Conferences

Papers presented at conferences and research seminars

2009
  • 8-11 October 2009: American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2009), University of Alberta, Edmonton
  • 13-17 July 2009: 11th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Melbourne: "'I'm just afraid I'll get too emotional': Analysing expressive identity in American dramedy"
  • 7-9 July 2009: 2nd International Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference, University of Sydney: "A corpus stylistic approach to television character"
  • 6 May 2009: Language Studies research seminar, University of Technology, Sydney, invited lecture on: "Television discourse: Emotionality, identity and characterisation"

2008

  • 1-5 December 2008: Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus, University of New South Wales, Sydney, HCSNet Summerfest: "Small-scale and large-scale corpus analysis – two complementary perspectives"
  • 1-3 December 2008: Research, Investigation and Story Telling: Emerging Narratives in Journalism and Journalism Studies, 2008 Journalism Education Association Conference, University of Wollongong: "Evaluation in the news"
  • 17-18 November 2008: 11th New Zealand Language and Society Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ: "'Oh my God' - Emotionality and character identity in an American television series"
  • 9-10 October 2008: Teaching English and the Arts in the 21st Century: Action, Imagination, Engagement, University of Sydney: "Using corpora in the teaching of English literature"
  • 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: International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, University of Macquarie, Sydney: "Emotion talk and emotional talk: Approaches to language and emotion in SFL and beyond"
  • 23 July 2008: University of Technology, Sydney, Media Studies Forum, invited lecture: "Linguistic analysis of media texts"
  • 2-4 July 2008: Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, University of Macquarie, Sydney (held at the University of Sydney), : "Reporting the environment: an ecolinguistic analysis of a new news story genre" (with Helen Caple)
  • 11-13 June 2008: European Systemic Functional Linguistic Conference and Workshop, University of Helsinki, Finland, : "Multimodality, intertextuality and the obliging reader in a new newspaper genre" (with Helen Caple)

2007
  • 29 Nov-1 Dec 2007: Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference, University of Technology, Sydney: "Double-take: unpacking the play in the multimodal news bite" (with Helen Caple)
  • 6-7 October 2007: 1st International University of Sydney Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney: invited plenary: "'What the hell is wrong with you?' A corpus perspective on evaluation and emotion in contemporary American pop culture"
  • July 2007: Australian Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (ASFLA) annual conference, University of Wollongong, Australia: "Corpus stylistics and its application in the linguistics classroom"
  • June 2007: Australian Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (ASFLA) annual conference, University of Wollongong, Australia: "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"
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"
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)