Veronika Kilian, M.A.

since 10/2023: Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics, University of Bamberg

2022: Student Assistant at the Professorship of Business Education (Prof. Dr. Silvia Annen)

2022: Foreign Language Assistant at Biddenham International School, Bedford

2021-2025: Graduate studies Business Education, University of Bamberg (M.Sc.)

2021-2023: Graduate studies English and American Studies, University of Bamberg (M.A.)

2019-2023: Tutor and student assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics, University of Bamberg

2018-2021: Undergraduate studies English and American Studies (B.A.)

2018-2021: Undergraduate studies Business Administrations, University of Bamberg (B.Sc)

2016-2018: Media Consultant at Mediengruppe Main-Post, Schweinfurt

2012-2016: Undergraduate studies Media Management, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Würzburg (B.A)

Working Title Dissertation

English as a Lingua Franca in Anti-Discriminatory Parliamentary Discourse: How Members of the European Parliament Persuade and Advocate for Social Justice

Research Interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Pragmatics
• English as a Lingua Franca
• Language and Discrimination
• Political Discourse
• Computer-Mediated Discourse

Proseminare/Übungen:

• Black English Matters: Language and Racism
• #ELF: English as a Lingua Franca on the Internet
• Raciolinguistics: Racing Language, Languaging Race
• Methods and Theories in Linguistics
• Power, Persuasion, and Populism: Investigating Political Discourse
• English as a Lingua Franca: Communicating across languages and cultures

Workshops/Tutorials:

• Tutorial Introduction to English Linguistics
• Workshop Introduction to English Linguistics
• Workshop English Grammar Analysis

Organisation:

FJUEL 2024 (Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern), Bamberg, October 2024 (with Lukas Sönning and Lea Bracke)

Conference Papers:

“It’s like unfassable” – A VELF pragmatic approach to audience design and identity construction on Instagram. 14th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF 14) - From Global Englishes to bot-English. Language use in the era of AI, Prag, September 2024.

“Something has been lost in translation, so I will try to do it in English”: The Role of English as a Lingua Franca in the European Parliament’s Plenary Sittings. Fourteenth Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference (BAELc14) – Corpus Approaches to Linguistics, Bonn, July 2025.

“[S]ince this is an issue of foreign policy I’m going to speak in English”: English as a Lingua Franca in Public Political Discourse. 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English – English on the Way: Expanding Horizons, Santiago de Compostela, September 2025.