Monika Bednarek (she/her) 🌈

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Representations of obesity in the news – #SydneyCorpusLab summary of research collaboration sydneycorpuslab.com/representation…

📢Only one week before our last #USALUVALingSem this year!! 🗣️@Corpusling will discuss authenticity in the media. ✅telecinematic discourse ✅linguistic diversity ✅methods for the analysis. 🗓️online, March 6, at 10:00. You can still register🔽 🔗bit.ly/3OwZKdX

Large language models (LLMs) in corpus linguistics – a new #SydneyCorpusLab resource sydneycorpuslab.com/large-language…

🥁Here are the speakers for the 6th series of #USALUVALingSem!! ✅Perceptual #dialectology by C. Montgomery ✅Asian Englishes by E. W. Schneider ✅English-medium education (#EMI) by @EDafouz ✅#Authenticity in media by @Corpusling Free registration ➡️bit.ly/4q0EICG

Generative AI in corpus linguistics: A synthesis – new #SydneyCorpusLab blog post with a review of relevant studies sydneycorpuslab.com/generative-ai-…

Online talk Tues 7 Oct “The Yarning Corpus: Aboriginal English in Southwest Western Australia” #SydneyCorpusLab 7pm Sydney 6pm Brisbane 4pm Perth 9am London 10am Berlin Details in flyer sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/upl…

9/9 2025 Online guest lecture by @MelKemble on Exploring gendered representations of sexuality and ethnicity in the Australian sports media: A corpus-based analysis of Aussie Rules and Rugby League. Details: sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/upl…

How do British and Australian newspapers frame weight loss? Our latest blog explores media constructions of weight loss and their impact on public discourse. Read it here: cass.lancs.ac.uk/constructions-… #WeightLoss #MediaRepresentation #CorpusLinguistics #LinguisticsResearch

Check out the next ISLE Online Expert Panel on "Studying Telecinematic Language" on Feb. 19, 4pm CET, with Robin Queen, Christian R. Hoffmann, Monika Bednarek, and Valentin Werner (Moderator)! Details at shorturl.at/LLtvK @ISLELinguistics #EnglishLinguistics @Corpusling

🎉 The Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics (CALL) at @Batchelor_Inst have just released the first episode of their new podcast, ‘Let’s Talk Language’! 🔗 batchelor.edu.au/news/article/l…

📣 Applications for our 2025 Graduate Digital Research Program are now open. Submit your Expression of Interest until 14 Feb 2025 using the form at forms.gle/2SubrSQKFc5NU3…. You don’t need to be at UQ, we are inviting applications from anywhere in Australia!

It’s that time of the year… “The year in review for the Sydney Corpus Lab” sydneycorpuslab.com/2024-the-year-…

Check out the next ISLE Online Expert Panel on "English around the World: Australia and Japan" on December 19, 10am CET, with Laurence Anthony and Peter Crosthwaite! Details at shorturl.at/LLtvK @ISLELinguistics @DrCrosthwaite @antlabjp #EnglishLinguistics

Would you like to incorporate #corpora and data-driven learning into your teaching? Lancaster University @LAEL_LU offers an online accredited course on 'Using corpora in language teaching' - so you can study while you work from anywhere in the world. Starting January 2025.

🗣️ CI @Catheri92184838 presented on 'Oral histories as a sociolinguistic resource' last week at @AusLingSoc's #ALS2024. The talk highlighted the sociolinguistic value of oral history materials which often focus on under-represented groups & capture a diverse range of voices.

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

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

All articles that are part of the special issue on "News Today" that Teun van Dijk and I co-edited are now available Online First buff.ly/3CGy1Br