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Professor Monika Bednarek

Habilitation, PhD, Magister Artium (Augsburg), FAHA

Professor
Linguistics

Phone

+61 2 9036 7201

Email

monika.bednarek@sydney.edu.au

Address

A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building

The University of Sydney

Details

Member of the Charles Perkins Centre

Websites

> MonikaBednarek.com

> News Values website

> Corpus Linguistics on YouTube

Biographical details

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, ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, media linguistics, and, more specifically, the linguistic expression of emotion and attitude. She is director of the Sydney Corpus Lab, which aims to promote corpus linguistics in Australia.

Research interests

Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Language use in fictional television series
Language use in news discourse
The expression of emotion/opinion through language
Language and identity (with a focus on gender)

Research Groups

Screenwriting Research Network, Leeds
Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe (SLICE), Copenhagen
Language & Identity Research Network, University of Sydney (Faculty of Arts Collaborative Research Scheme)
Sydney Digital Humanities Research Group
Australian National Corpus Initiative
Everyday Social Media Research Network, University of Sydney (Faculty of Arts Collaborative Research Scheme)

Teaching and supervision

Monika is interested in supervising postgraduate students with projects concerning the linguistic analysis of mass media discourse (news, television series) using corpus linguistics and/or discourse analysis.

Awards and honours

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Excellence in Teaching (Design and Practice) Award
Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2013
Discretionary Member, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2013
Award of Distinguished Talent visa, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Australia, 2009
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Technology, Sydney, 2008-2009
German Research Council Fellowship, 2006-2008

PhD and master's project opportunities

Corpus-based discourse analysis

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Women, Crime and Motherhood: women involved in crime in Chilean news discourse	Claudia CASTRO ACUNA
The role of the screenwriter in representations of Aboriginal English and Australian Indigenous Languages in fictional screen media.	Sam HERRIMAN

Selected publications

Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A Corpus-Informed Approach to the Construction of Social Identity in the Media

(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023)

Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures

(Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television

(Routledge, 2019)

Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue

(Cambridge University Press, 2018)

The Discourse of News Values: How news organizations create newsworthiness

(Oxford University Press, 2017)

News Discourse

(Continuum, 2012)

Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series

(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011)

New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation

(Continuum, 2010)

The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity

(Continuum, 2010)

Emotion Talk Across Corpora

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus

(Continuum, 2006)

Publications

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Books

Bednarek, M. (2023). Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A Corpus-Informed Approach to the Construction of Social Identity in the Media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Bednarek, M. (2023). Language and Characterisation in Television Series; A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Caple, H., Huan, C., Bednarek, M. (2020). Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2019). Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2018). Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2017). The Discourse of News Values: How news organizations create newsworthiness. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2012). News Discourse. London: Continuum. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2010). The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. London: Continuum.
Bednarek, M. (2008). Emotion Talk Across Corpora. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2006). Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London: Continuum. [More Information]

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Edited Books

Rossi, F., Bednarek, M., Piazza, R. (2011). Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Martin, J. (2010). New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London, United Kingdom: Continuum. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Bednarek, M. (2021). Swear/taboo words in US TV series: Combining corpus linguistics with selected insights from screenwriters and learners. In Valentin Werner and Friederike Tegge (Eds.), Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice, (pp. 50-70). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2021). Using corpus linguistics to study indexicality in Indigenous-authored television drama: Keyword analysis and lexical profiling. In Carmen Gregori-Signes, Miguel Fuster-Marquez and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller (Eds.), Discourse, dialogue and characterisation in TV series, (pp. 1-22). Granada, Spain: Editorial Comares.
Caple, H., Bednarek, M. (2020). A Nation Remembers: Discourses of Change, Mourning, and Reconciliation on Australia Day. In Michele Zappavigna and Shoshana Dreyfus (Eds.), Discourses of Hope and Reconciliation: On J. R. Martin's Contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics, (pp. 205-220). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2020). On the usefulness of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue as a reference point for corpus stylistic analyses of TV series. In Christian Hoffmann, Monika Kirner-Ludwig (Eds.), Telecinematic Stylistics, (pp. 39-62). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2019). The Language and News Values of 'Most Highly Shared' News. Sharing News Online: Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecologies, (pp. 157-188). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2019). The multifunctionality of swear/taboo words in television series. In J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Laura Alba-Juez (Eds.), Emotion in Discourse, (pp. 29-54). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2018). Analyzing pop culture. In Valentin Werner (Eds.), The Language of Pop Culture, (pp. 255-263). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2017). (Re)circulating Popular Television: Audience Engagement and Corporate Practices. In Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland and Jacob Thogersen (Eds.), Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media, (pp. 115-140). New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2017). Fandom. In Christian R. Hoffmann, Wolfram Bublitz (Eds.), Pragmatics of Social Media, (pp. 545-572). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2017). The Role of Dialogue in Fiction. In Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker (Eds.), Pragmatics of Fiction, (pp. 129-158). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2015). Corpus-Assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Television and Film Narratives. In Paul Baker, Tony McEnery (Eds.), Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora, (pp. 63-87). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2015). Promotional Videos: What Do They Tell Us about the Value of News? In Not known (Eds.), Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen, (pp. 5-30). TBC. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2015). What we contrarians already know: Individual and Communal Aspects of Attitudinal Identity. In Nicholas Groom, Maggie Charles, Suganthi John (Eds.), Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In Honour of Susan Hunston, (pp. 257-281). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). 'Who are you and why are you following us?' Wh-questions and communicative context in television dialogue. In John Flowerdew (Eds.), Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3, (pp. 49-70). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). An astonishing season of destiny!: Evaluation in blurbs used for advertising TV series. In Geoff Thompson, Laura Alba-Juez (Eds.), Evaluation in Context, (pp. 197-220). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). The Television Title Sequence: A Visual Analysis of Flight of the Conchords. In Not known (Eds.), Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse, (pp. 36-54). TBC. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2013). 'There's no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out': a multimodal perspective on language, emotion and identity in MasterChef Australia. In Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Pilar Garces-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action, (pp. 88-114). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2011). Approaching the data of pragmatics. In Bublitz, Wolfram; Norrick, Neal R. (Eds.), Foundations of Pragmatics, (pp. 537-559). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2011). The stability of the televisual character: A corpus stylistic case study. In Piazza, R; Bednarek, M. and Rossi, F. (Eds.), Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series, (pp. 185-204). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2010). 'With a little help from the corpus': corpus linguistics and EFL teaching. In Mahboob, Ahmar (Eds.), The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL, (pp. 325-344). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bednarek, M. (2010). Corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistics: interpersonal meaning, identity and bonding in popular culture. In Monika Bednarek, J.R. Martin (Eds.), New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, (pp. 237-266). London, United Kingdom: Continuum.
Bednarek, M. (2009). Emotion talk and emotional talk: Cognitive and discursive perspectives. In Hanna Pishwa (Eds.), Language and Social Cognition: Expression of the Social Mind, (pp. 395-431). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bednarek, M. (2008). 'What the hell is wrong with you?' A corpus perpective on evaluation and emotion in contemporary American pop culture. In Ahmar Mahboob, Naomi Knight (Eds.), Questioning Linguistics, (pp. 95-126). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bednarek, M., Bublitz, W. (2006). Enjoy! The (phraseological) culture of having fun. In Paul Skandera (Eds.), Phraseology and Culture in English, (pp. 109-135). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2006). Evaluating Europe: parameters of evaluation in the British press. In J. Jenkins and C. Leung (Eds.), Reconfiguring Europe: The Contribution of Applied Linguistics, (pp. 137-156). London: Equinox Publishing.
Bednarek, M. (2006). Subjectivity and cognition: inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion. In Hanna Pishwa (Eds.), Language and Memory: Aspects of Knowledge Representation, (pp. 187-221). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Journals

Bednarek, M., Meek, B. (2024). 'Whitefellas got miserable language skills': Differentiation, scripted speech, and Indigenous discourses. Language In Society. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Syron, L. (2023). Functions of dialogue in (television) drama – A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives. Language and Literature. [More Information]
Potts, A., Bednarek, M., Watharow, A. (2023). Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–2019. Discourse and Society. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Bray, C. (2023). Trialling corpus search techniques for identifying person-first and identity-first language. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Bray, C., Vanichkina, D., Brookes, G., Bonfiglioli, C., Coltman-Patel, T., Lee, K., Baker, P. (2023). Weight Stigma: Towards a Language-Informed Analytical Framework. Applied Linguistics, , 1-32. [More Information]
Fuoli, M., Bednarek, M. (2022). Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study. Journal of Pragmatics, 191, 256-270. [More Information]
Beers Fagersten, K., Bednarek, M. (2022). The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases. Language and Literature. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Ross, A., Boichak, O., Doran, Y., Carr, G., Altmann, E., Alexander, T. (2022). Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter. Discourse, Context and Media, 45(March 2022), 1-13. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2021). Australian Aboriginal English in Indigenous-authored television series: A corpus linguistic study of lexis in Redfern Now, Cleverman and Mystery Road. Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia (JEASA), 12(1-2), 33-53.
Bednarek, M., Carr, G. (2021). Computer-assisted digital text analysis for journalism and communications research: introducing corpus linguistic techniques that do not require programming. Media International Australia, 181(1), 131-151. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H., Huan, C. (2021). Computer-Based Analysis of News Values: A Case Study on National Day Reporting. Journalism Studies, 22(6), 702-722. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Veirano, M., Werner, V. (2021). Corpus approaches to telecinematic language. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 26(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Crosthwaite, P., Garcia, A. (2020). Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2), 105-116. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Carr, G. (2020). Diabetes coverage in Australian newspapers (2013-2017): A computer-based linguistic analysis. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 31(3), 497-503. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Crosthwaite, P., Garcia, A. (2020). Editorial: Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2), 105-116.
Bednarek, M. (2020). Invisible or high-risk: Computer-assisted discourse analysis of references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) and issues in a newspaper corpus about diabetes. PloS One, 15(6), 1-22. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2020). Keyword analysis and the indexing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity: A corpus linguistic analysis of the Australian Indigenous TV drama 'Redfern Now'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 25(4), 369-399. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2020). The Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue: designing and building a corpus of dialogue from US TV series. Corpora: corpus-based language learning, language processing and linguistics, 15(1), 107-119. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2019). 'Don't say crap. Don't use swear words.' - Negotiating the use of swear/taboo words in the narrative mass media. Discourse, Context and Media, 29, 1-14. [More Information]
Carr, G., Bednarek, M. (2019). Beyond risk and safety? Identifying shifts in sex education advice targeted at young women. Discourse and Society, 30(3), 225-247. [More Information]
Caple, H., Anthony, L., Bednarek, M. (2019). Kaleidographic: A data visualization tool. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 24(2), 245-261. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Huan, C. (2018). Key principles for analysing appraisal. Foreign Languages Research, 1, 39-45.
Caple, H., Bednarek, M., Anthony, L. (2018). Using Kaleidographic to visualize multimodal relations within and across texts. Visual Communication, 17(4), 461-474. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2016). Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media. Corpora: corpus-based language learning, language processing and linguistics, 11(2), 227-257. [More Information]
Caple, H., Bednarek, M. (2016). Rethinking News Values: What a Discursive Approach can tell us about the Construction of News Discourse and News Photography. Journalism, 17(4), 435-455. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2016). Voices and values in the news: News media talk, news values and attribution. Discourse, Context and Media, 11, 27-37. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2015). "Wicked" Women in Contemporary Pop Culture: "Bad" Language and Gender in 'Weeds', 'Nurse Jackie', and 'Saving Grace'. Text and Talk, 35(4), 431-451. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2015). An overview of the Linguistics of Screenwriting and its Interdisciplinary Connections, with special focus on Dialogue in Episodic Television. Journal of Screenwriting, 6(2), 221-238. [More Information]
Potts, A., Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2015). How can computer-based methods help researchers to investigate news values in large datasets? A corpus linguistic study of the construction of newsworthiness in the reporting on Hurricane Katrina. Discourse and Communication, 9(2), 149-172. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). 'And they all look just the same'? A quantitative survey of television title sequences. Visual Communication, 13(2), 125-145. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). Involvement in Australian Talkback Radio: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34(1), 4-23. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2014). Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analysing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond. Discourse and Society, 25(2), 135-158. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2012). 'Get us the hell out of here': Key words and trigrams in fictional television series. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17(1), 35-63. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2012). 'Value added': Language, image and news values. Discourse, Context and Media, 1(2-3), 103-113. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2012). Constructing 'nerdiness': Characterisation in 'The Big Bang Theory'. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage communication, 31(2), 199-229. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2011). Expressivity and televisual characterization. Language and Literature, 20(1), 3-21. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2011). The Language of Fictional Television - A Case Study of the 'Dramedy' 'Gilmore Girls'. English Text Construction, 4(1), 54-83. [More Information]
Caple, H., Bednarek, M. (2010). Double-take: unpacking the play in the image-nuclear news story. Visual Communication, 9(2), 211-229. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2010). Evaluation in the news: A methodological framework for analysing evaluative language in journalism. Australian Journal of Communication, 37(2), 15-50. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2010). Playing with environmental stories in the news: good or bad practice? Discourse and Communication, 4(1), 5-31. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2009). Dimensions of evaluation: cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Pragmatics and Cognition, 17(1), 146-175. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2009). Language patterns and attitude. Functions of Language, 16(2), 165-192. [More Information]
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. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2008). Introduction (to special issue on evaluation and text types). Functions of Language, 15(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2008). Semantic preference and semantic prosody re-examined. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 4(2), 119-139. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2007). Local grammar and register variation: explorations in broadsheet and tabloid newspaper discourse. Empirical Language Research: ELR, 1(1), 1-20.
Bednarek, M. (2007). Zur Diskussion feministischer Themen im Englischunterricht am Beispiel von Liedtexten von Alanis Morissette. PRAXIS Fremdsprachenunterricht, 3, 33-37.
Bednarek, M. (2006). Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse: a text-driven approach. Text and Talk, 26(6), 635-660. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2005). Construing the world: conceptual metaphors and event-construal in news stories. Metaphorik.de, 9, 6-32.
Bednarek, M. (2005). Frames revisited - the coherence-inducing function of frames. Journal of Pragmatics, 37(5), 685-705. [More Information]

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Edited Journals

Garcia, A., Crosthwaite, P., Bednarek, M. (2020). Special Issue: Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2).
Bednarek, M. (2008). Evaluation and Text Types (Special Issue). Functions of Language, 15(1).

Conferences

Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2017). Introducing a New Topology for (Multimodal) Discourse Analysis. 44th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC), Wollongong: The Organising Committee of the 44th International Systemic Functional Congress.
Bednarek, M. (2010). Emotion talk and emotional talk: approaches to language and emotion in Systemic Functional Linguistics and beyond. 35th International Systemic Functional Congress ISFC 2008, Australia: Macquarie University.
Bednarek, M. (2009). Corpora and discourse: a three-pronged approach to analyzing linguistic data. HCSNet Summerfest ''08, Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Bednarek, M. (2008). Teaching English Literature and Linguistics Using Corpus Stylistic Methods. 2007 Annual Congress of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association: Bridging Discourses, Wollongong: Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association.
Bednarek, M. (2006). 'He's nice but Tim': contrast in British newspaper discourse. Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham: University of Birmingham.

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Other

Watharow, A., Bednarek, M., Potts, A. (2023), Labelling people with disability in Australian newspapers - Language on the Move research blog.

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2024

Bednarek, M., Meek, B. (2024). 'Whitefellas got miserable language skills': Differentiation, scripted speech, and Indigenous discourses. Language In Society. [More Information]

2023

Bednarek, M., Syron, L. (2023). Functions of dialogue in (television) drama – A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives. Language and Literature. [More Information]
Watharow, A., Bednarek, M., Potts, A. (2023), Labelling people with disability in Australian newspapers - Language on the Move research blog.
Bednarek, M. (2023). Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A Corpus-Informed Approach to the Construction of Social Identity in the Media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Bednarek, M. (2023). Language and Characterisation in Television Series; A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Potts, A., Bednarek, M., Watharow, A. (2023). Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–2019. Discourse and Society. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Bray, C. (2023). Trialling corpus search techniques for identifying person-first and identity-first language. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Bray, C., Vanichkina, D., Brookes, G., Bonfiglioli, C., Coltman-Patel, T., Lee, K., Baker, P. (2023). Weight Stigma: Towards a Language-Informed Analytical Framework. Applied Linguistics, , 1-32. [More Information]

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2022

Fuoli, M., Bednarek, M. (2022). Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study. Journal of Pragmatics, 191, 256-270. [More Information]
Beers Fagersten, K., Bednarek, M. (2022). The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases. Language and Literature. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Ross, A., Boichak, O., Doran, Y., Carr, G., Altmann, E., Alexander, T. (2022). Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter. Discourse, Context and Media, 45(March 2022), 1-13. [More Information]

2021

Bednarek, M. (2021). Australian Aboriginal English in Indigenous-authored television series: A corpus linguistic study of lexis in Redfern Now, Cleverman and Mystery Road. Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia (JEASA), 12(1-2), 33-53.
Bednarek, M., Carr, G. (2021). Computer-assisted digital text analysis for journalism and communications research: introducing corpus linguistic techniques that do not require programming. Media International Australia, 181(1), 131-151. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H., Huan, C. (2021). Computer-Based Analysis of News Values: A Case Study on National Day Reporting. Journalism Studies, 22(6), 702-722. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Veirano, M., Werner, V. (2021). Corpus approaches to telecinematic language. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 26(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2021). Swear/taboo words in US TV series: Combining corpus linguistics with selected insights from screenwriters and learners. In Valentin Werner and Friederike Tegge (Eds.), Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice, (pp. 50-70). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2021). Using corpus linguistics to study indexicality in Indigenous-authored television drama: Keyword analysis and lexical profiling. In Carmen Gregori-Signes, Miguel Fuster-Marquez and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller (Eds.), Discourse, dialogue and characterisation in TV series, (pp. 1-22). Granada, Spain: Editorial Comares.

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2020

Caple, H., Bednarek, M. (2020). A Nation Remembers: Discourses of Change, Mourning, and Reconciliation on Australia Day. In Michele Zappavigna and Shoshana Dreyfus (Eds.), Discourses of Hope and Reconciliation: On J. R. Martin's Contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics, (pp. 205-220). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Crosthwaite, P., Garcia, A. (2020). Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2), 105-116. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Carr, G. (2020). Diabetes coverage in Australian newspapers (2013-2017): A computer-based linguistic analysis. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 31(3), 497-503. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Crosthwaite, P., Garcia, A. (2020). Editorial: Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2), 105-116.
Bednarek, M. (2020). Invisible or high-risk: Computer-assisted discourse analysis of references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) and issues in a newspaper corpus about diabetes. PloS One, 15(6), 1-22. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2020). Keyword analysis and the indexing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity: A corpus linguistic analysis of the Australian Indigenous TV drama 'Redfern Now'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 25(4), 369-399. [More Information]
Caple, H., Huan, C., Bednarek, M. (2020). Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2020). On the usefulness of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue as a reference point for corpus stylistic analyses of TV series. In Christian Hoffmann, Monika Kirner-Ludwig (Eds.), Telecinematic Stylistics, (pp. 39-62). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Garcia, A., Crosthwaite, P., Bednarek, M. (2020). Special Issue: Corpus linguistics and education in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(2).
Bednarek, M. (2020). The Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue: designing and building a corpus of dialogue from US TV series. Corpora: corpus-based language learning, language processing and linguistics, 15(1), 107-119. [More Information]

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2019

Bednarek, M. (2019). 'Don't say crap. Don't use swear words.' - Negotiating the use of swear/taboo words in the narrative mass media. Discourse, Context and Media, 29, 1-14. [More Information]
Carr, G., Bednarek, M. (2019). Beyond risk and safety? Identifying shifts in sex education advice targeted at young women. Discourse and Society, 30(3), 225-247. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2019). Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Caple, H., Anthony, L., Bednarek, M. (2019). Kaleidographic: A data visualization tool. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 24(2), 245-261. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2019). The Language and News Values of 'Most Highly Shared' News. Sharing News Online: Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecologies, (pp. 157-188). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2019). The multifunctionality of swear/taboo words in television series. In J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Laura Alba-Juez (Eds.), Emotion in Discourse, (pp. 29-54). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]

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2018

Bednarek, M. (2018). Analyzing pop culture. In Valentin Werner (Eds.), The Language of Pop Culture, (pp. 255-263). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Huan, C. (2018). Key principles for analysing appraisal. Foreign Languages Research, 1, 39-45.
Bednarek, M. (2018). Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Caple, H., Bednarek, M., Anthony, L. (2018). Using Kaleidographic to visualize multimodal relations within and across texts. Visual Communication, 17(4), 461-474. [More Information]

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2017

Bednarek, M. (2017). (Re)circulating Popular Television: Audience Engagement and Corporate Practices. In Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland and Jacob Thogersen (Eds.), Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media, (pp. 115-140). New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2017). Fandom. In Christian R. Hoffmann, Wolfram Bublitz (Eds.), Pragmatics of Social Media, (pp. 545-572). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2017). Introducing a New Topology for (Multimodal) Discourse Analysis. 44th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC), Wollongong: The Organising Committee of the 44th International Systemic Functional Congress.
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2017). The Discourse of News Values: How news organizations create newsworthiness. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2017). The Role of Dialogue in Fiction. In Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker (Eds.), Pragmatics of Fiction, (pp. 129-158). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [More Information]

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2016

Bednarek, M. (2016). Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media. Corpora: corpus-based language learning, language processing and linguistics, 11(2), 227-257. [More Information]
Caple, H., Bednarek, M. (2016). Rethinking News Values: What a Discursive Approach can tell us about the Construction of News Discourse and News Photography. Journalism, 17(4), 435-455. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2016). Voices and values in the news: News media talk, news values and attribution. Discourse, Context and Media, 11, 27-37. [More Information]

2015

Bednarek, M. (2015). "Wicked" Women in Contemporary Pop Culture: "Bad" Language and Gender in 'Weeds', 'Nurse Jackie', and 'Saving Grace'. Text and Talk, 35(4), 431-451. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2015). An overview of the Linguistics of Screenwriting and its Interdisciplinary Connections, with special focus on Dialogue in Episodic Television. Journal of Screenwriting, 6(2), 221-238. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2015). Corpus-Assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Television and Film Narratives. In Paul Baker, Tony McEnery (Eds.), Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora, (pp. 63-87). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Potts, A., Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2015). How can computer-based methods help researchers to investigate news values in large datasets? A corpus linguistic study of the construction of newsworthiness in the reporting on Hurricane Katrina. Discourse and Communication, 9(2), 149-172. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2015). Promotional Videos: What Do They Tell Us about the Value of News? In Not known (Eds.), Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen, (pp. 5-30). TBC. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2015). What we contrarians already know: Individual and Communal Aspects of Attitudinal Identity. In Nicholas Groom, Maggie Charles, Suganthi John (Eds.), Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In Honour of Susan Hunston, (pp. 257-281). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]

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2014

Bednarek, M. (2014). 'And they all look just the same'? A quantitative survey of television title sequences. Visual Communication, 13(2), 125-145. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). 'Who are you and why are you following us?' Wh-questions and communicative context in television dialogue. In John Flowerdew (Eds.), Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3, (pp. 49-70). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). An astonishing season of destiny!: Evaluation in blurbs used for advertising TV series. In Geoff Thompson, Laura Alba-Juez (Eds.), Evaluation in Context, (pp. 197-220). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). Involvement in Australian Talkback Radio: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34(1), 4-23. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2014). The Television Title Sequence: A Visual Analysis of Flight of the Conchords. In Not known (Eds.), Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse, (pp. 36-54). TBC. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2014). Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analysing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond. Discourse and Society, 25(2), 135-158. [More Information]

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2013

Bednarek, M. (2013). 'There's no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out': a multimodal perspective on language, emotion and identity in MasterChef Australia. In Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Pilar Garces-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action, (pp. 88-114). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

2012

Bednarek, M. (2012). 'Get us the hell out of here': Key words and trigrams in fictional television series. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17(1), 35-63. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2012). 'Value added': Language, image and news values. Discourse, Context and Media, 1(2-3), 103-113. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2012). Constructing 'nerdiness': Characterisation in 'The Big Bang Theory'. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage communication, 31(2), 199-229. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2012). News Discourse. London: Continuum. [More Information]

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2011

Bednarek, M. (2011). Approaching the data of pragmatics. In Bublitz, Wolfram; Norrick, Neal R. (Eds.), Foundations of Pragmatics, (pp. 537-559). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2011). Expressivity and televisual characterization. Language and Literature, 20(1), 3-21. [More Information]
Rossi, F., Bednarek, M., Piazza, R. (2011). Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2011). The Language of Fictional Television - A Case Study of the 'Dramedy' 'Gilmore Girls'. English Text Construction, 4(1), 54-83. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2011). The stability of the televisual character: A corpus stylistic case study. In Piazza, R; Bednarek, M. and Rossi, F. (Eds.), Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series, (pp. 185-204). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [More Information]

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2010

Bednarek, M. (2010). 'With a little help from the corpus': corpus linguistics and EFL teaching. In Mahboob, Ahmar (Eds.), The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL, (pp. 325-344). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bednarek, M. (2010). Corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistics: interpersonal meaning, identity and bonding in popular culture. In Monika Bednarek, J.R. Martin (Eds.), New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, (pp. 237-266). London, United Kingdom: Continuum.
Caple, H., Bednarek, M. (2010). Double-take: unpacking the play in the image-nuclear news story. Visual Communication, 9(2), 211-229. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2010). Emotion talk and emotional talk: approaches to language and emotion in Systemic Functional Linguistics and beyond. 35th International Systemic Functional Congress ISFC 2008, Australia: Macquarie University.
Bednarek, M. (2010). Evaluation in the news: A methodological framework for analysing evaluative language in journalism. Australian Journal of Communication, 37(2), 15-50. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Martin, J. (2010). New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London, United Kingdom: Continuum. [More Information]
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. (2010). Playing with environmental stories in the news: good or bad practice? Discourse and Communication, 4(1), 5-31. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2010). The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. London: Continuum.

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2009

Bednarek, M. (2009). Corpora and discourse: a three-pronged approach to analyzing linguistic data. HCSNet Summerfest ''08, Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Bednarek, M. (2009). Dimensions of evaluation: cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Pragmatics and Cognition, 17(1), 146-175. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2009). Emotion talk and emotional talk: Cognitive and discursive perspectives. In Hanna Pishwa (Eds.), Language and Social Cognition: Expression of the Social Mind, (pp. 395-431). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bednarek, M. (2009). Language patterns and attitude. Functions of Language, 16(2), 165-192. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2009). Polyphony in Appraisal: typological and topological perspectives. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 3(2), 107-136.

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2008

Bednarek, M. (2008). 'An increasingly familiar tragedy': Evaluative collocation and conflation. Functions of Language, 15(1), 7-34. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2008). 'What the hell is wrong with you?' A corpus perpective on evaluation and emotion in contemporary American pop culture. In Ahmar Mahboob, Naomi Knight (Eds.), Questioning Linguistics, (pp. 95-126). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bednarek, M. (2008). Emotion Talk Across Corpora. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2008). Evaluation and Text Types (Special Issue). Functions of Language, 15(1).
Bednarek, M. (2008). Introduction (to special issue on evaluation and text types). Functions of Language, 15(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2008). Semantic preference and semantic prosody re-examined. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 4(2), 119-139. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2008). Teaching English Literature and Linguistics Using Corpus Stylistic Methods. 2007 Annual Congress of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association: Bridging Discourses, Wollongong: Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association.

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2007

Bednarek, M. (2007). Local grammar and register variation: explorations in broadsheet and tabloid newspaper discourse. Empirical Language Research: ELR, 1(1), 1-20.
Bednarek, M. (2007). Zur Diskussion feministischer Themen im Englischunterricht am Beispiel von Liedtexten von Alanis Morissette. PRAXIS Fremdsprachenunterricht, 3, 33-37.

2006

Bednarek, M. (2006). 'He's nice but Tim': contrast in British newspaper discourse. Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
Bednarek, M., Bublitz, W. (2006). Enjoy! The (phraseological) culture of having fun. In Paul Skandera (Eds.), Phraseology and Culture in English, (pp. 109-135). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2006). Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse: a text-driven approach. Text and Talk, 26(6), 635-660. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2006). Evaluating Europe: parameters of evaluation in the British press. In J. Jenkins and C. Leung (Eds.), Reconfiguring Europe: The Contribution of Applied Linguistics, (pp. 137-156). London: Equinox Publishing.
Bednarek, M. (2006). Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London: Continuum. [More Information]
Bednarek, M. (2006). Subjectivity and cognition: inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion. In Hanna Pishwa (Eds.), Language and Memory: Aspects of Knowledge Representation, (pp. 187-221). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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2005

Bednarek, M. (2005). Construing the world: conceptual metaphors and event-construal in news stories. Metaphorik.de, 9, 6-32.
Bednarek, M. (2005). Frames revisited - the coherence-inducing function of frames. Journal of Pragmatics, 37(5), 685-705. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2024

Language Data Commons of Australia Project (LDaCA 2024-2028), Bednarek M, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)/Platforms Program

2022

Developing the Linguistics Data Commons of Australia, Bednarek M, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)/Platforms Program

2021

Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP), Bednarek M, Haugh M, Nothman J, Schweinberger M, Wiles J, Foley B, Musgrave S, Angus D, Thieberger N, Travis C, Simpson J, Hodkiewicz M, Holden E, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)/Platforms Program

2018

SOAR Fellowship, Bednarek M, DVC Research/SOAR Fellowships

2015

A corpus linguistic analysis of linguistic practices and innovation in television dialogue, Bednarek M, University of Freiburg/Marie Curie FCFP Senior Fellowship

2014

Power and Accountability Network, Enfield N, Bednarek M, Dar-Nimrod I, Goggin G, High H, Hobbins P, Lambourne W, Mahboob A, Martin J, Piper N, West C, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Faculty Incentive Funding
Everyday Social Media Network, Goggin G, Vromen A, Martin F, Bednarek M, Bollmer G, Brevini B, Calvo R, Chen P, Chesher C, Driscoll C, Dwyer T, Elliot A, Hutchinson J, Mann A, Martin G, Michael M, Navarria G, Race K, Rolph D, Tormey S, Weatherall K, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme
Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA), Bednarek M, DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant
Sharing News Online, Dwyer T, Curran J, Martin F, Bednarek M, Hunter A, Crawford H, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)
Swearing in American Television: How Much 'Bad Language' is on our Television Screens?, Bednarek M, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney/Faculty Research Support Scheme

2009

The Language and Identity Research Group , Rubino A, Bednarek M, Cruickshank K, Djenar D, Jarkey N, Lipovsky C, Mahboob A, Paltridge B, Tsung L, Wang W, Yilmaz D, Zhang Z, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme

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