national identity politics
mentioned above, include a study on
Language change in Austrian German
(from 1970 - 2010), while exploring several genres in various social fields
(with Markus Rheindorf, Vienna). Moreover, Ruth participates in an
interdisciplinary team of historians/journalists, psychiatrists and linguists
which is investigating the discursive and psychological dynamics of a unique
network consisting of children of Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters
in Vienna (
Kinderjause - Zur Geschichte einer marginalisierten Gruppe;
'Childrens' party - the history of a marginalised peer group) (http://www.univie.ac.at/kijauprojekt/).
In 2012, Ruth
edited
Critical Discourse Analysis (Sage), four comprehensive volumes (readers)
on CDA, and
Advances in Critical Discourse Studies (with John
Richardson, Michal Krzyzanowski, and David Machin; Routledge). In 2013, she
co-edited two volumes about right-wing populist discourse,
Analysing
European Fascism: Fascism in Text and Talk (co-edited with John
Richardson; Routledge), and
Rightwing Populism across Europe: Discourse and
Politics (co-edited with Majid KhosraviNik and Brigitte Mral; Bloomsbury).
Three articles related to the latter volume were also published on
Opendemocracy. Ruth’s other more
recent monograph
The discourse of politics in action: politics as usual,
was published in June 2011 in paperback (second revised edition, with
Palgrave). The co-edited book
Migration, Identity and Belonging (with
Gerard Delanty and Paul Jones) was also published as paperback in March 2011
(Liverpool University Press). In 2010, Ruth edited a new comprehensive
Handbook of Sociolinguistics (with
Paul Kerswill and Barbara Johnstone, Sage) which was published as paperback
2013.
Current Teaching
Ruth is
currently supervising 8 PhD students in the areas of Identity Politics,
Language Policy Studies, Political Communication, Comics and Discrimination,
and Media Studies. While in Lancaster, she has supervised 17 PhD students to
completion (since 2004). As she is retired now, she is not accepting any new
PhD students.
Additional Information
In the past,
Ruth was involved with several funded large research projects. Between 2005 and
2007, she was part of the project about Asylum seekers and refugees in the
UK press, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Between 2006
and 2011, she was head of the Lancaster team of DYLAN: Language Dynamics
and Management of Diversity, an interdisciplinary project, part of the EU
6th Framework. Between 2004 and 2007, she worked on the EMEDIATE
project, part of the EU 5th Framework. Previously, she was head of
the Discourse, Politics, Identity Research Centre, funded by the
Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of the Wittgenstein Award, where she
coordinated projects about Austrian and European identities, racism and
discrimination, and historical memory.
During her
career, Ruth has received numerous awards and honours. In 2013, she became a
member of the British Academy of Social Sciences. In September 2013, she was
also honoured by an invitation to speak at the Brucknerfest, an international
music festival held in Linz, Austria, dedicated to music and artists persecuted
by the Nazis (
see speech in German). On December 19,
2011, Ruth was
awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in
Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (
Großes Silbernes
Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich). On February 6,
2010,
she was awarded an honorary doctorate by
Örebro University (Sweden). In September 2010, Ruth became member of the
Academia
Europaea. In October 2006, she was awarded the Woman's Prize of the City
of Vienna and in 1996 the
Wittgenstein Award for elite researchers
which made six years of continuous interdisciplinary team research possible.
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.
In 2012 and 2015, she spent 10 days at the University of Malaysia, Kuala
Lumpur, as an “Academic Icon”. In 2012, she was also invited as Distinguished
Visiting Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
From April to
June 2016, Ruth will spend three moths at the European University, Florence
(EUI) as Schuman-Fellow, and continue her research on identity politics and
migration.
New books and special
issues of journals published
Please see under publications on
this website
External Roles
Research Overview
Ruth's
research interests focus on (Critical) Discourse Studies, specifically on the
Discourse-Historical Approach (while emphasising aspects of the integration of
text and context); (national/transnational/European) identity politics;
(national/European) politics of the past (specifically related to World War II
and the Holocaust); racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia; and the complex
dimensions of right-wing populism and exclusionary rhetoric. In investigating
these topics, she analyzes a range of written, verbal and visual genres in
systematic detail. Recent book pulications are
The Politics of Fear: What
Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean. Sage 2015 (
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-politics-of-fear/book237802)
and
Methods of CDS (eds Ruth Wodak & Michael Meyer). Sage 2015 (3
rd
edition) (
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/methods-of-critical-discourse-studies/book242185)
Contact
Details
This is some
books from Ruth Wodak
Unger, J., Wodak, R., KhosraviNik, M. 11/06/2016
In: Qualitative research. Sage
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Stoegner, K., Wodak, R.E. 2016 In: Critical
Discourse Studies. 13, 2, p. 193-209. 17 p.
Journal article
Wodak, R.E. 2016 In: International
Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Elsevier 9 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Wodak, R.E. 2016 Vienna : Konturen. 254 p. ISBN:
9783902968104.
Book
Wodak, R.E. 2016 Göttingen : Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht. 43 p. ISBN: 9783847105770.
Book
Wodak, R.E. 2016 In: Discourse
and management. Palgrave Macmilan p. 193-204. 12 p. ISBN: 9781137300386.
Chapter
Wodak, R.E. 25/11/2015 In: The Conversation.
Journal article
Wodak, R.E., Meyer, M. 14/11/2015 In: Methods of critical discourse studies. London :
Sage p. 1-22. 22 p. ISBN: 9781446282410.
Chapter
Wodak, R.E., Meyer, M. 14/11/2015 3rd ed. London
: Sage. 272 p. ISBN: 9781446282410.
Book
Reisigl, M., Wodak, R.E. 14/11/2015 In: Methods of critical discourse studies. London :
Sage p.23-61.39 p. ISBN: 9781446282410.
Chapter
Wodak, R., Boukala, S. 03/2015 In: Annual Review
of Applied Linguistics. 35, p. 253-273. 21 p.
Journal article
Wodak, R.E. 2015 In: Linguistik Online. 73, 4, p.
27-44. 18 p.
Journal article
Wodak, R. 2015 In: The
international encyclopedia of language and social interaction. John
Wiley & Sons
Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Carta, C., Wodak, R. 2015 In: Journal of Language
and Politics. 14, 1
Special issue
Carta, C., Wodak, R. 2015 In: Journal of Language
and Politics. 14, 1, 17 p.
Editorial
Wodak, R.E., Reisigl, M. 2015 In: The handbook of discourse analysis. Malden, MA :
Wiley p. 576-596. 21 p. ISBN: 9780470670743 .
Chapter
Wodak, R. 2015 In: The
Routledge handbook of linguistic anthropology . London : Routledge p.
366-384. 19 p. ISBN: 9780415834100.
Chapter
Wodak, R., Boukala, S. 2015 In: Journal of
Language and Politics. 14, 1, p. 87-109. 23 p.
Journal article
Wodak, R. 2015 In: Argumenta.
Vienna : Praesens Verlag p. 639-649. 11 p. ISBN: 9783706908146.
Chapter
Titscher, S., Meyer, M., Wodak, R., Vetter, E.
2015 Seoul : Betson Publishers. ISBN: 9788959964444.
Book
Wodak, R. 2015 In: Migration
and Citizenship. Newsletter of the American Political Science Association-
Organized Section on Migration and Citizenship. APSA Migration and
Citizenship Organized Section p. 6-10. 5 p.
Paper
Wodak, R. 2015 London : Sage. 248 p. ISBN:
9781446246993.
Book
Wodak, R., Angouri, J. 1/07/2014 In: Discourse
and Society. 25, 4, p. 417-423. 7 p.
Journal article
Wodak, R.E. 2014 In: Language
and communication at work. Oxford : Oxford University Press p. 39-70. 32
p. ISBN: 9780198703082.
Chapter
Wodak, R. 2014 In: Discourse
in context. London : Bloomsbury p. 321-346.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Wodak, R. 12/07/2013 In: Journal of Language,
Identity and Education. 12, 3, p. 173-178. 6 p.
Journal article
Richardson, J.E., Krzyzanowski, M., Machin, D.,
Wodak, R. 2013 Routledge. 272 p. ISBN: 9780415824798.
Book
Wodak, R. 2013 Sage. 1664 p. ISBN: 9781446210581.
Book
Wodak, R. 2013 In: Critical
Discourse Analysis. Sage p. XIX-XXXXiii.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Wodak, R. 2012 In: Critical
discourse analysis. Nankai : Nankai University Press p. 16-47. 22 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Wodak, R. 2012 In: Understanding
Research for Social Policy and Social Work . Bristol : Policy Press p.
346-348. 3 p. ISBN: 978-1-84742-815-8.
Chapter
Wodak, R. 2012 In: Critical
discourse analysis. Nankai : Nankai University Press p. 90-109. 20 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Wodak, R. 2011 In: Continuum
Companion to Discourse Analysis. London : Continuum 416 p. ISBN:
9781441165640.
Chapter
Wodak, R. 2011 In: Pragmatics
of Society . Berlin : De Gruyter p. 627-650. 23 p. ISBN:
978-3-11-021441-3.
Chapter
Wodak, R. 2011 In: Discursive
Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing Company p. 50-70. 21 p. ISBN:
9789027207852.
Chapter
Wodak, R., Johnstone, B., Kerswill, P. 2010 In: The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London :
Sage p. 1-8. 8 p. ISBN: 978-1-84787-095-7.
Chapter
Wodak, R., Johnstone, B., Kerswill, P. 2010 Sage
Publications. 648 p. ISBN: 978-1847870957.
Book
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