born in
1960, Associate professor, M.A. (linguistics), PhD (discourse analysis).
Studies of general and applied linguistics in Vienna (Austria) and Berlin (West, FRG).
Main research fields:
language and institutions; language, power, and ideology; language and prejudice
Working in and leading projects on legal language, language and politics (prejudice), readability research, doctor-patient-interaction, business and organizational
communication.
Since 1984 active in postgraduate courses for teachers and civil servants.
