Welcome to my page!
My main
research interests are in Applied Linguistics and some disciplines thus
defined, such as Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Gender
Studies, Systemic Functional Grammar, Register & Genre Theory and L1 and L2 teaching and learning
I welcome proposals for doctoral
research projects on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.
My areas of particular interest include:
- Power and hegemony in scientific practices
- Writing development in Portuguese
- Genre-based approaches to L1 and L2 teaching and learning
- Discourse and literacy
- The lexicogrammar of address forms in Portuguese
- SFL descriptions of Portuguese
I am currently supervising/advising several doctoral students whose research goes from the representation of social actors in discourse, for instance, to writing development in teenage years. See Supervision.
I am also a researcher at the Intitute for Theoretical and Computational Liguistics (ILTEC), where I coordinate the research group on Discourse and Literacy. Our research forcus is on discourse (both as product and process), on literacy (as the ability to use language to read, write, listen and speak, and the ability to respond to and understand the world), and on the relation between these two research areas and how different discursive communities, practices and domains ask for specific literacies: scientific, visual, digital, etc..This group is also responsible for running the Fortnightly Meetings on Systemic Functional Linguistics, with the support of the Institute of English Culture. These fortnightly meetings in the Reading Room of the Institute of English Culture bring together participants from FLUL as well as from other universities.
