Monika Bednarek

Monika Bednarek (born 1977) is a German-born Australian linguist. She is Associate Professor in linguistics at the University of Sydney.[1] and Director of the Sydney Corpus Lab.[2] She is one of the co-developers of Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA), which is a framework for analyzing how events are constructed as newsworthy through language and images.[3] Her work ranges across various linguistic sub-disciplines, including corpus linguistics, media linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, stylistics, and applied linguistics.[1]

Monika Bednarek
Born1977 (age 43–44)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Augsburg (PhD, habilitation)
ThesisEvaluating the World. The Evaluative Style of British Broadsheet and Tabloid Publications (2005)
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineCorpus linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney

Biography

Bednarek was born and educated in southern Germany. She received her PhD in English Linguistics (summa cum laude) in 2005 from the University of Augsburg under the supervision of Wolfram Bublitz.[4] She received her Habilitation in English linguistics in 2008 from the same university. Her first academic appointment was at the University of Augsburg. Following a DFG-funded research fellowship at the University of Sydney, Australia, she then held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).[1] Since 2009 she has held a continuing position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

From 2009 to 2015, Bednarek was book reviews editor of the SAGE journal Discourse and Communication. Since 2017, she has served as co-editor, along with Lachlan Mackenzie and Martin Hilpert, of the international journal Functions of Language (John Benjamins).[5]

Contributions to linguistics

Much of Bednarek's research makes a contribution to corpus-based discourse analysis or corpus-assisted discourse studies. Key projects include the analysis of TV series (with a focus on dialogue),[6][7] news discourse (news values analysis, shared news, and health news), the language of evaluation/emotion, and innovation in research methodologies in corpus linguistics. Her research contributes to the newly emerging field of linguistic research on films and television series. Her research has also contributed to the linguistic investigation of news discourse and to the development of theory and analysis regarding evaluation, emotion, and appraisal.

Television dialogue

Bednarek's research on television dialogue has focused mainly on US TV series, with current work extending this to Australian series.[8] Contributions include the theorizing of televisual characterization, for example, the concept of 'expressive character identity',[9] a new framework for analysing the functions of dialogue (FATS),[10] and methodological innovation in taking a trinocular view of how language is used in television series, how such language is produced by screenwriters, and how it is consumed in transnational contexts.[11] A new corpus of dialogue from 66 different TV series was compiled for this project.[12] Her work on swear and taboo words in television dialogue has resulted in a novel operationalization and theorization of such words[13] as well as a new taxonomy of relevant linguistic practices.[14]

News discourse

Early corpus-assisted discourse analysis systematically compared the expression of opinion in British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers.[15] In collaboration with Dr. Helen Caple, Bednarek later created a framework for the discursive analysis of news values, called DNVA.[16] This approach uses corpus and discourse analysis to examine how news values are constructed through semiotic resources (language, image, etc.).[17]

Evaluation, emotion, attitude

Bednarek has made contributions to the study of language and evaluation/emotion. Her 2006 book, Evaluation in Media Discourse, introduced a parameter-based framework of evaluation, while her 2008 book, Emotion Talk Across Corpora, developed a corpus linguistic approach to the analysis of emotion talk and explored this across British English registers. The book includes a chapter describing a local grammar of affect, evaluated by Susan Hunston as 'probably the most successful' version.[18] She has also contributed to critiquing and developing research on appraisal, especially in relation to attitude and affect.

Key publications
  • Bednarek, M. (2019) Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television. London/New York: Routledge.
  • Bednarek, M. (2018) Language and Television Series. A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bednarek, M. and H. Caple (2017) The Discourse of News Values: How News Organisations Create Newsworthiness. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Bednarek, M. and H. Caple (2012) News Discourse. Continuum Discourse series (edited by Ken Hyland). London/New York: Continuum.
  • Piazza, R., Bednarek, M. and F. Rossi (eds) (2011) Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, editor Anita Fetzer)
  • Bednarek, M. (2010) The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity. London/New York: Continuum.
  • Bednarek, M. and J.R. Martin (eds) (2010) New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation. London/ New York: Continuum.
  • Bednarek, M. (2008) Emotion Talk across Corpora. Houndmills/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bednarek, M. (2006) Evaluation in Media Discourse. Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London/New York: Continuum.

References
  1. "Staff Profile". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  2. "People". Sydney Corpus Lab. 2019-01-23. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  3. "newsvaluesanalysis.com". newsvaluesanalysis.com. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  4. "CV". Monika Bednarek. 2017-08-27. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  5. "John Benjamins Publishing". John Benjamins Publishing Catalog. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  6. McIntyre, Dan (2011). "The year's work in stylistics 2010". Language and Literature. 20 (4): 347–364. doi:10.1177/0963947011415986.
  7. Statham, Simon; Montoro, Rocío (2019). "The year's work in stylistics 2018". Language and Literature. 28 (4): 354–374. doi:10.1177/0963947019887565.
  8. "Australian Linguistic Society Conference Program". 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  9. Freudinger, Markus (April 2013). "Review of Monika Bednarek, The Language of Fictional Television" (PDF). ICAME. 37: 207–212.
  10. Bös, Birte (2019). "Review of Monika Bednarek, 2018, Language and Television Series". Anglia. 137 (4): 660–665. doi:10.1515/ang-2019-0058.
  11. Livnat, Zohar (2019). "Review of Monika Bednarek, 2018, Language and Television Series". Language and Dialogue. 9 (3): 484–489. doi:10.1075/ld.00053.liv.
  12. "The Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue (SydTV)". www.syd-tv.com. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  13. Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Alba-Juez, Laura (2019). Emotion in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 29–54. ISBN 9789027202390.
  14. Bednarek, Monika (June 2019). "'Don't say crap. Don't use swear words.' – Negotiating the use of swear/taboo words in the narrative mass media". Discourse, Context & Media. 29: 100293. doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2019.02.002.
  15. Felberg, Tatjana Radanović (2008). "Book review: Monika Bednarek, Evaluation in Media Discourse". Discourse Studies. 10 (6): 817–819. doi:10.1177/14614456080100060403.
  16. Wan, Lixin (2018). "Review, Monika Bednarek & Helen Caple, The Discourse of News Values". Language in Society. 47 (2): 320–321. doi:10.1017/S0047404518000222.
  17. "WHAT IS DNVA?". newsvaluesanalysis.com. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  18. Hunston, Susan (2011). Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language. London/New York: Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 9780415836517.
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