About Monika Bednarek is the book reviews editor of the international journal Discourse & Communication and Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. She was previously employed at the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of Augsburg (Germany). Her most recent research examines the language of fictional television series. 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 has recently published a third book, The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. Edited volumes include a special issue of Functions of Language, a volume on multimodality, identity and affiliation (Continuum, 2010) and a John Benjamins edited collection on the language of films and television series (2011).

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Monika is interested in supervising students in the areas of corpus linguistics and media discourse, specifically in Corpus-based Discourse Analysis or Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies.