GILBERT WEISS is a Research Associate at the Research Center "Discourse, Politics, Identity" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Recent publications include European Union Discourses on Un/employment: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Employment Policy-Making and Organisational Change (together with Peter Muntigl and Ruth Wodak, Amsterdam 2000). - RUTH WODAK is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna and Director of the Research Center "Discourse, Politics, Identity" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Most recent publications include Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism (together with Martin Reisigl, London 2001), and Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (together with Michael Meyer, London 2001). -