CLUNL hosts Maristela dos Reis Sathler Gripp as a visiting researcher

Maristela dos Reis Sathler Gripp is performing the Post-doctoral Internship at the NOVA FCSH / CLUNL in the period from February to June 2019.
Maristela is a PhD in Linguistic Studies from Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil) and currently teaches at UNINTER in the course of Letters where she acts as an EaD tutor. She has been developing research in the area of intercultural pragmatics, with emphasis on teaching Portuguese as a second language for foreigners, particularly on acts of refusal speech, in Brazilian Portuguese.
Maristela intends to broaden her research by taking a contrastive approach between refusals in Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese.