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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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
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, https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352251314876.
Scientific events organized
“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, 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.
“CILDI25: 3rd International Conference of Digital Linguistics”, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 26-27 June 2025
“KBO 2025: The 31 International Scientific Conference The Knowledge-based Organization”, “Nicolae Balcescu” Land Forces Academy of Sibiu, Romania, 14-15 June 2025
“9th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań 2025”, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland 16-18 May 2025
“Visuality 2025: Social Innovations for Sustainability Communication” Conference, Vilnius 8-9 May 2025
“Discourse Across Cultures” Conference, Brasov 21-22 March 2025
2nd Annual FORTHEM Conference, 29-31 January 2025
“Voices and Sources in the News” Conference, Brussels 12-13 December 2024
29th International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies Conference, Opole 18-20 September 2024
FORTHEM Language Campus Seminar: Justice and participation, Jyväskylä 24-25 April 2024
Workshops and trainings
Reports & Recommendations
Upcoming reports and recommendations will be available here.