Ruth Wodak

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruth Wodak is involved.

Book series

Ethics and Interdisciplinarity

Edited by Giovanni Scarafile

ISSN 1574-1583

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

General Editor: Jo Angouri and Johann Wolfgang Unger

ISSN 1569-9463

Document Design Companion Series

Edited by Jan Renkema, Maria Laura Pardo and Ruth Wodak

ISSN 1568-1963

Multilingualism and Diversity Management

Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi

ISSN 2210-7010

Journals

Journal of Research and Problem Solving in Organizational Communication

General Editor: Jan Renkema

ISSN 1388-8951 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9722

Journal of Language and Politics

Edited by Michał Krzyżanowski

ISSN 1569-2159 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9862

Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Edited by Helmut Gruber

ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238

Titles (11) | Order by:

Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’

Edited by Ruth Wodak and Michał Krzyżanowski

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 16:4 (2017) vi, 169 pp.

Discourse analysis, policy analysis, and the borders of EU identity

Edited by Caterina Carta and Ruth Wodak

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.

The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis

Edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak

Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now… read more

[Not in series, 184] 2014. ix, 417 pp.

Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China

Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak

China’s opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and concern. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 42] 2012. ix, 150 pp.

Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China

Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 9:4 (2010) v, 157 pp.

A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity

Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 13] 2005. xviii, 320 pp.

Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value

Edited by J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak

Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 8] 2003. vi, 277 pp.

European Union Discourses on Un/employment: An interdisciplinary approach to employment policy-making and organizational change

Peter Muntigl, Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak

Employment is clearly one of those fields of political activity that reveal the manifold problems and difficulties accompanying the process of European integration and supranational institutionalization. In particular the conflict between supranationalists and intergovernmentalists and the degree… read more

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 12] 2000. viii, 234 pp.

Communicating Gender in Context

Edited by Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak

The contributions to the book “Communicating Gender in Context” deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.

Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in political discourse

Edited by Ruth Wodak

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 (written or oral). This reader… read more

[Critical Theory, 7] 1989. xx, 288 pp.

The Language of Love and Guilt

Ruth Wodak and Muriel Schulz

Although mother and daughter are two central female roles, they have rarely been investigated. The relationship is specific, certainly different than the mother–son or father–daughter relationships. And this difference manifests itself in sex-specific language behavior. Despite ‘eternal’ features… read more

[Not in series, 27] 1986. x, 253 pp.

Articles (59) | Order by:

Krzyżanowski, Michał, Ruth Wodak, Hannah Bradby, Mattias Gardell, Aristotle Kallis, Natalia Krzyżanowska, Cas Mudde and Jens Rydgren 2023 Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’: Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on crisis and the normalization of anti- and post‑democratic action Journal of Language and Politics 22:4, pp. 415–437 | Article

This position paper argues for an interdisciplinary agenda relating crises to on-going processes of normalization of anti- and post-democratic action. We call for exploring theoretically and empirically the ‘new normal’ logic introduced into public imagination on the back of various crises,… read more

Richardson, John and Ruth Wodak 2022 Chapter 17. Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the “Jewish world conspiracy” Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 395–420 | Chapter

This chapter presents a Discourse-Historical Analysis (DHA) of the antisemitic conspiracy theory at the heart of ‘anti-Sorosism’. Anti-Sorosism is a term used to label the global campaign against George Soros, a Jewish American philanthropist of Hungarian origin, launched by extreme-right… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2022 Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 426–443 | Chapter

Wodak, Ruth 2019 Preface Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Viola, Lorella and Andreas Musolff (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Preface

Wodak, Ruth 2018 Chapter 2. “We have the character of an island nation”: A discourse-historical analysis of David Cameron’s “Bloomberg speech” on the European Union Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 27–58 | Chapter

More than five years have passed since former British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a much acknowledged and controversial speech on 23 January 2013, in respect to the British relationship with the European Union (EU). Europe and the EU are now, of course, facing different challenges than… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2017 The “Establishment”, the “Élites”, and the “People”: Who’s who? Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’, Wodak, Ruth and Michał Krzyżanowski (eds.), pp. 551–565 | Article

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 true demos. Such divisions, as will be elaborated in detail, have emerged in many… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2017 Saying the unsayable: Denying the Holocaust in media debates in Austria and the UK Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 13–39 | Article

After 1945 and the end of WWII, denying the Holocaust became an explicit taboo in most European countries. More specifically, in Austria, denying the Holocaust in public implies legal consequences: the so-called Verbotsgesetz persecutes any public utterances which even insinuate National Socialist… read more

Wodak, Ruth and Michał Krzyżanowski 2017 Right-wing populism in Europe & USA: Contesting politics & discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’ Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’, Wodak, Ruth and Michał Krzyżanowski (eds.), pp. 471–484 | Article

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… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2015 Saying the unsayable: Denying the Holocaust in media debates in Austria and the UK Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 13–40 | Article

Wodak, Ruth and Salomi Boukala 2015 European identities and the revival of nationalism in the European Union: A discourse historical approach Discourse analysis, policy analysis, and the borders of EU identity, Carta, Caterina and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 87–109 | Article

To date, the concept of ‘European identity’ remains quite vague and obscure. Who is European and who is not? What values do Europeans share, and who is included in or excluded from the European community? This paper deals with the renegotiation of European identity/ies and the simultaneous… read more

Angermuller, Johannes, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak 2014 The Discourse Studies Reader. An Introduction The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis, Angermuller, Johannes, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Krzyżanowski, Michał, David Machin and Ruth Wodak 2014 Journal of Language and Politics – Looking to the Future Journal of Language and Politics 13:1, pp. v–vi | Editorial

Wodak, Ruth 2014 2007. ‘Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis. A cross-disciplinary Analysis.’ Pragmatics and Cognition, 15 (1): 203–225, selected 203–207, 215–218 The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis, Angermuller, Johannes, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 401–410 | Article

Krzyżanowski, Michał and Ruth Wodak 2013 Chapter 10. Dynamics of multilingualism in post-Enlargement EU institutions: Perceptions, Conceptions and Practices Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project, Berthoud, Anne-Claude, François Grin and Georges Lüdi (eds.), pp. 205–226 | Article

In our chapter, we present a multilevel approach to multilingualism in the European Union (i.e. EU) Institutions. We explore the diversity of the Union’s institutional language regimes and regulations from the point of view of their perceptions, conceptions and practices. We juxtapose the… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2013 Chapter 5. Analyzing meetings in political and business contexts: Different genres – similar strategies? Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice, Cap, Piotr and Urszula Okulska (eds.), pp. 187–221 | Article

This chapter compares various instances of everyday routine meetings in political institutions (such as the European Parliament and the European Commission) with meetings in business organizations, with the aim of, first describing similarities and differences in the genre (and subgenres) of… read more

Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak 2012 Preface Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. vii–ix | Preface

Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak 2012 Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

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 chapter is particularly… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2011 Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 50–70 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2011 Chapter 4. Disenchantment with politics and the salience of images Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article

Iconic images are often used to reduce complex political questions into simple divisions which ultimately exclude alternative voices and preserve hegemonic ideology. This chapter discusses fundamental questions concerning the role of images in public’s view of politics and, in particular, three… read more

Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak 2010 Preface Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 485–487 | Article

Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak 2010 Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 489–507 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2009 The semiotics of racism: A critical discourse-historical analysis Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 311–326 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2007 Preface: New and different perspectives on Language and/in Politics Journal of Language and Politics 6:2, pp. 143–145 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2007 Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis: A cross-disciplinary inquiry Pragmatic Interfaces, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 203–225 | Article

This paper discusses important and fruitful links between (Critical) Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics. In a detailed analysis of three utterances of an election speech by the Austrian rightwing politician Jörg Haider, it is illustrated in which ways a discourse-analytical and pragmatic approach… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2007 History in the making/The making of history: The ‘German Wehrmacht’ in collective and individual memories in Austria Discourse and Human Rights Violations, Anthonissen, Christine and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 115–142 | Article

This paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of the German Wehrmacht, shown in Germany and Austria 1995 and 2002, as examples. Numerous justification and legitimization strategies are involved in public and private… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2007 Language and Ideology — Language in Ideology Journal of Language and Politics 6:1, pp. 1–5 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2006 Introduction: Images in/and news in a globalised world Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies, Lassen, Inger, Jeanne Strunck and Torben Vestergaard (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2006 Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2006 ‘Doing Politics’: The Discursive Construction of Politics Journal of Language and Politics 5:3, pp. 299–303 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2006 History in the making/The making of history: The ‘German Wehrmacht’ in collective and individual memories in Austria Critical Linguistic Perspectives on Coping with Traumatic Pasts: Case studies, Anthonissen, Christine and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 125–154 | Article

Wodak, Ruth and Scott Wright 2006 The European Union in Cyberspace: Multilingual Democratic Participation in a virtual public sphere? Languages of the Internet, Menezes, Claudio (ed.), pp. 251–275 | Article

This article analyses the European Union’s Futurum discussion forum. The EU hoped that Futurum would help close the acknowledged gap between institutions and citizens by facilitating a virtual, multilingual, transnational public sphere. Futurum was both an interesting example of how the EU’s… read more

Chilton, Paul and Ruth Wodak 2005 Preface A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity, Wodak, Ruth and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Preface

Oberhuber, Florian, Christoph Bärenreuter, Michał Krzyżanowski, Heinz Schönbauer and Ruth Wodak 2005 Debating the European Constitution: On representations of Europe/the EU in the press Journal of Language and Politics 4:2, pp. 227–271 | Article

In this article, we analyze the newspaper coverage of the concluding session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which took place in Brussels on the 12th and 13th December 2003 and which was the first attempt to reach an agreement on the “Draft Constitutional Treaty” proposed by the European… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2005 Inter/trans/post-disciplinarity and the study of language and/in politics: Inter/trans/post-disciplinarity and the study of language and/in politics Journal of Language and Politics 4:2, pp. 169–171 | Editorial

Wodak, Ruth 2005 Global and local patterns in political discourses — ‘Glocalisation’: Global and local patterns in political discourses — ‘Glocalisation’ Journal of Language and Politics 4:3, pp. 367–370 | Editorial

Wodak, Ruth and Gilbert Weiss 2005 Analyzing European Union discourses: Theories and applications A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity, Wodak, Ruth and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 121–135 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2004 Preface: The power of language in political discourse Communicating/Doing Politics, pp. 381–383 | Editorial

Wodak, Ruth 2004 New directions in research on political discourse? Journal of Language and Politics 3:1, pp. 1–2 | Editorial

Wodak, Ruth and András Kovács 2004 National identities in times of supra-national challenges: The debates on NATO and neutrality in Austria and Hungary Journal of Language and Politics 3:2, pp. 209–246 | Article

After the end of the Cold War vigorous discussions developed about new alternatives in security policy in almost all the countries of the former Warsaw Pact and in neutral and non-aligned states, including Austria and Hungary. The comparison of the debates in Austria and Hungary over the last 50… read more

Benke, Gertraud and Ruth Wodak 2003 The discursive construction of individual memories: How Austrian “Wehrmacht” soldiers remember WWII Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value, Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 115–138 | Article

Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak 2003 Introduction Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value, Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Miscellaneous

Triandafyllidou, Anna and Ruth Wodak 2003 Conceptual and methodological questions in the study of collective identities: An Introduction Studying Identity: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges, pp. 205–223 | Article

Studying identity, be it ethnic, cultural, linguistic, national or regional, in the contemporary context becomes troublesome because the scholar is faced with a whole range of social and cultural forms that co-exist uncomfortably with existing definitions of social identity. Moreover, although… read more

Wodak, Ruth 2003 Populist discourses: The rhetoric of exclusion in written genres Document Design 4:2, pp. 132–148 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2003 6. Discourses of silence: Anti-Semitic discourse in post-war Austria Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the language of displacement, Thiesmeyer, Lynn (ed.), pp. 179–209 | Chapter

Wodak, Ruth 2003 Editorial Journal of Language and Politics 1:2, pp. 197–198 | Editorial

Wodak, Ruth 2002 5. Fragmented Identities: Redefining and recontextualizing national identity Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse, Chilton, Paul and Christina Schäffner (eds.), pp. 143–169 | Article

Wodak, Ruth 2002 Introduction Identity Politics, pp. 1–2 | Introduction

Wodak, Ruth and Paul Chilton 2002 Introducing the Journal of Language and Politics Identity Politics, p. | Introduction

Wodak, Ruth and Gilbert Weiss 2001 “We are different than the Americans and the Japanese!”: A critical discourse analysis of decision-making in European Union meetings about employment policies Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda and Marcelo Dascal † (eds.), pp. 39–62 | Article

Weiss, Gilbert and Ruth Wodak 2000 European Union Discourses on Employment: Strategies of Depoliticizing Unemployment and Ideologizing Employment Policies Concepts and Transformation 5:1, pp. 29–42 | Article

The fight against unemployment has been declared a top priority of European Union (EU) policies. Indeed, if mass unemployment is the major political problem in Europe, then the legitimacy of the EU as a political union will crucially depend on how this problem is dealt with. In this article we… read more

Weiss, Gilbert and Ruth Wodak 2000 7. Discussion: The EU Committee Regime and the Problem of Public Space. Strategies of depoliticizing unemployment and ideologizing employment policies European Union Discourses on Un/employment: An interdisciplinary approach to employment policy-making and organizational change, Muntigl, Peter, Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak, pp. 185–206 | Chapter

Wodak, Ruth 2000 4. From Conflict to Consensus? The co-construction of a policy paper European Union Discourses on Un/employment: An interdisciplinary approach to employment policy-making and organizational change, Muntigl, Peter, Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak, pp. 73–114 | Chapter

Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak 1997 Preface Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. vii–xxvi | Preface

Wodak, Ruth 1997 “I know, we won’t revolutionize the world with it, but…”: Styles of female leadership in institutions Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 335–370 | Article