Dr Sylvia Jaworska
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Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
- Research Division Lead, Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Departmental Study Abroad Coordinator
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.
Currently, Sylvia is a 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.
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),
- Secretary of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies
- External Examiner: MA Applied Linguistics/MA Language, Culture and Communication, Birmingham University
Publications
- Jaworska, S. (2021) Corpora and the discourse of advertising. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis. Routledge pp. 428-444. ISBN: 9780367201814
- Jones, R. , Jaworska, S. , Aslan, E. , eds. (2020) Language and media: a resource book for students. Routledge English Language Introductions Routledge , Abington, Oxon.
- Goodman, M. and Jaworska, S. (2020) Mapping digital foodscapes: digital food influencers and the grammars of good food. Geoforum ISSN: 0016-7185
- 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 ISSN: 1361-6609
- 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. Applying linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781350057661
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2019.100814
- Jaworska, S. (2019) Spoken language in science and the humanities. Science Communication. Handbooks of Communication Science , 17. De Gruyter Mouton (17). pp. 271-288. ISBN: 9783110255522
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0631-9
- Stenka, R. and Jaworska, S. (2019) The use of made-up users. Accounting, Organizations and Society , 78 ISSN: 0361-3682 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2019.07.001
- Jaworska, S. and Sogomonian, T. (2019) After we #VoteLeave we can #TakeControl: political campaigning and imagined collectives on Twitter before the Brexit vote. Reference and Identity in Public Discourses. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series John Benjamins (306). , Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp. 181-202. | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.306.07jaw
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100299
- Jaworska, S. (2018) Corporate discourse. Handbook of Discourse Studies. Cambridge University Press
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.11.002
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.002
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amw014
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329488417753951
- Jaworska, S. and Kinloch, K. (2018) Using multiple data sets. 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000744
- Jaworska, S. and Leuschner, T. , eds. (2018) Anglo-German discourse crossings and contrasts: introduction to the special issue. Pragmatics & Society , 9. Pragmatics and Society , 9 (1). ISSN: 1878-9714 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.16029.jaw
- Jaworska, S. (2018) Corpus approaches to language in the media. Routledge Handbook of Language and Media. Routledge ISBN: 9781138014176
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.16028.jaw (Special issue 'Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts')
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.28858
- Jaworska, S. (2017) Corpora and corpus linguistics approaches to studying business language. Handbook of business communication: linguistic approaches. Handbooks of applied linguistics Handbook of Business Communication (13). pp. 583-606. ISSN: 9781614514862 ISBN: 9781614514862
- 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: http://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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.22.3.04law
- 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. Critical Events Studies: Approaches to Research. Leisure Studies in a Global Era Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 149-174. ISBN: 9781137523846 | doi: http://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: http://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. (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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S026144481400038X
- Salamoura, A. , Littlemore, J. , Murakami, A. , Jaworska, S. (2015) Directions in English profile research. English Profile in Practice. English Profile Studies Cambridge University Press (5). , Cambridge. pp. 106-120. ISBN: 9781107493988
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20.4.04jaw
- 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: http://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. 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926512441113
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2011.624762
- 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: http://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. (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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110222715.2.135
- Jaworska, S. , eds. (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
- Jaworska, S. (2009) The German language in Poland: the eternal foe and the wars on words. 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) Where have all the linguists gone? The position of Linguistics in British German Studies from the mid-19th century until 2000. 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