professor gerlinde mautner - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

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PROFESSOR GERLINDE MAUTNER
PERSONAL DETAILS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Address:
Institute for English Business Communication
WU Vienna (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
Nordbergstrasse 15
1090 Vienna, Austria
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.wu.ac.at/ebc/About_us/faculty/mautner
Telephone:
+ 43 1 31336 ext. 4851
Mobile:
+43 676 8213 4851
Fax:
+ 43 1 31336 747
Date of Birth:
24 April 1963
Nationality:
Austrian
EDUCATION
1997
Post-doctoral thesis granting the right to teach
[Habilitation/venia docendi] in English Linguistics: British
Euro-Discourse. Reflections on Methodology and Case
Studies in Daily Newspapers’ Reporting [Der britische
Europa-Diskurs. Reflexion und Gestaltung in der Tagespresse]. Published 2000, see below.
1993
Dr. phil. with distinction [Promotion sub auspiciis
praesidentis rei publicae] in English linguistics.
1987
Mag. phil. in English and American Studies with History
and Social Studies, University of Vienna.
1981
School-leaving exam with distinction [Matura mit
Auszeichnung], Vienna.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1998: Professional Certificate in Management (Level I of the MBA
Programme at the Open University)
AWARDS
1989: Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research Prize to do
research abroad (Birmingham, UK)
1993: Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research Prize for Academic
Achievement (Würdigungspreis des BMWF)
1994: Erwin-Schrödinger Scholarship to do research abroad (Lancaster,
UK)
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EMPLOYMENT
July 2005 –
Head of the Institute for English Business
Communication, WU (Vienna University of Economics and
Business)
Oct. 2000 –
Chair, Institute for English Business Communication, WU.
1998-2002
Vice-Rector for International Relations, WU.
1987-2000
Assistant Professor, Institute for English Business
Communication, WU.
Ongoing
Coaching and in-service training for professionals in
English language competence, public speaking, and
academic writing.
SERVICE
2011 –
Member of the WU2020 Strategy Group
2009
External PhD examiner at Lancaster University
Oct. 2008 –
Member of the Board (Kuratoriumsmitglied) of the Austrian
Science Fund (FWF) with responsibility for linguistics
2005 –
Member of Equal Opportunities Arbitration Committee at WU
(Schiedskommission)
RESEARCH ABROAD
24 January –
4 March 2011
Visiting Scholar, Department of Education and
Professional Studies, King’s College London
25 January –
5 March 2010
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Research in English
Language and Linguistics, Roehampton University,
London.
Winter semester
2008/09
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Language and
Communication Research (CLCR) Cardiff University
(UK).
Summer 2007
Visiting Scholar, CLCR, Cardiff University.
Winter semester
2004/05
Visiting Scholar, CLCR, Cardiff University.
Winter semester
2003/04
Visiting Scholar, CLCR, Cardiff University.
1994/1995
Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics and
Modern English Language, University of Lancaster
(UK), research for post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation)
1989/1990
Visiting Scholar, Department of English Language,
University of Birmingham (UK), research for doctoral
thesis.
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Autumn 1986
Visiting student, Department of English Language,
University of Birmingham, research for Master’s thesis
TEACHING
Courses taught regularly:
 Marketing Communications
 Organizational Communication
 Negotiation
 English Grammar for Business Students
 Research Seminar in English Business Communication
Team-taught with faculty from management departments:
 Academic Writing and Research Proposal Workshop
 Presentations in English
 Business and Legal English for Students in the Master of Business Law
Program (team-taught with faculty from Department of Civil Law)
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Corporate and marketing communication
Critical discourse analysis
Organizational communication in the public and non-profit sectors
Language and society
Corpus linguistics (i.e. computer-aided text analysis)
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
 Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik Deutschlands (GAL)
 Austrian Association of University Teachers of English (AAUTE)
 Societas Linguistica Europaea
 Verband für Angewandte Linguistik Österreichs (VERBAL)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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2011: Wissenschaftliches Englisch. Stilsicher Schreiben in Studium und Wissenschaft.
(= utb 3444). Konstanz: UVK.
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2010: Saving the frog from boiling: Critical discourse analysis and the managerial
assault on the lifeworld. In: Rudolf de Cillia et al. (eds), Diskurs, Politik, Identität.
Festschrift für Ruth Wodak. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, pp. 167-174.
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2010: Language and the Market Society. Critical Reflections on Discourse and
Dominance. London and New York: Routledge.
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2010: The spread of corporate discourse to other social domains. In: Helen KellyHolmes and Gerlinde Mautner (eds): Language and the Market. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 215-225.
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2010: Language and the market: approaches, actors and agendas. In: Helen KellyHolmes and Gerlinde Mautner (eds), Language and the Market. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 251-256.
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2009: Corpora and critical discourse analysis. In: P. Baker (ed.), Contemporary
Corpus Linguistics, London: Continuum, pp. 32-46.
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2009: Checks and balances: How corpus linguistics can contribute to CDA. In: R.
Wodak and M. Meyer (eds), Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London, etc.:
Sage, pp. 122-143.
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2009: Englische Grammatik für die Wirtschaftskommunikation [English Grammar for
Business Communication]. 2nd edition, Vienna: Linde-Verlag.
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2009: Checks and balances: how corpus linguistics can contribute to CDA. In: R.
Wodak and M. Meyer (eds.), Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London, etc.:
Sage, pp. 122-143.
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2008: Analysing newspapers, magazines and other print media. In: R. Wodak and M.
Krzyzanowski (eds.), Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 30-53.
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2008: Language and communication design in the marketplace. In: R. Wodak and V.
Koller (eds.), Communication in the Public Sphere. Handbook of Applied Linguistics
vol. 4. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 131-154.
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2007: Linguistics and management: An unconsummated relationship. In: U.
Doleschal, T. Reuther und E. Hofmann (eds.), Sprache und Diskurs in Wirtschaft und
Gesellschaft. Interkulturelle Perspektiven [Language and Discourse in Business and
Society. Intercultural Perspectives]. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, pp. 171-182.
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2007: Mining large corpora for social information: the case of "elderly". In: Language
in Society 36 (1): 51-72.
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2007: Der freie Hochschulzugang. Diskursanalytische Untersuchungen zu einem
Schlüsselwort der Bildungspolitik zwischen den 70er Jahren und der Gegenwart [Free
access to higher education. Discourse-analytical studies of a keyword in educational
policy of the 1970s and the present]. In: C. Badelt, W. Wegscheider und H. Wulz
(eds.): Hochschulzugang in Österreich [Access to Higher Education in Austria]. Graz:
Grazer Universitätsverlag, pp. 135-192 (with Manfred Kienpointner).
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2005: The entrepreneurial university: A discursive profile of a higher education
buzzword. In: Critical Discourse Studies 2(2), 1-26.
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2005: For-profit discourse in the nonprofit and public sectors. In: G. Erreygers and G.
Jacobs (eds.): Language, Communication and the Economy. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, pp. 25-46.
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2005: Time to get wired: Using web-based corpora in critical discourse analysis.
Discourse & Society 16(6) 809-828.
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2004 (with Veronika Koller): Computer applications in Critical Discourse Analysis. In:
Ann Hewings, Caroline Coffin & Kieran O’Halloran (eds.), Applying English Grammar,
pp. 216–228. London: Arnold.
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2002: Kommunikative Funktionen der Hörfunknachrichten [Communicative functions
of radio newscasts]. In: Joachim-Felix Leonhard et al. (eds.), Medienwissenschaft. Ein
Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Medien und Kommunikationsformen [Media Studies. A
Handbook for the Development of the Media and Forms of Communication]. 3.
Teilband, pp. 2006-2019. Berlin und New York: de Gruyter.
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2001: Menügesteuert. Konkordanzprogramme im Dienste qualitativer Diskursanalyse.
[Menu-Driven: Using Concordance Programs in Qualitative Discourse Analysis]. In:
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Gruber, Helmut / Menz, Florian (eds.), Interdisziplinarität in der Angewandten
Sprachwissenschaft. Methodenmenü oder Salat? [Interdisciplinarity in Applied
Linguistics. A Set Menu of Methods or a Mixed Salad?] Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 161188.
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2000: Der britische Europa-Diskurs: Methodenreflexion und Fallstudien zur
Berichterstattung in der Tagespresse [British Euro-Discourse. Reflections on
Methodology and Case Studies in Daily Newspapers’ Reporting]. Vienna: PassagenVerlag. 2000.
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2000: Deutschland über alles and we are part of "alles". Anti-German Rhetoric in
British EU Discourse. In: Reisigl, M.; R. Wodak (eds.): Discourse and Racism. An
Issue for Critical Discourse Analysis. Vienna: Passagen, pp. 223-236.
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1999: Global English for Global Players? Responding to the ESP Needs of Business
Executives. In: Gnutzmann, C. (ed.): Teaching and Learning English as a Global
Language. Native and Non-Native Perspectives. Tübingen: Stauffenberg, pp. 185-199.
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1999: Aspekte der Fachsprachenforschung. [Aspects of LSP Research]. In: Ohnheiser,
I.; M. Kienpointner; H. Kalb (eds.) Sprachen in Europa. Sprachsituation und
Sprachpolitik in europäischen Ländern. (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur
Kulturwissenschaft) [Languages in Europe. Situations and Language Politics in
European Countries, = Innsbruck Contributions to Cultural Studies], pp. 427-443.
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1998: Fachsprachliche Phänomene in Verkauf und Konsum. [LSP in Sales and
Consumption] In: Hoffmann, L.; Kalverkämper, H.; Wiegand, H.E.; (eds.):
Fachsprachen. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Fachsprachenforschung und
Terminologiewissenschaft. [Language for Special Purposes. A Handbook of LSP
Research and Terminological Studies], pp. 756-763. Berlin und New York: de Gruyter.
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1995 (published under the name of "Hardt-Mautner"): Only Connect: Critical
Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, UCREL Technical Paper 6. Lancaster:
University of Lancaster. Available at
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/tech_papers.html.
Reviews
2008 Review of Corpus-Based Language Studies. An Advanced Resource Book (London
and New York: Routledge) by T. McEnery, R. Xiao and Y. Tono. Language in Society
37(3).
Ongoing reviewing for several international journals, including Discourse & Society, Text
& Talk, Critical Discourse Studies.