Profile

Full Professor of Linguistics. BA: Romance Philology (5 years) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto. Master’s Degree of 4 years in Teaching Portuguese. Ph.D. in Linguistics. Tenure in Linguistics . Director of many Master Course Degrees and today of Master of Portuguese as a Second / Foreign Language. Member of the Scientific Board of the Ph.D. in Language Sciences, Vice-President of the Council of Representatives, and a Member of the Faculty’s Scientific Board as well as Erasmus local Coordinator. Vice-president of the Pedagogical Council; belonged to the Direction of Centro de Linguística for many years. Local Coordinator for Portugal of three projects, and a Member of many others, mainly with Brazil. Member of three scientific networks. Deputy Director of a Master’s Degree at the National University of East-Timor. Professor for one month for a Master’s Degree in Teaching Portuguese in São Paulo, Brazil, and gave lessons or courses at 40 Universities in 20 countries. With two other colleagues, I am the Deputy Director of Linguarum Arena, a journal for the area of Language Didactics I published more than 190 works. Main scientific contributions : (1) linguistic pragmatics, linguistics of the uses of the system, and (2) Didactics of Portuguese, both as a Mother Language and as a Second Language. This double-stranded research is deeply interconnected with university teaching: I teach Pragmatics in the 3 study cycles (degree in Language Sciences, Master’s in Portuguese as a Second Language / Foreign Language, and PhD in Language Sciences) and Didactics in both the Master’s Degrees with Teaching Portuguese as Mother Tongue, whether in the PhD above. On the side of linguistic analysis, I highlight 3 central orientations: Discourse Markers, contrastive views between varieties of Portuguese and other Romance languages, reported speech (and “futuro perfeito” as mediative).