Dr Sylvia Jaworska

Email:
s.jaworska@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 7885
Job title:
Professor of Language and Professional Communication

Responsibilities:

Research Division Lead, Modern Languages and Linguistics

Areas of interest

Sylvia's main research interest is in the area of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Her research is interdisciplinary, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural. She combines corpus and computational tools with discourse-analytical techniques to study language use and linguistic practices in professional contexts including (new) media, business and health communication.

Current funded projects:

Co-Investigator on a large European and interdisciplinary project investigating the communication of scientific health claims on food funded by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology/Horizon 2020, click on the project website for more information

Co-Investigator: Quarantined between cultures, British Academy, Special Research Grants: Covid-19

Postgraduate supervision

Sylvia supervises/co-supervises seven PhD students.

Teaching

Sylvia teaches the following modules:

Undergraduate:

LS3/MCBL: Corpus-Based Approaches to Language Description
LS3LPC: Language in Professional Communication

Postgraduate:

LSMADA: Approaches to Discourse.

Background

Outside of the University, Sylvia is also:

Visiting Lecturer, Department of English and Linguistics, Rhodes University, South Africa
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong
Review Editor, Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies (JCaDS)

Publications

Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 and Vásquez, C. (2022) COVID-19 and the discursive practices of political leadership: introduction. Discourse, Context and Media , 47 ISSN: 2211-6958 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100605
Zhu, H. , Jones, R. , Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 (2022) Acts of distinction at times of crisis: an epistemological challenge to intercultural communication research. Language and Intercultural Communication ISSN: 1470-8477 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2021.2024563

Biroli, P. , Bosworth, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8978-9516 , Della Giusta, M. ORCID: 0000-0003-3959-4451 , Di Girolamo, A. , Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 , Vollen, J. (2021) Family life in lockdown. Frontiers in Psychology , 12 ISSN: 1664-1078 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.687570
Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 (2021) Competence and collectivity: the discourse of Angela Merkel’s media communications during the first wave of the pandemic. Discourse, Context and Media , 42 ISSN: 2211-6958 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100506
Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 (2021) Investigating media representations of the coronavirus in the UK, USA and Germany: what can a comparative corpus-based discourse analysis contribute to our understanding of the Covid-19 pandemic?. In: Jones, R. , (eds.) Viral Discourse. Elements in applied linguistics Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 26-37. ISBN: 9781108986465
Kinloch, K. and Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 (2021) ‘Your mind is part of your body’: negotiating the maternal body in online stories of postnatal depression on Mumsnet. Discourse, Context and Media , 39 ISSN: 2211-6958 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2020.100456

Grasso, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-6089-864X and Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 (2020) Part meat and part plant: are hybrid meat products fad or future?. Foods , 9 (12). ISSN: 2304-8158 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9121888
Lockyer, S. , Ryder, C. , Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 , Benelam, B. , Jones, R. (2020) Developing a digital toolkit to enhance the communication of health claims: the Health Claims Unpacked project. Nutrition Bulletin , 45 (4). pp. 432-443. ISSN: 1471-9827 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12469
Goodman, M. ORCID: 0000-0003-4861-029X and Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 (2020) Mapping digital foodscapes: digital food influencers and the grammars of good food. Geoforum , 117 pp. 183-193. ISSN: 0016-7185 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.09.020
Jaworska, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 (2020) Discourse of advertising. In: Friginal, E. and Hardy, J. , (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis. Routledge Handbooks Routledge pp. 428-444. ISBN: 9780367201814
Della Giusta, M. , Jaworska, S. , Vukadinovic Greetham, D. (2020) Expert communication on Twitter: comparing economists and scientists’ social networks, topics and communicative styles. Public Understanding of Science , 30 (1). pp. 75-90. ISSN: 1361-6609 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662520957252
Jones, R. , Jaworska, S. , Aslan, E. (2020) Language and media: a resource book for students. Routledge English Language Introductions Routledge , Abington, Oxon.
Alangari, M. , Jaworska, S. , Laws, J. (2020) Who’s afraid of phrasal verbs? The use of phrasal verbs in expert academic writing in the discipline of linguistics. Journal of English for Academic Purposes , 43 ISSN: 1475-1585 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2019.100814
Jaworska, S. (2020) Corporate discourse. In: De Fina, A. and Georgakopoulou-Nunes, A. , (eds.) Handbook of Discourse Studies. Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108348195 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108348195
Kinloch, K. and Jaworska, S. (2020) Using a comparative corpus-assisted approach to study health and illness discourses across domains: the case of postnatal depression (PND) in lay, medical and media texts. In: Demjen, Z. , (eds.) Applying linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781350057661

Stenka, R. and Jaworska, S. (2019) The use of made-up users. Accounting, Organizations and Society , 78 ISSN: 0361-3682 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2019.07.001
Hunt, S. and Jaworska, S. (2019) Intersections of nationality, gender, race and crime in news reporting: the case of Oscar Pistorius – Olympian and murderer. Discourse, Context & Media , 30 ISSN: 2211-6958 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100299
Jaworska, S. and Sogomonian, T. (2019) After we #VoteLeave we can #TakeControl: political campaigning and imagined collectives on Twitter before the Brexit vote. In: Lutzky, U. and Nevala, M. , (eds.) Reference and Identity in Public Discourses. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series John Benjamins (306). , Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp. 181-202. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.306.07jaw
Feola, G. and Jaworska, S. (2019) One transition, many transitions? A corpus-based study of societal sustainability transition discourses in four civil society’s proposals. Sustainability Science , 14 (6). pp. 1643-1656. ISSN: 1862-4065 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0631-9
Jaworska, S. (2019) Spoken language in science and the humanities. In: Dascal, M. , Leßmöllmann, A. , Gloning, T. , (eds.) Science Communication. Handbooks of Communication Science , 17. De Gruyter Mouton (17). pp. 271-288. ISBN: 9783110255522

Jaworska, S. and Ryan, K. (2018) Gender and the language of pain in chronic and terminal illness: a corpus-based discourse analysis of patients’ narratives. Social Science & Medicine , 215 pp. 107-114. ISSN: 0277-9536 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.002
Jaworska, S. (2018) Change but no climate change: discourses of climate change in corporate social responsibility reporting in the oil industry. International Journal of Business Communication , 55 (2). pp. 194-219. ISSN: 2329-4884 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329488417753951
Jaworska, S. (2018) ‘Bad’ mums tell the ‘untellable’: narrative practices and agency in online stories about postnatal depression on Mumsnet. Discourse, Context and Media , 25 pp. 25-33. ISSN: 2211-6958 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.11.002
Jaworska, S. and Leuschner, T. (2018) Anglo-German discourse crossings and contrasts: introduction to the special issue. Pragmatics & Society , 9. Pragmatics and Society , 9 (1). ISSN: 1878-9714 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.16029.jaw
Jaworska, S. and Kinloch, K. (2018) Using multiple data sets. In: Taylor, C. and Marchi, A. , (eds.) Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review. Routledge , London. pp. 110-129. ISBN: 9781138895782
Jaworska, S. and Themistocleous, C. (2018) Public discourses on multilingualism in the UK: triangulating a corpus study with a sociolinguistic attitude survey. Language in Society , 47 (1). pp. 57-88. ISSN: 0047-4045 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000744
Jaworska, S. and Leuschner, T. (2018) Crossing languages - crossing discourses: a corpus-assisted discourse study of Kulturkampf in German, Polish and English. Pragmatics and Society , 9 (1). pp. 119-149. ISSN: 1878-9714 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.16028.jaw (Special issue 'Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts')
Jaworska, S. and Nanda, A. (2018) Doing well by talking good? A topic modelling-assisted discourse study of corporate social responsibility. Applied Linguistics , 39 (3). pp. 373-399. ISSN: 1477-450X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amw014
Jaworska, S. (2018) Corpus approaches to language in the media. In: Cotter, C. and Perrin, D. , (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Language and Media. Routledge ISBN: 9781138014176

Jaworska, S. (2017) Metaphors we travel by: a corpus-assisted study of metaphors in promotional tourism discourse. Metaphor and Symbol , 32 (3). pp. 161-177. ISSN: 1532-7868 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2017.1338018
Laws, J. , Ryder, C. , Jaworska, S. (2017) A diachronic corpus-based study into the effects of age and gender on the usage patterns of verb-forming suffixation in spoken British English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics , 22 (3). pp. 375-402. ISSN: 1569-9811 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.22.3.04law
Jaworska, S. and Hunt, S. (2017) Intersections and differentiations: a corpus-assisted discourse study of gender representations in the British press before, during and after the London Olympics 2012. Gender and Language , 11 (3). pp. 336-364. ISSN: 1747-633X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.28858
Jaworska, S. (2017) Corpora and corpus linguistics approaches to studying business language. In: Mautner, G. and Rainer, F. , (eds.) Handbook of business communication: linguistic approaches. Handbooks of applied linguistics Handbook of Business Communication (13). pp. 583-606. ISSN: 9781614514862 ISBN: 9781614514862

Jaworska, S. (2016) Using a corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) approach to investigate constructions of identities in media reporting surrounding mega sport events: the case of the London Olympics 2012. In: Lamond, I. and Platt, L. , (eds.) Critical Events Studies: Approaches to Research. Leisure Studies in a Global Era Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 149-174. ISBN: 9781137523846 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52386-0_8
Jaworska, S. (2016) A comparative corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of hosts in promotional tourism discourse. Corpora , 11 (1). pp. 83-111. ISSN: 1755-1676 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2016.0086

Di Fatta, G. , Reade, J. , Jaworska, S. , Nanda, A. (2015) Big social data and political sentiment: the tweet stream during the UK General Election 2015 campaign.
Jaworska, S. , Krummes, C. , Ensslin, A. (2015) Formulaic sequences in native and non-native argumentative writing in German. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics , 20 (4). pp. 500-525. ISSN: 1569-9811 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20.4.04jaw
Salamoura, A. , Littlemore, J. , Murakami, A. , Jaworska, S. (2015) Directions in English profile research. In: Harrison, J. and Barker, F. , (eds.) English Profile in Practice. English Profile Studies Cambridge University Press (5). , Cambridge. pp. 106-120. ISBN: 9781107493988
Jaworska, S. (2015) Review of recent research (1998-2012) in German for Academic Purposes (GAP) in comparison with English for Academic Purposes (EAP): cross-influences, synergies and implications for further research. Language Teaching , 48 (2). pp. 163-197. ISSN: 1475-3049 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S026144481400038X

Jaworska, S. (2014) Playful language alternation in an online discussion forum: the example of digital code plays. Journal of Pragmatics , 71 pp. 56-68. ISSN: 0378-2166 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.07.009

Jaworska, S. (2013) The quest for the 'local' and 'authentic' Corpus-based explorations into the discursive constructions of tourist destinations in British and German commercial travel advertising. In: Höhmann, D. , (eds.) Tourismuskommunikation.Im Spannungsfeld von Sprach- und Kulturkontakt (Series: Arbeiten zur Sprachanalyse. Peter Lang , Frankfurt am Main. pp. 75-100. ISBN: 9783631629345

Jaworska, S. and Krishnamurty, R. (2012) On the F-word: a corpus-based analysis of the media representation of Feminism in British and German press discourse,1990-2009. Discourse and Society , 23 (4). pp. 401-431. ISSN: 0957-9265 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926512441113

Jaworska, S. and Larrivée, P. (2011) Women, power and the media: assessing the bias. Journal of Pragmatics , 43 (10). pp. 2477-2479. ISSN: 0378-2166 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2011.02.008
Jaworska, S. (2011) Der Wissenschaftlichkeit auf der Spur: zum Einsatz von Korpora in der Vermittlung des Deutschen als (fremder) Wissenschaftssprache. Deutsch als Fremdsprache , 2011 (4). pp. 235-244. ISSN: 0011-9741
Jaworska, S. (2011) Anti-Slavic imagery in German radical nationalist discourse at the turn of the twentieth century: a prelude to Nazi ideology?. Patterns of Prejudice , 45 (5). pp. 435-452. ISSN: 1461-7331 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2011.624762

Jaworska, S. (2010) Anglo-German academic encounters before the First World War and the work towards peace: the case of Karl Breul. Angermion: yearbook for Anglo-German literary criticism, intellectual history and cultural transfers , 3 pp. 135-160. ISSN: 1868-9426 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110222715.2.135

Jaworska, S. (2009) Where have all the linguists gone? The position of Linguistics in British German Studies from the mid-19th century until 2000. In: Pfalzgraf, F. , (eds.) Englischer Sprachkontakt in den Varietäten des Deutschen = English in contact with varieties of German. Österreichisches Deutsch Sprache der Gegenwart Peter Lang (12). , Frankfurt am Main. pp. 13-34. ISBN: 9783631581322
Jaworska, S. (2009) The German language in Poland: the eternal foe and the wars on words. In: Carl, J. and Stevenson, P. , (eds.) Language, discourse and identity in Central Europe: the German language in a multilingual space. Language and globalization Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. ISBN: 9780230224353
Jaworska, S. (2009) The German language in British higher education: problems, challenges, teaching and learning perspectives. Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart , 5. Harrassowitz , Wiesbaden. pp 222. ISBN: 9783447060059

Dr Sylvia Jaworska

Areas of interest

Postgraduate supervision

Teaching

Background

Publications

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