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 her blog post here. Melissa has also published on Indigenous language funding in Australia:
- Mahboob, A., Jacobsen, B., Kemble, M. & Zichen C. Xu (2017) Money for language: Indigenous language funding in Australia, Current Issues in Language Planning, 18:4, 422-441. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2017.1331497
Joyce Cheung will be joining us mid-year to focus on the representation of obesity in the Australian news media. Joyce’s previous publication in corpus linguistics include:
- Cheung, J.O., & Feng, D. (2019). Attitude, identity and social struggle: A corpus-based analysis of heavy metal song lyrics. Social Semiotics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2019.1601337
- Crosthwaite, P., & Cheung, J.O. (2019). ‘Fear and Disgust’ – A corpus study of sentiment towards sporting events as expressed multimodally on 4chan’s /sp/ board. In M. Callies & M. Levin (eds.) Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports: Texts, Media, Modalities. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Crosthwaite, P., Wong, L.L.C., & Cheung, J.O. (2019). Characterising graduate students’ corpus query and usage patterns for Data-driven Learning. ReCALL 31(3), 255-275.
We hope to soon be able to meet face-to-face!