Publications
Under review
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Die Herausbildung digitaler interkultureller Kompetenz durch den Gebrauch von Englisch als Lingua Franca in einem Online-Planspiel. In M. Beißwenger, P. Schildhauer & E. Gredel (eds.), Kultur der Digitalität im Spiegel von Sprach- und Mediendidaktik: Konzepte und Perspektiven für die ‚Bildung in der digitalen Welt. SLLD-B.
Forthcoming, 2025
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Language, culture, and the workplace. In H-G. Wolf & F. Polzenhagen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture.
Forthcoming, 2025
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Intercultural perspectives, In M. Stevanovic (ed.), Research Handbook on Social Interaction, Edward Elgar.
Fortcoming, 2025
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Business Englishes. In K. Bolton (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.
2024
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Räisänen, T.; Oittinen, T. “Our group was by far the coolest”: Multimodal team-building practices and English as a lingua franca in a virtual intercultural game. Pragmatics & Society.
2024
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Business English(es) in Brazilian-German email exchanges: A research-based consultancy project. In A. Busch & K. Luttermann, Professionskommunikation. Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag Hildesheim.
2024
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Conti, L. Displaying and negotiating power through entitlement claims in newly-established online groups. In R. Lietz, M. Mendes de Oliveira, L. Conti, F. Lenehan (eds.) Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt. F.A.L series, Peter Lang.
2024
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Stevanovic, M. Interculturality and decision making: pursuing jointness in online teams. Intercultural Pragmatics 21(1), 1-32.
2024
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Lietz, R. Introduction: Language and interculturality in the digital world. In R. Lietz, M. Mendes de Oliveira, L. Conti, F. Lenehan (eds). Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt. F.A.L. series, Peter Lang.
2024
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Tuccillo, M.A. Intercultural learning as an interactional achievement in a digital space. In L. Conti & F. Lenehan (eds.), Lifewide learning is Postdigital societies: Shedding Light on Emerging Culturalities (pp.55-78). Transcript Verlag.
2024
Mendes de Oliveira, M. English as a Lingua Franca and Interculturality: Navigating Structure- and Process-Oriented Perspectives in Intercultural Interactions. Language & Intercultural Communication 4(2), 105-117.
2023
Mendes de Oliveira, M. John Gumperz' Discourse Strategies (German Version). Interculture Journal 38.
2023
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Doing culture through contextualization cues: John Gumperz's contributions to the study of intercultural communication. Pre-print and English version of the article published in Interculture Journal 38.
2023
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Failure in Intercultural Communication. In Adriana Mica; Mikołaj Pawlak; Anna Horolets and Paweł Kubicki (eds.)
Routledge International Handbook of Failure: Perspectives from Sociology and other Social Sciences. Routledge.
2023
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Sporn, Z., Kliemann, L., Borschke, A. & Meyering, M. Online language learning and workplace communication: A study on Babbel’s virtual-classroom solution. Computer Assisted Language Learning 36(8), 1501-1527.
2023
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Barbosa Fernandes, A. Multimodal positioning of (future) multilingual teachers of EFL. In Ulrike Schröder; Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain; Elisabetta Adami (eds.) Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interactions. Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication. Routledge.
2022
Schröder, U.; Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Tenuta, A. Introduction. In: U. Schröder; M. Mendes de Oliveira; A. Tenuta de Azevedo (eds.) Metaphorical conceptualizations: (inter)cultural perspectives, ACL Series, Mouton De Gruyter.
2022
Schröder, U.; Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Nascimento, T. The ‘Olympic Spirit’ from a cross-cultural perspective: the cognitive-pragmatic dimensions in comments about crowd behavior in the Olympic Games. In: Ulrike Schröder; Milene Mendes de Oliveira; Adriana Maria Tenuta de Azevedo (eds.) Metaphorical conceptualizations: (inter)cultural perspectives, ACL Series, Mouton De Gruyter.
2022
Conti, L.; Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Nietzel, B. A genuine ‘Miteinander’: on becoming a team in an international virtual simulation game. Interculture Journal 21(36), 189-208.
2021
Mendes de Oliveira, M. A successful Business Negotiation is Resource Sharing: investigating Brazilian and German Cultural Conceptualisations in ‘Conceptual Scripts. In: F. Sharifian & M. Sadeghpour (eds.) Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes, Singapore: Springer.
2021
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Transfer of metaphorical conceptualizations from the L1 into English: notes on an emerging project. In: Marcus Callies & Marta Degani (eds.) Metaphor in language and culture across world Englishes. Series Bloomsbury Approaches to World Englishes.
2020
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Business negotiations in ELF from a cultural linguistic perspective. ACL Series, Mouton De Gruyter.
2020
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Face and cultural conceptualizations in German-Brazilian Business Exchanges. International Journal of Language and Culture (7)1, 63-83.
2020
Schröder, U.; Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Wolf, H-G. Introduction to special issue: Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics. International Journal of Language and Culture (7)1, 01-14.
2019
Turner, M.; Avelar, M.; Mendes de Oliveira, M. Blended Classic Joint Attention and Multimodal Deixis. Signo 44(79), 03-09.
2019
Mendes de Oliveira, M.; Wolf, H. G. Linguística cultural e comunicação intercultural: Uma síntese de discussões e pesquisas recentes na Universidade de Potsdam [Cultural linguistics and intercultural communication: A synthesis of recent discussions and research at the University of Potsdam]. In: Ulrike Schröder; Mariana Mendes Carneiro (eds.) Linguística (inter-)cultural em interação. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG.
2018
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Cultural conceptualizations of business negotiations in the Expanding Circle. World Englishes, 37(4), 684-696.
2017
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Conceptualizations of respect in business negotiations: a research note. International Journal of Language and Culture 4(2).
2017
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Sociopragmatic failure revisited: the case of intercultural communication between Brazilians and Americans. Revista Brasileira de Línguistica Aplicada 17(2). 307-334.
2015
Mendes de Oliveira, M. Assertiveness, compliance, and politeness: Pragmatic and sociocultural aspects of ‘Brazilian English’ and American English. International Journal of Society, Culture and Language 3, 76-90.
2011
Schröder, U.; Mendes de Oliveira, M. Repensando o ensino de cultura em aulas de língua estrangeira [Rethinking the teaching of culture in foreign language classes]. Signum. Estudos de Linguagem 14, 311–332.
Edited volumes & special issues
In preparation; 2025
Mendes de Oliveira, Milene; Conti, Luisa (eds.). Explorations in Digital Interculturality: Language, Culture, and Postdigital Practices. Studies in Digital Interculturality, Transcript Verlag.