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Dr Monika Bednarek

Dr Monika Bednarek

Habilitation, PhD, Maigster Artium Augsburg

+61 2 9036 7201
Room 247, Transient Building F12

Dr Monika Bednarek joined the Department of Linguistics after gaining her PhD at the University of Augsburg, Germany, in 2005 and extensive post-doctoral research at the University of Sydney (2006-2008) and the University of Technology, Sydney (2008-2009). This research focused, respectively, on evaluative language in the ‘popular’ vs. the ‘quality’ press, emotion talk across registers of English, and, most recently, the language of fictional television (see publications below).

Monika’s research interests include topics in the areas of corpus linguistics, eco-linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and, more specifically, media discourse, the linguistic expression of emotion and attitude, and frames/scripts/schemata. She is book review editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Discourse and Communication (http://dcm.sagepub.com/), and a NAATI-certified Professional Translator (English-German).

Monika is interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following areas:

  • corpus linguistics (computerised analysis of language)
  • eco-linguistics (studying environmental discourse)
  • media discourse (in particular news and fictional television)
  • stylistics (analysing fictional texts, literary and non-literary)
  • language and emotion/attitude (also known under affect, appraisal, stance, evaluation, subjectivity)
  • language and identity (including gender)

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

  • 2011: School of Letters, Arts and Media Research Support Scheme, University of Sydney
  • 2011: Faculty of Arts Collaborative Research Scheme (with colleagues), University of Sydney
  • 2010: School of Letters, Arts and Media Research Support Scheme, University of Sydney
  • April 2009: Award of Distinguished Talent visa, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Australia
  • March 2008-November 2009: Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Technology, Sydney
  • February 2006-February 2008: Two-year DFG research grant (German Research Council)
  • August 2005-January 2006: Early Career Researcher grant, University of Augsburg, Germany
  • January 2004-March 2004: DAAD research grant (German Academic Exchange Service)
  • April 2009: Award of Distinguished Talent visa, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Australia
  • March 2008-November 2009: Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Technology, Sydney
  • February 2006-February 2008: Two-year DFG research grant (German Research Council)
  • August 2005-January 2006: Early Career Researcher grant, University of Augsburg, Germany
  • January 2004-March 2004: DAAD research grant (German Academic Exchange Service)

Publications

Books

  • Bednarek, M 2010, The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity, Continuum, London
  • Bednarek, M 2008, Emotion Talk and Corpora, Palgrave MacMillan, Houndsmills
  • Bednarek, M 2006, Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus, Continuum, London

Edited Journals and Books

  • R. Piazza, F. Rossi, M. Bednarek (eds), Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series
  • Bednarek, M, Martin, J R (eds.) 2010, New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Continuum Press, London, United Kingdom
  • Bednarek, M, (ed.), 2008, Evaluation and Text Types, Functions of Language 15(1)

Journal Articles

  • Bednarek, M in press, Construing ‘nerdiness’: characterisation in The Big Bang Theory, Multilingua, 31(2/3)
  • Bednarek, M in press, ‘Get us the hell out of here’: Key words and trigrams in fictional television series, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17(1)
  • Bednarek, M 2011, The language of fictional television: a case study of the 'dramedy' Gilmore Girls, English Text Construction, 4(1), 54-83
  • Bednarek, M 2011, Expressivity and televisual characterisation, Language and Literature, 20(1), 3-21
  • Bednarek, M 2010, Evaluation in the news - A methodological framework for analysing evaluative language in journalism, Australian Journal of Communication, 37(2), 15-50
  • Caple, H, Bednarek, M 2010, Double-take: unpacking the play in the image-nuclear news story, Visual Communication, 9(2), 211-229
  • Bednarek, M, Caple, H 2010, Playing with environmental stories in the news: good or bad practice?, Discourse & Communication, 4(1), 5-31
  • Bednarek, M 2009, Dimensions of evaluation: cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Pragmatics and Cognition, 17(1), 146-175
  • Bednarek, M 2009, Language patterns and ATTITUDE, Functions of Language, 16(2), 165-192
  • Bednarek, M 2009, Polyphony in Appraisal: typological and topological perspectives, Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 3(2), 107-136
  • Bednarek, M 2008, 'An increasingly familiar tragedy': evaluative collocation and conflation, Functions of Language, 15(1), 7-34
  • Bednarek, M 2008, Introduction, Functions of Language, 15(1), 1-6
  • Bednarek, M 2008, Semantic preference and semantic prosody re-examined, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 4(2), 119-139
  • Bednarek, M 2007, Local grammar and register variation: explorations in broadsheet and tabloid newspaper discourse, ELR: The English Language Review, 1(1), 1-20, available online at http://ejournals.org.uk/ELR/article/2007/1
  • Bednarek, M 2007, Zur Diskussion feministischer Themen im Englischunterricht am Beispiel von Liedtexten von Alanis Morissette, PRAXIS Fremdsprachenunterricht, 3(2007), 33-37
  • Bednarek, M 2006, Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse: a text-driven approach, Text & Talk, 26(6), 635-660
  • Bednarek, M 2005, Construing the world: conceptual metaphors and event-construal in news stories, Metaphorik.de, 9, 6-32, available online at http://www.metaphorik.de/09/bednarek.pdf
  • Bednarek, M 2005, Frames revisted: the coherence-inducing function of frames, Journal of Pragmatics, 37(5), 685-705

Book Chapters

  • Bednarek, M 2011, Approaching the data of pragmatics, Foundations of Pragmatics (Handbooks of Pragmatics 1) Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 537-559
  • Bednarek, M 2011, The stability of the televisual character: A corpus stylistic case study, Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series, John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, 185-204
  • Bednarek, M 2010, Corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistics: interpersonal meaning, identity and bonding in popular culture, New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Continuum Press, London, United Kingdom, 237-266
  • Bednarek, M 2010, 'With a little help from the corpus': corpus linguistics and EFL teaching, The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 325-344
  • Bednarek, M 2009, Emotion-talk and emotional-talk: cognitive and discursive perspectives, Language and Social Cognition: Expression of the Social Mind, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 395-431
  • Bednarek, M 2008, 'What the hell is wrong with you?' A corpus perpective on evaluation and emotion in contemporary American pop culture, Questioning Linguistics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 95-126
  • Bednarek, M 2006, Enjoy! The (phraseological) culture of having fun, Phraseology and culture in English, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 109-135
  • Bednarek, M 2006, Evaluating Europe: parameters of evaluation in the British press, Reconfiguring Europe: The Contribution of Applied Linguistics, Equinox, London, 137-156
  • Bednarek, M 2006, Subjectivity and cognition: inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion, Language and Memory: Aspects of Knowledge Representation, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 187-221

Conference Proceedings

  • Bednarek, M 2010, Emotion talk and emotional talk: approaches to language and emotion in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Beyond, in Canzhong Wu, Christian Matthiessen and Maria Herke (eds.), Proceedings of ISFC 35: Voices Around The World, Volume 2, Sydney, The 35th ISFC Organizing Committee, 39-45
  • Bednarek, M 2009, Corpora and discourse: a three-pronged approach to analyzing linguistic data, HCSNet Summerfest ''08, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA, 19-24
  • Bednarek, M 2008, Teaching English literature and linguistics using corpus stylistic methods, 2007 Annual Congress of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association: Bridging Discourses, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, Wollongong, available online at http://www.asfla.org.au/category/asfla2007/
  • Bednarek, M 2006, Sobbing, screaming and shouting? Reporting expressions in the British press, Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Bamberg
  • Bednarek, M 2005, 'He's nice but Tim': contrast in British newspaper discourse, Corpus Linguistics 2005, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Reviews

  • Susan Hunston (2011). Corpus Approaches to Evaluation. Phraseology and Evaluative Language. London/New York: Routledge. ICAME (in press)
  • Anne O’Keeffe and M. McCarthy (2010) (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London/New York: Routledge. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 34(1) :104-107.
  • Gerd Antos and Eija Ventola, in cooperation with Tilo Weber (2008) (eds.). Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. Handbooks of Applied Linguistics Volume 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Functions of Language (in press).
  • Theo van Leeuwen (2008). Discourse and Practice. New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. U: March 2009, University of Technology, Sydney. Read it here.
  • Jean Aitchison and D.M. Lewis (2003) (eds). New Media Language. London/New York: Routledge. Multilingua 25 (3): 362-365.
  • Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak (2003) (eds). Critical Discourse Analysis. Theory and Interdisciplinarity. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan. Anglistik 16 (1): 190-194.
  • Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick (2003) Language and Sexuality. Cambridge University Press. Linguist List 14.2768 (14.10.2003). Read it here.
  • Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler (2001) (eds). The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology and Environment. London/New York: Continuum. Anglistik 15 (1): 143-147.

Encyclopaedia Entries

  • (2006) Pragmatic aspects of reported speech. In: Keith Brown (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier: 550-553. [with Wolfram Bublitz]
  • (2006) Bühler, Karl. In: Keith Brown (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • (2006) Lacan, Jacques. In: Keith Brown (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.