Ruth Wodak#
| Membership Number: | 2779 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/ruth-wodak |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Department of Linguistics and English Language (LAEL), Lancaster University
- 2004 - 2007 Chair in Discourse Studies, Department of LAEL, Lancaster University
- 1999 - 2002 Research Professorship, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna
- 1997 - 2006 Director of Research Centre "Discourse, Politics, Identity", University of Vienna
- 2000 - present Co—Director of Austrian National Focal Point, EUMC (since 2007 FRA), Vienna
- 1991 - 2004 Full Professor of Applied Linguistics, Chair, University of Vienna
- 1983 - 1991 Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics, with emphasis on Discourse Analysis, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- 1975 - 1983 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Critical discourse analysis
- Organizational V discourse
- Sociolinguistics
- Language in politics
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Gender studies, methodologies of qualitative analysis
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Member of the British Academy of Social Sciences
- 2011 Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate, Orebro University
- 2008 Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Chair of the Swedish Parliament, Orebro University
- 2006 Woman’s Prize of the City of Vienna
- 2003 Willy und Helga Verkauf— Verlon — Prize (for antifascist research)
- 2001 Scientitic Prize of the City of Vienna
- 1996 Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize (for elite researchers)
- 1990 Dr. Hertha Fimberg National Award (for special achievement in the area of science and research)
