Publications

Authored Books

(2006) Evaluation in Media Discourse. Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London/New York: Continuum.
(2008) Emotion Talk across Corpora. Houndmills/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
(in press) The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. London/New York: Continuum.

Edited Journals and Books

  1. (2008). Bednarek, M. (ed). Special issue of Functions of Language 15/1 on Evaluation and Text Types.
  2. (2010). Bednarek, M. & J.R. Martin (eds). New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London/New York: Continuum. To view an online preview of the first 50 pages of this book please visit the Continuum website.
  3. (in preparation). R. Piazza, F. Rossi, M. Bednarek (eds). Telecinematic Discourse: An Introduction to the Fictional Language of Cinema and Television (Working title). Manuscript to be submitted to John Benjamins (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, editor Anita Fetzer)

Journal Articles

  1. (2005) Frames revisited: the coherence-inducing function of frames. Journal of Pragmatics 37: 685-705.
  2. (2005) Construing the world: conceptual metaphors and event construals in news stories. Metaphorik.de 09/2005. Read it online at http://www.metaphorik.de/09/bednarek.pdf
  3. (2006) Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse - a text-driven approach. Text and Talk 26/6: 635-660.
  4. (2007) Local grammar and register variation: explorations in broadsheet and tabloid newspaper discourse. ELR Journal 1.1. Read it online at http://www.ejournals.org.uk/ELR. Download additional comments on methodological decisions.
  5. (2007) Zur Diskussion feministischer Themen im Englischunterricht am Beispiel von Liedtexten von Alanis Morissette. Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 3: 33-37.
  6. (2008) 'An increasingly familiar tragedy': evaluative collocation and conflation. Functions of Language 15/1: 7-34.
  7. (2008) Introduction. Functions of Language 15/1: 1-6.
  8. (2008) Semantic preference and semantic prosody re-examined. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 4/2: 119-139.
  9. (2009) Dimensions of evaluation: cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Pragmatics & Cognition 17/1: 146-175.
  10. (2009) Language patterns and ATTITUDE. Functions of Language 16/2: 165-192.
  11. (2010) Polyphony in APPRAISAL: typological and topological perspectives. Linguistics and the Human Sciences 3/2: 107-136.
  12. (in press) Double-take: unpacking the play in the multi-modal news story. Visual Communication 9/2. [H. Caple and M. Bednarek; accepted]
  13. (in press) Playing with environmental stories in the news: good or bad practice? Discourse & Communication [M. Bednarek and H. Caple; accepted]

Book Chapters

  1. (2004) Nur im begrenzten Rahmen: Frames im Wörterbuch. In: Thomas Herbst, Gunter Lorenz, Brigitta Mittmann & Martin Schnell (eds). Lexikografie, ihre Basis- und Nachbarwissenschaften. (Englische) Wörterbücher zwischen 'common sense' und angewandter Theorie. Tübingen: Niemeyer: 35-52. [with Wolfram Bublitz]
  2. (2006) Evaluating Europe - Parameters of evaluation in the British press. In: Constant Leung & Jennifer Jenkins (eds). Reconfiguring Europe - the Contribution of Applied Linguistics (British Studies in Applied Linguistics 20). London: BAAL/Equinox: 137-156.
  3. (2006) Enjoy! - The (phraseological) culture of having fun. In: Paul Skandera (ed). Phraseology and Culture in English (Topics in English Linguistics 54). Berlin: de Gruyter: 109-135. [with Wolfram Bublitz] Read a review of this book online at www.linguistlist.org (Volume 19-1431).
  4. (2006) Subjectivity and cognition. Inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion. In: Hanna Pishwa (ed). Language and Memory. Aspects of Knowledge Representation (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 173). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 187-221.
  5. (2008). 'What the hell is wrong with you?' A corpus perspective on evaluation and emotion in contemporary American pop culture. In: Ahmar Mahboob & Naomi Knight (eds). Questioning Linguistics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press: 95-126. Read a review of this book online at www.linguistlist.org (Volume 20-2375).
  6. (2009) Emotion-talk and emotional-talk: cognitive and discursive perspectives. In: Hanna Pishwa (ed). Language and Social Cognition. Expression of the Social Mind (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 206). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: 395-431.
  7. (2010). Corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistics: Interpersonal meaning, identity and bonding in popular culture. In: Monika Bednarek & Jim R. Martin (eds). New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London/New York: Continuum: 237-266.
  8. (in press). With a little help from the corpus: corpus linguistics and EFL teaching. In: Ahmar Mahboob (ed). Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL: a Resource Book. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
  9. (in press). Approaching the data of pragmatics. In: Wolfram Bublitz & Neal Norrick (eds). Foundations of Pragmatics (Handbooks of Pragmatics 1). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Conference Proceedings

  1. (2006) 'He's nice but Tim': contrast in British newspaper discourse. In: Pernilla Danielsson & Martijn Wagenmakers (eds).Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series, Vol. 1, no.1, ISSN 1747-9398. Read it online at www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC
  2. (2006). Sobbing, screaming and shouting? Reporting expressions in the British press. In Houswitschka, C., Knappe, G. & A. Müller (eds). Proceedings Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg. Trier: WVT: 561-572.
  3. (2008). Teaching English literature and linguistics using corpus stylistic methods. In: Zappavigna, M. & C. Cloran (eds). Proceedings ASFLA Congress 2007. Read it online at http://www.asfla.org.au/category/asfla2007/.
  4. (2009). Corpora and discourse: a three-pronged approach to analyzing linguistic data. In Michael Haugh, Kate Burridge, Jean Mulder and Pam Peters (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Sommerville, MA. Read it online here.

Reviews

  1. Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick (2003) Language and Sexuality. Cambridge University Press. Linguist List 14.2768 (14.10.2003). Read it here.
  2. Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler (2001) (eds). The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology and Environment. London/New York: Continuum. Anglistik 15 (1): 143-147. 
  3. Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak (2003) (eds). Critical Discourse Analysis. Theory and Interdisciplinarity. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan. Anglistik 16 (1): 190-194.
  4. J. Aitchison and D.M. Lewis (2003) (eds). New Media Language. London/New York: Routledge. Multilingua 25 (3): 362-365.
  5. Van Leeuwen, T. (2008). Discourse and Practice. New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. U: March 2009, University of Technology, Sydney. Read it here.

Encyclopaedia Entries

  1. (2006) Pragmatic aspects of reported speech. In: Keith Brown (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier: 550-553.  [with Wolfram Bublitz]
  2. (2006) Bühler, Karl. In: Keith Brown (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
  3. (2006) Lacan, Jacques. In: Keith Brown (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

Snippets

  1. Discontinuous evaluation (some notes on evaluation and discontinuity, work in progress, © 2005); can be downloaded from here.