Grupos de Investigação

Gramática – Estrutura e Usos:


Língua e História:

  • Structural and textual forms in different discursive traditions;
  • Grammaticalisation of connectives and modal operators in the history of Portuguese
    (texts from the medieval and classical periods);
  • Grammatisation of linguistic notions and expressions and evolution of grammatical
    terminology in Portuguese (16th—19th century);
  • Study of linguistic relations on the Iberian Peninsula — emphasis on presence of Spanish
    in the metalinguistic tradition of Portuguese (16th—19th century);
  • Analysis of manuals and other materials for language teaching (19th—20th century).


Aplicações Sociais da Linguística:

  • Linguistics and Didactics: application of reading-writing continuum in teaching of
    Portuguese (L1 and L2), both to children and adults; teaching of foreign languages as L2;
  • Translation and Interpreting: machine translation applied to (non)-literary texts; forensic
    translation;
  • Forensic Linguistics: cybercrime detection, analysis and deterrence; investigation of
    cybermalice; hate speech detection and analysis;
  • Computational Linguistics: Generative AI, LLMs, MLMs, machine language understanding;
    learning and teaching language technology; augmentation of translation and interpreting
    practices; (inter)cultural and linguistic analysis.


Discurso, Comunicação e Sociedade:

  • Linguistic and pragmatic aspects of interactional discourse: conversational discourse
    markers from a contrastive perspective;
  • Organisation and functioning of argumentative discourse genres (political, courtroom,
    academic discourse);
  • Argumentation strategies in natural and artificial language; specificities of technodiscourses;
  • Discourse as a factor of inclusion, integration and equality;
  • Applied studies to the teaching and learning of Portuguese around the world.