Joana Aguiar- PhD in Language Sciences - Sociolinguistics
- Researcher at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Joana Aguiar
- PhD in Language Sciences - Sociolinguistics
- Researcher at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Invited Assistant at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança.
Interested in Language Variation and Forensic Linguistics.
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Introduction
PhD in Language Sciences- Specialization in Sociolinguistics with the dissertation “Mechanisms of clause connection: the importance of social variables”, Master’s in Linguistics - “Phonological Unites and Processes in Terra Quente variety: contribution to forensic analysis”(Best Thesis in Linguistics 2009, awarded by Associação Portuguesa de Linguística). Mainly interested in syntactic variation and determination of authorship, but easily distracted by other linguistic phenomena.
Skills and Expertise
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2024 - present
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Position
- Researcher
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Research Team: Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics https://cehum.elach.uminho.pt/lte/en
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Research Team: Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics https://cehum.elach.uminho.pt/lte/en
Education
January 2010 - July 2017
Universidade do Minho
Field of study
- Language Sciences - Sociolinguistics
Publications
Publications (17)
Peer-review under responsibility of Universidad de Valladolid, Facultad de Comercio.
The replacement of the pronoun vós ‘you’ by vocês ‘you’ is a widely spread change in spoken Portuguese. Nonetheless, the pronoun vós can be attested in certain varieties of European Portuguese, as in Braga, a city in the Northwest of Portugal. This paper focuses on variation between these two forms of address in subject function (overt or null subj...
Demonstrative determiners can be used to convey the speaker’s emotional involvement in the subject matter (Lakoff, 1974). They also play a role in establishing solidarity effects between speaker and addressee, thus potentially being used to express complex social meanings and attitudes (Lakoff, 1974; Chen, 1990; Acton and Potts, 2014), a feature th...
The Unabomber’s Manifesto Industrial Society and Its Future is frequently cited as an example of linguistic profiling. As an object of forensic linguistic analysis, the most salient aspects are the lexical features, collocations, and spelling (Shuy, 2014).
Following Aguiar & Barbosa (2023), apparently innocuous functional elements are used to conv...
Mirandese is one of two languages whose rights have been acknowledged by the Portuguese state at the end of the 20th century. It was in 1997 and 1999, respectively, that the Portuguese Sign Language (PSL) and Mirandese found their way onto the Portuguese law through Laws no. 1/97 (change to the Portuguese Constitution) and 7/99. Both can be regarde...
Neology is the study of lexical innovation in natural languages, in multiple contexts and over time. Lexical innovation is a massive, permanent and universal phenomenon. From a strictly linguistic point of view, the study of neology “contributes to a better understanding of the lexical system of a given language and its evolution” (Sablayrolles 201...
São objetivos deste projeto de investigação:
a) contribuir para o estudo da diversidade linguística em Andorra, com enfoque na comunidade portuguesa;
b) identificar empréstimos linguísticos e neologismos;
c) identificar e analisar os contextos de code-switching e a sua função pragmática;
d) identificar eventuais processos fonológicos, morfológicos...
Partindo da obra O Principezinho, este trabalho é uma reflexão em torno da tradução das estruturas sintáticas que permitem veicular relações de causalidade. O objetivo deste trabalho é, por um lado, observar a frequência de ocorrência dos mecanismos de conexão frásica, assim como os seus valores semânticos e, por outro, comparar as versões em portu...
Resumo Nos últimos tempos, tem crescido o debate em torno da linguagem no mundo virtual. Neste trabalho, apresentamos dados preliminares do fenómeno de code-switching na comunicação online (CMC-Computer-mediated Communication), em especial nas redes sociais. Entende-se por code-switching o emprego simultâneo, no mesmo discurso, de duas línguas ou d...
O presente trabalho insere-se no domínio da variação sintática e tem como objetivo promover a discussão em torno da importância das variáveis sociais na interpretação dos dados linguísticos. Partindo do pressuposto de que a mesma relação semântica pode ser estabelecida através de diferentes estruturas sintáticas, são analisados os mecanismos de con...
In this paper, we examine the frequency of phonological units and patterns in two oral corpora of European Portuguese: the corpus TA90PE, containing interviews from different regions of Portugal, and the corpus TQT, containing oral samples collected in Terra Quente Transmontana. The results contribute to determine the scope and limits of frequency...
Partindo da noção de sílaba como unidade prosódica, analisámos o discurso oral de 100 falantes da Terra Quente Transmontana, doravante corpus TQT, com o objectivo de: (i) sistematizar e quantificar os tipos silábicos mais frequentes; (ii) comparar estes resultados com os de outros trabalhos; (iii) observar a sua distribuição de acordo com o concelh...
