2023
"Approaching multimodal stancetaking by viewpoint analysis in intercultural interaction". Presentation at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference - IPrA. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
"Multimodal interactional practices of Brazilian health care workers in pandemic times: Shifts in the interplay of verbal, prosodic and gestural resources" (in collaboration with Sineide Gonçales). Presentation at the IV Encontro de Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica - EnACE: Multimodalidade na Interação Humana. Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
"Transcrever dados multimodais em interações online em ILF: Movimentos de olhos" (in collaboration with Thiago da Cunha Nascimento). Data session at the IV Encontro de Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica - EnACE: Multimodalidade na Interação Humana. Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
2022
"Borderline cases of online interaction in multimodal transcription". Data Session Presentation at I ICMI Data Session Meeting. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil [Online].
I ICMI Data Session Meeting. Event Organization. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil [Online].
Series of Debates. Event organization by the Faculty Research Committee, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil [Online].
Series of Talks. Event organization by the Faculty Research Committee, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"From metonymy to metaphor: How cultural conceptualizations are constructed multimodally in ELF". Plenary Lecture at Met(V)iEW4 Metaphors in Englishes around the world. 4th International Symposium, University of Koblenz Landau, Germany.
Week of Events SEvFALE - Semana de Eventos da FALE. Event organization by the Faculty Research Committee, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Abordagens comparativas e abordagens interacionais" (in collaboration with Thiago da Cunha Nascimento). Presentation at the Round Table "ICMI – Intercultural Communication in Multimodal Interactions / Comunicação Intercultural em Interação Multimodal: Pesquisas em Andamento", SEvFALE - Semana de Eventos da FALE, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Mudanças nos recursos verbais, prosódicos e gestuais nas práticas interacionais de agentes de saúde em tempos pandêmicos" (in collaboration with Sineide Gonçalves). Presentation at the Round Table "NELU – Estudos de Língua em Uso", SEvFALE - Semana de Eventos da FALE, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Forschung und Internationalisierung" (in collaboration with Adriana Fernandes Barbosa). Plenary Talk at DAAD Nachwuchstreffen in Belo Horizonte, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Gestos na fala-em-interação: Métodos de transcrição". II ELinG - II Escola de Estudos Linguísticos do GEL. Workshop, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
2021
"Humor in intercultural interaction: a source for misunderstanding or a common ground builder? A multimodal analysis" (in collaboration with Anna Ladilova), AMPRA International Symposium, Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina.
Workshop "Quinzena de Oficinas: Projetos, Palestras, Publicações". Event organization by the Faculty Research Committee, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"A construção multimodal do jeitinho em fala-em-interação". Plenary Lecture at the Round table "A fala-e-interação e a língua em uso", Ciclo de Palestras do Núcleo de Estudos da Língua em Uso, Temporada 2021, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Simposium "Internacionalização das Humanidades". Event organization by the Faculty Research Committee, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"A brief comparison of communication styles in German and Brazilian academic life". Round table presentation at the Event Communication in German Academia, Justus-Liebig University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany [Online-Presentation].
"Improvised and planned futures: Brazilian and German conceptualizations of time in multimodal talk-in-inateraction" Plenary Lecture at the Workshop Southern Futures, University of Bielefeld, Germany [Online-Presentation].
2020
"Multimodale Konstruktionen von kulturellen und interkulturellen Erfahrungen im Kommunikationsprozess". Guest lecture at the Kolloquium Communication Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany [Online-Presentation].
"Jeitinho e sua metáforização multimodal: uma abordagem na interface da Linguística Cultural, dos Estudos de Gestos e da Linguística Interacional". Guest lecture at the I Ciclo de Palestras sobre Linguística Cognitiva: Pesquisas e Tendências, promoted by the GELP-COLIN/UFC and GELPCOLIN/UFMA, in collaboration with the VII International Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought - VII CIMLP, Brazil [Online presentation].
"Embodied Perspectives on Communication with Face Masks in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic" (in collaboration with Anna Ladilova, Sineide Gonçalves and Fernanda Roque Amendoeira), Panel at the Pandemic Cooperation: Media and Society in Times of Corona, University of Siegen, Germany [Online presentation].
"A co-construção corporificada de intercultura: uma abordagem cognitiva e multimodal da fala-em-interação." Round table presentation at the Webconference Multimodalidade e Linguística, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil [Online presentation].
2019
International Symposium on Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Event Organization, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
"Modal particles in German and Portuguese: a multimodal, interactional and cognitive approach to foreign language teaching." Plenary lecture at the International WUN Workshop Intercultural Communication in Interaction: multimodal approaches, Worldwide Universities Research Development Funding 2019, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Workshop: "Intercultural communication and research methods". WUN Workshop Intercultural Communication in Interaction: multimodal approaches, Worldwide Universities Research Development Funding 2019, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"The interplay of prosody and gesture in the co-construction of otherness in talk." Plenary lecture at the International WUN Workshop Intercultural Communication in Interaction: multimodal approaches, Worldwide Universities Research Development Funding 2019, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Gesture and prosody as points os access to cultural conceptualizations". Plenary lecture at the XI Lablita e IX Leel International Workshop - Prosody and Gesture: Corpus compilation, prominences and phrasing, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
"Gesture and prosody as points of access to cultural conceptualizations in talk-in-interacion". Guest lecture at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
"Intercultural communication in interaction". Workshop/Block seminar at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
"How to get started". Round table participation at the event Postdoc at FU Berlin, TU Munich, UA Ruhr, WWU Münster: How to follow your research career at German top universities 2019, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
"Partículas modais no contexto do seu uso multimodal: uma análise cognitiva e comparativa de uma aula de ALE". Plenary lecture at the Jornada da Língua Alemã 2019, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
"Höflichkeit und Face in interkultureller Kommunikation". Workshop at the Jornada da Língua Alemã 2019, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
"How interculture is built on the common ground of alterity experience: a cognitive-multimodal approach to talk-in-interaction". Round-table lecture at the International Symposium on Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2018
"Multimodal conceptualizations and the construction of intercultures". Conference presentation at the 4th International Conference of the Americans Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), University at Albany, Albany, USA.
"Pragmática Intercultural e Linguística Cultural: confluências". Plenary lecture at the IV Jornada de Estudos em Pragmática da USP, USP, São Paulo, Brazil.
"JEITINHO as a cultural conceptualisation in Brazilian Portuguese: a cultural linguistics' approach to talk-in-interaction". Conference presentation at the Second Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC2018), University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany.
"Interkulturelle Kommunikation in Interaktion". Workshop at the International Graduate Centre of the Study of Culture and the International PhD Programm Literary and Cultural Studies, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
"Modalpartikeln im Kontext: ein kognitiv-komparativer Ansatz für den DaF-Unterricht an brasilianischen Hochschulen". Plenary lecture at the Symposium "Gesprochene Sprache in der kommunikativen Praxis - Analysen authentischer Alltagssprache und ihr Einsatz im DaF-Unterricht", Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
2017
"Como conversamos com 'o outro' e refletimos sobre ele: uma abordagem empírica acerca da interculturalidade". Plenary lecture at the III Seminário de Pesquisas do PosLetras: Linguagens, Cultura e Sociedade, UFOP, Mariana/Ouro Preto, Brazil.
"O impacto cultural da face: como ensinar habilidades pragmáticas-interculturais por meio da análise da conversa multimodal". Presentation at the Round Table "(Des)Cortesia e Ensino de Língua Estrangeira" at the 3rd Congresso Interdisciplinar de Cortesia, Universidade Curzeiro do Sul, São Paulo, Brasil.
"Processos cognitivos e interação social". Panel Organization (in collaboration with Edwiges Morato) at the VIII Conferência Linguística e Cognição, GT Linguística e Cognião, Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil.
"A ancoragem cognitivo-esquemática de estilos culturais na fala (auto-)reflexiva sobre experiência intercultural". Conference presentation at the VIII Conferência Linguística e Cognição, GT Linguística e Cognião, Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil.
"Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics". Panel Organization (in collaboration with Hans-Georg Wolf and Farzad Sharifian) at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference, IPrA, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
"The cognitive-schematic anchoring of cultural styles in (self-)reflexive talk about intercultural experience". Conference presentation at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference, IPrA, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
"Documentação e análise de experiência intercultural na fala-em-interação: um projeto na interface da Linguística Interacional e da Linguística Cultural". Conference presentation at the I Encontro de Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica - EnACE, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
"Pragmática Intercultural". Panel Organization (in collaboration with Poliana Coeli Costa Arantes) at the II Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Germanísticos - ABEG, UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil.
"Perspectivas teóricas da Pragmática Intercultural e sua aplicação a interações entre brasileiros e alemães". Conference presentation at the II Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Germanísticos - ABEG, UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil.
"Perspectivas Interculturais no Ensino e Aprendizagem de Línguas Estrangeiras". Round Table with Anna Subarroca Admetlla (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Anna Ladilova (Justus-Liebig-Universität) and Volker Jaeckel (UFMG), UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Falando sobre experiências interculturais: o 'salto' cognitivo para o universo do outro". Conference presentation at the 10th International Conference of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN), UFF, Niterói, Brazil.
2016
"Documenting and analyzing intercultural experiences in elicited talk-in-interaction: a linguistic perspective". Plenary lecture at the Brazilian Humboldt Kolleg 2016: Enviornments: technoscience and its relation to sustainability, ethics, aestehtics, health and the human future, São Carlos, Brazil.
"Talking about intercultural experiences: the cognitive 'leap' into another universe". Conference presentation at the 7th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA), Essen, Germany.
"The emergence of verbo-gestural metaphors in the co-construction of cultural dimensions. Conference presentation at the 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA 2016), Split, Croatia.
"Oficina GAT 2" (in collaboration with Thiago da Cunha Nascimento). Workshop at the II Jornada de Estudos em Pragmática, São Paulo, Brazil.
2015
"Face Constituting Theory and Multiple Recipient Design: An empirical approach to culture-specific interpretations of face". Conference presentation at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Antwerp, Belgium.
"Face revisited: a valid concept for cultural and linguistic diversity?" Panel organization (in collaboration with Thomas Johnen and Bernd Meyer) at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Antwerp, Belgium.
"A construção metafórica de palavras-chave para a descrição de experiências interculturais: um estudo a partir da análise da conversação multimodal". Lecture at the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
"Die metaphorische Konstruktion kultureller Schlüsselwörter: eine multimodale gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung". Plenary lecture at the Symposium Sprache und Interkulturelle Kommunikation at the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau, Germany.
"Building International Careers: A German Perspective from Brazil". Plenary lecture at the Humboldt Colloquium: Research Excellence and Challenges from a Brazilian-German Perspective, São Paulo, Brazil.
"Multimodal Metaphors as Cognitive Pivots for the Construction of Cultural Otherness in Talk". Lecture at the Round Table "Current Perspectives on Metaphor" at the 5th International Conference on Metaphor and Thought, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Categorização e generalização em atividades de comparação cultural na interação entre brasileiros e alemães" (with Danilo Rocha Campanha). Conference presentation at the 1st Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Germanísticos (ABEG). São Paulo, Brazil.
"Diferenças no uso e nas funções da entonação na fala alemã e brasileira e suas implicações para a transcrição com GAT 2" (with Mariana Carneiro Mendes). Conference presentation at the 1st Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Germanísticos (ABEG). São Paulo, Brazil.
"Dimensões semântica e pragmática da língua em uso". Panel organization (in collaboration with Poliana Coeli Costa Arantes) at the 1st Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Germanísticos (ABEG). São Paulo, Brazil.
"A Linguística Alemã no Brasil: da língua à fala contextualizada". Plenary lecture at the1st Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Germanísticos (ABEG). São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
"The Pragmatic Calibration of Culture Shock Experience in Exchange Students' Talk". Conference presentation at the II. Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), Los Angeles, USA.
"Uma Fundamentação Empírica dos Estudos da Comunicação Intercultural". Lecture at the Round Table about Applied Linguistics at the event XII Seminário de Linguística Aplicada e VIII Seminário de Tradução, Salvador da Bahia. Brazil.
"A Dimensão Multimodal, Pragmática e Cultural da Metáfora Conceitual na Batalha do MC". Lecture at the Round Table about Applied Cognitive Linguistics at the event XII Seminário de Linguística Aplicada e VIII Seminário de Tradução, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
"Estratégias de (Im)Polidez, Estilos de Conflito e Rapport Management: um Estudo da Comunicação Intercultural em Contato entre Brasileiros e Alemães". Conference presentation at the event II Congresso Internacional Interdisciplinar (Des)Cortesia: expressão de cultura(s)?, São Paulo, Brazil.
"Comunicação Intercultural em Interação: Apresentação de um Projeto Empírico no Campo dos Estudos Linguísticos". Round Table (with Mariana Carneiro Mendes, Caroline Caputo Pires and Diogo Henrique Alves) at the event Letras Debate: Linguagens e Ensino, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Die Funktion von Metakommunikation in der interaktiven Aushandlung von Alterität". Conference presentation at the XV Konferenz des Lateinamerikanischen Germanistenverbandes, Curitiba, Brazil.
"Sprachgebrauch im Kontext / Uso de Língua e Contexto / Uso del Lengua y Contexto". Panel organization (in collaboration with Thomas Johnen and Mônica Savedra) at the XV Konferenz des Lateinamerikanischen Germanistenverbandes, Curitiba, Brazil.
"'In' and 'Out the Game': Framing Real Life Metaphorically in the TV-Epic 'The Wire'". Conference presentation at the 6th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Lublin, Poland [with Mariana Carneiro Mendes].
"The Metaphorical Construction of Love in Cross-Cultural Perspective". Lecture at the Institute of Anglo-American Studies, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
"The Function of Metacommunication in the Interactive Construction of Culture-Related Key Words". Conference presentation at the 6th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta.
"Face, (Im-)Politeness and Metacommunication in Intercultural Interaction". Lecture at the MODIS - The seminar on discourse and interaction, Department of Modern Languages, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
"Der Akteur und der Betrachter: Zur unterschiedlichen Funktion von Sprache in der Selbstdarstellung von Deutschen und Brasilianern". Lecture at the Kollokvier (tyska och nederländska), Institute for Baltic Languages, Finnish and German, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Comunicação Intercultural em Interação: Apresentação de um Projeto Empírico". Lecture at the Institute of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Department of Romance Studies and Classics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden [with Thomas Johnen].
"Metáforas em Perspectiva Contrastiva no Ensino da Língua Estrangeira". Workshop at the Instituto Camões, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Die kognitiv-pragmatische Dimension kulturspezifischen Metapherngebrauchs im Rap". Lecture at the Conference ALP-Tagung 2014: Pragmalinguistik und Kognitive Ansätze, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
"Zwischen Typisierung und political correctness: zur Funktion von Metakommunikation in der dialogischen Konstruktion von Alterität". Lecture at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
"Interkulturelle Kommunikation in Interaktion. Vorstellung eines kommunikationsempirischen Forschungsprojekts". Lecture at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
2013
"Metacommunication in Intercultural Interaction" Presentation at the Alexander von Humboldt Netzwerktagung Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
"How do different conflict styles interfere in real cross-cultural interaction?" Online presentation at the International Conference on Communication Styles, University of Krosno, Krosno, Poland.
"Strategies of (im)politeness, diverging conflict styles and Rapport Management: a cross cultural study of intercultural communication in Brazilian-German encounters". Conference presentation at the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction Conference, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
"Society and Culture as CONTAINER: (Re-)drawing Borders and their Metaphorical Foundation from a Communicative and Extracommunicative Point of View". Lecture at the International Conference: Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.
"A Abordagem Cognitiva da Metáfora em Perspectiva Pragmática nos Séculos Dezoito e Dezenove: as Contribuições de Lambert e Wegener a Discussões Atuais". Conference presentation at the VIII Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN – Associação Brasileira de Linguística, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Natal, Brazil.
"A Multimodalidade e Reflexividade do Rapport Management na Interação entre Brasileiros e Alemães: um Estudo Empírico". Conference presentation at the VIII Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN – Associação Brasileira de Linguística, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Natal, Brazil.
"A Metáfora Cognitiva na Filosofia: um Panorama de Três Séculos". Lecture at the Philosophy Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"A Metáfora Corporificada e sua Função para o Jogo de Linguagem 'Duelo Verbal'". Lecture at the Colóquio Movimentos Interdisciplinares: Corpo, Gesto e Cognição, School of Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Comunicação Intercultural na Interação". Lecture at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Brazil.
2012
"Die Multimodalität und Komplexität von Beziehungsmanagement in der Interaktion zwischen Brasilianern und Deutschen: eine kommunikationsempirische Fallstudie". Lecture at the IFNIG-Tagung (Internationales Forschungs- und Nachwuchsnetzwerk für Interkulturelle Germanistik). Interkulturalität aus der Sicht von Semantik und Pragmatik, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungria.
"Interkulturelle Kommunikation zwischen Deutschen und Brasilianern im Lichte von Strategien der (Un-)Höflichkeit, divergierenden Konfliktstilen und Formen des Beziehungsmanagements". Lecture at the BAYLAT-Sommerschule Deutsch als Fremdsprache mit Schwerpunkt Lateinamerika, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
"Gesellschaftsmetaphern im Sprachgebrauch: eine vergleichende Untersuchung". Conference presentation at the GAL Kongress 2012: Wörter - Wissen - Wörterbücher. Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
"Eine kommunikationsempirische Fallstudie zu der Rolle von Face-work-Strategien, Multimodalität und Metakommunikation in Interaktionssituationen zwischen Brasilianern und Deutschen". Lecture at the Institute of Communication Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
"Metaphorische Szenarien im brasilianischen und deutschen Diskurs über Gesellschaft". Conference presentation at the XIV. Kongress des Lateinamerikanischen Germanistenverbandes, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
"Apresentação do projeto: Comunicação intercultural entre participantes das culturas brasileira e alemã". Conference presentation at the I Seminário do GIEL - Grupo Interinstitucional de Estudos de Linguagem: usos, contatos e fronteiras. Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Niterói, Brazil.
2011
"Meinen und Verstehen in der Interaktion zwischen Brasilianern und Deutschen". Plenary Lecture at the 8. Congresso Brasileiro de Professores de Alemão / 8. Brasilianischer Deutschlehrerkongress. Übergänge – Transições – Durchgänge, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"The pragmatic dynamics of metaphorical blends in a cross-cultural perspective". Lecture at the Round Table 'Metaphor and Culture' organized by Zoltán Kövecses, Luciane Corrêa Ferreira and Ulrike Schröder at the 4th International Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought. IV Congresso Internacional sobre Metáfora na Linguagem e no Pensamento, University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
"Panorama das antecipações da Teoria Cognitiva da Metáfora". Lecture at the Lecture Series organized in cooperation by NECODI (Núcleo de Estudos Cognitivos no Discurso/Nucleus for Cognitive Studies in Discourse) and NELU (Núcleo de Estudos de Língua em Uso/Nucleus for Studies of Language Use), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Metaphorical blends and their function in discourse about society: a cross-cultural study". Conference presentation at the 12th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
2010
"War, apocalypse, and rape: applying Blending Theory to culture-specific functions of rap lyrics". Conference presentation at the 8th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
"Por uma análise de metáforas no seu contexto discursivo-cultural: um estudo comparativo sobre metáforas nas letras do rap". Conference presentation at the VI ALSFAL Congresso da Associação de Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional da América Latina, State University of Ceará (UECE), Fortaleza, Brazil.
2009
"A metáfora conceptual e suas funções no uso da língua". Lecture at the SEVFALE (Semana de Eventos na Faculdade de Letras/Week of Events at the Faculty of Humanities), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"A mesclagem metafórica de Fauconnier & Turner nas Teorias de Karl Bühler e Wilhelm Stählin: antecipações e complementos". Conference presentation at the ABRALIN 40 Anos - VI Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN – Associação Brasileira de Linguística, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa, Brazil.
"Metaphern im kulturellen Kontext: eine Untersuchung zu deutschen und brasilianischen Raptexten". Conference presentation at the XIII ALEG – Congresso da Associação Latinoamericana de Estudos Germanísticos, University of Córdoba, Argentina.
"Die kognitive Motiviertheit präpositionaler Bedeutungen im Fremdsprachenunterricht: ein Fallbeispiel mit überziehen und unterziehen" [in cooperation with Marcos Antônio Alves Araújo Filho]. Conference presentation at the XIII ALEG – Congresso da Associação Latinoamericana de Estudos Germanísticos, University of Córdoba, Argentina.
2008
"Características narrativas e estilísticas dos raps brasileiro e alemão no seu contexto sócio-cultural". Lecture at the Round Table 'Painel Intercultural: O Rap e o Rep' organized by Bráulio Tavares, Américo José Córdula Teixeira and Ulrike Schröder at the III Seminário: Diversidade Cultural, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Preferential metaphorical conceptualizations in everyday discourse about love in the Brazilian and German Lecture communities". Conference presentation at the International Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of Brighton, United Kingdom.
"Da teoria cognitiva a uma teoria mais dinâmica, cultural e sociocognitiva da metáfora". Conference presentation at the 3th International Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought. III Congresso Sobre Metáfora na Linguagem e Pensamento, Federal University of Ceará / Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), Fortaleza, Brazil.
"Culture-Specific Meaning Construction by the Use of the life is war Metaphor in Brazilian and German Rap Lyrics". Conference presentation at the LCM Conference III. Language Culture and Mind III, University of Odense, Denmark.
2007
"A construção da realidade através da comunicação e cultura: o exemplo da metáfora". Curso Ação Cultural Comunitária (Course of Communitary Cultural Action), Municipal Cultural Foundation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"A construção metafórica da sociedade numa comparação intercultural". Program Palestras no PosLin (Lectures at the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics), Federal Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Tendências atuais na teoria cognitiva da metáfora". SEVFALE (Semana de Eventos na Faculdade de Letras/Week of Events at the Faculty of Humanities), University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Funções da linguagem numa comparação cultural". Conference presentation at the V. Congresso Internacional da Associação Brasileira de Lingüística (ABRALIN), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2006
"O conceito da Lingüística Intercultural". SEVFALE – Semana de Eventos da Faculdade de Letras (Week of Events at the Faculty of Humanities), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Interkulturelle Kommunikation im Lichte metaphorischer Sprechweisen". Conference presentation at the XII Congresso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Germanísticos. Deutsch in Lateinamerika. Ausbildung, Forschung, Berufsbezug, El Capitólio, University of La Habana, Cuba.
"Methoden zur Integration kulturell bedingter Metaphern im DaF-Unterricht an brasilianischen Hochschulen". Conference presentation at the I. Lateinamerikanischer Deutschlehrerkongress der ABRAPA. Ensinar Alemão: Novos Desafios - Novos Rumos, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
2005
"Der Akteur und der Betrachter: zur unterschiedlichen Funktion von Sprache in der Selbstdarstellung von Deutschen und Brasilianern". Lecture at the Institute of Communication Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
"Deutsche und brasilianische Kommunikationsstile im interkulturellen Vergleich". Lecture at the Institute for Intercultural Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germersheim, Germany.
"Zur unterschiedlichen Funktion von Sprache im deutschen und brasilianischen Alltagsstil". Lecture at the Institute for Romance Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany.
"O ator e o espectador: sobre estilos comunicativos divergentes no Brasil e na Alemanha". Lecture at the I Jornada Alemã (I German Symposium), Department of Philosophy and Humanities, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
"Da fenomenologia transcendental à fenomenologia construtiva. Lecture at the Institute of Communication Science", Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Do Uni-verso ao Multi-verso: a Contribuição Epistemológica e Metodológica de Alfred Schütz para as Ciências da Comunicação". Conference presentation at the XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (INTERCOM), State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"Deutsche und brasilianische Selbstinszenierungen: eine komparative Studie zu kulturell bedingten Redestilen". Conference presentation at the 11. Internationaler Kongress. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik (DGS e.V.). Stil als Zeichen. Funktionen – Brüche – Inszenierungen, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.
"A relevância do conceito Lebenswelt do sociólogo Alfred Schütz para pesquisas sociais atuais". Conference presentation at the XII Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia. Sociologia e Realidade Social: Pesquisa Social no Século XXI, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Germany.
2004
"A atualidade do conceito Lebenswelt do sociólogo Alfred Schütz". Lecture at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"A tecnologia do cotidiano – uma análise do falar alemão". Lecture at the XI Semana da Língua Alemã. A Língua Alemã e as novas tecnologias (XI Week of German Language. The German Language and the new Technologies), Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
"Interkulturelle Missverständnisse – Territorien des Selbst". Lecture at the Language Center, University of Applied Sciences of Minas Gerais (CEFET), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Selbstbeobachtungsprozesse und ihre kulturspezifische Ausprägung". Lecture at the Institute of Communication Science, University of Essen, Germany.
2003
"Deutschland in der Krise - Ende des Sozialstaats?" Lecture at the Language Center, University of Applied Science of Minas Gerais (CEFET), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"As diferenças entre as relações amorosas no Brasil e na Alemanha". Lecture at the Language Center, University of Applied Science of Minas Gerais (CEFET), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
"Kommunikativ erzeugte Sinnwelten im interkulturellen Vergleich: Deutschland – Brasilien". Conference presentation at the Troca de Olhares - XI Congresso da Associação Latinoamericana de Germanística, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
2002
"Das Liebeskonzept im interkulturellen Vergleich: Deutschland – Brasilien". Lecture at the Institute of Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities, University of Essen, Germany.
2001
"O conceito do amor numa comparação intercultural Brasil-Alemanha". Lecture at the Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.