Ruth Wodak je od leta 2004 zaslužna profesorica in predstojnica diskur-zivnih študij na Univerzi v Lancastru, kamor se je preselila z Dunaja, kjer je bila od 1991 redna profesorica za uporabno jezikoslovje na Univerzi na Dunaju. Za svoje delo je prejela več nagrad, leta 1996 med drugim tudi prestižno Wittgensteinovo nagrado, namenjeno vrhunskim raziskoval-cem. Kot gostujoča profesorica je gostovala na številnih svetovno znanih univerzah (Stanford, Minnesota, Georgetown, Washington D.C., Uppsala).
Je članica uredniškega odbora številnih lingvističnih revij, sourednica re-vije Discourse and Society, urednica rere-vije Critical Discourse Studies (sku-paj z Normanom Faircloughom, Philom Grahamom in Jayjem Lemkejem) in revije Journal of Language and Politics (skupaj s Paulom Chiltonom).
Je avtorica in so-avtorica več kot 40 knjig, urednica 46 monografij in av-torica več kot 300 člankov. Njene zadnje objave vključujejo The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual, 2009; English Language: Descripti-on, Variation and Context, 2009 (skupaj z J. Culpeperjem, F. Katamba, P.
Kerswillom, T. McEneryem (ur.)); Europe in Crisis: The European Public Sphere and National Media in the Post-War Period, 2009 (skupaj z A. Tri-andafyllidou in M. Krzyzanowskim (ur.)); Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis, 2009 (2. revidirana izdaja (2001); skupaj z M. Meyerjem (ur.));
The Discursive Construction of National Identity, 2009 (2. revidirana izda-ja, 2001; skupaj R. De Cillia, M. Reisiglom in K. Liebhart). Glavna področja njenega raziskovanja zajemajo razvoj teoretskih pristopov v diskurzivnih študijih (kjer združuje etnografijo, teorijo argumentacije, retoriko in funk-cionalno sistemsko lingvistiko), študije spolov, jezik v/in politiki(-a), pred-sodki in diskriminacija.
Ruth Wodak has been Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Stu-dies at Lancaster University since 2004 (personal chair). She moved from Vienna, Austria, where she was full professor of Applied Linguistics, Uni-versity Vienna (from 1991 to 2004). She has received many awards inclu-ding Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers (1996). She also holds many visiting professor-ships (Stanford, Minnesota, Georgetown, Washington DC, Uppsala). She is a member of the editorial board of a range of lingu-istic journals, co-editor of the journal Discourse and Society and editor of Critical Discourse Studies (with Norman Fairclough, Phil Graham and Jay Lemke) and of the Journal of Language and Politics (with Paul Chil-ton). She is an author and co-author of over 40 books, and published 46
edited volumes, and over 300 journal papers. Her recent publications in-clude: The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual, 2009; English Language: Description, Variation and Context, 2009 (with J. Culpeper, F.
Katamba, P. Kerswill, T. McEnery (eds.)); Europe in Crisis: The European Public Sphere and National Media in the Post-War Period, 2009 (with A.
Triandafyllidou and M. Krzyzanowski (eds.)); Methods of Critical Discour-se Analysis, 2009 (2nd reviDiscour-sed edition (2001); with M. Meyer (eds.)); The Discursive Construction of National Identity, 2009 (2nd revised edition (2001); with R. De Cillia, M. Reisigl and K. Liebhart). Her main research agenda focus lies on the development of theoretical approaches in dis-course studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and functional systemic linguistics); gender studies; language and/in poli-tics; prejudice and discrimination.
Andreja Vezovnik
Dr. Andreja Vezovnik je zaposlena kot raziskovalka in asistentka na Fakul-teti za družbene vede, Univerza v Ljubljani. Ukvarja se s teorijami diskurza in različnimi pristopi k analizi diskurza, vprašanjem političnega antago-nizma in predstavništva ter z logiko kolektivne identifikacije. V svojih em-piričnih raziskavah se je največ posvečala fenomenu novega očetovstva in konstrukcije slovenstva. V času doktorskega študija se je izpopolnjevala pri prof. Ernestu Laclauu na Northwestern University in se udeležila več mednarodnih simpozijev ter objavila več znanstvenih člankov na temo te-orije in analize diskurza.
andreja.vezovnik@fdv.uni-lj.si
Dr. Andreja Vezovnik is currently employed as a researcher and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Her main focus is on discourse theories and different approaches to discour-se analysis, on issues of political antagonism and reprediscour-sentation, and on the logic of collective identification. In her empirical research she mainly focused on the phenomenon of new fatherhood, and on the construction of Slovenianess. Under the invitation of Ernesto Laclau she spent a peri-od at Northwestern University as a pre-doctoral visiting scholar, attended several international symposiums, and published scientific papers on dis-course theory and disdis-course analysis.
andreja.vezovnik@fdv.uni-lj.si
Igor Ž. Žagar
IGOR Ž. ŽAGAR studied philosophy, sociology, and linguistics in Ljublja-na, Paris, and Antwerp. He received his doctoral degree in Sociology of Culture from the University of Ljubljana. He is Professor in Rhetoric and Argumentation (University of Maribor), and a Senior Research Fellow (Head of the Centre for Discourse Studies) at the Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He lectured in Belgium, United States, Italy, China, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, Russia, and Poland.
Žagar’s interests lie in pragmatics (speech act theory, (critical) discourse analysis), philosophy of language, argumentation, and rhetoric. He is (co) author and (co)editor of twelve books, and over a hundred articles.
Address: Educational Research Institute, Gerbičeva 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: igor.zagar@guest.arnes.si, igor.zzagar@gmail.com,
WWW: www.igorzagar.net.
IGOR Ž. ŽAGAR je študiral filozofijo, sociologijo in lingvistiko na univer-zah v Ljubljani, Parizu in Antwerpnu. Doktoriral je iz sociologije kulture na Univerzi v Ljubljani. Je redni profesor retorike in argumentacije(Univerza v Mariboru) in znanstveni svetnik (predstojnik Centra za diskurzivne študije) na Pedagoškem inštitutu v Ljubljani. Predaval je na univerzah v Belgiji, Združenih državah Amerike, Italiji, na Kitajskem, Nizozemskem, v Združenem kraljestvu, Španiji, Rusiji in na Poljskem.
Žagarjeva področja zanimanja so pragmatika (teorija govornih dejanj, (kritična) analiza diskurza), filozofija jezika, argumentacija in retorika. Je (so)avtor in (so)urednik dvanajstih knjig in preko sto člankov.
Naslov: Pedagoški inštitut, Gerbičeva 62, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija. E-na-slov: igor.zagar@guest.arnes.si, igor.zzagar@gmail.com,
WWW: www.igorzagar.net.