Monika Bednarek

Monika Bednarek

@corpusling.bsky.social

Professor in #Linguistics #Usyd #CorpusLinguistics #MediaLinguistics #SocioLinguistics #DiscourseAnalysis #Stance #Affect #Emotion #DigitalHumanities Founding director sydneycorpuslab.com monikabednarek.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7819-5424

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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
@ardc.edu.au

Working With Text #Workshops: From Interview Transcripts to 125 years of Hansard 📅29 to 30 September 📍The University of Sydney 3 free in-person workshops for researchers. Each session stands alone: register for one, or come to all. Register: https://ow.ly/ygbP50ZJXyk #TextAnalysis #HASS #skills

ow.lyJoin 3 free hands-on workshops at the University of Sydney for researchers who work with text. No coding needed.Join 3 free hands-on workshops at the University of Sydney for researchers who work with text. No coding needed.
Monika Bednarek
@corpusling.bsky.social

New post by Helen Caple on corpus-based discourse analysis of newspaper data: sydneycorpuslab.com/how-seed-ter...

sydneycorpuslab.comHow seed term visualisation and metadata analysis offer a better understanding of newspaper corpora in large-scale corpus-based discourse analysisWritten by Helen Caple In large-scale corpus-based discourse analysis, newspaper corpora are typically constructed from databases like Factiva or Nexis using ‘seed terms’ related to the topic of in…

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USyd Core Research Facilities
@sydney-crf.bsky.social

Working w/ interviews, reports or other large collections of text? Discover WordFlow, a free platform that helps researchers explore, analyse & visualise text data w/out programming. Join this workshop to learn practical text analytics workflows for your research. Via Sydney Informatics Hub.

Monika Bednarek
@corpusling.bsky.social

We hope this will be useful for corpus compilers

IJCL@ijcl.bsky.social

OUT NOW: @corpusling.bsky.social and Kelvin K. H. Lee introduce the Document Similarity tool, which gives corpus compilers more control over the deduplication process. Reported case studies demonstrate how consequential deduplication is to corpus-based discourse research. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

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USyd Core Research Facilities
@sydney-crf.bsky.social

No coding required 📚💻 Sydney Informatics Hub helped USYD researchers explore Wordflow, a new text analytics tool developed via Language Data Commons of Australia. It makes it easy to analyse large text collections, uncover trends, model topics & compare datasets; all via a browser-based interface.

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Gavin Brookes
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social

Check out this blog post, co-authored with Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social in which we reflect on our collaboration, between @corpussocialsci.bsky.social and the Sydney Corpus Lab, addressing obesity discourse in the UK and Australia >> sydneycorpuslab.com/representati...

sydneycorpuslab.comRepresentations of obesity in the newsWritten by Monika Bednarek and Gavin Brookes Note: This post was simultaneously published by the Sydney Corpus Lab and by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster Univer…

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The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop)
@jlpopculture.bsky.social

There will be an online launch for the Journal of Language and Pop Culture on Friday (7 Feb) 1200-1300 UK time with an introduction from the editors and brief outlines of each chapter by their authors. All are welcome! LINK: shorturl.at/nrW1W

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Charlotte Taylor
@proftaylor.bsky.social

Great to see this get attention. My work showed 'illegal' has been the strongest collocate of 'immigrants' in the Times newspaper since the 1970s Prior to that, the words most associated with 'immigrants' were: 60s: Commonwealth 50s: coloured 40s: illegal 30s: Jewish 20s: British 10s: Canada

The Guardian@theguardian.com

‘Illegal’ among words most often linked to migrants in UK politics, report finds

theguardian.com‘Illegal’ among words most often linked to migrants in UK politics, report findsExclusive: Language during debates reinforces view of migration as inherently unlawful, says Runnymede Trust * UK politics live – latest updates The word “illegal” has been one of the terms most strongly associated with migrants in UK parliamentary…

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025
@cl2025.co.uk

Still thinking of submitting an abstract for #CL2025? Good news - you have an extra week! Extended (and final) deadline for paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions: Friday 24th January 2025 (23:59 GMT) www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025@cl2025.co.uk

📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢 #CL2025 • Birmingham, UK • Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 Submissions are open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap... Submission deadline: 17th January

cl2025.co.ukCL2025 - Call for papersAbstract submission is now open here

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Corpora journal
@corpora.bsky.social

Our 2nd most downloaded article is Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media by Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

euppublishing.comInvestigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media | CorporaThe sharing of news through social media platforms is now a significant part of mainstream online media use and is an increasingly important consideration in journalism practice and production. This p...

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David Adger
@davidadger.bsky.social

Permanent computational linguistics job @ QM. Deadline 5th January. We're looking for a linguist w/ computational focus, to teach on new MSc Linguistics&AI who fits our research (phon, syn, sem, socio, neuro, exper). linguistlist.org/issues/35.33... (salary on scale w/ annual increases) #linguistics

linguistlist.org LINGUIST List 35.3363 Jobs: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Gretchen McCulloch
@gretchenmcculloch.com

What's a "hidden gem" that you really like in lingcomm? 🐦🐦 I'm looking for linguistics communication places beyond the usual/well known So what's something that's newish or has relatively few followers which you keep being surprised isn't 10x or 100x more popular than it is? (No self-noms pls!)

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Corpora journal
@corpora.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky. Corpora journal is about to enter its 20th year of publication. Thanks to our editorial board, our subscribers, authors and reviewers over the last two decades, and to @edinburghup.bsky.social who have supported us throughout. We couldn't have made it this far without you!

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg
@michamahlberg.bsky.social

And you know what? The event is free! Do help us spread the word! 🙏#corpuslinguistics #corpusanddiscourse #digitalhumanities

Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)@rc21project.bsky.social

Join us for the Reading Concordances Symposium and Training Day in Erlangen, 19-21 March, 2025! We're offering a one-day course on concordance analysis and a two-day event with invited speakers and a poster session. See here for more: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-conc...