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Gisela Redeker
Professor of Communication Studies

(Ph.D. UC Berkeley)

P.O.Box 716
NL-9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
e-mail: g.redeker

rug.nl
tel.: +31 50 3635973/5858
fax: +31 50 363 6855

Department of Communication and Information Sciences
and
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)

Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

Professor of Communication Studies [Summary and Text of Inaugural Lecture 1999 (in Dutch)]
Chair of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences in the Faculty of Arts (current interim chair: Ali Oussaïd)
Local Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT)
Coordinator of the Research Group Discourse and Communication at the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)
Member of the Advisory Council (Raad van Advies) for the Donald Smits Center for Information Technology
Member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Linguistik Online, Poetics, Pragmatics (Review Editor, 2010-), and Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschappen

Major areas of interest:

discourse structure (coherence, segmentation, rhetorical structure, interactional structure)
discourse processing, experimental pragmatics
persuasive discourse, subjectivity, appraisal analysis
perspective and quotation in discourse
language, gender, and identity
computer-mediated communication