Theoretically based on French Discourse Analysis, derived from the works of Michel Pêcheux and his group, this research proposes to analyse Dilma Rousseff’s pronouncements and discourses on her public speech as conveyed ...

The phenomenon of vagueness has been studied for centuries and is detected, among other characteristics, for creating the Sorites paradox. Vagueness is identified when we face the lack of precise limits of terms (or their ...

In the past few years, many undergraduate and graduate students from a federal university in the interior of São Paulo state said they used different procedures to study English outside the classroom. In 2015, we proposed ...

When studying the literature in the area of teaching and learning languages, two multifaceted and meaningful concepts can be identified, they are authenticity (GILMORE, 2007) and motivation (DÖRNYEI, 2001; VIANA, 1990). ...

In recent years, we have noticed the appearance of special genres of fictional narratives, such as literary mashups. The emergence of such narratives is partly due to certain changes caused in writing and reading practices ...

The production, publication, and reading of adaptations of literary classics for children and youth, which has expanded since the twentieth century, is a practice whose indication is assumed by educational and other ...

Predicates of personal taste (PPTs) are, as suggested by their name, predicates that speak of the personal taste of the speakers who utter them. They are diferent from the other predicates because they generate between the ...

En este trabajo, proponemos un estudio de la mediación editorial en la comunicación científica, buscando investigar cómo funcionan los procesos de tratamiento editorial de textos en dos publicaciones científicas del área ...

This study aims to understand the functioning of authorship in collaborative platforms, using the theoretical and methodological model proposed by Maingueneau (2012), with the notion of creator paratopia. This theory is ...

The feminism, as well as circulating in other spheres of communication, is a subject that has been discussed mainly on the web; it is possible to notice a growing circulation of texts about the referred movement in different ...