Ruth Wodak
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth Wodak plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1569-9463
ISSN 1568-1963
Journals
ISSN 1569-2159 | E-ISSN 1569-9862
Titles
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.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis
Edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak
[Not in series, 184] 2014. ix, 417 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China
Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak
[Benjamins Current Topics, 42] 2012. ix, 150 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity
Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 13] 2005. xviii, 320 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value
Edited by J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 8] 2003. vi, 277 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
European Union Discourses on Un/employment: An interdisciplinary approach to employment policy-making and organizational change
Peter Muntigl, Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak
[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 12] 2000. viii, 235 pp.
Subjects Industrial & organizational studies | Pragmatics
Communicating Gender in Context
Edited by Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in political discourse
Edited by Ruth Wodak
[Critical Theory, 7] 1989. xx, 288 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Pragmatics
Articles
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
2023 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 | Article
Chapter 17. Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the “Jewish world conspiracy” Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 395–420
2022 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 | Chapter
Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 426–443
2022 Chapter
Preface Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Viola, Lorella and Andreas Musolff (eds.), pp. vii–xii
2019 Miscellaneous
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
2018 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 | Chapter
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
2017 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 | Article
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
2017 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 | Article
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
2017 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)… read more | Article
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
2015 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 | Article
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
2015 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 increase… read more | Article
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
2014 Article
Journal of Language and Politics – Looking to the Future Journal of Language and Politics 13:1, pp. v–vi
2014 Editorial
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
2014 Article
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
2013 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 | Article
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
2013 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 | Article
Preface Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. vii–ix
2012 Article
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
2012 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 | Article
Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 50–70
2011 Article
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
2011 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 | Article
Preface Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 485–487
2010 Article
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
2010 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… read more | Article
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
2009 Article
Preface: New and different perspectives on Language and/in Politics Journal of Language and Politics 6:2, pp. 143–145
2007 Article
Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis: A cross-disciplinary inquiry Pragmatic Interfaces, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 203–225
2007 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 | Article
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
2007 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 | Article
2007
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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
2006 Article
Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–24
2006 Article
‘Doing Politics’: The Discursive Construction of Politics Journal of Language and Politics 5:3, pp. 299–303
2006 Article
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
2006 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 | Article
The European Union in Cyberspace: Multilingual Democratic Participation in a virtual public sphere? Languages of the Internet, Menezes, Claudio (ed.), pp. 251–275
2006 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 | Article
Preface A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity, Wodak, Ruth and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. xi–xii
2005 Miscellaneous
Debating the European Constitution: On representations of Europe/the EU in the press Journal of Language and Politics 4:2, pp. 227–271
2005 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 | Article
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
2005 Editorial
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
2005 Editorial
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
2005 Article
2004
Editorial
2004
Editorial
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
2004 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 | Article
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
2003 Article
Introduction Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value, Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 1–16
2003 Miscellaneous
Conceptual and methodological questions in the study of collective identities: An Introduction Studying Identity: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges, pp. 205–223
2003 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 | Article
2003
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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
2003 Chapter
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
2002 Article
“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
2001 Article
European Union Discourses on Employment: Strategies of Depoliticizing Unemployment and Ideologizing Employment Policies Concepts and Transformation 5:1, pp. 29–42
2000 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 | Article
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 ff.
2000 Chapter
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 ff.
2000 Chapter
Preface Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. vii ff.
1997 Miscellaneous
“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 ff.
1997 Article
Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 204–210
1995 Article
My mom and I are the best friends Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Verschueren, Jef (ed.), pp. 267 ff.
1991 Article
Normal–deviant–disturbed? The socio-psychological theory of text planning From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 333 ff.
1989 Article
1968: The power of political jargon — a “Club-2” discussion Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in political discourse, Wodak, Ruth (ed.), pp. 137 ff.
1989 Article
Review of Raffler-Engel (1983): Nonverbal Behaviour in the Career Interview Studies in Language 10:1, pp. 231–235
1986 Review