ABOUT

I am a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. My primary research interest is in corpus-based discourse analysis. This refers to the use of electronic collections of texts and computer-based analysis to explore facets about discourse. My own research focuses on English-language media texts (media linguistics), with two main strands – language as used in the news (print, online, radio, TV) and language as used in fictional TV series (such as The Big Bang Theory, The Wire). I am also interested in modelling, theorising, and analysing language and emotion (attitude, stance, appraisal, evaluation, etc).

For further information please use the navigation tools above, see my academia.edu site or the news values site,  visit my university website or go to my youtube channel (for videos on corpus linguistics and AntConc).

Contact

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