About Monika Bednarek is the book review editor of the international journal Discourse & Communication and Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. She has previously undertaken research/lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney, the University of Birmingham (UK) and the University of Augsburg (Germany). Her most recent research examines the language of fictional television series, in particular its use in characterisation. She has a Habilitation in English Linguistics, a PhD in English Linguistics, and an MA in English Linguistics, English Literature and Romance Linguistics/French. She is also a NAATI-certified Professional Translator (English-German). Author of Evaluation in Media Discourse (a book about evaluative language use in British tabloid and broadsheet newspapers) and Emotion Talk across Corpora (a book about the use of emotion words in different varieties of English), she is currently working on a third book,The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. Edited volumes include a special issue of Functions of Language as well as a forthcoming volume on multimodality, identity and affiliation (Continuum, 2010).

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