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Dana Ebermann, M.A.

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Short curriculum vitae

I studied English and American Studies at TU Chemnitz with a specialization in English Linguistics and British & American Studies. I spent an ERASMUS semester abroad at Tallinna Ülikool (Tallinn University) in Estonia in the winter term 2008/09. I finished my MA thesis on English null subjects in Facebook status updates in March 2012. After my graduation, I worked in the marketing & sales department of a company in the paper industry. Since October 2014, I have been a member of the ELL department at TU Chemnitz.

Research interests

I am especially interested in sociolinguistics, new digital discourses and English as an academic language worldwide.

Teaching

SS 2022 BA 2 Pragmatics
SS 2021 BA 2 Pragmatics
  MA 2 Introduction to e-learning (CALL)
WS 2020/21 BA 3 & 5 Sociolinguistics
SS 2020 BA 2 Principles of Second Language Acquisition 
  BA 2 Pragmatics
WS 2019/20 BA 1 & B EEE 3 Information Technology & Study Skills
  MA 3 Native & Non-Native English Language Systems
SS 2019 BA 2 & B EEE 2 Pragmatics
WS 2018/19 BA 3 Psycholinguistics
SS 2018 BA 2 Pragmatics
WS 2017/18 BA 3 Sociolinguistics
SS 2017 SELAEn 4 & B EEE 4 Psycholinguistics
WS 2016/17 MA 3 Project Management
WS 2015/16 BA 3 Sociolinguistics
SS 2015 BA 4 & 6 Research Colloquium
  BA 6 Research Seminar
WS 2014/15 MA 4 Project Management

     

Publications

fc.  Conspiracy theories in the wake of the US presidential election 2020. In J. Schmied & M. Ivanova (Eds.), REAL 18. Göttingen: Cullivier, XX.
2021

Protest on Twitter: From hate to counter speech. In C. Sandten, M. Beck & D. Ziesche (Eds.), Conference Proceedings Cultures of Protest/Protestkulturen, 95-118. 

2019

Kooperationsprojekt „KoPI - Kooperatives Lernen und Peer-Tutoring im interdisziplinären Studiengang Energy Efficiency and Englishes”. In HDS.Journal, 1, 14-18.

2019 A Critical Discourse Analysis of Trump's Weekly Addresses. In J. Schmied (Ed.), REAL16. Göttingen: Cullivier, XX.

2018

The Özil Case: News Values in Online Newspaper Articles. In J. Schmied & J. Dheskali (Eds.), Credibility, Honesty, Ethics, and Politeness in Academic and Journalistic Writing. Göttingen: Cullivier, 109-128. 

2017
“You’d be in jail”: Hate Speech during the US Presidential Campaigns 2016. In J. Schmied & I. Van der Bom (Eds.), Digesting International Crises in Europe. Comparing, Evaluating, and (De-)Construction the News in Various Channels. Göttingen: Cullivier, 197-218.
2015

"It is probably the reason why..." Hedging in BA and MA Theses by German ESL Students. In J. Schmied (Ed.), Graduate Academic Writing in Europe in Comparison. Göttingen: Cullivier, 81-98.

2013

Cross-Cultural Hedges? A Comparison of Academic Writing by Non-native and Native Speakers of English. In J. Schmied & C. Haase (Eds.) English for Academic Purposes: Practical and Theoretical Approaches. Göttingen: Cullivier, 71-80.

Conferences

09/2019 Cultures of Protest in Social Media: From Hate to Counter Speech. 8th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English: Functional Plurality of Language in Contextualised Discourse, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
01/2019 Protestkulturen in den sozialen Medien: von Hate zu Counter Speech. Protestkulturen / Cultures of Protest (wissenschaftliches Symposium zum 25-jährigen Bestehen der Philosophischen Fakultät der TU Chemnitz).
11/2018 A Critical Discourse Analysis of Trump's Speeches. Graduate Symposium on Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar (wissenschaftliches Symposium zu Studientage China der Philosophischen Fakultät der TU Chemnitz).
10/2016

“Because you’d be in jail”: Hate speech in the 2016 US presidential campaign. Tage der Angewandten Linguistik II. Dresden.

11/2015

Maybe Britannica Online, but definitely Wikipedia: A corpus analysis of hedges and boosters in two online encyclopedias. KDDE – Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Era: Language and Episteme at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy.

11/2011

Want to see more? Null subjects in Facebook status updates. Modena International Workshop: Corpus, Discourse and Genre studies on Language Change: Work in progress. Modena, Italy

03/2011
Wanna see some nail designs that’ll knock your socks off? Using Facebook as a corpus. Discourse Analysis in a Digital World. 4th International Conference on Discourse Studies. Nitra, Slovakia