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• 2024 - "Manipulation on Social Media: Disguising Ageist Hate Speech through Mock Politeness", in ESSE 15, LAUSANNE – Seminar 4: “To Believe or not to Believe: Approaching Manipulation in Current Discourses”, University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

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• 2023 - "Social Media Mining for Hate Speech Detection: Opinion and Emotion Conflict in Adversative Constructions" (Co-authored), IAUPE - Conference of the International Association of Professors of English, Rome.

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• 2022 - "Distinguishing Online Hate Speech from Other Forms of Socially Inappropriate Discourse: A Five-Factor Model", Braga Hate Speech Conference, University of Minho, Portugal.

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• 2022 - “Conjugal Felicity in the Victorian Press: News Reports on London Divorce Proceedings in the 1870s”, 8th Internacional Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED VIII), 15-17 June 2022, University of Augsburg, Germany.

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• 2019 (with Pedro Rangel Henriques, Idalete Dias and Cristiana Araújo) - "Scraping News Sites and Social Networks for Prejudice Term Analysis", 16th International Conference on APPLIED COMPUTING 2019, 7-9 Nov., Cagliari, Italy.

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• 2019 (with Joana Aguiar) - "When one language is not enough: Examples of code-switching in online communication". III Colóquio Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras, 30-31 Oct. 2019. Instituto Politécnico de Bragança.

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• 2019 - “Runaway Wives: Representing Husband Desertion in the Victorian Press”, CHINED VII – The Seventh Conference on Historical News Discourse, “Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News”, 23-24 May 2019, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.​

 

• 2018 - "Impoliteness in Blunderland: Carroll’s Alice Books and The Manners in which Manners Fail”, ESSE-14 14th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, 29 Aug-2 Sep, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

 

• 2018 - "Formas de Intervenção Corretiva em Poliálogos das Redes Sociais: O Papel de Terceiras Pessoas em Situações de Abuso Verbal" ["Forms of bystander intervention in social web polylogues: the role of third parties in situations of verbal abuse"], 39th APEAA Conference, 26 -28 de April, University of Évora, Portugal.

 

• 2017 – “Intervenção corretiva de coparticipantes em debates sobre refugiados online: O papel de moderadores voluntários em ocorrências de discurso de ódio” ["Bystander intervention in online debates about refugees: The role of volunteer moderators in occurrences of hate speech"], 19th CEHUM Autumn Colloquium, 18-20 October, University of Minho.

 

• 2017 -  "Representing Motherhood in Early 20th-century Newspapers: Forms and Mechanisms of Anti-feminist Discourse", CHINED VI - The sixth international conference on historical news discourse, "The Social Implications of Genre in Historical News Language", 21-23 June 2017, University of Sheffield, England.

 

• 2017 -  "Conflict Talk in Newspaper Comment Boards Online: Mediation and Remediation of Dispute over the Immigration Issue", 6th International Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), 28-30 June 2017, IULM (International University of Languages and Media), University of Milan, Italy.

 

• 2016 – “Get the snip – and a job!” Displaying social identity in public disagreement exchanges online. ESSE 13 – GALWAY – August 22-26, 2016, NUI (National University of Ireland), Galway, Ireland.

 

• 2016 – “Multimodal Analysis of Social Satire: The Case of Edgar Allan Poe”. IAUPE Triennial Conference, 24-29 July 2016, University of London.

 

• 2015 – “Edgar Allan Poe and Newspaper Hoaxes: Sensationalism in the Mid-nineteenth Century Press”, 5th CHINED Conference, 11-13 June 2015, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto.

 

• 2014 - “Did your wife scare you last night?” - Managing disagreement about standards of female beauty in online newspaper forums, International Conference"Internet Language: Communicating in a Global World", 27 June, University of Minho.

 

• 2014 – “Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity: Multimodal humour in early American comic strips” – CHINED V, 5-9 June 2014, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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• 2013 – “Late Modern Humour: No News is... Fake News. A Study of News Satire in 19th-century Press Discourse” – LModE-5 – 5th International Conference on Late Modern English: Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English. 28-30 August. Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bérgamo, Italy.

 

• 2013 – ‘Slim Jim loves fat Pat’: Female identity and representations of obesity in online newspaper commentary. “I-MEAN 3 Language and Identity” Conference. 18-20 April 2013. UWE, Bristol, England.

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• 2012 – “Historical precursors of spoof journalism: The case of Mark Twain”. CHINED III - International Conference on Historical News Discourse, 18-19 May 2012, University of Rostok, Germany.

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• 2010 – “Visual Metaphors in Political Cartoons”, 10th ESSE Conference (European Society of the Study of English), 24-28 August, University of Torino, Italy.

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• 2010 – “Geographies of Comic Discourse”, 31st APEAA conference, “Geographies of the Self”, 15-17 April, Sociedade Geográfica de Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon.

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• 2009 – “Representações étnicas na imprensa americana: A construção do Outro na cobertura jornalística do 11 de Setembro”, “Gramática & Texto” (GRATO), 2-4 July, FCSH - Universidade Nova, Lisbon.

 

• 2009 – “Terrorism and the Construction of Difference: Representing Ethnic Identities in the Print Media”, 2nd International Conference on English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication, 18-20 June, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao.

 

• 2009 – “O nonsense que faz sentido(s): neologismos e jogos de palavras em Rui Reininho”, Conference: “Poéticas do Rock em Portugal 2009: Perspectivas críticas de uma literatura menor”, 6-8 April. FLUL, Lisbon.

 

• 2008 – “When the trails go cold: British press narratives on Maddie”, ESSE-9 Conference, Seminar 18 (“Changing Narratives in British Medi”), 22-26 August, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

 

• 2008 – “Comic failure in Woody Allen’s Mere Anarchy: A case of linguistic success”, 29th Annual Conference of APEAA, ‘Success and Failure’,  17-19  April, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

 

• 2008 – “Together or Apart: Targeting, Offence and Group Dynamics in Humour”, 1st International Conference on Crosscultural Humour, ‘Humour that Divides, Humour that Unites’, 10-12 January, University of Madeira.

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• 2007 - "Bodies and Tropes: Body Figurations in Women's Press", at the symposium "Body, Gender and Representation", integrated in the International Conference of SOPCOM (Sociedade Portuguesa de Comunicação), 5-7 September, University of Minho. 

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• 2007 - "Gray areas of ideological dilemma: The Case of the Aged in the British and Portuguese Press", communication presented in absentia at the conference entitled "English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication", 8-13 July, Polytechnic Institute of Macao, and Urumqi, China.

 

• 2006 - "Representing the Gray Vote: The Power of Seniors in Media Discourse", at the 8th Autumn Colloquium of the Humanistic Studies Center, November 24, University of Minho.

 

• 2006 - "Allusion and Double Meaning in Shakespeare's Language: The Case of The Comedy of Errors", at the seminar entitled "Shakespeare's Language: Linguistic and Stylistic Approaches", at the eighth ESSE Conference (European Society for the Study of English), 29 Aug - 2 Sep, University College in London, England.

 

• 2006 - "Bad Chicks on the Booze": Magazine Discourse on Women's Drinking Habits", at the 27th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), 28 of April,  organized by Open University of Lisbon and held in Carcavelos.

 

• 2005 - "Reading in between the Lines: The Presuppositional Dimension of Comic Speech" at the 3rd International Meeting of Linguistic Discourse Analysis, 10-11 November, University of Minho.

 

• 2005 - "Joy, Laughter and Verbal Humor: Comic Uses and Abuses of Language" at the Annual Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE), entitled "(Re) Constructing Pain and Joy in Language, Literature and Culture", 19 to 22 October, University of Athens (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Greece.

 

• 2004 - "When saying is not meaning: A pragmatic approach to humorous ironies", communication presented in absentia, at the 2nd Lodz International Symposium on Linguistic Pragmatics, 6 to 9 May, University of Lodz, Poland.

 

• 2004 - "Representing the Laughable, Reading Humor: The Structure and Pragmatics of Comic Narratives", 25th Meeting of the APEAA (Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies), 20 to 22 April, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal.

 

• 2003 - "Linguistic mechanisms of power in Nineteen Eighty-Four: Applying politeness theory to Orwell's world", George Orwell Centennial Memorial Colloquium entitled "George Orwell: A Centennial Celebration", 16th of December, Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.

 

• 2003 - "Language, Humor and Cinema: A Linguistic Approach to Comic Film Discourse", 2nd International Meeting of Linguistic Analysis of Discourse, 16-17 October, University of Minho.

 

• 2003 - "Shaded Humor in Black and White Classics: Portuguese Film Comedies of the Forties", 15th International Conference of I.S.H.S. (International Society for Humour Studies), held July 15-19 at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago (U.S.A.).

 

• 2002 - "Humorous Ironies: Counter-Coding or Pro-Coding?", 6th International Conference of E.S.S.E. (European Society for the Study of English), 30 August to 3 September, Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, France.

 

• 2002 - "Structure and Meaning in Comic Narratives", 14th International Conference of the I.S.H.S., organized by the University of Bologna, 3 to 7 July, Bertinoro - Forlì - Italy.

 

• 2000 - "Linguistic Resources of Humor", 12th International Conference of the I.S.H.S., July 24 to 27, held at Kansay University, Osaka, Japan.

 

• 1998 - "Interferences in Bilingual Speech", in partnership with Clara Amorim, Miguel Gusmão and Manuela Veloso, 19th Conference of A.P.E.A.A., 1 to 3 April, University of Lisbon, Sintra.

 

• 1997 - "Angela Carter's Fireworks and the (Re)Construction of Female Subjectivity", 4th International Conference of the E.S.S.E., 5 to 9 September, held at Debrecen University, Hungary.

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• 1997 - "Speech Acts in Comic Strips: an application of Austin and Searle's theories to Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson", 18th Conference of A.P.E.A.A.,March 20-22, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda.

 

• 1995 - "Huston's version of Joyce's The Dead", 3rd Conference E.S.S.E., 9-13 September, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

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• 1993 – “Lucius and Huck: a comparative approach to The Reivers and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, 14th A.P.E.A.A. Conference, 25 - 27 de March, University of Coimbra.

 

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