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…

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…

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…

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,…

A post about the corpus showcase/workshop in March can be found here. Click/scroll to see a gallery of photos from the event.