The Corpus
- You can find & browse the corpus of our project here.
- Here are some blogposts authored by CORECON researchers regarding the CORECON corpus compilation decisions and methods of doing corpus-based research:
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CORECON-based scientific event “Representing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the media: Insights from the international project CORECON 2024-2026” during the Open Linguistic Seminar at the University of Opole
The event was organized on May 7, 2026 and brought over 80 attendees – faculty members, doctoral candidates and students – together with CORECON researchers to discuss selected project results and ensure that materials created in the project are applicable in other contexts, be they research-, impact- or education-oriented. Context and rationale Open Linguistic Seminar…
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Corpus compilation and data annotation protocols in CORECON
Data collection is the base for any empirical study and corpus analysis is a well-established method used within critical discourse studies. Jędrzej Olejniczak in his blogpost wrote about data collection, management and processing in CORECON. Here I explain the motivations behind methodological choices and our rationales in data collection and data annotation protocols used when…
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How we collect, manage and process our research material for CORECON
The research carried out within CORECON is based on a large database that consists of hundreds of news articles and social media entries in Romanian, Polish and English. These constitute a corpus (plural: corpora): a large set of linguistic data (e.g., collected from news outlets and social media) that can be processed with the use…
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Unveiling the Feminine Narrative: Women’s Roles in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Romanian Media
On May 23, 2024, Denisa Bâlc and Iulia-Maria Ticărău participated in the conference “Women in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Experience of War,” held in Sibiu, Romania. They presented their research, titled “Unveiling the Feminine Narrative: Analyzing the Role of Women in Mediating the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict,” which is based on the corpus compiled for…
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Why do we need to study the coverage and reception of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Polish, Romanian and English-language media?
Ion Surdu, a journalist at Turnul Sfatului, a local online newspaper in Sibiu is interviewing Prof. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, the director of a recently initiated research project at University of Lucian Blaga in Sibiu. The version of the interview in Romanian can be found here. Ion Surdu: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska is a professor of linguistics and communication…
Publications
news during the early stage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Transilvania, 12, 62-69.Download
Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna, and Isabela-Anda Dragomir. 2025. Demystifying, delegitimizing, debunking: Discursive editorial strategies of neutralizing the rationales for Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. Media, War & Conflict, 19 (2), 364-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352251314876.
Scientific events organized
Open Linguistics Seminar “Representing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the media: Insights form the international project CORECON 2024-2026”, Opole, 7 May 2026
“Responsible Journalism in the Era of AI”, Opole, 27-31 October 2025
Presentations delivered by the members of CORECON research team during the scientific event
Researchers’ Night 2025, Sibiu, 26 September 2025
CORECON Conference “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Mediation of Russian-Ukrainian War: Language, Representation, Society, Culture”, Sibiu, 9-11 July 2025
Find conference programme and details here.
Researchers’ Night 2024, Sibiu, 27 September 2024
Panel during 29th Conference of International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies, Opole, 18-21 September 2024
Presentations delivered by the members of CORECON research team during 29th IAICS conference
Conferences presentations
“Language Education Policies” University of Valencia, Spain, 19-21 May 2026
“Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Asian-European Perspectives”
Pune, India, 6-7 February 2026
“Language, Security, Technology” Conference, University of Defence Language Centre in Brno, Czech Republic, 14-15 October 2025
“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Mediation of Russian-Ukrainian War: Language, Representation, Society, Culture” Conference, Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania 9-11 July 2025
Find presentations delivered by CORECON members at the Conference here.