Conferences


Papers

2008

  • 22 August 2008: University of Sydney, SFL research seminar, invited lecture on: "Investigating evaluative stance in environmental news reporting" (with Helen Caple)
  • 21-25 July 2008: University of Macquarie, Sydney, International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference: "Emotion talk and emotional talk: Approaches to language and emotion in SFL and beyond"
  • 23 July 2008: University of Technology, Sydney, Media Studies Forum: "Linguistic analysis of media texts"
  • 2-4 July 2008: University of Macquarie, Sydney (held at the University of Sydney), Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference: "Reporting the environment: an ecolinguistic analysis of a new news story genre" (with Helen Caple)
  • 11-13 June 2008: University of Helsinki, Finland, European Systemic Functional Linguistic Conference and Workshop: "Multimodality, intertextuality and the obliging reader in a new newspaper genre" (with Helen Caple)

2007
  • 29 Nov-1 Dec 2007: University of Technology, Sydney, Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference: "Double-take: unpacking the play in the multimodal news bite" (with Helen Caple)
  • 6-7 October 2007: University of Sydney, 1st International University of Sydney Free Linguistics Conference: invited focus speaker: "'What the hell is wrong with you?' A corpus perspective on evaluation and emotion in contemporary American pop culture"
  • July 2007: University of Wollongong, Australia, Australian Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (ASFLA) annual conference: "Corpus stylistics and its application in the linguistics classroom"
  • June 2007: University of Wollongong, Australia, Australian Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (ASFLA) annual conference: "Patterns of Affect across Corpora"
  • May 2007: University of Sydney, postgraduate research seminar, "Corpus, Cognition and SFL"
  • April 2007: University of Sydney, departmental research seminar, invited lecture on "Corpus Stylistics and Teaching"
  • April 2007: University of Sydney, invited lecture on "An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics"
2006
  • October 2006, University of Sydney, SFL research seminar, invited lecture on: "Corpus linguistics and appraisal theory: a happy union"
  • October 2006: University of Sydney, PhD seminar, invited talk on "Emotions across Corpora"
  • September 2006: Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA) National Conference 2006, Armidale, Australia: "'An increasingly familiar tragedy': evaluative conflation and collocation in news reportage"
  • September 2006: Diversity and Community in Applied Linguistics: Interface, Interpretation, Interdisciplinarity, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: "Teaching English literature and linguistics to non-native students - an interdisciplinary approach"
  • July 2006: Australian Association of Applied Linguistics, Brisbane, Australia: "'Popular' vs 'quality' newspapers: tension or harmony?"
  • May 2006: University of Sydney, departmental research seminar, invited lecture on "Local grammar and register variation"
  • April 2006: University of Sydney, invited lecture on "An introduction to corpus linguistics"
2005
  • September 2005: Anglistentag, Bamberg, Germany: "Metapragmatic comments as evaluations"
  • July 2005: Evaluation and Text Types, Augsburg University, Germany: "A parameter-based framework of evaluation"
  • July 2005: Corpus linguistics 2005, Birmingham: "He’s nice but Tim: contrastive evaluation in the British press"

  • July 2005: International Pragmatics Association Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy: "Evaluation in broadsheet and tabloid publications"

2004

  • September 2004: British Association of Applied Linguistics, King’s College, London: "Evaluating Europe: Parameters of Evaluation in the British Press"

2003

  • March 2003: postgraduate seminar, University of Birmingham: "Conceptual Metaphors and Event-construal in Newspapers"

2002

  • June 2002: Lexikografie, ihre Basis- und Nachbarwissenschaften (conference), Augsburg: "Frames-Semantik und Lexikographie" (with Prof. W. Bublitz)


Conferences, workshops & courses

Last update: May 2007

  • November/December 2007: Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  • October 2007: 1st International University of Sydney Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney, Australia (conference committee)
  • June 2007: Australian Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (ASFLA) National Conference 2007, University of Wollongong, Australia.
  • November 2006: HCSNet summer school course on 'Statistics for Linguistics', University of Sydney, Human Communication Science Network (Australian Research Council)
  • October 2006: Workshop on 'Ways of Engaging with the Media', University of Sydney, Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS)
  • September 2006: Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA) National Conference 2006 (Armidale, Australia)
  • September 2006: Applied Linguistics and Language in Education (ALLE) (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

  • July 2006: Australian Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Queensland(Brisbane, Australia)

  • September 2005: Anglistentag, University of Bamberg

  • July 2005: International Conference on Evaluation and Text Types, University of Augsburg (Organisation)

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  • July 2005: Corpus Linguistics 2005, University of Birmingham

  • July 2005: International Pragmatics Association Conference, Riva del Garda

  • July 2005: ProfiLehre seminar on using PowerPoint in teaching at university, University of Augsburg

  • June 2005: ProfiLehre seminar on planning and teaching interdisciplinary seminars, University of Augsburg

  • June 2005: ProfiLehre seminar on rhetorical skills for post-doc researchers, University of Augsburg

  • March 2005: ProfiLehre seminar on teaching linguistics at university (convenors: Monika Bednarek and Brigitta Mittmann), University of Augsburg

  • March 2005: seminar on "Power talking" (communicative skills), University of Augsburg

  • Februrary 2005: workshop on applying for grants for young researchers (convenor: Anglistenverband), Freiburg

  • November 2004: ProfiLehre seminar on teaching at university, University of Augsburg

  • September 2004: BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics), King’s College, London

  • June 2004: Workshop on Evaluation and Stance, University of Birmingham

  • May 2004: The John Sinclair Lecture, University of Birmingham

  • May 2004: Design and Management of Corpora (three-day course), University of Birmingham

  • April 2004: BAAL-SIG conference, University of Birmingham

  • March 2004: Metaphor UK meeting, University of Birmingham

  • February 2003: DGFS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), University of Munich

  • September 2003:  Anglistentag, University of Munich

  • June 2002: Lexikografie, ihre Basis- und Nachbarwissenschaften, University of Augsburg