Associate Professor Monika Bednarek
Habilitation, PhD, Magister Artium (Augsburg)
Department Chair, Linguistics
Member of the Charles Perkins Centre
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
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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.
You can find Monika on Academia.edu and she tweets @corpusling.
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)
- 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.
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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Language and character identity: Corpus-assisted discourse analysis of speech style shifts in Japanese animated television series | Kelvin LEE |
Current projects
- Discursive News Values Analysis (with H. Caple, University of New South Wales)
- The use of taboo words (swear words, curse words) in contemporary US TV series
- A corpus linguistic investigation of language use in the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue
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
Selected grants
2019
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Selected publications
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Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
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The Discourse of News Values: How news organizations create newsworthiness (Oxford University Press, 2017)
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News Discourse (Continuum, 2012)
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Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011)
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New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation (Continuum, 2010)
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The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity (Continuum, 2010)
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Emotion Talk Across Corpora (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus (Continuum, 2006)
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