Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

About

Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Her research interests focus on discourse studies; identity politics; racism antisemitism and other forms of discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. She was awarded the Lebenswerk-Preis in 2018 which honors outstanding life work of personalities who are promoting and achieving gender equality. She was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010. She has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala Stanford University University Minnesota University of East Anglia and Georgetown University (Washington DC). She is a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academia Europaea.  In 2008 she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament (at University Örebrö). Ruth is co-editor of the SAGE journal Discourse & Society and of the journals Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Language and Politics. Recent book publications include: The discourse of politics in action: Politics as Usual (2011) Critical Discourse Analysis (4 volumes 2013) Migration Identity and Belonging (with G. Delanty and P. Jones 2011) The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the German Wehrmachts War of Annihilation (with H. Heer W. Manoschek and A. Pollak 2008) The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria (with M. Krzyzanowski 2009) The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (with B. Johnstone and P. Kerswill 2010) Analyzing Fascist Discourse: Fascism in Talk and Text (with J. E. Richardson 2013) and Rightwing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse (with M. KhosraviNik and B. Mral 2013). Michael Meyer is Professor for Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business.