Research

Most of my research is corpus-informed, corpus-assisted or corpus-based, and can be described as Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis or Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies. However, I also dabble in other methodologies and approaches. As far as data are concerned, I am particularly interested in media discourse (news and television).

Research interests

  • Media discourse (news discourse, television dialogue)
  • Language and affect/emotion
  • Evaluation, stance
  • Characterisation
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Discourse analysis and pragmatics
  • Ecolinguistics
  • Stylistics
  • Research methodologies
  • Cognitive linguistics (esp. frames/schemas/scripts, conceptual metaphor)
For publications in these areas see Publications.

Research supervision

  • Primary and associate supervision of Honours and PG research students at the University of Sydney
  • I am interested in supervising students in the areas of corpus linguistics and media discourse, specifically in Corpus-based Discourse Analysis or Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies.

Research projects

  • Language and television (ongoing)
  • Compilation of television corpus
  • Emotions across corpora (Habilitationsschrift)
  • Compilation of BRC (British Registers Corpus)
  • Evaluating the world: the evaluative style of British broadsheet and tabloid publications (PhD thesis)
  • Compilation of newspaper corpus
  • Frames revisited: the application of frame theory in linguistics (MA thesis)

Theses

  • (2008) Affect in English: A Corpus-based Investigation of Emotion Talk. Habilitationsschrift, University of Augsburg, Germany. Summarised in English and American Studies 2008. Summaries of Theses and Monographs. A Supplement to Anglia. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer.
  • (2005) Evaluating the World. The Evaluative Style of British Broadsheet and Tabloid Publications. PhD thesis, University of Augsburg, Germany. Summarised in English and American Studies 2005. Summaries of Theses and Monographs. A Supplement to Anglia. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer, 26-28.
  • (2001) Frames Revisited: The Application of Frame Theory in Linguistics. MA thesis, University of Augsburg, Germany.