Various authors Mary Jane CurryTheresa Lillis The Dangers of English as Lingua Franca of Journals Is your first language English? If so, imagine that you are now required to write about your research using only Spanish or…
Raquel Freitag Not always do people speak what they say they speak Every time when I visit my father, it’s the same thing: I’m in the middle of his revolt against the use of…
Marcus Maia Journey to Aotearoa During the second semester of 2017, the linguist Marcus Maia (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/CNPq/CAPES), the Kaingang teacher and linguist Marcia…
Mahayana Godoy What’s in a name? Sound symbolism and language Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare’s famous play, tells the tragic story of Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague, two young lovers who fall…
Livia Oushiro Can we tell people’s social class just by listening to them? Popular wisdom tells us not to judge a book by its cover. But when we hear someone –on the phone, out in…
Danniel da Silva Carvalho Gender and Language: between grammar and the social According to Greville G. Corbett, gender is an infinitely fascinating category. Only ¼ of the world’s languages have grammatical genders or some…
