written by Marcel Reverter-Rambaldi The development of large-scale linguistic corpora has broadened greatly the scope of research that can be done into language. Projects including the Language Data Commons of Australia and Sydney Speaks demonstrate the value that is placed on comprehensive collections of language data. As corpora continue to grow in scale, the benefit…

written by Carly Bray The findings of the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, published more than 30 years ago, noted widespread dissatisfaction with mainstream media representation of First Nations people among these communities. In the years since then, First Nations groups have developed a range of reporting guidelines which outline preferred and dispreferred…

Written by Raphael Lo Schiavo-Rega Like many people across the English-speaking world, the January 6th capitol attack (Image 1) both surprised and intrigued me. I was especially interested in the reaction of the media, and the wildly different representations created of the event by mouthpieces on both sides of the American political chasm. It made…

Written by Danielle Barth (Australian National University, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language) Last semester (S1 2022) I taught Corpus Linguistics, the first time it has been offered at the Australian National University. It ran as a “special topics” course but has now officially been added to our regular offerings. This course…

Written by Keren Greenberg For my recently completed PhD research at the Swinburne Institute of Technology, I used corpus based critical discourse analysis to explore how ‘Israel’ was represented in the Israeli media during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict – a 50-day round of violence that took place between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas in…

The Sydney Corpus Lab is excited to announce the publication of a new book by Sydney Corpus Lab affiliate A/Prof Nicole Mockler: Constructing Teacher Identities: How the Print Media Define and Represent Teachers and Their Work Constructing Teacher Identities: How the Print Media Define and Represent Teachers and Their Work provides a comprehensive and systematic…

by Kelvin K.-H. Lee For my recently-completed PhD thesis, I combined corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics to investigate characterisation through the use of first-person pronouns in Japanese animation, i.e. anime (see Figure 1). To do so, I first had to design and build my own specialised corpus of anime dialogue – namely, the corpus of Science…

Written by Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University) and Rodrigo Araújo e Castro (Macquarie University and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) The Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to announce a new corpus, the Macquarie Laws of War Corpus, developed to promote research collaborations in the field of international war law. While corpus linguistics has been a technique…

By Matteo Fuoli and Monika Bednarek In recent years, there has been growing interest within corpus linguistics in triangulating data and/or methods. This includes combining multiple corpus linguistic techniques, or integrating corpus linguistic analysis with other research methods and data such as interviews or experiments. To make a contribution to this area of corpus linguistics,…

The Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to announce a new research collaboration on the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA). This project is funded through the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and led by Professor Michael Haugh from the University of Queensland. It builds on our existing collaboration on the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP)….