Research Interests 

Interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, gesture studies, cultural linguistics and cognitive linguistics with an emphasis on cognitive metaphor and metonymy in interaction; semantics and pragmatics; German as a foreign language; theory of communication and intercultural communication, linguistic historiography, speech styles and functions in cross-cultural and interactional perspective. Coordinator of the research group ICMI.

 

Research Projects

 

Since 2024

Elaborating a system of multimodal transcription and analysis for video-mediated talk-in-interaction (FAPEMIG Universal)

Since 2022

The multimodal coordination of intercultural video-mediated interaction (CAPES/DAAD, CNPq)

2019-2022

Intercultural Communication in Interaction: multimodal approaches (WUN - Worldwide Universities Network 2019)

 

2016-2022

(Inter)cultural key concepts at the interface between interaction, cognition en variation (Research Group Linkage Programma - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2017-2020; FAPEMIG-PPM 2017-2019)

2012-2016

Intercultural communication in extended contacts: linguistic and (self-) reflexive processes (CNPQ-PQ 2015-1018)

2009-201

Intercultural communication between Germans and Brazilians

 

2009-2012

Communicative and extracommunicative approaches in cognitive metaphor research

 

2006-2009

The metaphorical construction of society in cross-cultural perspective