Papers presented at conferences, symposia, workshops, summer/winter schools
2024
4-7 January 2024. 2024 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, New York, USA: “Language use in Indigenous-authored television series” [Monika Bednarek, Samantha Bloomstein, Therese Cerdan, Ashley McDermott, Barbra A Meek, Meredith Randall, Anna B Whitney]
2023
29 November-1 December 2023. Australian Linguistic Society annual conference (ALS 2023), University of Sydney, Australia: “Mediated indexicalities – a case study from Australia”
20-22 October 2023: 15th National Conference of Comparative Studies between English and Chinese, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China, “Developing a new framework for (Critical) Discourse Analysis: The case of weight stigma” [plenary]
22 September 2023: Forum on Englishes in Australia 2023, La Trobe University, Australia: “Language variation in Australian television” [plenary]
3-6 July 2023: 12th International Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2023), Lancaster University, UK: “Corpus linguistics and media guidelines – An international case study on obesity in the news” [Tara Coltman-Patel, Monika Bednarek, Carly Bray, and Catriona Bonfiglioli – presented by Tara Coltman-Patel]
19-22 June 2023: 7th meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 7), University of Queensland, Australia: “Language and identity in Australian and US Indigenous-authored television series” [Monika Bednarek and Barbra Meek – presented by Monika Bednarek]
30-31 March 2023: Sociolinguistics of Pop Culture conference, University of Bamberg, Germany: “Language use in Indigenous-authored television series: A comparison of US and Australian contexts” [Barbra Meek and Monika Bednarek – presented by Barbra Meek]
2022
11 November 2022: BAAL Health and Science Communication Special Interest Group workshop (Corpus linguistics, big data and information quality in health and science communication), University of Nottingham, UK : “Corpus linguistics and media guidelines – An international case study on obesity in the news” [Monika Bednarek, Carly Bray, Tara Coltman-Patel, and Catriona Bonfiglioli – presented by Tara Coltman-Patel]
19-21 October 2022: 2nd International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series, University of Valencia, Spain: “Language and representation in Indigenous-authored television” [plenary]
6-7 October 2022: Media Mutations 13th Edition, University of Bologna, Italy: “Data-driven analysis of televisual characterisation: A corpus linguistic approach” [keynote, via video link]
26-28 August 2022: 6th Corpora & Discourse International Conference, University of Bologna, Italy: “Environmental crisis events and climate discourses on Twitter: An Australian case study” [plenary]
27-30 July 2022: ICAME 43, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK: “Triangulating methods in corpus linguistics: From frequency to move and dialogic analysis” [Matteo Fuoli and Monika Bednarek – presented by Matteo Fuoli]
13-16 July 2022: Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, Ghent University, Belgium: “‘Whitefellas got miserable language skills’: Differentiation, scripted speech and Indigenous discourses” [Barbra Meek and Monika Bednarek – presented by Barbra Meek]
8 July 2022: ANZCA Winter School on Digital Methods, University of Canberra, Australia: “Corpus linguistics and social media: A case study of the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires” [keynote, via video link]
6-8 July 2022: 9th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference, University of Bergamo, Italy: “Weight stigma: towards a corpus-informed linguistic framework for critical discourse analysis” [online participation: Carly Bray, Monika Bednarek, Gavin Brookes, Tara Coltman-Patel, Catriona Bonfiglioli, and Paul Baker – presented by Carly Bray]
4-7 July 2022: 6th Corpus Linguistics Summer School, University of Birmingham, UK: “Corpus linguistics for media analysis” [invited guest speaker, asynchronous and synchronous online delivery]
4 July 2022: The Sinclair Lecture, University of Birmingham, UK: “Language and characterization in television series: What corpus linguistics tells us about the construction of social identity in the media” [invited lecture, via video link – recording available here]
27-28 June 2022: Computational social science in Australia: approaches, capabilities, and opportunities, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshops Program, University of Sydney, Australia: “Corpus linguistics and the social sciences” [invited panel contribution]
7-8 April 2022: International conference on Rethinking disciplines with TV series: an epistemological perspective, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France: “Corpus linguistics and television series: A critical reflection” [plenary, via video link]
2021
6-7 November 2021: 9th international conference on new discourse in China/2nd international conference on frontiers in discourse studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China: “Environmental crisis events and social media discourses” [plenary]
2-3 September 2021: International conference on Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture, University of Vechta, Germany (online conference): “From D’oh! to Don’t fuck it up! The evolution of swearing in television catchphrases” [Kristy Beers Fägersten and Monika Bednarek]
18-21 August 2021: 42nd ICAME conference, TU Dortmund University, Germany: “Mediated Australian Aboriginal English: A corpus linguistic study”
13-16 July 2021: 11th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2021), University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, Ireland: “The impact of the 2019-2020 bushfires on dominant climate discourses on social media – A case study of Australian Twitter” [Monika Bednarek, Tristram Alexander, Eduardo Altmann, Olga Boichak, Georgia Carr, Yaegan Doran, and Andy Ross]
27 June-2 July 2021: 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland: “Airlines’ responses to customer complaints on Twitter during COVID-19: a corpus-based move analysis” [Matteo Fuoli and Monika Bednarek]
9 March-1 April 2021: International Conference of the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA 2021), University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy: “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander television characters: Putting the spotlight on language” (invited talk)
2020
14-15 December 2020: Australian Linguistic Society annual conference (ALS 2020; online conference): “Aboriginal Englishes in Redfern Now, Cleverman, and Mystery Road“
23-25 November 2020. Digital Practices. Reading, Writing and Evaluation on the Web, University of Basel, Switzerland (online conference): “Revisiting appraisal/evaluation/stance: Corpus and discourse perspectives” (keynote)
3-6 November 2020: Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series. University of Valencia, Spain (online conference): “Diversity and television series: A linguistic perspective” (plenary)
24 October 2020: International Conference on Frontiers of Discourse Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (online conference): “Corpus-based discourse analysis of newsworthiness” (plenary)
9 October 2020: Forum on Englishes in Australia 2020, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (online Forum): “Creating wordlists for Australian Aboriginal Englishes” (speed paper)
2019
11-13 December 2019: Australian Linguistic Society annual conference (ALS 2019), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: “Redfern Now – A corpus linguistic analysis”
4-6 December 2019: Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia annual conference (JERAA 2019), University of Sydney, Australia: “Using computer-based linguistic analysis to study health news” [Monika Bednarek and Georgia Carr]
30 September-1 October 2019: ASFLA Pre-Conference Institute 2019, University of Sydney, Australia: “Corpus linguistics” [invited workshop; with Alex Garcia and Georgia Carr]
21-23 August 2019: Australasian Diabetes Congress 2019, International Convention Centre, Sydney: “‘Waging war on diabetes’: Diabetes coverage in Australian newspapers” [Monika Bednarek & Georgia Carr, poster presentation]
22-26 July 2019: 10th International Corpus Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, UK: “‘Beyond the product’ in corpus-based analyses of media discourse(s)”
10-14 July 2019: PALA Conference 2019, University of Liverpool, UK: “Functions of dialogue in TV drama and beyond”
1-5 June 2019: ICAME 40, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland: “Newsworthiness: A corpus linguistic approach” [plenary]
2018
13-14 December 2018: Third biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU), What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness, Brussels, Belgium: “Discursive news values analysis: Past, present and future” [plenary]
3-7 December 2018: DH Downunder 2018 (Digital Humanities Summer Institute), Western Sydney University and University of Sydney, Australia: “Introduction to corpus linguistics” [invited workshop]
26-28 September 2018: ASFLA National Conference 2018, University of South Australia, Adelaide: “News values in Australia Day reporting: a corpus linguistic approach” [keynote]
25-28 September 2018: Digital Humanities Australia 2018, University of South Australia, Adelaide: “Discourses of diabetes in the Australian news media: A corpus approach” [Paper 1, M. Bednarek and Georgia Carr] and “Introducing a new visualisation tool: Kaleidographic” [Paper 2, Helen Caple and M. Bednarek]
20-21 September 2018: 4th Annual EMCR Symposium Integrating Disciplines – Promoting interdisciplinary effectiveness, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia: “Diabetes in the news” [poster presentation; M. Bednarek and Georgia Carr]
30 May 2018: ICAME 39, University of Tampere, Finland (Pre-conference workshop on Data Visualisation in Corpus Linguistics: Critical Reflections and Future Directions): “Visualising corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis: Principles and limitations” [Anthony, L., Caple, H. and M. Bednarek]
2017
6-9 December 2017: 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference 2017 (NZDC 2017), AUT University, Auckland, NZ: “Corpus linguistics and the discursive construction of social identity in the media” [Paper 1] and “Visualising Multimodal Discourse Analysis using Kaleidographic” [Paper 2, with Helen Caple]
10-14 July 2017: International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC 2017), University of Wollongong, Australia: “A new topology for (multimodal) discourse analysis” [with Helen Caple]
12-15 April 2017: Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association 2017 Joint National Conference (PCA/ACA 2017), San Diego, USA: “The use of ain’t in contemporary US television narratives”
2016
23‐25 November 2016: International Conference on Language and Emotion, UNED, Madrid, Spain: “Revisiting swear/taboo words – with focus on their use in US televisual narratives” [plenary, via video link]
22 November 2016: Festival of Methods: Australia and Australian voices in corpora (mini-conference), Macquarie University, Sydney: “Text and corpus revisited”
21-23 October 2016: Third Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2016), Beihang University, Beijing, China: “Corpus linguistics and profanity (‘bad’ language, swear words, curse words, taboo words…)” [plenary]
5-7 September 2016: 5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD), Università di Catania, Sicily: “Using non-standard language to represent diversity and ‘otherness’ in contemporary US television series” [invited contribution to the panel Languaging the Other in TV Series, convened by Mariavita Cambria and Marco Venuti, via video link]
22-23 April 2016: Workshop on ‘Doing digital humanities’, University of Freiburg, Germany: “Corpus linguistic approaches to the analysis of fictional televisual narratives” [invited talk]
2-4 March 2016: 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2016), University of Malaga, Spain: “Investigating ‘most shared’ news from a corpus linguistic perspective” [plenary]
2015
26-27 November 2015: International workshop on ‘The analysis of fictional dialogue in film and television series: Between narratology and pragmatics’, University of Innsbruck, Austria: “A corpus linguistic analysis of fictional dialogue in contemporary US TV series”
7-9 September 2015: 6th International Language in the Media conference, University of Hamburg, Germany: “The language of shared news”
21-24 July 2015: 8th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2015), Lancaster University, UK:“’All the news that’s fit to share’: Investigating the language of ‘most shared’ news stories” [with James Curran, Tim Dwyer, Fiona Martin, Joel Nothman]
18-19 February 2015: Appraisal Symposium 2015, University of New South Wales, Australia: “Evaluating characters in television series”
2014
24-27 November 2014: Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia 2014 conference (JERAA 2014), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia: “Teaching newsworthiness and news values in the age of the visual” [with Helen Caple]
30 September-2 October 2014: Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association 2014 conference (ASFLA 2014), University of New South Wales, Australia: “News values: towards a linguistic framework” [with Helen Caple]
23-24 April 2014: Media Talk symposium, Griffith University, Australia: “News media talk and news values” [invited talk]
2013
22 November 2013: Values and ideology in TV discourse: A one-day interdisciplinary colloquium on recent research, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK: “Values and ideology in US TV series” [invited talk]
28-30 September 2013: 5th International Language and the Media Conference: Redefining Journalism: Participation, Practice, Change, Queen Mary, University of London: “Promotional videos: What do they tell us about the value of news?” [with Helen Caple]
28-30 September 2013: 5th International Language and the Media Conference: Redefining Journalism: Participation, Practice, Change, Queen Mary, University of London: “Workshop on news values and news discourse “[co-convenors Helen Caple and Colleen Cotter]
14 September 2013: Symposium on Crime in a Post-CSI Mediascape, Oxford Brookes University, UK: “What happened and who dunnit ? Exploring questions in contemporary US crime drama: from Breaking Bad to The Wire“
31 July – 4 August 2013: Poetics and Linguistics Association Annual Conference (PALA 2013), University of Heidelberg, Germany: “Mobile narratives” [a talk on fan T-shirts, intertextuality, resemiotisation, paratexts and the new media environment]
23-26 July 2013: 7th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2013), Lancaster University, UK: “Integrating visual analysis into corpus linguistic research”
22 July 2013: Evaluative Language and Corpus Linguistics. Workshop at CL 2013, Lancaster University, UK: “Analysing evaluation in small corpora” [invited talk]
20-21 February 2013: Appraisal Symposium 2013: Current Issues in Appraisal Analysis, University of New South Wales, Sydney: “Principles for applying Appraisal theory – A perspective from corpus-based discourse analysis” [plenary]
2012
6-8 December 2012: 2nd International Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Conference, University of Technology, Sydney & Macquarie University: “A discursive approach to news values and its implications for journalism education” (with H. Caple)
16 November 2012: 8th Discourse Analysis Symposium: Researching Discourses with an Open Mind, Monash University: “A discursive approach to news values” (with H. Caple)
13-15 September 2012: 5th Screenwriting Research Conference: Words and Images, University of Technology, Sydney & Macquarie University: “Using computers to analyse words and images in TV series”
14 September 2012: Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies: More than the sum of Discourse Analysis and computing?, University of Bologna, Italy: “Beyond corpus and discourse analysis? The possibilities and challenges of triangulation in Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies” (“plenarette”, via videolink)
16-20 July 2012: 39th ISFC, University of Technology, Sydney: “Exploring the discursive construal of news values across words and images” (with H. Caple)
15-19 February 2012: First Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Auckland, NZ: “Corpus linguistics and The Big Bang Theory”
2011
3-8 July 2011: 12th International Pragmatics conference (IPRA), University of Manchester, UK: “‘What a day’ – evaluating historic leadership in the news”
3-8 July 2011: International Pragmatics conference (IPRA), University of Manchester, UK: “‘Value added’: Language, image and news values” (with H. Caple)
20-22 July 2011: Corpus Linguistics 2011 , University of Birmingham, UK: “‘Read less, more TV’: A corpus linguistic perspective on television discourse”
2010
24-26 November 2010: Journalism Education Association Australia (JEAA 2010), University of Technology, Sydney: “Using computers to analyse media discourse: a case study”
1-3 December 2010: 5 ICOM, University of Technology, Sydney: “Analysing televisual characterisation: a case study”
5-9 October 2010: VI ALSFAL, Fortaleza, Brazil: “Corpus linguistics and Appraisal theory” (8 hour workshop, invited)
2009
8-11 October 2009: American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2009), University of Alberta, Edmonton: “Emotional practices and character identity in American popular culture”
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”
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: Journalism Education Association Conference (JEAA 2008), 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”
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”
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: “‘What the hell is wrong with you?’ A corpus perspective on evaluation and emotion in contemporary American pop culture” [plenary]
July 2007: Australian Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (ASFLA) annual conference, University of Wollongong, Australia: “Corpus stylistics and its application in the linguistics classroom” (paper 1) and “Patterns of Affect across Corpora” (paper 2)
2006
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?”
2005
September 2005: Anglistentag, Bamberg, Germany: “Metapragmatic comments as evaluations”
July 2005: Evaluation and Text Types conference, 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”
2002
June 2002: Lexikografie, ihre Basis- und Nachbarwissenschaften (symposium), Augsburg, Germany: “Frames-Semantik und Lexikographie” (with W. Bublitz)
