Monika Bednarek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 739337 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Monika Bednarek |
| NOMBRES | Monika |
| APELLIDO | Bednarek |
| FIRMA | BEDNAREK M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7819-5424 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 338 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive to a more descriptive approach. Bringing together contributions from a team of distinguished scholars, this book explores sociolinguistic and structura…
Representing Australia’s Aboriginal languages in fictional television
This article focuses on the representation of Australian Aboriginal languages in fictional television series, using ‘textual tracing’ to analyse their treatment across screenplays/scripts, dialogue, English subtitles/closed captions, and post-production scripts. The data consists of recent ‘mainstream’ series that cater to mixed audiences on Australian public broadcasters (ABC, SBS). While we identify a lot of variation between and within the exa…
Deduplicating corpora
Corpora containing newspaper articles are widely used in corpus-based discourse research. However, these corpora often contain duplicate texts due to issues such as syndication, the existence of agency copy, and largely similar print and online versions of the same article. While there are several tools that have automated deduplication functions, only a limited number of these tools allow corpus compilers to inspect duplicates before removal. In…
Aboriginal English, culture, racism and colonization
Whitefellas got miserable language skills
Linguistic differences in staged or scripted performances matter, since language, or language-ing, is a critical component in structuring power and maintaining unequal social differences or challenging and complicating them. To investigate such scripted speech in the context of Indigenous characters, we draw on the semiotic processes of erasure and rhematisation as well as the newly proposed concepts of erasure marking and semiotic overlay. We ex…
"Are you Navajo or Inuit?" Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics
This study analyzes Indigenizing semiotic tactics in television narratives from the United States, combining corpus linguistic methodology with a theoretical framing inspired by linguistic anthropology. Given recent changes in the US television landscape, we analyze two landmark series with First Nations showrunners: Reservation Dogs and Rutherford Falls. Specifically, our dataset consists of all dialogue transcribed from both series' first two s…
Weight Stigma
This article includes examples of confronting language in relation to people living with obesity.
Language use in Indigenous-authored television series
For much of telecinematic history depictions of Indigenous characters and languages have instantiated racist stereotypes that perpetuate White, colonial frameworks. However, a new generation of Indigenous writers, directors, producers, and actors use scripted performances to illuminate, contest, and reconfigure these representations, and ideally provoke new interpretations. and three in Australia), focusing on how they diversify and complicate ma…
Special issue of Discourse & Communication on news today
Topic modelling in corpus-based discourse analysis
This discussion paper aims to take stock of the main uses and critiques of topic modelling in studies that combine corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. Topic modelling is a cover term for a collection of semiautomated techniques that aim to analyse the content of texts. While the paper does not provide a complete synthesis of the use of topic modelling in corpus linguistics, it aims to give an overview of recent uses and critiques of topic …
Corpus linguistics and television series
This article presents a personal reflection which addresses the reciprocal influence between object and disciplines by focusing on corpus linguistic analysis of television series. From initial studies in the early 2000 onwards, this has emerged as a vibrant area of research. More precisely, this article considers the influence of television series on my own work as a corpus linguist and how this interest in television narratives has changed both …
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama
While stylistics has successfully integrated the study of language use in film and television, relatively little research has tried to systematically classify the functions of television or film dialogue – i.e. to taxonomise its range of potential stylistic functions such as characterisation or the creation of consistency. Most stylistic research has also focussed on traditional US (Hollywood) or European narrative mass media, rather than cultura…
Super, social, medical
This paper provides an interdisciplinary, corpus-based study of naming practices for disabled people in a collection of Australian newspaper articles spanning 20 years. We analyse head nouns, modifiers, and coordinating structures for both person-first and identity-first language, drawing on social actor analysis as well as previously-identified models of media representation. Overall, we find similar usage of both naming practices with respect t…
The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases
Catchphrases have long been a hallmark of US-American sit-coms and dramas, as well as reality, game and variety show programming. Because the phenomenon of the television catchphrase developed throughout the era of network, commercial broadcasting under Federal Communications Commission guidelines regulating profanity in network television, catchphrases traditionally have not included swear words. Nevertheless, certain past television catchphrase…
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond
This article presents a novel framework for examining how emotional labor is performed linguistically. Bringing together Arlie Hochschild's pioneering sociological work and insights from the linguistic literature on emotion, the framework aims to capture the discursive mechanisms through which workers express, background and manage emotions in fulfilling their professional roles. We demonstrate the framework through a case study of a corpus of Tw…
Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter
The devastating 2019–2020 Australian bushfires attracted significant activity on social media, both in Australia and worldwide. We use corpus-based discourse analysis to explore the impact of this significant environmental crisis event on climate discussions on Australian Twitter, with a focus on discursive struggle and (de-)legitimation. We examine the most-retweeted tweets across three 30-day time periods, combining quantitative and qualitative…
Computer-Based Analysis of News Values
This article uses Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) in a case study of national day reporting, focussing on the discursive dimension of news values. The study crosses disciplinary boundaries by bringing together linguistics and journalism studies. More specifically, it examines reporting about “Australia Day”—the official national day of Australia, which is set on a date that is becoming increasingly controversial, as it marks the beginning …
Computer-assisted digital text analysis for journalism and communications research
Digital methods are becoming more and more important for text analysis in communications research. However, many computational methods require either relevant technical expertise or multi-disciplinary collaboration, which has impeded their uptake. This article introduces an alternative: computer-assisted linguistic analysis (corpus linguistics), an approach that is increasingly being used outside linguistics and requires less expertise. The artic…
Corpus linguistics and education in Australia
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Keyword analysis and the indexing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity
This article presents a corpus-driven sociolinguistic study of Redfern Now – the first major television drama series commissioned, written, acted, directed and produced by Indigenous industry professionals in Australia. The study examines whether corpus linguistic keyword analysis can identify evidence for type indexicality (social demographics, personae) and trait indexicality (stance, personality), with particular attention paid to the potentia…
Corpus approaches to telecinematic language
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Kaleidographic
Kaleidographic is a dynamic and interactive data visualization tool that allows users to observe and explore relations between any number of variables. The tool is useful for displaying the complex ways in which textual elements interact across a range of texts. Thus far, the tool has been used to display the results of corpus studies as well as corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analyses that investigate text-image relations. To facilitate bro…
Beyond risk and safety? Identifying shifts in sex education advice targeted at young women
This study investigates changes in sex education advice from the 1990s to the 2010s. Our research is based on the analysis of an 88,000 word corpus of advice columns from Dolly, a beauty, lifestyle and celebrity magazine aimed at Australian girls. The data are taken from 1994, 1995, 2014 and 2015, with both decades compared against each other to identify any potential shifts in sex education advice. The study combines corpus linguistic techniques…
Using Kaleidographic to visualize multimodal relations within and across texts
Kaleidographic is a dynamic and interactive data visualization tool that allows users to observe and explore relations between any number of variables. It was developed in reaction to the problem of capturing the complex ways in which words and images combine to make meaning. This article introduces the Kaleidographic tool through a case study examining the multimodal construction of news values in news items widely shared on the Facebook social …
Fandom
This chapter focuses on the linguistic practices of fans and other media consumers as evident in their contributions on social media platforms. The digital environment has had significant impact on such practices, as summarized by Jenkins (2006a: 141-142): “It has increased the speed with which fans can communicate with each other and the development of new fan communities. It has allowed fans to access a much wider range of perspectives online a…
Emotion Talk Across Corpora
Rethinking news values
The study of news values/factors has a long and rich history in journalism and communications research. Conceptually, they encompass not only the newsworthy aspects of happenings or news actors but also external aspects that impact journalism practice, such as the influence of proprietors or advertisers, meeting deadlines or competition among news providers to get exclusive stories. Some view news values as existing in the actual events and peopl…
Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analysing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond
This article introduces a new framework for the analysis of news discourse to scholars in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and beyond. It emphasises the importance of news values for linguistic analysis and encourages a constructivist approach to their analysis. The new methodological framework is situated within what the authors call a ‘discursive’ approach to news values. From this perspective, news values are seen as values that exist in and …
The Discourse of News Values
Frames revisited-the coherence-inducing function of frames
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
This article uses a 36-million word corpus of news reporting on Hurricane Katrina in the United States to explore how computer-based methods can help researchers to investigate the construction of newsworthiness. It makes use of Bednarek and Caple’s discursive approach to the analysis of news values, and is both exploratory and evaluative in nature. One aim is to test and evaluate the integration of corpus techniques in applying discursive news v…
Value added’
Get us the hell out of here”
Based on the analysis of key words and trigrams, this paper explores characteristics of contemporary American English television dialogue. Using a corpus comprising dialogue from seven fictional series (five different genres) and the spoken part of the American National Corpus, key words and trigrams are compared to previous corpus linguistic studies of such dialogue (Mittmann 2006, Quaglio 2009) and further explored on the basis of concordances,…
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond
This article presents a novel framework for examining how emotional labor is performed linguistically. Bringing together Arlie Hochschild's pioneering sociological work and insights from the linguistic literature on emotion, the framework aims to capture the discursive mechanisms through which workers express, background and manage emotions in fulfilling their professional roles. We demonstrate the framework through a case study of a corpus of Tw…
Voices and values in the news
Computer-Based Analysis of News Values
This article uses Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) in a case study of national day reporting, focussing on the discursive dimension of news values. The study crosses disciplinary boundaries by bringing together linguistics and journalism studies. More specifically, it examines reporting about “Australia Day”—the official national day of Australia, which is set on a date that is becoming increasingly controversial, as it marks the beginning …
Constructing ‘nerdiness’
This paper analyses the linguistic construction of the televisual character Sheldon ― the 'main nerd' in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 2007―), approaching this construction of character through both computerised and 'manual' linguistic analysis. More specifically, a computer analysis of dialogue (using concordances and keyword analysis) in series 1 of The Big Bang Theory provides insights into how Sheldon is constructed through both explic…
Super, social, medical
This paper provides an interdisciplinary, corpus-based study of naming practices for disabled people in a collection of Australian newspaper articles spanning 20 years. We analyse head nouns, modifiers, and coordinating structures for both person-first and identity-first language, drawing on social actor analysis as well as previously-identified models of media representation. Overall, we find similar usage of both naming practices with respect t…
Beyond risk and safety? Identifying shifts in sex education advice targeted at young women
This study investigates changes in sex education advice from the 1990s to the 2010s. Our research is based on the analysis of an 88,000 word corpus of advice columns from Dolly, a beauty, lifestyle and celebrity magazine aimed at Australian girls. The data are taken from 1994, 1995, 2014 and 2015, with both decades compared against each other to identify any potential shifts in sex education advice. The study combines corpus linguistic techniques…
Double-take
This paper explores the complex cultural and institutional practice of ‘playing’ and ‘bonding’ with the reader in the Australian print-media, as exemplified through a new news story genre in The Sydney Morning Herald, where events are presented as short, witty news stories with a heading, a dominant photograph and a caption. This is termed the image-nuclear news story. In these stories the heading and image enter into a verbal-visual play that re…
Whitefellas got miserable language skills
Linguistic differences in staged or scripted performances matter, since language, or language-ing, is a critical component in structuring power and maintaining unequal social differences or challenging and complicating them. To investigate such scripted speech in the context of Indigenous characters, we draw on the semiotic processes of erasure and rhematisation as well as the newly proposed concepts of erasure marking and semiotic overlay. We ex…
Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter
The devastating 2019–2020 Australian bushfires attracted significant activity on social media, both in Australia and worldwide. We use corpus-based discourse analysis to explore the impact of this significant environmental crisis event on climate discussions on Australian Twitter, with a focus on discursive struggle and (de-)legitimation. We examine the most-retweeted tweets across three 30-day time periods, combining quantitative and qualitative…
"Are you Navajo or Inuit?" Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics
This study analyzes Indigenizing semiotic tactics in television narratives from the United States, combining corpus linguistic methodology with a theoretical framing inspired by linguistic anthropology. Given recent changes in the US television landscape, we analyze two landmark series with First Nations showrunners: Reservation Dogs and Rutherford Falls. Specifically, our dataset consists of all dialogue transcribed from both series' first two s…
Keyword analysis and the indexing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity
This article presents a corpus-driven sociolinguistic study of Redfern Now – the first major television drama series commissioned, written, acted, directed and produced by Indigenous industry professionals in Australia. The study examines whether corpus linguistic keyword analysis can identify evidence for type indexicality (social demographics, personae) and trait indexicality (stance, personality), with particular attention paid to the potentia…
Corpus approaches to telecinematic language
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Kaleidographic
Kaleidographic is a dynamic and interactive data visualization tool that allows users to observe and explore relations between any number of variables. The tool is useful for displaying the complex ways in which textual elements interact across a range of texts. Thus far, the tool has been used to display the results of corpus studies as well as corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analyses that investigate text-image relations. To facilitate bro…
And they all look just the same’? A quantitative survey of television title sequences
This article describes the variation in title sequences for American television series (a sequence of moving images and sound at the beginning of a television series). Using a quantitative survey of 50 contemporary fictional television series, it explores key features of the television title sequence – such as length, credits, characters, sound and style – and relates these to its functional characteristics. In so doing, the article provides a sy…
Involvement in Australian Talkback Radio—A Corpus Linguistic Investigation
In this article I make use of data from the Australian National Corpus to explore involvement in Australian talkback radio. Using the Australian Radio Talkback Corpus (ART), and comparing this with a corpus of scripted radio talks from the ABC, I investigate potential linguistic markers of involvement from a corpus linguistic perspective. Key differences are expected to occur in these data because even though both corpora are examples of Australi…
Frames revisited-the coherence-inducing function of frames
Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse
This paper uses a text-driven approach to explore epistemological positioning (the expression of assessments concerning knowledge) in English newspapers. The notion of epistemological positioning (EP) often overlaps with evidentiality —the linguistic marking of the basis of speaker/writer knowledge. This is a relatively modern concept in linguistics and, compared to the amount of research it has attracted concerning other languages, it has been s…
A Local Grammar of Affect
This chapter is about the analysis of lexico-grammatical patterns that are associated with emotion terms, that is, about words and word classes that precede or follow them. As in Section 2.5 (syntactic variation), a subset of emotion terms is used for this purpose because it was not feasible to analyze the patterns of more than 1000 emotion terms. Altogether, 15 emotion terms were analyzed in detail in the four sub-corpora: nine emotion adjective…
Patterns of Affect Across Corpora
In the emotion profiles described in Chapter 2, the focus was solely on individual emotion terms. This means that these profiles include occurrences for all sorts of different types of affect (emoted, unemoted, directed, undirected and so on), as there is no way of automatically knowing how an emotion term is used in discourse by looking at its frequency. As suggested in Section 3.3.5, it is only by looking at context and patterns that we can mak…
Emotion Profiling
In this chapter I discuss the results of the analysis of the emotion profiles of the registers of academic discourse, conversation, fiction and news reportage with respect to lexical, part-of-speech (POS) and syntactic variation concerning emotion terms. I use the term emotion profiting to refer to the process of investigating these frequency profiles. As mentioned in Section 1.6.3, this is based on a combination of automated computer analysis (u…
Enacting Affect
As proposed, the large-scale studies of Chapters 2 to 4 are complemented by a brief foray into the pragmatics of emotion talk in the BRC baby using a modified version of appraisal theory and the methodology described in Chapter 5 (also in Appendix A 6.2 online). The 85,000 words of the BRC baby were manually analyzed for all listed variables, but because of space constraints only extracts are included in this chapter. Such a small-scale analysis …
Mapping and Analyzing Affect
After looking at emotion terms and patterns in a large corpus (the BRC), the focus of Chapters 5 and 6 will be on a modification of appraisal theory and its application in a more detailed analysis of a much smaller corpus (a subset of the BRC). The following sections of Chapter 5 provide an overview of previous, related research, the data, and methodology, while Chapter 6 outlines the results of the analysis. These keywords were added by machine …
Analyzing Language and Emotion
While I was preparing the manuscript for this book in November 2006, a youth in Germany shot and wounded several of his fellow students, a teacher and the caretaker at his former school, before killing himself. Coincidentally, just days earlier I had finished a novel by the American writer Lionel Shriver about a similar scenario at an American high-school, which includes the following speech by the shooter (Kevin), addressed to his father: ‘I don…
‘An increasingly familiar tragedy’
Evaluation — the function and usage of language to express the speaker’s or writer’s opinion — has only relatively recently become the object of systematic linguistic research, for example in stance or appraisal analysis. This paper proposes an alternative, corpus-based approach to evaluation which assumes that there are at least ten different meaning dimensions (parameters) along which speakers can evaluate aspects of the world. This framework h…
Emotion Talk Across Corpora
Dimensions of evaluation
In the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from various fields within linguistics have turned their attention to interpersonal phenomena, such as the linguistic expression of speaker opinion or evaluation (also called stance or appraisal ), or the encoding of subjectivity in language and its diachronic development ( subjectification/subjectivization ). Many linguists have offered categorizations of evaluative meaning, based on authent…
Double-take
This paper explores the complex cultural and institutional practice of ‘playing’ and ‘bonding’ with the reader in the Australian print-media, as exemplified through a new news story genre in The Sydney Morning Herald, where events are presented as short, witty news stories with a heading, a dominant photograph and a caption. This is termed the image-nuclear news story. In these stories the heading and image enter into a verbal-visual play that re…
The Language of Fictional Television
Part I. Analysing Television 1. Introduction 2. Analysing Television 3. The genre of dramedy and its audience 4. Television dialogue: features and functions Part II. Fictional Television: Character Identity 5. Dialogue and Character Identity 6. Expressive character identity and emotive interjections 7. The multimodal performance 8. Expressive character identity and ideology: shared attitudes 9. Concluding remarks References Appendices
Approaching the data of pragmatics
Value added’
Get us the hell out of here”
Based on the analysis of key words and trigrams, this paper explores characteristics of contemporary American English television dialogue. Using a corpus comprising dialogue from seven fictional series (five different genres) and the spoken part of the American National Corpus, key words and trigrams are compared to previous corpus linguistic studies of such dialogue (Mittmann 2006, Quaglio 2009) and further explored on the basis of concordances,…
Constructing ‘nerdiness’
Constructing ‘nerdiness’
This paper analyses the linguistic construction of the televisual character Sheldon ― the 'main nerd' in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 2007―), approaching this construction of character through both computerised and 'manual' linguistic analysis. More specifically, a computer analysis of dialogue (using concordances and keyword analysis) in series 1 of The Big Bang Theory provides insights into how Sheldon is constructed through both explic…
‘There’s no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out’
This chapter explores the Australian version of the ‘reality-competition’ cooking show MasterChef, 1 focusing on how it celebrates positive, rather than negative emotionality. In so doing, this chapter is intended as a novel contribution to linguistic research on reality television, the majority of which has tended to focus on reality TV programmes and genres that centre around conflict rather than less conflict-rich shows such as MasterChef Aust…
 Thereâ s no harm, is there, in letting your emotions outâ
And they all look just the same’? A quantitative survey of television title sequences
This article describes the variation in title sequences for American television series (a sequence of moving images and sound at the beginning of a television series). Using a quantitative survey of 50 contemporary fictional television series, it explores key features of the television title sequence – such as length, credits, characters, sound and style – and relates these to its functional characteristics. In so doing, the article provides a sy…
Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analysing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond
This article introduces a new framework for the analysis of news discourse to scholars in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and beyond. It emphasises the importance of news values for linguistic analysis and encourages a constructivist approach to their analysis. The new methodological framework is situated within what the authors call a ‘discursive’ approach to news values. From this perspective, news values are seen as values that exist in and …
Involvement in Australian Talkback Radio—A Corpus Linguistic Investigation
In this article I make use of data from the Australian National Corpus to explore involvement in Australian talkback radio. Using the Australian Radio Talkback Corpus (ART), and comparing this with a corpus of scripted radio talks from the ABC, I investigate potential linguistic markers of involvement from a corpus linguistic perspective. Key differences are expected to occur in these data because even though both corpora are examples of Australi…
Wicked” women in contemporary pop culture
In this article I discuss “wicked” women in contemporary pop culture, analyzing the language of the “heroines,” or protagonists, of three popular American television series: Weeds, Nurse Jackie , and Saving Grace . All feature female characters who are “flawed” in some way and can be described as “non-conforming,” since they engage in behavior that would be socially and morally condemned – they deal in drugs ( Weeds ), are addicted to pills ( Nur…
Voices and values in the news
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