Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro*

Meaning Making in the Periphery: AILA Review, Volume 30

Edited by Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes & Mike Baynham

Subjects Applied linguistics

[AILA Review, 30] 2018. | yearbook | open access

Language, Discourse, Style: Selected works of John McH. Sinclair

Edited by Sonia Zyngier

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 22] 2016. xxiii, 282 pp. |

Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments

Edited by Michael Burke, Olivia Fialho & Sonia Zyngier

Subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24] 2016. xix, 309 pp. |

Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier & Geoff Barnbrook

Subjects Corpus linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 48] 2011. xvi, 256 pp. | course book

Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer

Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova & Jan Auracher

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Writing and literacy

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp. | edited volume

Scientific Methods for the Humanities

Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder & Sonia Zyngier

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 13] No publication year

Zyngier, Sonia 2026 Suspension in pedagogical stylistics

Keywords: arrest | extension | suspension | pedagogical stylistics | reading experience

In: Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham & Peter Stockwell (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] pp. 112–120

Carvalho, Fernando Orphão de 2025 The Múra doculects and Múra-Pirahã historical linguistics

Keywords: reconstitution | comparative method | language isolates | Múra-Pirahã

In: Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia & Eneko Zuloaga (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 135] pp. 208–246

Márquez Reiter, Rosina & Douglas Sanque 2025 Ambulant vendors’ living labour on Copacabana beach

Keywords: agency | assemblage | bounding | informal economy | inequality | multimodality

Language, Culture and Society 7:1 pp. 28–67 | article | open access

Shochi, Takaaki, Albert Rilliard & Donna Erickson 2023 Perceptual changes between adults and children for multimodal im/politeness in Japanese

Keywords: perceptual changes | multimodal expressivity | im/politeness | Japanese

In: Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher & Lucien Brown (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] pp. 213–249

Maia, Marcus & Juliana Novo Gomes 2023 Cultural attitudes and linguistic processes in Karajá

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 pp. 70–75 | article commentary

Borba, Rodrigo 2022 Enregistering “gender ideology”: The emergence and circulation of a transnational anti-gender language

Keywords: “gender ideology” | anti-genderism | enregisterment | register | metapragmatics

Journal of Language and Sexuality 11:1 pp. 57–79 | article

Zottola, Angela & Rodrigo Borba 2022 “Gender ideology” and the discursive infrastructure of a transnational conspiracy theory

Keywords: gender | ideology | conspiracy theories | Brazil | USA | corpus-based critical discourse analysis | floating signifier

In: Conspiracy theory discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] pp. 465–488

Bomfim, Anari & Suzi Lima 2020 Count and mass nouns in Patxohã

Keywords: Patxohã | count | mass | numerals | quantifiers | adjectives | plural | determiners

Linguistic Variation 20:2 pp. 324–335 | article

Franchetto, Bruna 2020 Count, mass, number and numerals in Kuikuro (Upper Xingu Carib)

Keywords: Kuikuro | Carib | count mass | numerals | plural | animatness | quantifiers

Linguistic Variation 20:2 pp. 255–270 | article

Nevins, Andrew & Mário Coelho da Silva 2020 Maxakalí has suppletion, numerals and associatives but no plurals

Keywords: Maxakalí | plural marking | verbal suppletion | associative plurals | count/mass distinction | container-words | loanword numerals

Linguistic Variation 20:2 pp. 271–287 | article

Godoy, Gustavo & Walter Alves 2020 Notes on plurality and the count/mass distinction in Guató

Keywords: Guató | indigenous languages | mass/count distinction | quantification

Linguistic Variation 20:2 pp. 230–238 | article

Sanchez-Mendes, Luciana, Ana Paula Quadros Gomes & Aronaldo Julio 2020 The count-mass distinction in Terena

Keywords: countability | nouns | Terena | Arawakan | under-represented languages | plural | quantification | comparatives

Linguistic Variation 20:2 pp. 382–397 | article

Ortego-Antón, María-Teresa & Janine Pimentel 2019 Interlingual transfer of social media terminology: A case study based on a corpus of English, Spanish and Brazilian newspaper articles

Keywords: social media terminology | corpus of newspaper articles | translation procedures | interlinguistic equivalence | terminologie des réseaux sociaux | corpus d’articles de journaux | méthodes de traduction | équivalence interlinguistique

Babel 65:1 pp. 114–130 | article

Kosminsky, Doris, Jagoda Walny, Jo Vermeulen, Søren Knudsen, Wesley Willett & Sheelagh Carpendale 2020 Belief at first sight: Data visualization and the rationalization of seeing

Keywords: data visualization | representation | objectivity | historical context

Information Design Journal 25:1 pp. 43–55 | article | open access

Vasconcelos Barboza, Rafael de & Rodrigo Borba 2018 Linguistic landscapes as pornoheterotopias: (De)regulating gender and sexuality in the public toilet

Keywords: toilet graffiti | pornotopia | heterotopia | linguistic landscapes

Linguistic Landscape 4:3 pp. 257–277 | article

Brandão, Silvia Figueiredo & Silvia Rodrigues Vieira 2018 The agreement continuum in urban samples of African, Brazilian and European varieties of Portuguese

Keywords: patterns of agreement | varieties of Portuguese | sociolinguistic constraints | continuum of agreement

In: The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves & Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 20] pp. 267–290 | open access

Callou, Dinah 2018 Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil

Keywords: Brazilian Portuguese origins | demographic history | variation

In: The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves & Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 20] pp. 65–88 | open access

Stenzel, Kristine 2018 To hi or not to hi?: Nonverbal predication with and without the copula in Kotiria and Wa’ikhana (East Tukano)

Keywords: East Tukano | copular verbs | nonexistence predication | adjectival predication | innovation of copulas

In: Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages, Overall, Simon, Rosa Vallejos & Spike Gildea (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 122] pp. 163–192

Guimarães, Thayse Figueira & Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes 2018 Creative entextualizations of discourses about race in multi-sited discursive practices in the Brazilian ‘periphery’

Keywords: multi-sited ethnography | twitter | classroom | race | entextualization | performance

AILA Review 30:1 pp. 27–49 | article | open access

Moita-Lopes, Luiz Paulo & Mike Baynham 2018 Introduction

AILA Review 30:1 pp. v–xiii | introduction | open access

Zyngier, Sonia & Vander Viana 2016 Chapter 14. Literary awareness in a high-school EFL learning environment: An empirical evaluation

Keywords: creativity | EFL | evidencebased approach | iconicity | literary awareness | pedagogical stylistics

In: Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments, Burke, Michael, Olivia Fialho & Sonia Zyngier (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24] pp. 271–302

Stenzel, Kristine 2016 More on switch-reference in Kotiria (Wanano, East Tukano)

In: Switch Reference 2.0, van Gijn, Rik & Jeremy Hammond (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 114] pp. 425–452

Rilliard, Albert, Donna Erickson, João Antônio de Moraes & Takaaki Shochi 2014 Cross-cultural perception of some Japanese politeness and impoliteness expressions*

In: Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context, Baider, Fabienne H. & Georgeta Cislaru (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241] pp. 251–276

de Moraes, João Antônio & Albert Rilliard 2014 Illocution, attitudes and prosody: A multimodal analysis

In: Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Raso, Tommaso & Heliana Mello (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] pp. 233–270

Hengeveld, Kees, Maria Luiza Braga, Elisiene de Melo Barbosa, Jaqueline Silveira Coriolano, Juliana Jezuino da Costa, Mariana de Souza Martins, Diego Leite de Oliveira, Vinicius Maciel de Oliveira, Luana Gomes Pereira, Liliane Santana, Cassiano Luiz do Carmo Santos & Viviane dos Ramos Soares 2012 Semantic categories in the indigenous languages of Brazil

Functions of Language 19:1 pp. 38–57 | article

Cavalcante, Silvia Regina & Maria Eugênia Lammoglia Duarte 2009 Arbitrary subjects of infinitival clauses in European and Brazilian Portuguese

In: Language Variation – European perspectives II: Selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007, Tsiplakou, Stavroula, Marilena Karyolemou & Pavlos Pavlou (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 5] pp. 47–58

Rosa, Maria Carlota 2008  Methodo grammatical para todas as linguas. By Amaro de Roboredo

Historiographia Linguistica 35:3 pp. 457–460 | book review

Zyngier, Sonia 2008 10. Macbeth through the computer: Literary evaluation and pedagogical implications

In: The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation, van Peer, Willie (ed.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 4] pp. 169–190

Telles Ribeiro, Branca & Liliana Cabral Bastos 2006 Telling stories in two psychiatric interviews: A discussion on frame and narrative

AILA Review 18:1 pp. 58–75 | article

Barbosa, Heloisa G. & Aurora M.S. Neiva 2008 Using think-aloud protocols to investigate the translation process of foreign language learners and experienced translators

In: Triangulating Translation: Perspectives in process oriented research, Alves, Fabio (ed.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 45] pp. 137–155

Rosa, Carlota 1997  As origens da gramaticogrqfia e da lexicogrqfia latino-portuguesas. By Telmo Verdelho.

Historiographia Linguistica 24:1/2 pp. 227–231 | book review

Naro, Anthony J. 1993 Arguing about Arguin

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:1 pp. 109–118 | other

Naro, Anthony J. 1988 A Reply to "Pidgins Origins Reconsidered" by Morris Goodman

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3:1 p. 95 | reply

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.