Concentration Area: Language and Meaning

Dircel Aparecida Kailer

PhD in Letters and Linguistics (UNESP, 2008)

Postdoctorate: Sociolinguistics and Dialectology (UFRJ, 2017)

Contact: dikailer@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-4387-2066

Research line: Linguistic description and analysis

Interests: Sociolinguistic studies; Phonetic-phonological studies; Editing; Geolinguistics; Synchronic and diachronic lexical studies; Dialectology.

Edina Regina Pugas Panichi

PhD in Letters (UNESP, 1994)

Postdoctorate: Letters (UFMG, 2013)

Contact: edinaregina@uel.br 

ORCID: 0000-0002-3887-7946

Research line: Text/discourse studies

Interests: Genetic Criticism, Stylistics, Semiotics

Esther Gomes de Oliveira

PhD in Linguistics (USP, 2000).

Contact: ego@uel.br 

ORCID: 0000-0002-3673-2647

Research line: Text/discourse studies

Interests: Normative Grammar, Textual Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Argumentative Semantics

Fabiane Cristina Altino

PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)

Postdoctorate: Dialectology (UFRJ, 2015-2015); UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13 NORD [França], 2011-2011)

Contact: fabiane@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-5987-2028

Research line: Linguistic description and analysis

Interests: Geolinguistics; Dialectology; Dialectometry; Languages in contact; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics.

Isabel Cristina Cordeiro

PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)

Contact: isacris@uel.br 

ORCID: 0000-0002-2391-9787

Research line: Text/discourse studies

Interests: Argumentative Semantics; Textual Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Grammar and argumentation.

Lolyane Cristina G de Oliveira

PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2013)

Contact: lolyane@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-9606-6869

Research line: Text/discourse studies

Interests: Ideological argumentation in propaganda; Circulation of discourse genres at school; Referencing in discursive practices.

Marcelo Silveira

PhD in Letters – Philology and Portuguese Language (USP, 2007)

Contact: celosilveira@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-6084-1325

Research line:  Linguistic description and analysis

Interests: Indigenous languages; Linguistic variation and teaching; Argumentation and rhetoric; Bilingualism and multiethnicity; Discourse analysis.

Maria Isabel Borges

PhD in Linguistics (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2009)

Contact: mariaborges@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-3470-9566

Research line:  Text/discourse studies

Interests: Linguistics; Portuguese Language Teaching; Morphosyntax; Grammar; Comic genres; Text and Discourse; Character analysis in comics.

Otávio Goes de Andrade

PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2010)

Postdoctorate: Letters (UFSC, 2019)

Contact: goes@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-2774-6254

Research line: Foreign language description and/or analysis; Language and Law.

Interests: Contrastive Linguistics; Lexicon; Interlanguage; Lexicography; Oral-Auditory Languages; Visual-Spatial Languages; Language Policies; Foreign Languages; Second Language Acquisition.

Rosemeri P Baltazar Machado

PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)

Postdoctorate: Language Studies (UESB, 2025)

Contact: rosemeri@uel.br

ORCID:  0000-0002-3000-9941

Research line:  Estudos do texto/discurso.

Interesses: Text/discourse studies

Interests: Discourse Analysis; Textual Genres; Sexuality; Signification processes; Effects of meaning; Prejudice; Ideological formations; Heterogeneity; Media; Advertising; Identity.

Vanderci de Andrade Aguilera

PhD in Letters (UNESP, 1990)

Postdoctorate: Letters (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2007)

Contact: vanderci@uel.br

ORCID:  0000-0003-3052-3710

Research line: Linguistic description and analysis

Interests: Geolinguistics; Linguistic Atlas; Synchronic and diachronic lexical studies; Linguistic variation; Dialectology; History of Portuguese; Philology; Toponymy.

Concentration Area: Language and Education

Andréia da C Malheiros Santana

PhD in Education (UNESP, 2011)

Postdoctorate: Education (UFSCar, 2012-2013); Lettres et Civilisations Étrangères (UNIVLYON2 [França], 2023-2024)

Contact: andreiacunha@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0003-0231-6570

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages.

Interests: Mother Tongue Teaching Materials; Teacher Training; Portuguese Language Teaching; Academic Literacies and Scientific Publicization; Teaching Evaluation.

Cláudia Cristina Ferreira

PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)

Postdoctorate: Translation Studies (UFSC, 2019-2020); Letters (MACKENZIE, 2024).

Contact: claucrisfer@uel.br  

ORCID: 0000-0003-4605-3733

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages

Interests: Multimodality; Literacies; Cultural aspects in teaching and learning processes, teacher education, and translation practice.

Eliana Maria S Donaio Ruiz

PhD in Linguistics (UNICAMP, 1998)

Postdoctorate:Applied Linguistics (UNICAMP, 2010-2012)

Contact: elianaruiz@uel.br 

ORCID: 0000-0002-7169-8464

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages

Interests:Applied Linguistics; Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages; Text production; TDIC (Information and Communication Technologies) and Portuguese language teaching; Collaborative writing; Multiliteracies at school.

Joyce Elaine de Almeida

PhD in Linguistics and Portuguese Language (UNESP, 2005)

Postdoctorate: Linguistics (UnB, 2013-2014)

Contact: joyal@uel.br 

ORCID: 0000-0001-5102-5847

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages

Interests: Linguistic variation in the school context; Educational Sociolinguistics; Linguistic variation in foreign languages.

Juliana R Assunção Tonelli

PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2012)

Postdoctorate: Language Didactics(UNIGE, 2013 [Genébra]); Letters(UnB, 2018); Letters(UNEMAT, 2019).

Contact: jtonelli@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0001-5102-5847

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages

Interests: Linguistic education in languages with young children; Language teaching for migrant children; Teacher education for language education with young children; Language education and inclusion.

Michele Salles El Kadri

PhD in Language Studies (UEL,  2014)

Postdoctorate: Applied Linguistics (Unicamp, 2018) e Education (UFES, 2020)

Contact: misalles@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-5836-4988

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages

Interests: Language teaching; Teacher training; International and national models and practices; Multiliteracies pedagogy; Teacher beliefs and ideologies; Implementation of bilingual schools.

Sheila Oliveira Lima

PhD in Education (USP, 2006)

Postdoctorate: Language and Literature Didactics (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2023)

Contact: sheilalima@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0002-0993-8228

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages.

Interests: Reader training; Literacy; Orality; Literature teaching; Portuguese language teaching; Teaching practices; Public reading policies; Literary reading; Portuguese language teacher education.

Telma Nunes Gimenez

PhD in Linguistics and Modern English Language (Lancaster University, 1994)

Postdoctorate: Linguistics (Kettering Foundation, 1997) and (University of London, 2014)

Contact: tgimenez@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0001-6143-3895

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages

Interests: Foreign language teaching/learning; Teacher training; Educational policies; Globalization; Internationalization of Higher Education; Language policies; Bilingual education; Applied linguistics; Educational technologies.

Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão

PhD in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies (PUC, 2002)

Postdoctorate: Education and Psychology (University of Aveiro, 2022), Linguistic Studies (UFMG, 2012), Textual Genres (University of California – Santa Barbara, 2012), Applied Linguistics (PUC-SP, 2008)

Contact: cristova@uel.br

ORCID: 0000-0001-7875-6930

Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages

Interests: Textual genres; Academic-scientific literacies; Teaching/learning/evaluation of foreign languages; Teacher training; Didactization of genres; Foreign language education; Applied linguistics.