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About

Gerlinde Mautner is an applied linguist pursuing research interests at the interface of language and business as well as language and the law. Her work also has a strong focus on methodological questions, specifically those that arise when combining discourse analysis with corpus linguistics.

Gerlinde received her first degree and doctorate in English from the University of Vienna, completed her Habilitation in 1997, and was appointed to a chair at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in 2000. She has strong links with British academia. In December 2020, she became Honorary Visiting Professor at Durham Business School, having previously been affiliated with Cass Business School (City, University of London). Throughout her career, she has spent extended research stays at British universities, including the University of Birmingham, Lancaster University, Cardiff University, and King’s College London.

In various roles, Gerlinde has always been actively involved in academic leadership and administration. She currently serves as Vice-President for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, Austria’s largest research funding organisation), a position she has held since September 2016. Prior to that, between 2008 and 2016, she was a member of the organisation’s board (Kuratorium). Gerlinde was also the WU's Vice-Rector for International Relations for four years (1998 – 2002) and served as Head of Department (Institutsvorstand) for ten (2005 – 2015).

Research Interests

• Language and business

• Language and the law

• The marketisation of discourse

• The language of leadership

• Research methods