Carlos A M Gouveia

Assistant Professor

Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos

About

My main research interests are in Applied Linguistics and some disciplines thus defined, such as Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Systemic Functional Grammar and Register & Genre Theory

I welcome proposals for doctoral research projects on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. My areas of particular interest include:

* Power and hegemony in scientific practices
* Writing development in Portuguese
* Genre-based approaches to teaching
* Discourse and literacy
* The lexicogrammar of address forms in Portuguese
* SFL description of Portuguese

I am currently supervising/advising several doctoral students whose research goes from the representation of social actors in discourse, for instance, to writing development in teenage years.
I am also a researcher at the Institute for Theoretical and Computational Liguistics (ILTEC), where I coordinate the research group on Discourse and Literacy. Our research focus is on discourse (both as product and process), on literacy (as the ability to use language to read, write, listen and speak, and the ability to respond to and understand the world), and on the relation between these two research areas and how different discursive communities, practices and domains ask for specific literacies: scientific, visual, digital, etc..

This group is also responsible for running the Fortnightly Meetings on Systemic Functional Linguistics, with the support of the Institute of English Culture. These fortnightly meetings in the Reading Room of the Institute of English Culture bring together participants from FLUL as well as from other universities.

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