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Department of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
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Ruth Wodak
Lancaster University, Linguistics and English Language, Faculty Member
- Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Studies, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, DIscourse, Extreme Rightwing Populism, and 14 moreAntisemitism (Prejudice), antisemitism and Islamophobia, Fascism, Multilingualism, Nationalism, National Identity, Democracy and Citizenship Education: Citizenship Identities, Human Rights, Social Conflict, Globalization, Xenophobia and Racism, Securitization, Transmigration and Immigration, and Radical Rightwing Populismedit
- Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since 1/9/2004 (personal... moreRuth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since 1/9/2004 (personal chair). She moved from Vienna, Austria, where she was full professor of Applied Linguistics, University Vienna, since 1991 (she is still supervising PhD students at the Department of Linguistics, University Vienna).Ruth is past-president of the Societas Linguistica Europea. On February 6, 2010, Ruth was awarded an honorary doctorate by University Orebro, Sweden. In September 2010, Ruth became member of the Academia Europaea. 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) (see https://plus.google.com/photos/108476165525172811802/albums/5689034182536784017?authkey=CPjX67rShNuptQE&banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1#photos/108476165525172811802/albums/5689034182536784017for some details of the ceremony).
Besides various other prizes, Ruth was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 which made six years of continuous interdisciplinary team research possible. The main projects focused on "Discourses on Un/employment in EU organizations; Debates on NATO and Neutrality in Austria and Hungary; The Discursive Construction of European Identities; Attitudes towards EU-Enlargement; Racism at the Top: Parliamentary Debates on Immigration in Six EU countries; The Discursive Construction of the Past - Individual and Collective Memories of the German Wehrmacht and the Second World War." In October 2006, she was awarded the Woman's Prize of the City of Vienna.
Her research is mainly located in Discourse Studies (DS) and in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Together with her former colleagues and Ph.D students in Vienna (Rudolf de Cillia, Gertraud Benke, Helmut Gruber, Florian Menz, Martin Reisigl, Usama Suleiman, Christine Anthonissen), she elaborated the "Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA" (DHA) in the 1990s which is interdisciplinary, problem-oriented, and analyzes the change of discursive practices over time and in various genres.
She is member of the editorial board of a range of linguistic journals, co-editor of the journals Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse Studies (with John Richardson andPhil Graham) and Journal of Language and Politics (with Paul Chilton). Together with Greg Myers, Ruth edits the book series DAPSAC (Benjamins) (the most recently published monograph in the DAPSAC series is Journalism and Politics).
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.
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.
2010, a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, edited by Lynne Pearce (English Department, Lancaster) and Ruth was published , focusing the construction of regional and national identities in the media and in fiction. A special issue of Critical Discourse Studies together with John E. Richardson (Newcastle) on 'Discourse, History, and Memory' was published in October 2009. In this special issue, we present a range of different discourse theoretical approaches to the discursive construction of memory and the past(s). Another special issue ( The Journal of Language and Politics) is dedicated to New Discourses in Contemporary China (edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak) (2010). This special issue will be published as edited volume in 2012, updated and revised (Benjamins).
The edited volume Memory and Justice (Passagen Verlag, Vienna), co-edited with Gertraud Auer (Kreisky Forum, Vienna) was also published in November 2009. This volume is dedicated to European and more global, transnationalaspects of commemoration and to the many ways societies deal with traumatic pasts. Moreover, Ruth has just published (together with P. Kerswill and B. Johnstone) a new comprehensive Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2010). Ruth's monograph The discourse of politics in action: politics as usual has been published in June 2011 in paperback (second revised edition, Palgrave). The co-edited book, with Gerard Delanty and Paul Jones, Migration, Identity and Belonging has also just been published as paperback in March 2011 (Liverpool Univ. Press).
Moreover, two edited volumes are in press: Analysing European Fascism: Fascism in Text and Talk (co-edited with John Richardson, Routledge 2012); Rightwiedit
This book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 1995 and 2015, by using a range of theoretical and... more
This book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and
politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in
Austria between 1995 and 2015, by using a range of theoretical and
empirical approaches in Critical Discourse Studies to identity politics, contemporary popular culture, far-right populism, and commemoration. Contradictory and intertwined tendencies towards renationalization and transnationalization have always framed debates about European identities,
but during the so-called refugee crisis of 2015, these debates became polarized. The COVID-19 pandemic saw nation-states first react by closing borders, while
symbols of banal nationalism proliferated. The data under discussion here, drawn from a variety of empirical studies, suggest that changes in memory politics – the way past events are remembered
– are also due to the growth of migrant societies; the influence of financial and climate crises; changing gender politics; and a new transnational European politics of the past. Accordingly, the authors assess current challenges to liberal democracies and fundamental human and constitutional rights, and analyse how the pandemic contributes to a new renationalization across Europe
and beyond.
politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in
Austria between 1995 and 2015, by using a range of theoretical and
empirical approaches in Critical Discourse Studies to identity politics, contemporary popular culture, far-right populism, and commemoration. Contradictory and intertwined tendencies towards renationalization and transnationalization have always framed debates about European identities,
but during the so-called refugee crisis of 2015, these debates became polarized. The COVID-19 pandemic saw nation-states first react by closing borders, while
symbols of banal nationalism proliferated. The data under discussion here, drawn from a variety of empirical studies, suggest that changes in memory politics – the way past events are remembered
– are also due to the growth of migrant societies; the influence of financial and climate crises; changing gender politics; and a new transnational European politics of the past. Accordingly, the authors assess current challenges to liberal democracies and fundamental human and constitutional rights, and analyse how the pandemic contributes to a new renationalization across Europe
and beyond.
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1995 trat Österreich der Europäischen Union bei, nachdem zuvor am 12. Juni 1994 eine Volksabstimmung in Österreich dazu stattgefunden hatte. 66,6 % der Abstimmenden befürworteten den geplanten EU-Beitritt. Die Wahlbeteiligung betrug 82,3... more
1995 trat Österreich der Europäischen Union bei, nachdem zuvor am 12. Juni 1994 eine Volksabstimmung in Österreich dazu stattgefunden hatte. 66,6 % der Abstimmenden befürworteten den geplanten EU-Beitritt. Die Wahlbeteiligung betrug 82,3 %, ein Zeichen großer Zustimmung und großer Begeisterung. Seit 1995 verfolgen wir die sehr widersprüchlichen, teils kontinuierlichen, teils brüchigen Entwicklungen österreichischer Identitätskonstruktionen, ausgehend von diesem signifikanten und folgenreichen Einschnitt in der Geschichte der 2. Republik, dem Beitritt zur EU. Und wir stellen nun 2019 fest, dass – trotz der damaligen großen Zustimmung zum EU-Beitritt – heutzutage immer mehr Renationalisierungstendenzen zu beobachten sind.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Media Studies, Border Studies, Popular Culture, Focus Groups, and 10 moreIdentity politics, Nationalism, German Language, Theory of Metaphor and Rhetorics, Argumentation Theory, Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, Discourse-Historical Approach, Austrian German, Symbolic Politics, Political Uses of the Past, Political Rhetoric, and Multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis
Far-right populist politics have arrived in the mainstream. We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does... more
Far-right populist politics have arrived in the mainstream.
We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does this change mean? What caused it? And how does far-right populist discourse work?
The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very centre. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the “micro-politics” of far-right language and discourse.
From speeches to cartoons to social media posts, Ruth Wodak systematically analyzes the texts and images used by these groups, laying bare the strategies, rhetoric and half-truths the far-right employ. The revised second edition of this best-selling book includes:
A range of vignettes analyzing specific instances of far-right discourse in detail.
Expanded discussion of the “normalization” of far-right discourse.
A new chapter exploring the challenges to liberal democracy.
An updated glossary of far-right parties and movements.
More discussion of the impact of social media on the rise of the far-right.
We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does this change mean? What caused it? And how does far-right populist discourse work?
The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very centre. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the “micro-politics” of far-right language and discourse.
From speeches to cartoons to social media posts, Ruth Wodak systematically analyzes the texts and images used by these groups, laying bare the strategies, rhetoric and half-truths the far-right employ. The revised second edition of this best-selling book includes:
A range of vignettes analyzing specific instances of far-right discourse in detail.
Expanded discussion of the “normalization” of far-right discourse.
A new chapter exploring the challenges to liberal democracy.
An updated glossary of far-right parties and movements.
More discussion of the impact of social media on the rise of the far-right.
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In times of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – that is linked to conflicts and wars in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and... more
In times of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – that is linked to conflicts and wars in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet context-specific ways in which migration affects globalized societies. Indeed, due to the very different socio-political histories of each country (colonial versus non-colonial country; country of immigration versus country of emigration; Eastern versus Western country and so forth) and each migrant/refugee community as well as migration movements examined (EU migrants versus migrants from outside the EU; Christian versus Muslim migrants/refugees and so forth), attitudes towards migrants and refugees differ, as do the implemented migration and asylum policies. Moreover, media coverage foregrounds and backgrounds different dimensions of the arrival and
integration of migrants and refugees, depending on their respective editorial policy, their readership and their outreach.
integration of migrants and refugees, depending on their respective editorial policy, their readership and their outreach.
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The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes.... more
The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes.
Europe at the Crossroads is an urgent scholarly response to the sociopolitical challenges that far-right programmes pose to the idea of a more egalitarian world. It offers an interdisciplinary explanation and critique of the dynamics of the far right in Europe – from Poland to the UK, from Sweden to Greece. The authors present immediate alternatives when tackling the exclusionary rhetoric and the politics of resentment.
In formulating alternatives for a ‘social Europe’, each contributor critically assesses the current advance of far-right populism and the threat to liberal democracy since the global financial crisis of 2008 and the European refugee movement of 2015. Each chapter addresses the historical roots and normalization of the extreme right, whether Orbanism in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014, the Brexit campaign and referendum in the UK in 2016. As the slogan ‘Fortress Europe’ – once a pejorative term – now appeals to large numbers of voters, the authors also analyse the flash points in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May 2019.
Europe at the Crossroads is an urgent scholarly response to the sociopolitical challenges that far-right programmes pose to the idea of a more egalitarian world. It offers an interdisciplinary explanation and critique of the dynamics of the far right in Europe – from Poland to the UK, from Sweden to Greece. The authors present immediate alternatives when tackling the exclusionary rhetoric and the politics of resentment.
In formulating alternatives for a ‘social Europe’, each contributor critically assesses the current advance of far-right populism and the threat to liberal democracy since the global financial crisis of 2008 and the European refugee movement of 2015. Each chapter addresses the historical roots and normalization of the extreme right, whether Orbanism in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014, the Brexit campaign and referendum in the UK in 2016. As the slogan ‘Fortress Europe’ – once a pejorative term – now appeals to large numbers of voters, the authors also analyse the flash points in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May 2019.
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In ihrem Buch zeichnet Ruth Wodak den Weg rechtspopulistischer Parteien von den Rändern der politischen Landschaft in den Mainstream nach. Sie beschreibt, wie die politischen Akteure mit ebenso einfachen wie wirkungsvollen Mitteln ihren... more
In ihrem Buch zeichnet Ruth Wodak den Weg rechtspopulistischer Parteien
von den Rändern der politischen Landschaft in den Mainstream
nach. Sie beschreibt, wie die politischen Akteure mit ebenso einfachen wie
wirkungsvollen Mitteln ihren Parteien zu politischem Einfluss verhelfen
und auch den Medien die Themen vorgeben. Ein grundlegendes Werk zu
einer sich abzeichnenden Zeitenwende.
Meist fängt es mit einer kleinen Lüge an, einer Halbwahrheit, einer
Aussage, gepaart mit ihrem Gegenteil. Scheinbar versehentlich wird
Menschen anderer Hautfarbe oder anderen Glaubens die Menschlichkeit
abgesprochen, wird der Holocaust geleugnet und diese Leugnung dann
gleich wieder zurückgenommen. Angeblich in bester Absicht wird die
eigene Nation als Körper betrachtet, den es vor Infektionen zu schützen
gilt. Dahinter steht immer dasselbe Ziel: Durch das Schüren von Hass und
Angst die eigene Karriere zu befördern, koste es, was es wolle.
Im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit bleibt die allgegenwärtige diskursive
Konstruktion von Angst. Aber es geht um viel mehr. Die Analyse des
Rechtspopulismus verdeutlicht, wie die Errungenschaften der Aufklärung in Gefahr geraten, wie rationales Denken in die Defensive gedrängt wird und Gefühle mehr und mehr die Politik bestimmen. Wer das Buch liest, ahnt: Hier zeichnet sich der Beginn eines populistischen Zeitalters ab.
von den Rändern der politischen Landschaft in den Mainstream
nach. Sie beschreibt, wie die politischen Akteure mit ebenso einfachen wie
wirkungsvollen Mitteln ihren Parteien zu politischem Einfluss verhelfen
und auch den Medien die Themen vorgeben. Ein grundlegendes Werk zu
einer sich abzeichnenden Zeitenwende.
Meist fängt es mit einer kleinen Lüge an, einer Halbwahrheit, einer
Aussage, gepaart mit ihrem Gegenteil. Scheinbar versehentlich wird
Menschen anderer Hautfarbe oder anderen Glaubens die Menschlichkeit
abgesprochen, wird der Holocaust geleugnet und diese Leugnung dann
gleich wieder zurückgenommen. Angeblich in bester Absicht wird die
eigene Nation als Körper betrachtet, den es vor Infektionen zu schützen
gilt. Dahinter steht immer dasselbe Ziel: Durch das Schüren von Hass und
Angst die eigene Karriere zu befördern, koste es, was es wolle.
Im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit bleibt die allgegenwärtige diskursive
Konstruktion von Angst. Aber es geht um viel mehr. Die Analyse des
Rechtspopulismus verdeutlicht, wie die Errungenschaften der Aufklärung in Gefahr geraten, wie rationales Denken in die Defensive gedrängt wird und Gefühle mehr und mehr die Politik bestimmen. Wer das Buch liest, ahnt: Hier zeichnet sich der Beginn eines populistischen Zeitalters ab.
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Gerade in einer Zeit mehrfacher Krisen befindet sich die Zufriedenheit der europäischen BürgerInnen laut Eurobarometer vom Frühjahr 2014 auf einem Tiefstand – rund zwei Drittel der Befragten sind mit der Arbeit der EU und der europäischen... more
Gerade in einer Zeit mehrfacher Krisen befindet sich die Zufriedenheit der europäischen BürgerInnen laut Eurobarometer vom Frühjahr 2014 auf einem Tiefstand – rund zwei Drittel der Befragten sind mit der Arbeit der EU und der europäischen Organisationen unzufrieden. Kein Wunder in einer Zeit hoher Jugendarbeitslosigkeit, einer Finanzkrise und großer Unsicherheit aufgrund von Klimawandel, Globalisierung und anderer für den Einzelnen unfassbarer Phänomene. Zu den Krisen kommt ein großes Maß von Unwissenheit hinzu – wenige wissen über die tatsächliche Arbeit in den EU Organisationen Bescheid; Gerüchte gibt es viele wie auch oft nicht fundierte Vermutungen. In der Tradition des Symbolischen Interaktionismus, insbesondere der Arbeit des amerikanischen Soziologen Erving Goffman wie auch der qualitativen Soziolinguistik bzw. der Linguistic Anthropology, beschäftige ich mich mit der jeweils eigenen Logik in Organisationen, die Außenseitern häufig unverständlich bleibt und irrational erscheint. Wie fallen also Entscheidungen? Welche Machtspiele sind dabei involviert? Wer besitzt welches Wissen, wer mischt mit, wer ist ausgeschlossen? Wo wird wirklich entschieden und warum?
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Populist right-wing politics is moving centre-stage, with some parties reaching the very top of the electoral ladder: but do we know why, and why now? In this book Ruth Wodak traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of... more
Populist right-wing politics is moving centre-stage, with some parties reaching the very top of the electoral ladder: but do we know why, and why now?
In this book Ruth Wodak traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of the political landscape to its centre, to understand and explain how they are transforming from fringe voices to persuasive political actors who set the agenda and frame media debates. Laying bare the normalization of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist and antisemitic rhetoric, she builds a new framework for this ‘politics of fear’ that is entrenching new social divides of nation, gender and body.
The result reveals the micro-politics of right-wing populism: how discourses, genres, images and texts are performed and manipulated in both formal and also everyday contexts with profound consequences. This book is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, media and politics wishing to understand these dynamics that are re-shaping our political space.
In this book Ruth Wodak traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of the political landscape to its centre, to understand and explain how they are transforming from fringe voices to persuasive political actors who set the agenda and frame media debates. Laying bare the normalization of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist and antisemitic rhetoric, she builds a new framework for this ‘politics of fear’ that is entrenching new social divides of nation, gender and body.
The result reveals the micro-politics of right-wing populism: how discourses, genres, images and texts are performed and manipulated in both formal and also everyday contexts with profound consequences. This book is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, media and politics wishing to understand these dynamics that are re-shaping our political space.
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Research Interests: Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Critical Discourse Studies, Cultural Policy, and 14 moreEthnography, Sociology of Knowledge, Fascism, Nationalism, Memory Studies, Multimodality, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Jewish heritage, Polish-Jewish / German-Jewish Relations, klezmer revival, Jewish heritage tourism, Holocaust commemoration, antisemitism, social identity, oral history, Austrian History, Cultural Globalization, Discourse-Historical Approach, Classical and Contemporary Social Theory, Historical and Comparative Sociology, and Sociology of the State
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Research Interests: Religion, European integration, Race and Racism, Migration, Neo-Fascism, and 44 moreGender, Culture, Oral Traditions, Critical Discourse Analysis, Migration Studies, Anti-Semitism, Golden Dawn Tradition, Islamophobia, Ethnicity, Refugees, Extreme Right, Radical Right, Minorities, Language politics, State, Far Right, Xenophobia, Vlaams Belang, Vlaams Blok, Austrian politics, Haider, Contagion, Displacement, Flanders, Newsmaking, Media Coverage, Borders and Borderlands, Sweden Democrats, The Tea Party Movement, Discourse-Historical Approach, Extreme Rightwing Populism, Neo fascism and Nazism ideologies, Minarets, Front National, British National party, Coded Antisemtism, Media Control, Radical Rightwing Populism, Schweizer Volkspartei, Berlusconi Media, Media Manipulation, Refugee memory, Burqa, Public Fear, and Italian Media Landscape
Research Interests: Religion, Ethnography, Migration, Identity politics, Nationalism, and 18 moreGender, Culture, Oral Traditions, National Identity, Meetings, European Parliament, Political Language and Political Correctness, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, DIscourse, Ethnicity, European Union Politics, Refugees, Minorities, Language politics, State, Displacement, MEP, Borders and Borderlands, and Refugee memory
Research Interests: Ethics, Communication, Critical Discourse Studies, Web 2.0, Visualization, and 31 moreSemantics, Race and Racism, Conceptual Metaphor, Fascism, Terminology, Participation, Ukrainian Politics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Geography, Cognitive Linguistics, Anti-Semitism, Contrastive Analysis, Translation, Nazi Germany, Heritage, Knowledge, Spain under Franco, Critical Cartography, Information, Italian fascism, Mapping, Cultural Landscape, Xenophobia, Discourses, Historical Landscape, Discourse-Historical Approach, Italian Fascism, Mussolini, Mussolinismo, Coded Language of Antisemitism, National Liberation Front for South Vietnam, Extreme Right Wing Music, and romanian Fascism
Research Interests: Law, Critical Discourse Analysis, War Crimes, Americanization, Evil, and 11 moreHolocaust, Film Criticism, Morality, Ambiguity, Discourse-Historical Approach, photography world war II exhibition germany wehrmacht, VIP interview videos, Tatort episode, Doumentary Analysis, Vergangenheitsbewa¨ltigung, and Post war Germany
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Disorders of discourse. Wodak, Ruth (1996) Disorders of discourse. Real language series . Longman, London. ISBN 0582099579. Full text not available from this repository. Item Type: Book. Subjects: P Language and Literature... more
Disorders of discourse. Wodak, Ruth (1996) Disorders of discourse. Real language series . Longman, London. ISBN 0582099579. Full text not available from this repository. Item Type: Book. Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics. ...
The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic... more
The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse ( ...
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... Linguistics. Departments: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language. ID Code: 1552. Deposited By: Prof Ruth Wodak. Deposited On: 19 Feb 2008 08:50. Refereed?: No.... more
... Linguistics. Departments: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language. ID Code: 1552. Deposited By: Prof Ruth Wodak. Deposited On: 19 Feb 2008 08:50. Refereed?: No. Published?: Published. Last Modified: 20 Sep 2011 03:43. Identification Number: ...
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Benedikt Lutz and Ruth Wodak, Information für Informierte: Linguistische Studien zu Verständlichkeit und Verstehen von Hörfunknachrichten [Information for the informed: Linguistic studies on the comprehensibility and comprehension of radio news]. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der W...more
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In recent years, we can observe a shift towards the right, in politics and the related political discourse. This paper analyses this development for debates on migration in Austria, while drawing on the concept of... more
In recent years, we can observe a shift towards the right, in politics and the related political discourse. This paper analyses this development for debates on migration in Austria, while drawing on the concept of "normalisation". The basic assumption is illustrated with an example of Austrian debates following the terrorist attacks in Paris, 7.–9.01.2015. In the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a complete sample of 72 newspaper articles in the period of two weeks in January/February 2015, it becomes obvious that the notion of "unwillingness to integrate" ("Integrationsunwilligkeit"), a completely vague notion (a "floating signifier") which remains undefined and was used only by the right-wing populist party FPÖ in the 1990s, has since moved to the middle of the political spectrum and was suddenly employed by the political mainstream in 2014 and 2015. Moreover, the analysis provides some evidence for the merging of two completely unrel...
Research Interests: Sociology, Cognitive Science, Media Studies, Political Science, Politics, and 12 moreDiscrimination, Argumentation, Critical Discourse Analysis, Migration Studies, Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Newspaper, Austria, Discourse-Historical Approach, Extreme Rightwing Populism, Mainstream, and Anti Muslim Prejudice
In its terminological considerations, Expert Counsel rejects a notion of culture that can be defined only vaguely and is ideologically loaded. A static and essentialist notion of culture would not do justice to the reality of a... more
In its terminological considerations, Expert Counsel rejects a notion of culture that can be defined only vaguely and is ideologically loaded. A static and essentialist notion of culture would not do justice to the reality of a pluralistic and changing migration society. Indeed, at the “end of the road” there awaits neither a perfectly assimilated society, nor a patchwork of diverse social groups that has become estranged from itself, but a plural togetherness that must continually be re‐negotiated. Both sides of the migration society must therefore develop, in addition to a competence involving inclusion and integration, something like a competence of plurality, because from a longitudinal perspective society is becoming more similar and diverse at the same time. Correspondingly, integration will in any event continue to be seen as a two‐sided process whose functioning requires effort. (H. Fassmann Integrationsbericht 2016, 85)
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James Gee proposes that discourse analysis could work as a bridge between cultures and enhance understanding. He makes very important points in his paper, specifically in respect to the interpretation and understanding of contested... more
James Gee proposes that discourse analysis could work as a bridge between cultures and enhance understanding. He makes very important points in his paper, specifically in respect to the interpretation and understanding of contested meanings; and about the different conceptual systems governing different world views and influencing perception and dialogue. More specifically, he emphasizes the relevance of context, i.e. situational meanings (by drawing on Williams 1991):
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Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird versucht, verschiedene Richtungen der Kritischer Diskursanalyse zusammenzufassen. Entgegen manchen Meinungen, ist Kritische Diskursanalyse keineswegs ein geschlossenes Theoriegebäude; vielmehr handelt es sich... more
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird versucht, verschiedene Richtungen der Kritischer Diskursanalyse zusammenzufassen. Entgegen manchen Meinungen, ist Kritische Diskursanalyse keineswegs ein geschlossenes Theoriegebäude; vielmehr handelt es sich um ein Forschungsprogramm, mit einigen Prinzipien, die von allen ForscherInnen anerkannt werden. Innerhalb dieser recht allgemeinen Prinzipien gibt es jedoch eine große Theorienund Methodenvielfalt. Diese Vielfalt hängt u.a. mit der Herkunft der einzelnen Ansätze zusammen: manche leiten sich eher von der Kritischen Theorie her, andere von Michel Foucault; manche greifen stark auf M.A.K. Halliday zurück, andere weisen auf Konzepte der traditionellen Soziolinguistik hin. Zunächst werden die wichtigsten Konzepte der Kritischen Diskursanalyse eingehend beleuchtet: Ideologie, Macht, Diskurs, Text, Kontext und Kritik. Der Entstehungszusammenhang der verschiedenen Richtungen wird – so weit in diesem Rahmen möglich – präsentiert, vor allem die Wurzeln inner...
This paper presents results from a comparative and qualitative discourse-historical analysis of governmental crisis communication in Austria, Germany, France, Hungary and Sweden, during the global COVID-19 pandemic lockdown from March... more
This paper presents results from a comparative and qualitative discourse-historical analysis of governmental crisis communication in Austria, Germany, France, Hungary and Sweden, during the global COVID-19 pandemic lockdown from March 2020 to May 2020 (a ‘discourse strand’). By analysing a sample of important speeches and press conferences by government leaders (all performing as the ‘face of crisis management’), it is possible to deconstruct a range of discursive strategies announcing/legitimising restrictive measures in order to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic where everybody is in danger of falling ill, regardless of their status, position, education and so forth. I focus on four frames that have been employed to mitigate the ‘dread of death’ (Bauman, 2006) and counter the ‘denial of death’ (Becker, 1973/2020): a ‘religious frame’, a ‘dialogic frame’, a frame emphasising ‘trust’, and a frame of ‘leading a war’. These interpretation frameworks are all embedded in ‘renationalising’...
Research Interests: Business, Comparative Politics, Critical Discourse Studies, Crisis communication and management, Political Science, and 11 moreCrisis Management, Politics, Nationalism, Biopower, Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking, Nativism, State of exception, Discourse-Historical Approach, Denial, Dialogic, and Legitimation Strategies
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Political Science, Antisemitism (Prejudice), Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, European Union Politics, and 7 moreDiscourse and Society, Normalization, Language Culture and Communication, Austria, Discourse-Historical Approach, Breaking cultural and social taboos, and Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Research Interests: Media Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, Social Work, Border Studies, Refugee Studies, and 11 moreRace and Racism, Political Science, Migration Studies, Nativism, Refugee, Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, Discourse-Historical Approach, Refugee Crisis, Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Routledge, and Politicisation of the media
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In this paper, I discuss the attempt by all right-wing populist parties to create, on the one hand, the ‘real’ and ‘true’ people; and on the other, the ‘élites’ or ‘the establishment’ who are excluded from the truedemos. Such divisions,... more
In this paper, I discuss the attempt by all right-wing populist parties to create, on the one hand, the ‘real’ and ‘true’ people; and on the other, the ‘élites’ or ‘the establishment’ who are excluded from the truedemos. Such divisions, as will be elaborated in detail, have emerged in many societies over centuries and decades. A brief example of the arbitrary construction of opposing groups illustrates the intricacies of such populist reasoning. Furthermore, I pose the question why such divisions resonate so well in many countries? I argue that – apart from apolitics of fear(Wodak 2015) – muchresentmentis evoked which could be viewed as both accompanying as well as a reaction to the disenchantment with politics and the growing inequalities in globalized capitalist societies.
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In recent years and months, new information about the rise of right-wing populist parties (RWPs) in Europe and the USA has dominated the news and caused an election scare among mainstream institutions and politicians. The unpredictable... more
In recent years and months, new information about the rise of right-wing populist parties (RWPs) in Europe and the USA has dominated the news and caused an election scare among mainstream institutions and politicians. The unpredictable successes of populists (e.g. Donald Trump in the USA in 2016) have by now transformed anxieties into legitimate apprehension and fear. This Special Issue addresses the recent sudden upsurge of right-wing populism. It responds to many recent challenges and a variety of 'discursive shifts' and wider dynamics of media and public discourses that have taken place as a result of the upswing of right-wing populism (RWP) across Europe and beyond. We examine not only the nature or the state-of-the-art of contemporary RWP but also point to its ontology within and beyond the field of politics and argue that the rise and success of RWP is certainly not a recent or a momentary phenomenon.
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Research Interests: Gender Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, Political Science, Antisemitism (Prejudice), Politics, and 13 moreIdentity politics, Nationalism, Populism, Migration Studies, Multidisciplinary, Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking, Radical Right-wing Populist Parties, Right Wing Populism, The Tea Party Movement, Discourse-Historical Approach, Holocaust Denial, Body Politic, and Right Wing
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Research Interests: Contact Linguistics, Multilingualism, Immigration, European Union, Critical Discourse Analysis, and 15 moreLinguistics, Conceptual History, Language Attitudes, Language Ideologies, Language Planning, Language Policy, Identity, Language Studies, Language Policies, European Multilingualism, Immigrant integration, Lisbon Strategy, Knowledge based economy, European Union Policies, and Langauge Standardization
The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly... more
The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly in contact with one another. This essay is particularly concerned with the question of how a shared understanding of the concept of the critical can be developed among Western and Chinese scholars. To this end the paper gives an overview of notions of critique in the historical traditions of China and the West, addressing issues of conceptualisation, discourse practice and translation. This leads us to consider, from a “critical” point of view, what the appearance of the “critical” approach may mean in the Chinese context. The need for continued dialogue oriented to a deepened understanding of existing ideas and approaches is highlighted.
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Help: about the FAC B Database The Food Additives and Contaminants - Surveillance Database is a searchable database containing all the surveillance data published in Food Additives and Contaminants Part B (FAC B) since its launch in June... more
Help: about the FAC B Database The Food Additives and Contaminants - Surveillance Database is a searchable database containing all the surveillance data published in Food Additives and Contaminants Part B (FAC B) since its launch in June 2008. Search results may be ...
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This chapter focuses on the synergy that researchers in language policy have developed by integrating two other subfields of sociolinguistics: critical discourse analysis and critical ethnography. The chapter begins by discussing the... more
This chapter focuses on the synergy that researchers in language policy have developed by integrating two other subfields of sociolinguistics: critical discourse analysis and critical ethnography. The chapter begins by discussing the meanings of the three key concepts used in these approaches, albeit sometimes in significantly different ways: critique, ethnography, and discourse. It then examines how these concepts are relevant to contemporary analyses of language policy, focusing particularly on their potential to open new and innovative avenues of research. To demonstrate how an integrated critical discourse and ethnographic approach can be applied in concrete empirical research, the chapter presents an analysis of language policy and practice in the European Union before providing an overview of other relevant studies in the area.
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Die sogenannte „Fluchtlingskrise“ ist seit 2015 Bezugspunkt zahlreicher diskursiver Konflikte im Bereich der Politik. In Osterreich war die mediatisierte Politik in den Jahren 2015 und 2016 gepragt von metadiskursiven... more
Die sogenannte „Fluchtlingskrise“ ist seit 2015 Bezugspunkt zahlreicher diskursiver Konflikte im Bereich der Politik. In Osterreich war die mediatisierte Politik in den Jahren 2015 und 2016 gepragt von metadiskursiven Begriffsaushandlungen im Zusammenhang mit der Errichtung eines Grenzzauns und der Festlegung einer Obergrenze fur Gefluchtete. Beide Themenbereiche brachten ernsthafte ideologische und rechtliche Bedenken auf und wurden daher weitgehend euphemisiert bzw. beschonigt. Als Reaktion auf den wachsenden Druck der politischen Rechten waren die Auserungen zu beiden Themen aber auch als Signale an die Wahler gedacht. Dieser Artikel prasentiert eine diskurshistorische Studie zur Normalisierung restriktiver Politik im theoretischen Rahmen von Grenz- und Korperpolitik, der Darstellung des „Anderen“ und der Mediatisierung politischer Prozesse.
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This paper applies the notions of impoliteness and shameless normalisation to potentially impolite behaviours produced by Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi in official press conferences. Press conferences, as an activity type, involve... more
This paper applies the notions of impoliteness and shameless normalisation to potentially impolite behaviours produced by Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi in official press conferences. Press conferences, as an activity type, involve relatively clear expectations and norms, so that impolite behaviours theoretically constitute particularly salient violations. We present two case studies involving racist and misogynist insults on the part of Berlusconi and Trump, respectively, analysed in their co-textual, interactional, socio-political as well as historical contexts. We describe the kinds of impoliteness that each politician employs, without any apology, and argue that they involve violations of the traditional moral order that are part of a far-right populist agenda of shameless normalisation. In each case, we examine comments posted in response to YouTube videos of each incident and provide evidence of polarised responses, but with substantial proportions expressing positive eval...
Research Interests: Political Science, Politics, Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking, Discourse and Society, Salient, and 10 moreNormalisation, Language Culture and Communication, Extreme and Far Right, Discourse-Historical Approach, Impoliteness Strategies, Silvio Berlusconi, Press Conference, Donald Trump, Shamelessness, and Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
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... Linguistics. Departments: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language. ID Code: 1673. Deposited By: Prof Ruth Wodak. Deposited On: 18 Feb 2008 16:43. Refereed?: No. Published?: Published.... more
... Linguistics. Departments: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language. ID Code: 1673. Deposited By: Prof Ruth Wodak. Deposited On: 18 Feb 2008 16:43. Refereed?: No. Published?: Published. Last Modified: 16 Sep 2011 17:17. Identification Number: ...
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Irony is an effective means of dealing with controversy in organizations, but there is a paucity of knowledge of the various ways in which irony helps managers to do so without necessarily ‘solving’ those issues. By drawing on discursive... more
Irony is an effective means of dealing with controversy in organizations, but there is a paucity of knowledge of the various ways in which irony helps managers to do so without necessarily ‘solving’ those issues. By drawing on discursive incongruity theory, we examine the use of irony when managers are confronted with controversial issues in a multinational company. As a result, we identify and elaborate on four distinctively different pathways of how irony helps participants to move on: ‘acquiescing’ (framing understanding as having no alternative because of environmental constraints), ‘empowering’ (synthesizing a view through broad inputs from different individuals), ‘channelling’ (subsuming other interpretations under a single and often dominant view) and ‘dismissing’ (rejecting alternative interpretations and often reinforcing the status quo). On this basis, we develop a theoretical model that elucidates the process dynamics in dealing with and moving on with controversial issue...
Research Interests: Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Psychology, Gender Studies, Epistemology, and 15 moreOrganizational Theory, Leadership, Strategic Management, Discourse, Sensemaking (Organizational Behavior), Critical Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research, Interpretation, Satire & Irony, Organization Science, Business and Management, Practice, Irony, Discourse-Historical Approach, and Status Quo
In times of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – that is linked to conflicts and wars in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and... more
In times of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – that is linked to conflicts and wars in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet context-specific ways in which migration affects globalized societies. Indeed, due to the very different socio-political histories of each country (colonial versus non-colonial country; country of immigration versus country of emigration; Eastern versus Western country and so forth) and each migrant/refugee community as well as migration movements examined (EU migrants versus migrants from outside the EU; Christian versus Muslim migrants/refugees and so forth), attitudes towards migrants and refugees differ, as do the implemented migration and asylum policies. Moreover, media coverage foregrounds and backgrounds different dimensions of the arrival and integration of migrants and refugees, depending on their respective editorial policy, their readership and their outreach.
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Since the 1980s, the transformation of the former Eastern bloc, Germany's reunification, the enlargement and deeper integration of the European Union, together with persistent debates about migration focused ever more attention on issues... more
Since the 1980s, the transformation of the former Eastern bloc, Germany's reunification, the enlargement and deeper integration of the European Union, together with persistent debates about migration focused ever more attention on issues of historical and cultural identities. Indeed, in some member states of the European Union, the propagation of a new European identity was accompanied by the emergence or re-emergence of fragmented and unstable national, sometimes even nativist, and ethnic identities. Seemingly established collective, national identities became contested political terrain and the focus of political struggles. Moreover, threats and crises of various kinds have re-invigorated discussions of national or cultural identities across Europe, alongside the rise of various far-right and right-wing populist parties and movements. In my lecture, I illustrate the considerations above with the help of a case study about the discursive construction of Austrian national identities 1995-2015. First, I will briefly present my theoretical and methodological framework (the Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Studies) and then provide an overview of the types of discourse and data analyzed, including political speeches, commemorative events, media, group discussions as well as in-depth interviews. Covering crucial analytical categories, I discuss our findings in comparison to data collected in 1995 and 2005 and conclude with a longitudinal perspective on the discursive construction of (Austrian) national identities.
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20 years of CDA - celebration in Amsterdam, 8-9 September 2014
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Wodak, who to be clear finds herself very worrying and certainly not welcoming, offers host David Edmonds a "recipe" for becoming a far-right populist. In her scholarship, she’s identified four ingredients, or dimensions, to the ideology... more
Wodak, who to be clear finds herself very worrying and certainly not welcoming, offers host David Edmonds a "recipe" for becoming a far-right populist. In her scholarship, she’s identified four ingredients, or dimensions, to the ideology that often underlie populist far-right parties.
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The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes.... more
The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes.
Europe at the Crossroads is an urgent scholarly response to the sociopolitical challenges that far-right programmes pose to the idea of a more egalitarian world. It offers an interdisciplinary explanation and critique of the dynamics of the far right in Europe – from Poland to the UK, from Sweden to Greece. The authors present immediate alter- natives when tackling the exclusionary rhetoric and the politics of resentment.
In formulating alternatives for a ‘social Europe’, each contributor critically assesses the current advance of far- right populism and the threat to liberal democracy since the global financial crisis of 2008 and the European refu- gee movement of 2015. Each chapter addresses the histori- cal roots and normalization of the extreme right, whether Orbanism in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014, the Brexit campaign and referendum in the UK in 2016. As the slogan ‘Fortress Europe’ – once a pejorative term – now appeals to large numbers of voters, the authors also analyse the flash points in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May 2019.
Europe at the Crossroads is an urgent scholarly response to the sociopolitical challenges that far-right programmes pose to the idea of a more egalitarian world. It offers an interdisciplinary explanation and critique of the dynamics of the far right in Europe – from Poland to the UK, from Sweden to Greece. The authors present immediate alter- natives when tackling the exclusionary rhetoric and the politics of resentment.
In formulating alternatives for a ‘social Europe’, each contributor critically assesses the current advance of far- right populism and the threat to liberal democracy since the global financial crisis of 2008 and the European refu- gee movement of 2015. Each chapter addresses the histori- cal roots and normalization of the extreme right, whether Orbanism in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014, the Brexit campaign and referendum in the UK in 2016. As the slogan ‘Fortress Europe’ – once a pejorative term – now appeals to large numbers of voters, the authors also analyse the flash points in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May 2019.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Comparative Politics, Media Studies, Democratic Theory, Climate change policy, and 12 moreImmigration And Integration In Europe, European Union, Critical Discourse Analysis, Poland, Sweden, UKIP, SYRIZA, far-right politics Europe, Austria, Discourse-Historical Approach, Fidesz, and Brexit UK
This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich... more
This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of
topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach,
readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of
how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images.
This new edition:
expands coverage of multimodality
adds two new chapters on social media and analysis of online data
supports learning with a guided introduction to each chapter
includes a new and extended glossary
Clearly written, practical and rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on
research that focuses on discourse and meaning-making.
Edition Change:
Expanded coverage of multimodality
Chapters on social media and analysis of online data
A guided introduction to each chapter
A new and extended glossary
Updated pedagogy: student-focussed examples, further reading lists, and tasks/activities
topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach,
readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of
how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images.
This new edition:
expands coverage of multimodality
adds two new chapters on social media and analysis of online data
supports learning with a guided introduction to each chapter
includes a new and extended glossary
Clearly written, practical and rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on
research that focuses on discourse and meaning-making.
Edition Change:
Expanded coverage of multimodality
Chapters on social media and analysis of online data
A guided introduction to each chapter
A new and extended glossary
Updated pedagogy: student-focussed examples, further reading lists, and tasks/activities