Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Mautner

Full Professor, Director (Institutsvorstand)
Phone: ++43-1-31336-4851  | Gerlinde.Mautner@wu.ac.at
Room: B.5.03 UZA IV


Gerlinde Mautner received her first degree and doctorate in English from the University of Vienna, completed her Habilitation in 1997 and was appointed to a chair in 2000. Between 1998 and 2002 she was the WU's Vice-Rector for International Relations. She spent research periods at the University of Birmingham during the academic year 1989/90, the University of Lancaster during 1994/95, and the University of Cardiff (Centre for Language and Communication Research) in 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2008/09.

Her research interests include corporate and marketing communications, language and communication design, discourse analysis, and computer-aided corpus linguistics. She is currently working on organisational discourse in the public and voluntary sectors, with a special focus on the commercialisation of discourse in higher education.

In October 2008 she was elected to the Board of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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Selected publications by Professor Mautner:

  • 2010: Language and the Market Society. Critical Reflections on Discourse and Dominance. London and New York: Routledge.

  • 2010: The spread of corporate discourse to other social  domains. In: Helen Kelly-Holmes and Gerlinde Mautner (eds): Language and the Market. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 215-225.

  • 2010: Language and the market: approaches, actors and agendas. In: Helen Kelly-Holmes and Gerlinde Mautner (eds): Language  and the Market. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 251-256.

  • 2009: Corpora and critical discourse analysis. In: P. Baker (ed.), Contemporary Corpus Linguistics, London: Continuum, pp. 32-46.

  • 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.

  • 2009: Englische Grammatik für die Wirtschaftskommunikation. 2nd edition. Wien: Linde-Verlag.

  • 2008: Analysing newspapers, magazines and other print media. In: Wodak. R. / Krzyzanowski, M.: Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 30-53.

  • 2008: "Language and communication design in the marketplace". In:  Wodak, Ruth and Veronika Koller (eds): Communication in the Public Sphere. Handbook of Applied Linguistics vol. 4. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 131-154. 

  • 2008: Power, profit, poetry: Shakespeare & Co for business executives. Public lecture held at the WU Alumni Club, 10 April 2008.

  • 2007: Linguistics and management: An unconsummated relationship. In: U. Doleschal, T. Reuther and E. Hofmann (eds), Sprache und Diskurs in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Interkulturelle Perspektiven, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 171-182.

  • 2007: sprache.macht.wirtschaft: Perspektiven und Impulse aus der Linguistik. Wiener Vorlesung, 26. November 2007  ['Language, Power and Business: A Linguistic Approach'. Public lecture held (in German) at the Vienna City Hall on 26 November 2007].

  • 2007  Markets, "Mission", Management: Spannungsfelder und Perspektiven in der NPO-Kommunikation. In: Badelt, C. / Meyer, M. / Simsa, R. (eds): Handbuch der Nonprofit-Organisation, 4th ed., Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel, 596-619.

  • 2007 (with Manfred Kienpointner): "Der freie Hochschulzugang. Diskursanalytische Untersuchungen zu einem Schlüsselwort der Bildungspolitik zwischen den 70er Jahren und der Gegenwart". In: Badelt, Christoph, Wolfhard Wegscheider and Heribert Wulz (eds): Hochschulzugang in Österreich. Graz: Grazer Universitätsverlag, 135-192.

  • 2007: Mining large corpora for social information: the case of 'elderly'. Language in Society 36(1), 51-72.

  • 2005: For-profit discourse in the nonprofit and public sectors. In: Erreygers, Guido and Geert Jacobs (eds): Language, Communication and the Economy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 25-46.

  • 2005: The Entrepreneurial University: A Discursive Profile of a Higher Education Buzzword. Critical Discourse Studies 2(2), 1-26.

  • 2005: Time to Get Wired: Using Web-Based Corpora in Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse & Society 16(6), 809-828.

  • 2004 (with Veronika Koller): Computer applications in Critical Discourse Analysis. In Ann Hewings, Caroline Coffin & Kieran O’Halloran (eds.), Applying English grammar, 216–228. London: Arnold.

  • 2002: "Kommunikative Funktionen der Hörfunknachrichten". In: J.-F. Leonhard et al. (eds), Medienwissenschaft. Ein Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Medien und Kommunikationsformen. 3. Teilband, 2006-2019. Berlin und New York: de Gruyter.

  • 2001: Menügesteuert. Konkordanzprogramme im Dienste qualitativer Diskursanalyse. In: Gruber, Helmut / Menz, Florian, Hrsg., Interdisziplinarität in der Angewandten Sprachwissenschaft. Methodenmenü oder Salat? Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 161-188.

  • 2000: Der britische Europa-Diskurs: Methodenreflexion und Fallstudien zur Berichterstattung in der Tagespresse. Wien: Passagen-Verlag. 2000.

  • 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. Wien: Passagen-Verlag.

  • 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, 185-199.

  • 1999: Aspekte der Fachsprachenforschung. In: Ohnheiser, I.; M. Kienpointner; H. Kalb, Sprachen in Europa. Sprachsituation und Sprachpolitik in europäischen Ländern. (= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft), 427-443.

  • 1998: Fachsprachliche Phänomene in Verkauf und Konsum. In: L. Hoffmann, H. Kalverkämper, H.E. Wiegand (eds): Fachsprachen. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Fachsprachenforschung und Terminologiewissenschaft, 756-763. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

  • 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://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/tech_papers.html

 

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