
Dana Ebermann, M.A.
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 |