By Monika Bednarek In late 2017, I was lucky enough to be awarded a Multidisciplinary Arts and Social Sciences Inaugural Fellowship for a new corpus linguistic project on Discourses of diabetes in the Australian news media. Work started in early 2018 with consultation of diabetes scholars affiliated with the Charles Perkins Centre to gain initial…

by Shoshana Dreyfus (Sydney Corpus Lab affiliate), University of Wollongong In this blog post I want to write about a socially-significant piece of corpus linguistic research investigating the lives of families who have a family member living with intellectual disability (ID) and who uses challenging behaviour. In Australia, people with ID and challenging behaviour are…

What a year it’s been! We hope all corpus lab members and affiliates have managed to stay safe, and hope for better times in the future. Covid-19 has obviously impacted on the Sydney Corpus Lab activities this year – sadly, we had to indefinitely postpone our Corpus Linguistics Down Under workshop and symposium, and none…

by Martin Schweinberger (Sydney Corpus Lab affiliate) In this blog post I want to introduce a new resource of interest to corpus linguists in Australia and beyond: the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL). LADAL is a new support infrastructure for computational humanities established and maintained by the School of Languages and Cultures at…

I’m a current PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University using corpus-based discourse analysis to analyse public online health communities. From October 2019 to October 2020, I had the great pleasure to pursue my study at the University of Sydney as a visiting PhD student under the supervision of Professor Monika Bednarek, Director of the…

(by Monika Bednarek) In my book Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue I analysed the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue (SydTV), a dataset made up of dialogue from one episode each from 66 different recent US American television series. 34 episodes of this corpus come from ‘quality’ series, and 32 episodes…

(by Monika Bednarek) In recent years, researchers have begun to employ corpus linguistic methods in several disciplines outside linguistics. To give just a few examples here, corpus linguistic techniques have been used by historians (e.g. McEnery and Baker, 2016), law scholars (e.g. Mouritsen, 2010), and sociologists (e.g. Zinn, 2018). Indeed, the Centre for Corpus Approaches…

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics on “Corpus Linguistics and Education in Australia”, guest edited by Alex García, Peter Crosthwaite, and Monika Bednarek. The issue involves Sydney Corpus Lab members and affiliates as editors and authors: In ‘Ten years of print media…

About this time last year, when I was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, I attended the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Symposium (28 June 2019). Among many interesting talks, Jonathan Culpeper presented some first results from his Shakespeare project, comparing the ten most frequent trigrams…

We’re delighted to announce that two new PhD students are joining the Sydney Corpus Lab. Melissa Kemble, who continues to work at Macquarie Dictionary, started her PhD earlier this year, extending her work on the representation of female athletes in the Australian news media. You can read a short summary of her previous work in…