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Monika Bednarek

@corpusling.bsky.social

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Professor in #Linguistics #Usyd #CorpusLinguistics #MediaLinguistics #SocioLinguistics #DiscourseAnalysis #Stance #Affect #Emotion #DigitalHumanities Founding director sydneycorpuslab.com monikabednarek.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7819-5424 .. more

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Monika Bednarek is a German-born Australian linguist. She is a professor in linguistics at the University of Sydney and director of the Sydney Corpus Lab. She is one of the co-developers of Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA), which is a framework for analyzing how events are constructed as newsworthy through language and images. Her work ranges across various linguistic sub-disciplines, including corpus linguistics, media linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, stylistics, and applied linguistics. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2024. .. more

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · 5d

SydneyCorpusLab event: Online talk with @celesterl.bsky.social on Tues 7 Oct “The Yarning Corpus: Aboriginal English in Southwest Western Australia”
7pm Sydney 6pm Brisbane 4pm Perth 9am London 10am Berlin
Details in flyer
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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Sep 4

9/9 2025 Online guest lecture by Melissa Kemble on Exploring gendered representations of sexuality and ethnicity in the Australian sports media: A corpus-based analysis of Aussie Rules and Rugby League Details. Details:
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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Mar 4

The recording of the recent ISLE expert forum on telecinematic discourse is now available:
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Feb 27

New article published online, part of my ongoing collaboration with Barbra Meek:

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“Are you Navajo or Inuit?” Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨 Our February issue is here!

Read thought-provoking articles on:
📌 Race & LGBTQ+ youth identities
📌 The embodiment of sexuality by signers & speakers
📌 A special theme issue on awareness in sociolinguistics

See the full issue here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679841...

Journal of Sociolinguistics: Vol 29, No 1

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Feb 20

Didn’t know “having or taking an early mark” had such restricted use:
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Q&A: Where did the “early mark” come from? | Australian Writers' Centre

Each week here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we dissect and discuss, contort and retort, ask and gasp at the English language and all its rules, regulations and ridiculousness. It’s a celebration...

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · Feb 12

📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore

Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4

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Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Feb 6

Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning to speak the expressive language of cows https://buff.ly/4gLpADv #langsky

Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning to speak the expressive language of cows

Dutch scientist Leonie Cornips has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called 'language'?

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Feb 4

Online panel on language in fictional film and television on 19 February

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The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop) @jlpopculture.bsky.social · Feb 3

There will be an online launch for the Journal of Language and Pop Culture on Friday (7 Feb) 1200-1300 UK time with an introduction from the editors and brief outlines of each chapter by their authors. All are welcome! LINK: shorturl.at/nrW1W

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 31

‘Illegal’ among words most often linked to migrants in UK politics, report finds

Exclusive: Language during debates reinforces view of migration as inherently unlawful, says Runnymede Trust * UK politics live – latest updates The word “illegal” has been one of the terms most strongly associated with migrants in UK parliamentary…

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Jan 29

New blog post exploring media representation of weight loss
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Constructions of weight loss in British and Australian newspapers

Written by Tara Coltman-Patel, Carly Bray, Paul Baker and Monika Bednarek Note: This post was simultaneously published by the Sydney Corpus Lab and by the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sci…

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · Jan 16

Still thinking of submitting an abstract for #CL2025? Good news - you have an extra week!

Extended (and final) deadline for paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions: Friday 24th January 2025 (23:59 GMT)

www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · Jan 2

Call for papers - Corpus Linguistics 2025! Closing date for proposals 17th January 2025. More information here: www.cl2025.co.uk

CL2025

Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham. CL2025 will take place fr...

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Dec 20

UMich when I arrived…
UMich as I leave

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Corpora journal @corpora.bsky.social · Dec 20

Our 2nd most downloaded article is Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media by Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media | Corpora

The sharing of news through social media platforms is now a significant part of mainstream online media use and is an increasingly important consideration in journalism practice and production. This p...

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Dec 17

It’s that time of the year… “The year in review for the Sydney Corpus Lab”
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2024: The year in review for the Sydney Corpus Lab

written by Monika Bednarek 2024 was yet another busy year for the Sydney Corpus Lab, as we continued working on various projects, including our collaboration on the Language Data Commons of Austral…

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · Dec 13

Permanent computational linguistics job @ QM. Deadline 5th January. We're looking for a linguist w/ computational focus, to teach on new MSc Linguistics&AI who fits our research (phon, syn, sem, socio, neuro, exper). linguistlist.org/issues/35.33... (salary on scale w/ annual increases) #linguistics

LINGUIST List 35.3363 Jobs: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Dec 12

I really need a beanie now! (-10 degrees outside) The Macquarie dictionary defines it as ‘a small close-fitting knitted cap, often having a pompom or other decoration on top.’ And here’s a fun link to a song youtu.be/Aey_zIE3K9E?...

The Cat Empire - Beanni (Official Audio)

YouTube video by The Cat Empire

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · Dec 12

With thanks to @corpusling.bsky.social , I have now blogged about yesterday's obsession, beanies

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beanie (hat)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · Dec 11

What's a "hidden gem" that you really like in lingcomm? 🐦🐦

I'm looking for linguistics communication places beyond the usual/well known

So what's something that's newish or has relatively few followers which you keep being surprised isn't 10x or 100x more popular than it is?

(No self-noms pls!)

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Dec 11

I always thought “beanie” was Australian English

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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · Dec 11

#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Language and Place

Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place

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danagablas.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social · Dec 9

Save the date: We are excited to announce that the next Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics will be held 16-20 June 2025 at Lancaster University. Check our website for more info about programme & applications: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · Dec 9

Join us for the last #Westminster #linguistics seminar of term (11th Dec, 4PM): @katespowage.bsky.social will be presenting her work on 'Global #English, #decolonisation, and the critique of capitalism'. Free to attend and open to all yee interested followers: us02web.zoom.us/j/89653330152

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Dec 4

Accompanied by four invited expert commentaries
by Sylvia Jaworska: https://buff.ly/4fSoUMW
by Akira Murakami, Susan Hunston & Paul Thompson: https://buff.ly/3Z8qKSA
by Martin Schweinberger: https://buff.ly/3Bh00Y0
by Maite Taboada: https://buff.ly/49p17Sk

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Dec 4

New discussion paper "Topic modelling in corpus-based discourse analysis: Uses and critiques" now out in Discourse Studies: https://buff.ly/3Z4h0sw

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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · Dec 4

Out now! #CorpusCast Episode #36: CorpusCast in Review, celebrating three years of podcasting about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. Thanks to all guests, listeners and @astonpress.bsky.social!

📺 Watch here: youtu.be/dcA7oPQOLgQ?...

🎧 Audio links: robbielove.org/corpuscast-e...

Episode 36 | Dr Robbie Love on CorpusCast - The Finale

YouTube video by Aston Originals

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Dec 2

"A highly readable and rich account of migrant stories (Catherine Travis about "Life in a New Language")

In our new Lanugage-on-the-Move post, @loylising.bsky.social reflects on the recent @auslingsoc.bsky.social conference

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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · Dec 2

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