Linguists have always gathered data for analysis in many different ways. In current times, a major method of doing linguistics – in person work in speech communities – has been made impossible, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This has brought other methods to the fore, and with it their advantages and disadvantages. While work in […]
The concepts of “the language organ” and “the language acquisition device” advanced by Chomsky and others in the tradition of Generative Grammar are controversial in part because their neurobiological instantiation is unclear. Here I address this by reviewing recent evidence from brain imaging and lesion-symptom mapping in aphasia. I propose a model for how the […]
Nearly a century ago, following the formation of the Linguistic Society of America, Leonard Bloomfield presented a brief defense of the formation of the society and the legitimacy of “a science of language”. He construed the field of linguistics – at that time not quite so much a discipline – as belonging to the human […]
Nos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOP) circulam diversas línguas: línguas africanas (do grupo bantu, do grupo khoisan e crioulos), línguas asiáticas e línguas europeias. Das línguas europeias se destaca o português que é a língua oficial e, consequentemente do ensino. As línguas africanas são línguas maternas para a grande maioria dos alunos nos […]
This talk explores ways in which theoretical and empirical research related to word knowledge and use can inform solutions to real world problems. We will examine patterns of lexical association and retrieval, and will propose that awareness of those patterns might offer new perspectives on language acquisition, effective communication, and language attrition in conditions such […]
Apesar de sabido que “Entre as experiências mais marcantes da história do encontro entre populações indígenas e colonizadores estão a descoberta, a entrada, a aquisição e o impacto da escrita com seus inevitáveis corolários: alfabetização, letramento e escolarização” (Bruna Franchetto, 2008), pouco ainda sabemos sobre as mudanças operadas pela escrita no âmbito das sociedades indígenas […]
The cartography of syntactic structures is both a descriptive and a theoretical endeavor. Cartographic projects have a large comparative dimension: we want to know what the fine details are of syntactic configurations across languages, what structural properties are invariant, what properties are variable, and what the limits are of the attested variation of syntactic structures […]
Las intervenciones de la mesa redonda se articularán en torno a #ReframeCovid (https://sites.google.com/view/reframecovid/), una iniciativa internacional, abierta y colaborativa de reflexión sobre los marcos metafóricos predominantes en el discurso de y sobre la pandemia de Covid-19. La iniciativa surgió en Twitter como una conversación entre lingüistas cognitivos de varios países, y tuvo eco rápidamente entre […]
This talk will present an alternative conceptual and analytical framework for language and cognition amongst multilingual language users, that of Translanguaging. I will trace the origin and development of the concept and discuss examples of how it is applied in analysing multilingual practices and cognitive processes. The core of the talk is focused on the […]
Tendo como marco histórico principal o final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, o Direito Linguístico, concebido no bojo dos “novos direitos” que emergiram no século XX, especialmente com o fortalecimento direitos humanos, apresenta-se na contemporaneidade como um campo bastante produtivo para as ações de pesquisa, de gestão e de ativismos vinculados à concepção, à implementação e […]