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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 81 Citations 55,352 525 World Ranking 177 National Ranking 28

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

2010 - Member of Academia Europaea

1996 - Wittgenstein Award

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Linguistics

Her primary areas of investigation include Critical discourse analysis, Discourse analysis, Linguistics, Social science and Politics. Her Critical discourse analysis study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Social change, Racism, Epistemology, Rhetoric and Civil discourse. The Discourse analysis study combines topics in areas such as Interpersonal communication, Context, Discipline, Rhetorical question and Ethnography.

Ruth Wodak focuses mostly in the field of Linguistics, narrowing it down to matters related to Point and, in some cases, Race and Intertextuality. The study incorporates disciplines such as Political rhetoric, Focus group, Power and Media studies in addition to Social science. Her Politics research incorporates elements of Gender studies, Political economy and Action.

Her most cited work include:

  • Critical Discourse Analysis (4531 citations)
  • Methods of critical discourse analysis (1897 citations)
  • The Discursive Construction of National Identity (828 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Ruth Wodak spends much of her time researching Politics, Linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Gender studies and Epistemology. Her Politics study combines topics in areas such as Social science, Political economy, Rhetoric and Media studies. She studies Linguistics, namely Applied linguistics.

Her Critical discourse analysis study typically links adjacent topics like Context. Ruth Wodak works on Gender studies which deals in particular with Racism. Ruth Wodak combines topics linked to Discourse analysis with her work on Epistemology.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Politics (22.30%)
  • Linguistics (15.24%)
  • Critical discourse analysis (12.27%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Politics (22.30%)
  • Political economy (10.97%)
  • Epistemology (11.15%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Ruth Wodak mostly deals with Politics, Political economy, Epistemology, Discourse analysis and Gender studies. Her work in Politics covers topics such as Rhetoric which are related to areas like Media studies. The concepts of her Political economy study are interwoven with issues in Government, Refugee crisis, Refugee and Populism.

Her work is dedicated to discovering how Epistemology, Critical discourse analysis are connected with Ethnography and other disciplines. Discourse analysis is a subfield of Linguistics that she studies. Ruth Wodak does research in Gender studies, focusing on Racism specifically.

Between 2015 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Right-wing populism in Europe & USA:contesting politics & discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’ (106 citations)
  • The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria (90 citations)
  • The Mediatization and the Politicization of the "Refugee Crisis" in Europe (69 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Linguistics

Her primary scientific interests are in Politics, Political economy, Ideology, Law and Nationalism. Ruth Wodak is interested in Mediatisation, which is a branch of Politics. Her Political economy study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Prosperity, Referendum, Refugee, Rhetoric and Human rights.

Ruth Wodak combines subjects such as Context, Terminology, Grandparent and Discourse analysis with her study of Refugee. Her Discourse analysis research includes elements of Social science, Normalization and Social media. Her Ideology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Racism, National security, Abandonment and Populism.

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Best Publications

Critical Discourse Analysis

Ruth Wodak.
Discourse & Society (2003)

7414 Citations

Introduction: Theory, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Discourse Analysis

Gilbert Weiss;Ruth Wodak.
(2003)

5768 Citations

The Discursive Construction of National Identity

Ruth Wodak;Rudolf De Cillia;Martin Reisigl;Karin Liebhart.
(2009)

3289 Citations

Discourse and Discrimination : Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism

Martin Reisigl;Ruth Wodak.
(2001)

2543 Citations

Disorders of discourse

Ruth Wodak.
(1996)

2106 Citations

Methods of critical discourse analysis

Ruth Wodak;Michael Meyer.
(2001)

2038 Citations

A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press

Paul Baker;Costas Gabrielatos;Majid KhosraviNik;Michal Krzyzanowski.
Discourse & Society (2008)

1758 Citations

The discourse-historical approach (DHA)

Martin Reisigl;Ruth Emily Wodak.
(2009)

1556 Citations

The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean

Ruth Wodak.
(2015)

1515 Citations

The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual

Ruth Wodak.
(2009)

1218 Citations

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