Robert Moura Sena Gomes What is the difference between Gender-Neutral Language and Gender-Inclusive Language after all? Language is one of the institutions most frequently deployed by social changes. It is so because it is in language and through…
Robert Moura Sena Gomes Who can build a dictionary? For most people, their first (or possibly only) contact with a dictionary is as school children. Looking up words usually happens in…
Mara Guimarães Does knowing English change the way we speak Portuguese? “Is that really how we say that in Portuguese?” – if you’ve been a speaker of English for some time now, you…
Laura Rampazzo Learning languages in virtual exchange: do we just get connected and start talking? It is undeniable that the development of computer and information technologies has brought changes to the way we communicate with each other….
Plínio Almeida Barbosa How we breathe when we speak When I was invited to test an equipment to measure how we breathe while speaking, I was so concentrated in checking the…
Fernando Lúcio de Oliveira Asymmetry and Third Factor What does the human language have to do with the world around? One relevant question remains unanswered: what principles in language would…