Conferences

 

Papers presented in conferences and seminars

2026

• Metaphors that Feed the Mind: Figurative Strategies in YouTube Videos on Nutrition Fads. Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices. 26–28 March 2026. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Conference programme. Book of Abstracts.
• Do Lithuanian courts and the European Court of Human Rights differ in adjudicating hate speech cases? Linguistic perspectives on legal interpretation [co-authored with Jūratė Ruzaitė, Edita Gruodytė, Gintarė Herasimenkienė, Ugnė Urbšytė-Urbonavičienė, and Monika Guliakaitė-Danisevičienė]. Paper presented at the seminar Do Lithuanian courts and the European Court of Human Rights differ in adjudicating hate speech cases?, organised as part of the interim results presentation of the research project “Features and Criteria for the Identification of Hate Speech”. 22 January 2026. Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2025

• Linguistics in analyzing hate speech in ECtHR case-law: Examining evidence and
  interpretation [co-authored with Jūratė Ruzaitė]. The 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics ‘Languages and People’. 25–27 September 2025. Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Conference programme. Book of Abstracts.
• The role of linguistic criteria in hate speech identification: Insights from ECtHR case-law
  [co-authored with Jūratė Ruzaitė and Gintarė Herasimenkienė]. 5th ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics. 2 September 2025, Kaunas, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Conference programme, Book of Abstracts.
• Drawing the line: opinion, offensive speech, and hate speech in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Contacts and Contrasts 2025: Opinions in Language, Media & Education. [co-authored with Jūratė Ruzaitė]. March 24–25, University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland. Online conference. Conference programme.

2023

• Explanatory metaphors in public discourse on health and fitness. 16th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying metaphor (RaAM16): Metaphor in Public Discourse. June 28–30, 2023, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Conference co-organized by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad de Alcalá. Book of Abstracts [pp. 142–143].

2021

• Online discourse as a space of expressing hostility: anti-immigrant metaphors in reader comments of Lithuanian news articles. 14th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM14) Virtual: Metaphor and Space. June 23–26, 2021. Conference hosted by the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University. Book of Abstracts [pp. 208–209].

• ‘Cockroaches’, ‘locusts’ and other ‘parasites’: The role of metaphor in the expression of anti-immigrant prejudice in Lithuanian online user-generated discourse.  Linguistic and Social Aspects of Hate Speech in Modern Societies. March 22-23, 2021. Conference organised and hosted by the members of the Velux-project “Towards Balance and Boundaries in Public Discourse: Expressing and Perceiving Online Hate Speech (XPEROHS).

2020

• Acting emotions: Metaphor and metonymy in the animated movie Inside Out (2015) and its Lithuanian dubbed version. 13th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) 2020Virtual: Metaphorical creativity in a multilingual world. June 18-21, 2020. Conference hosted by the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN), Hamar, Norway. Book of Abstracts.

2019

• ‘A bunch of parasites invading our country’: Metaphorical representation of (im)migrants in Lithuanian online press. Culture, Cognition, Communication: Language and Culture in Social Cognition (LCSC 2019). November 21-22, 2019, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (UMCS). Book of Abstracts [p. 27].

2017

• Taking the law into our own hands: A contrastive corpus-driven study of metaphor in English and Lithuanian criminology discourse. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 14): Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Linguistics
  July 10-14, 2017. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Book of Abstracts [pp. 506-507].

• Metafora akademiniame baudžiamosios teisės diskurse: gretinamasis tyrimas [Metaphor in academic criminal law discourse: a contrastive study]. Seminar of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics LITAKA. Vilnius University, Lithuania. January 6, 2017.

2016

• Deprivation of liberty or imprisonment? Metaphors in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania and their translation into English. [co-authored with Inesa Šeškauskienė]. 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, August 31-September 3, 2016. Book of Abstracts [pp. 280-282].

• Ruling the family with an iron fist: Metaphoric and metonymic representation of domestic violence in Lithuanian public discourse via verbal and visual modes of expression. 11th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM): Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication. Free University Berlin, Germany, 1-4 July, 2016. Book of Abstracts [pp. 207-209].

• From freedom to liberty to custodial sentence in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania, or some strategies of translating Lithuanian collocations with laisvė ‘freedom’ into English [co-authored with Inesa Šeškauskienė]. 7th FLaRN (Formulaic Language Research Network) Conference. Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. 28-30 June 2016. Book of Abstracts [pp. 65-68].

2015

• Erdvės metafora lietuvių kalboje: leksinių ir gramatinių raiškos priemonių nustatymo aspektai [Spatial metaphors in Lithuanian: Aspects of identifying lexical and grammatical means of expression] [co-authored with Eglė Vaivadaitė-Kaidi]. 12th International Congress of Balticists. Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. 28-30 October 2015. Book of Abstracts [p. 169].

• Metaphor translation on trial: Metaphors in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania and their translation into English. Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) specialized seminar on Metaphors in/and/of Translation. Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands. 10–12 June 2015.

2014

• Metaphors in academic legal discourse: The case of criminal justice. 10th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor: Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education, Cagliari, Italy, June 20-23, 2014.

• Metaphoricity of academic legal discourse: the case of criminal justice. 6th International Scientific Conference „Linguistic, Didactic and Sociocultural Aspects of Language Functioning“. Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania. Book of Abstracts [pp. 47-48].