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Monika Bednarek
Born1977 (age 46–47)
Academic background
Alma mater University of Augsburg ( PhD, habilitation)
ThesisEvaluating the World. The Evaluative Style of British Broadsheet and Tabloid Publications (2005)
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-discipline Corpus linguistics
Institutions University of Sydney

Monika Bednarek (born 1977) is a German-born Australian linguist. She is a professor in linguistics at the University of Sydney [1] and director of the Sydney Corpus Lab. [2] She is one of the co-developers of Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA), which is a framework for analyzing how events are constructed as newsworthy through language and images. [3] Her work ranges across various linguistic sub-disciplines, including corpus linguistics, media linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, stylistics, and applied linguistics. [1]

Biography

Bednarek was born and educated in southern Germany. She received her PhD in English Linguistics ( summa cum laude) in 2005 from the University of Augsburg under the supervision of Wolfram Bublitz. [4] She received her Habilitation in English linguistics in 2008 from the same university, where she also held her first academic appointment. Since 2009 she has held a continuing position in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. [1]

From 2009 to 2015, Bednarek was book reviews editor of the SAGE journal Discourse and Communication. From 2017 to 2021, she was co-editor, along with Lachlan Mackenzie and Martin Hilpert, of the international journal Functions of Language (John Benjamins). [5]

Contributions to linguistics

Much of Bednarek's research makes a contribution to corpus-based discourse analysis or corpus-assisted discourse studies. Key projects include the analysis of TV series (with a focus on dialogue), [6] [7] news discourse (news values analysis, shared news, and health news), the language of evaluation/emotion, and innovation in research methodologies in corpus linguistics.

Television dialogue

Bednarek's research on television dialogue has focused on US TV series, with more recent work extending this to Australian series. [8] Contributions include the theorizing of televisual characterization, [9] for example, the concept of 'expressive character identity', [10] a new framework for analysing the functions of dialogue (FATS), [11] and methodological innovation in taking a trinocular view of how language is used in television series, how such language is produced by screenwriters, and how it is consumed in transnational contexts. [12] A new corpus of dialogue from 66 different TV series was compiled for this project. [13] Her work on swear and taboo words in television dialogue has resulted in a novel operationalization and theorization of such words [14] as well as a new taxonomy of relevant linguistic practices. [15]

News discourse

Early corpus-assisted discourse analysis systematically compared the expression of opinion in British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers. [16] In collaboration with Dr. Helen Caple, Bednarek later created a framework for the discursive analysis of news values, called DNVA. [17] This approach uses corpus and discourse analysis to examine how news values are constructed through semiotic resources (language, image, etc.). [18]

Evaluation, emotion, attitude

Bednarek has made contributions to the study of language and evaluation/emotion. Her 2006 book, Evaluation in Media Discourse, introduced a parameter-based framework of evaluation, while her 2008 book, Emotion Talk Across Corpora, developed a corpus linguistic approach to the analysis of emotion talk and explored this across British English registers. The book includes a chapter describing a local grammar of affect, evaluated by Susan Hunston as 'probably the most successful' version. [19] Bednarek has also contributed to critiquing and developing research on appraisal, especially in relation to attitude and affect.

Key publications

  • Bednarek, M. (2023) Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A Corpus-informed Approach to the Construction of Social Identity in the Media. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN  978-9027212955
  • Bednarek, M. (2019) Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television. London/New York: Routledge. ISBN  978-0367139582
  • Bednarek, M. (2018) Language and Television Series. A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN  978-1108459150
  • Bednarek, M. and H. Caple (2017) The Discourse of News Values: How News Organisations Create Newsworthiness. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780190653941
  • Bednarek, M. and H. Caple (2012) News Discourse. Continuum Discourse series (edited by Ken Hyland). London/New York: Continuum. ASIN  B0865F8ZWV
  • Bednarek, M. (2010) The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. London/New York: Continuum. ISBN  978-1441183668
  • Bednarek, M. (2008) Emotion Talk across Corpora. Houndmills/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN  978-1441183668
  • Bednarek, M. (2006) Evaluation in Media Discourse. Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London/New York: Continuum. ISBN  9781847142825
Scholia has a profile for Monika Bednarek (Q89044372).

References

  1. ^ a b c "Staff Profile". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  2. ^ "People". Sydney Corpus Lab. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  3. ^ "newsvaluesanalysis.com". newsvaluesanalysis.com. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  4. ^ "CV". Monika Bednarek. 27 August 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  5. ^ "John Benjamins Publishing". John Benjamins Publishing Catalog. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  6. ^ McIntyre, Dan (2011). "The year's work in stylistics 2010" (PDF). Language and Literature. 20 (4): 347–364. doi: 10.1177/0963947011415986. S2CID  145080069.
  7. ^ Statham, Simon; Montoro, Rocío (2019). "The year's work in stylistics 2018". Language and Literature. 28 (4): 354–374. doi: 10.1177/0963947019887565. S2CID  213277561.
  8. ^ "Australian Linguistic Society Conference Program". 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Language and Characterisation in Television Series".
  10. ^ Freudinger, Markus (April 2013). "Review of Monika Bednarek, The Language of Fictional Television" (PDF). ICAME. 37: 207–212.
  11. ^ Bös, Birte (2019). "Review of Monika Bednarek, 2018, Language and Television Series". Anglia. 137 (4): 660–665. doi: 10.1515/ang-2019-0058. S2CID  208140302.
  12. ^ Livnat, Zohar (2019). "Review of Monika Bednarek, 2018, Language and Television Series". Language and Dialogue. 9 (3): 484–489. doi: 10.1075/ld.00053.liv. S2CID  210535392.
  13. ^ "The Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue (SydTV)". www.syd-tv.com. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  14. ^ Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Alba-Juez, Laura (2019). Emotion in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 29–54. ISBN  9789027202390.
  15. ^ Bednarek, Monika (June 2019). "'Don't say crap. Don't use swear words.' – Negotiating the use of swear/taboo words in the narrative mass media". Discourse, Context & Media. 29: 100293. doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2019.02.002.
  16. ^ Felberg, Tatjana Radanović (2008). "Book review: Monika Bednarek, Evaluation in Media Discourse". Discourse Studies. 10 (6): 817–819. doi: 10.1177/14614456080100060403. S2CID  220784673.
  17. ^ Wan, Lixin (2018). "Review, Monika Bednarek & Helen Caple, The Discourse of News Values". Language in Society. 47 (2): 320–321. doi: 10.1017/S0047404518000222. S2CID  149843473.
  18. ^ "WHAT IS DNVA?". newsvaluesanalysis.com. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  19. ^ Hunston, Susan (2011). Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language. London/New York: Routledge. p. 149. ISBN  9780415836517.

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