Preface

This special edition of the European Scientific Journal comprises papers authored by researchers from the field of language studies who set out to reflect and respond to one of the following themes (or to both of them, in their combination): Ceci n´est pas une pipe. and Thinking and Doing Otherwise. These themes captioned the 5th and 4th editions of the Colloquium of the Research Group Body and Image in Discourse and the Symposium on Transculturality, Language and Education, respectively, a two-in-one event that took place in the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil in 2019