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Associate Professor Monika Bednarek

Habilitation, PhD, Magister Artium (Augsburg)

Member of the Charles Perkins Centre

A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney

Telephone +61 2 9036 7201

Website > MonikaBednarek.com
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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.

You can find Monika on Academia.edu and she tweets @corpusling.

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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)
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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.

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Current research students

Project title Research student
Language and character identity: A Study of First-Person Pronouns in a Corpus of Science Fiction Anime Dialogue Kelvin LEE
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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
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PhD and master's project opportunities

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Selected grants

2019

  • Health beliefs and health decision-making: challenging biases with citizen science; Goldwater M, Walker C, Bednarek M, Livesey E, Motion A, Carr G, Simpson S, Klemmer S; Office of Global Engagement/Partnership Collaboration Awards.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA); Bednarek M; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
  • 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.

2014

  • 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.

2010

  • 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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Selected publications

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Books

  • Bednarek, M. (2019). Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television. London, UK: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). [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.
  • Bednarek, M. (2010). The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. London: Continuum.
  • Bednarek, M. (2008). Emotion Talk Across Corpora. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bednarek, M. (2006). Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London: Continuum.

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.
  • Bednarek, M., Martin, J. (2010). New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London, United Kingdom: Continuum.

Book Chapters

  • Bednarek, M. (2019). The Language and News Values of 'Most Highly Shared'. Sharing News Online: Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecologies, (pp. 157-188). Basingstoke: 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; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • 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 Roberta Piazza, Louann Haarman, Anne Caborn (Eds.), Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen, (pp. 5-30). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [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 Emilia Djonov, Sumin Zhao (Eds.), Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse, (pp. 36-54). New York: Routledge. [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.

Journals

  • 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. [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]
  • 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.
  • 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]

Edited Journals

  • 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.

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. London, UK: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). [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'. Sharing News Online: Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecologies, (pp. 157-188). Basingstoke: 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; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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. [More Information]
  • 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]

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]

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 Roberta Piazza, Louann Haarman, Anne Caborn (Eds.), Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen, (pp. 5-30). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [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]

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 Emilia Djonov, Sumin Zhao (Eds.), Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse, (pp. 36-54). New York: Routledge. [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]

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.

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.
  • 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]

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.
  • Bednarek, M., Martin, J. (2010). New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London, United Kingdom: Continuum.
  • 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.

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.

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.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.

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]
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