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Prof. Ruth Wodak, Ph.D., Dr. Habil. CURRICULUM VITAE

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KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS:<br />

• Discourse Analysis: Theory and methods in CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis); development of<br />

theories of text planning and text comprehension; argumentation theory; qualitative and<br />

quantitative methods of text analysis;<br />

• Organizational Discourse: Investigation of hospitals, bureaucracies, schools, political and<br />

multinational organizations, application of theoretical and empirical research in training seminars<br />

for teachers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, bureaucrats, etc.<br />

• Sociolinguistics: sociolinguistic theory; gender-specific and class-specific language behavior;<br />

language behavior of minority groups; language policies (language conflicts, multi-lingualism);<br />

• Language and/in Politics: analysis of political discourse; identity politics (national and transnational);<br />

intercultural communication; performance of politics;<br />

• Prejudice and Discrimination: stereotypes and prejudices in discourse; linguistic realization of<br />

prejudice in public and private discourse (racism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism)<br />

• Gender Studies: discursive practices in female socialization; guidelines for non-discriminatory<br />

language use; men and women in conversation; Interaction and communication of women in<br />

different private and institutional settings;<br />

• Methodologies of qualitative analysis; linguistic fieldwork: ethnographic approach in CDA<br />

(‘discourse-historical approach’)<br />

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:<br />

• Chair of Panel for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the EURYI Award, European Science<br />

Foundation 2006/2007<br />

• Member of Advisory Board of Hanadiv Foundation, London (Research on Racism, Xenophobia, and<br />

Anti-Semitism) (2006 -)<br />

• Member of Advisory Board of Volkswagenstiftung (Research focus on Migration) (2005 -)<br />

• Member of International Advisory Board of Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Vienna (2007 -)<br />

• Member of Advisory Board of Leo Baeck Institute, London (2006 -)<br />

• Member of Advisory Board of Centre of Austrian Studies, New Orleans (2002 -)<br />

• University of Vienna/ Austrian Academy of Sciences: Director of Wittgenstein Research Center<br />

‘Discourse, Politics, Identity’ (1997 – 2003)<br />

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