Milene Mendes De Oliveira
Biographic Data
| ID | 151198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milene Mendes De Oliveira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milene Mendes |
| FAMILY NAME | De Oliveira |
| SIGNATURE | DE OLIVEIRA M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5803-6039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Developing Critical AI Language Literacy—prompting experiments on raciolinguistic bias to understand large language models as cultural artefacts
Understanding how AI and constructions of race intersect and which new ethical dilemmas arise in this context has become pressing. In this article, we introduce a university pedagogical project centred on collective explorations of raciolinguistic biases in Large Language Models. The project aimed at the development of Critical AI Language Literacy. It approached raciolinguistic biases from linguistic anthropological perspectives, where ‘race’ is…
“Our group was by far the coolest”
Virtual collaborations via video-conferencing applications may enable international groups to develop ideas and explore synergies in creative ways. This article presents a case study that unveils how students in a group involved in a virtual simulation game, in which English as a lingua franca was used, navigate a highly intercultural environment, orient to team building through cooperative practices, and gradually develop their own team culture.…
The team members were very tolerant”
Speakers may resort to different inferences and expectations in intercultural encounters. These expectations are influenced by speakers’ socialization processes in speech communities and networks, as well as by the local interactional demands and power dynamics in the communicative situation. While interactional sociolinguistic studies have unveiled intercultural mismatches in how contextualization asymmetries operate in the here-and-now of inter…
Interculturality and decision making
Current times call for continuous communication across countries, negotiations on several levels, and the creation of international relationships based on dialogue and participation. Those ideals are often pursued in intercultural communication contexts and written about, as a desideratum, in the Intercultural Communication literature. However, how can this be achieved concretely? In this article, we analyze how decisions are taken by newly found…
English as a lingua franca and interculturality
The growth in streams of online intercultural communication goes hand in hand with the use of English as a lingua franca. In this article, I argue that there are synergies between the theory and analytical notions developed in the frameworks of ELF and Intercultural Studies (specifically the notion of 'interculturality'). The study of communicative practices in which linguistic and communicative common ground is created in situ can be combined wi…
Face and cultural conceptualizations in German-Brazilian business exchanges
Following up on recent calls for studies dealing with first-order understandings of face ( Arundale 2013 ; Haugh 2013 ), this paper presents arguments in favor of an empirical investigation of cultural conceptualizations ( Sharifian 2011 ) underlying these first-order (or emic) models. The arguments are based on the findings of a study on business communication in international contexts ( Mendes de Oliveira 2020 ). The study comprises the analysi…
Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
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Cultural conceptualizations of business negotiations in the Expanding Circle
Following recents calls for the inclusion of conceptual aspects into world Englishes research, I report in this article on conceptualizations of business negotiations by Brazilian and German business people. I conducted semi-structured interviews in English with nine participants from each country. Subsequently, I analyzed conceptualizations of respect, success, and conflict in business negotiations by looking at 'conceptual scripts' underlying i…
Conceptualizations of respect in business negotiations
International business negotiations are prone to several difficulties, one of the most fundamental of which being differences in cultural conceptualizations ( Sharifian 2011 ). In order to explore how Brazilians and Germans conceptualize respect in business negotiations , interviews in English with business negotiators were conducted and cultural conceptualizations analyzed. Following an ‘organic’ ( Quinn 2005 ) and (mainly) qualitative approach …
Interculturality and decision making
Current times call for continuous communication across countries, negotiations on several levels, and the creation of international relationships based on dialogue and participation. Those ideals are often pursued in intercultural communication contexts and written about, as a desideratum, in the Intercultural Communication literature. However, how can this be achieved concretely? In this article, we analyze how decisions are taken by newly found…
English as a lingua franca and interculturality
The growth in streams of online intercultural communication goes hand in hand with the use of English as a lingua franca. In this article, I argue that there are synergies between the theory and analytical notions developed in the frameworks of ELF and Intercultural Studies (specifically the notion of 'interculturality'). The study of communicative practices in which linguistic and communicative common ground is created in situ can be combined wi…
Cultural conceptualizations of business negotiations in the Expanding Circle
Following recents calls for the inclusion of conceptual aspects into world Englishes research, I report in this article on conceptualizations of business negotiations by Brazilian and German business people. I conducted semi-structured interviews in English with nine participants from each country. Subsequently, I analyzed conceptualizations of respect, success, and conflict in business negotiations by looking at 'conceptual scripts' underlying i…
Conceptualizations of respect in business negotiations
International business negotiations are prone to several difficulties, one of the most fundamental of which being differences in cultural conceptualizations ( Sharifian 2011 ). In order to explore how Brazilians and Germans conceptualize respect in business negotiations , interviews in English with business negotiators were conducted and cultural conceptualizations analyzed. Following an ‘organic’ ( Quinn 2005 ) and (mainly) qualitative approach …
Cultural conceptualizations of business negotiations in the Expanding Circle
Following recents calls for the inclusion of conceptual aspects into world Englishes research, I report in this article on conceptualizations of business negotiations by Brazilian and German business people. I conducted semi-structured interviews in English with nine participants from each country. Subsequently, I analyzed conceptualizations of respect, success, and conflict in business negotiations by looking at 'conceptual scripts' underlying i…
Face and cultural conceptualizations in German-Brazilian business exchanges
Following up on recent calls for studies dealing with first-order understandings of face ( Arundale 2013 ; Haugh 2013 ), this paper presents arguments in favor of an empirical investigation of cultural conceptualizations ( Sharifian 2011 ) underlying these first-order (or emic) models. The arguments are based on the findings of a study on business communication in international contexts ( Mendes de Oliveira 2020 ). The study comprises the analysi…
Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
Preview this article: Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ijolc.00024.int-1.gif
English as a lingua franca and interculturality
The growth in streams of online intercultural communication goes hand in hand with the use of English as a lingua franca. In this article, I argue that there are synergies between the theory and analytical notions developed in the frameworks of ELF and Intercultural Studies (specifically the notion of 'interculturality'). The study of communicative practices in which linguistic and communicative common ground is created in situ can be combined wi…
Interculturality and decision making
Current times call for continuous communication across countries, negotiations on several levels, and the creation of international relationships based on dialogue and participation. Those ideals are often pursued in intercultural communication contexts and written about, as a desideratum, in the Intercultural Communication literature. However, how can this be achieved concretely? In this article, we analyze how decisions are taken by newly found…
“Our group was by far the coolest”
Virtual collaborations via video-conferencing applications may enable international groups to develop ideas and explore synergies in creative ways. This article presents a case study that unveils how students in a group involved in a virtual simulation game, in which English as a lingua franca was used, navigate a highly intercultural environment, orient to team building through cooperative practices, and gradually develop their own team culture.…
The team members were very tolerant”
Speakers may resort to different inferences and expectations in intercultural encounters. These expectations are influenced by speakers’ socialization processes in speech communities and networks, as well as by the local interactional demands and power dynamics in the communicative situation. While interactional sociolinguistic studies have unveiled intercultural mismatches in how contextualization asymmetries operate in the here-and-now of inter…
Developing Critical AI Language Literacy—prompting experiments on raciolinguistic bias to understand large language models as cultural artefacts
Understanding how AI and constructions of race intersect and which new ethical dilemmas arise in this context has become pressing. In this article, we introduce a university pedagogical project centred on collective explorations of raciolinguistic biases in Large Language Models. The project aimed at the development of Critical AI Language Literacy. It approached raciolinguistic biases from linguistic anthropological perspectives, where ‘race’ is…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Intercultural communication (4 works) · Negotiation (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Communication (3 works)