“Corpus Linguists are the only ones that count”. The pun, included in the lecture slides of a Corpus Linguistics course for PhD students, resonated with me. Although not to be taken literally, it does highlight the need for quantitative evidence in discourse studies, especially those aiming to uncover ideologies underlying dominant forms of (mis) representation….
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Improving Writing Through Corpora, by Peter Crosthwaite
A short private online course for all Corpus linguistics offers the opportunity to draw informed, objective, data-driven conclusions about the type and frequency of linguistic features that occur together, occur often and occur in specific contexts – information particularly important for the purposes of teaching and learning. In particular the use of corpora for ‘data-driven…
STDs and anxiety: Using corpus linguistics to study Dolly Doctor, by Georgia Carr
When I first started thinking about doing Honours in corpus linguistics, I knew I wanted to look broadly at sex, sexuality and/or gender. When I approached Monika Bednarek to be my supervisor I didn’t have any experience with corpus linguistics, but it came to be the perfect method for my project. My data were the…
From the Zoom to the Wide-angle Lens: On one researcher’s encounters with corpus-assisted analysis, by Nicole Mockler
As an educational researcher with an interest in media representations of education, I’m a relative newcomer to corpus-assisted methods and approaches. Analysis of print media representations of education, schooling, teachers, and so on, is a small but fairly well-developed field, dating back to at least the 1980s in Australia and elsewhere. Much of this media…
My visit to the Lab, by Laurence Anthony
Through February and March of 2019, I had the great pleasure of spending a month at the University of Sydney working with Monika Bednarek, Director of the Sydney Corpus Lab, on various joint corpus projects related to Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) and the use of language in various media outlets. This was not my…
Notes from our first event
Earlier this month (18-19 March 2019), the Sydney Corpus Lab hosted its first event – a series of talks which highlighted some of the great work going on in corpus linguistics in Australia and overseas. The program included speakers from Lancaster University (UK), Waseda University (Japan), the University of Melbourne, and the University of Sydney,…
Corpus Showcase (pics)
A post about the corpus showcase/workshop in March can be found here. Click/scroll to see a gallery of photos from the event.