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

RESEARCH GRANTS:
• Leadership, conceptualization, coordination, administration (for projects in the Research Centre
“Discourse, Politics, Identity” 1997 - 2003, please see http://univie.ac.at/discourse-politics-identity
for details).
1. Studies in text-comprehension and -comprehensibility
i. Austrian Ministry of Science, 1985.
Research Project: Speech Barriers in Radio News Programs
ii. Provincial Government of Lower Austria, 1986.
Research Program: Comprehensibility of Draft Laws.
iii. Austrian National Utilities (NEWAG), 1987. Academic Research Fund:
Linguistic Analysis of the Comprehensibility of Consumer Informational Brochures.
iv. Provincial Government, Bolzano, Italy, 1986.
Research Project: Comprehensibility of Laws.
2. Gender Studies
i. Austrian National Bank Academic Research Fund, 1983.
Research Project: The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Problem Children.
ii. Austrian Ministry of Social Services, 1986.
Research Project: Guidelines for the National Administration,
Civil Service and the Legislature on the Avoidance of Gender-Biased Language.
iii. Austrian Ministry of Science, 1982. Research Project: Do Mothers and Daughters
Speak Differently? Variation in Vienna.
iv. Austrian National Bank Academic Research Fund, 1979. Research Project:
Communication between Mothers and Daughters: A Sociolinguistic and Psychoanalytic
Study.
v. Austrian Ministry for Women‘s Affairs, 1995-1996:
„Sprachliche Gleichbehandlung von Frau und Mann“ (Non-discriminatory Language Behaviour)
3. Institutional Communication
i. Austrian Ministry of Science, 1985. Research Project: Communication between
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