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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yes, please! 😀

Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’ll be presenting at the @baal-linguistics.bsky.social Conference this Friday (5:30 pm).

My paper, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva, examines students’ reflections on social interactions during a virtual project in relation to neoliberal discourses.

If you’re at #BAAL2025, do stop by!

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Sep 1

📘 Explorations in Digital Interculturality

Here’s how Luisa Conti and I responded to transcript verlag’s questions about our edited volume on language, culture & postdigital practices (I loved the 4th question! ☺️)

Interview & open-access volume 👉 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our edited volume on digital interculturality is out. It's been such a pleasant journey to work together with colleagues from different disciplines and to look at digital interculturality from so many theoretical and empirical angles. Do make sure to check it out.

ReDICo @redico.eu · Aug 12

Our new book is live!

Edited by @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social and Luisa Conti, it brings together perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, & intercultural communication studies to explore digital interculturality.

Check it out! #openAccess

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Explorations in Digital Interculturality

An exploration of digital intercultural practices that deepens our understanding of digital interculturality, offering insights from various disciplinary perspectives.

www.transcript-verlag.de

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Jul 2

@redico.eu @fergallenehan.bsky.social

Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Jul 2

🧐 A sneak peek at the introduction to "Explorations in Digital interculturality"
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
It will be available soon! Stay tuned!

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ReDICo @redico.eu · Jun 30

Our new book is forthcoming this summer, so stay tuned!
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Jun 29

@redico.eu , @fergallenehan.bsky.social

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Jun 29

🚩Explorations in digital interculturality - forthcoming volume with chapters by D. Busch, B. Schneider & B. Migge, J. Yudytska & J. Androutsopoulos, A. Georgakopoulou, D. Silva, N. Thielemann & Z. Savych, and the ReDICo team.
#sociolinguistics #interculturality
By @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 25

Re-reading this gem while prepping for my 'English in the World' session tomorrow.
And @redico.eu , check out my note from a year ago! 😁

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 22

Counter-demonstrators stop neo-Nazi march

Far-right members gathered in several cities across Germany. In Berlin, they were met by 2,000 counter-demonstrators.

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 17

Not that I know of.. but there are studies on the pluricentricity/pluriareality of German. E.g.: benjamins.com/catalog/silv...

Pluricentricity and Pluriareality

This edited collection approaches the contentious debate around pluricentricity vs pluriareality of standard language varieties and their distribution. With a focus on English, German, and Dutch, this...

benjamins.com

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 15

There's a version in english, too

Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Mar 14

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Mar 14

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 15

Mobbing and misconduct are symptoms of bigger structural problems. I'm happy to see this coming out.
youtu.be/cAL4mX646rU?...

Angeschrien, gemobbt, gedemütigt: Machtmissbrauch an Max-Planck-Instituten | DW Reporter

YouTube video by DW Deutsch

youtu.be

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 13

🌏 Melisa Stevanovic and I explored interpretative repertoires used by German and Chinese students (home and exchange students, respectively) when writing about their interactional experiences in a virtual game. Our reflections and findings can be found here: doi.org/10.1515/mult... Open access.

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 13

If only my writer's block would yield similar results... 😄
But seriously: I enjoyed every part of the chapter, including the discussion on research ethics at the end.

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Mar 13

Loving this! Thanks, @theresaheyd.bsky.social !
To be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...

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Dr Celia Antoniou @celiagr.bsky.social · Mar 1

UK #languageEducation faces a lot of critical challenges, and on Saturday 29th March, the Coalition for Language Education are discussing ways forward.

Programme for "Together Across Sectors for the Future of Language Education" attached.

Book a place at coalitionforlanguageducationuk.com/events/.

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ReDICo @redico.eu · Feb 10

Our #OpenAccess ebook is live! "Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" edited by @fergallenehan.bsky.social & Roman Lietz. @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
🔗 www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/5c...
See the chapters in this 🧵 and check it out.
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Book cover "Fergal Lenehan, Roman Lietz (eds.)
Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" Image showing miniature people slacklining out of a laptop screen into another. Open access. [transcript] Studies in Digital Interculturality

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Elliott Hoey @elliotthoey.bsky.social · Jan 28

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Vacancy — PhD position: Recording in social interaction

Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone...

workingat.vu.nl

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Dec 25

The honeymoon phase of culture shock: when even filling out a missing baggage form feels oddly delightful.

Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Dec 25

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Milene Oliveira @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social · Dec 24

Newcastle upon Tyne, here we go! 💪🏽

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Language in Society @languageinsociety.bsky.social · Dec 23

NEW #OA FROM 53(5)

"Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet" by Daniel N. Silva, Rodrigo Borba

#SociolinguisticsOfHope #Affect #PracticalReason #LanguageIdeology #Ethnography
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet | Language in Society | Cambridge Core

Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet - Volume 53 Issue 5

doi.org

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