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Susana Afonso is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Exeter, UK. She is currently the co-Director of Global Engagement and the co-Director of the MA in Intercultural Communication which she developed. Her research expertise is in Cognitive (Socio)linguistics and Construction Grammar. She investigates language variation and change from an empirical, usage-based approach. She is particularly interested in the pluricentricity of Portuguese, especially the emergence and development of non-standard varieties of Portuguese. She has conducted research on the constructional innovations in the Portuguese spoken by East Timorese in East Timor and in the diaspora and on the comparison (similarities) between non-standard varieties of Portuguese. She has developed collaborative work on the comparison between non-standard Brazilian and European Portuguese. She has also been engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary work with educators and museum studies researchers on the communication in science museums.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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CONDIV: Convergence and divergence between national varieties of Portuguese
Soares da Silva, A. (PI), Afonso, S. (CoPI), Inverno, L. (Researcher), Justino, V. (Researcher) & Almeida, J. J. (Researcher)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
1/01/26 → 30/12/28
Project: Research
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CEFH: Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies
Soares da Silva, A. (PI), Nobre, B. (Researcher), Melo, A. M. M. (Researcher), Dias, P. C. (Researcher), Balsas, Á. (Assistant Professor), Pereira, A. (Researcher), Lind, A. (Researcher), Azevedo, Â. (Researcher), Leite, Â. (Researcher), Pinto, A. P. (Researcher), Henriques, M. (Researcher), Gonçalves, A. (Researcher), Maia, B. R. (Researcher), Cardoso, C. P. (Researcher), Estevão, C. (Researcher), Morais, C. B. (Researcher), Morujão, C. (Researcher), Macedo, C. D. C. M. (Researcher), Costa, E. C. V. (Researcher), Morgado, E. (Researcher), Raguso, F. (Researcher), Oliveira, F. (Researcher), Bolinhas, I. (Researcher), Oliveira, Í. M. (Researcher), Silva, J. A. O. C. D. (Researcher), Pinto, J. C. O. (Researcher), Braga, J. P. (Researcher), Martins, J. C. D. O. (Researcher), Lopes, J. M. M. (Researcher), Lóia, L. (Researcher), Gil, M. M. (Researcher), Cunha, M. A. D. (Researcher), Pimentel, M. C. (Researcher), Pulido, M. (Researcher), Lopes, M. J. F. (Researcher), Magalhães, L. (Researcher), Gonçalves, M. (Researcher), Peixoto, R. (Researcher), Novais, R. A. (Researcher), Dimas, S. (Researcher), Afonso, S. (Researcher), Relvas, S. R. (Researcher), Filho, A. L. S. (Student), Antunes, A. (Student), Galvão, A. I. (Student), Lemos, C. F. D. L. R. (Student), Tages, E. (Student), Lima, J. B. C. (Student), Vale, M. J. P. M. M. D. (Student), Moura, M. (Student), Oliveira, P. (Student), Batista, R. B. (Student), Cunha, R. (Student), Costa, S. (Student), Fernandes, S. (Student), Souza, T. P. D. (Student), Mevis, A. (Student), Abrantes, A. M. (Researcher), Salazar, A. M. P. L. (Researcher), Pessôa, C. (Researcher), Duque, J. M. (Researcher), Rodrigues, A. (Researcher), Esteves, A. (Researcher), Silva, C. V. D. (Researcher), Marques, E. (Researcher), Andrade, J. G. (Researcher), Expósito, N. (Researcher), McDade, P. (Researcher), Petrella, S. (Researcher), Gouveia, S. S. (Researcher), Gama, J. (Emeritus Professor), Castillo, J. A. G. D. (Researcher), Brito, J. H. S. D. (Emeritus Professor), Pinto, J. R. C. (Emeritus Professor), Júnior, M. G. S. (Emeritus Professor), Lobo, F. (Researcher), Garcia, M. R. D. S. (Emeritus Professor), Mota, S. M. (Researcher), Mineiro, A. (Researcher), López-Sánchez, C. (Student), Costa, C. S. (Student), Mamas, C. (Researcher), Rodrigues, C. D. J. M. (Student), Coutinho, E. R. M. (Student), Albuquerque, E. (Student), Brunetto, G. M. (Student), Mello, H. (Student), Júnior, H. D. A. (Researcher), Bazmandegan, M. (Student), Brandão, M. C. (Student), Forjaz, M. J. B. P. (Student), Abraçado, J. (Student), Oliveira, M. R. D. (Student), Rúbio, M. G. (Student), Akoni-Mensah, M. (Student), Rocha, R. B. D. (Student), Tralhão, C. (Researcher), Costa, A. (Researcher) & Silva, S. (PI)
1/01/20 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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What science communication for equitable communication? From conceptualizations to reconceptualizations and practices
Afonso, S., Afonso, A. S., Lopes, A. S. & Gonzalez, A. C. D. S., Oct 2022, In: Curator. 65, 4, p. 773-793 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Construções reflexiva, recíproca e média de clítico nulo no português brasileiro: reconceptualização de eventos e emergência de uma nova construção
Silva, A. S. D. & Afonso, S., 2021, In: Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto. Especial, p. 151-186 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impersonal se constructions in the Portuguese of East Timor: notes on the relation between language contact and second language acquisition
Afonso, S., 25 Oct 2021, Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond. Bouzouita, M., Enghels, R. & Vanderschueren, C. (eds.). De Gruyter, p. 281-305 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Null se constructions in Brazilian and European Portuguese: morphosyntactic deletion or emergence of new constructions?
Silva, A. S. D., Afonso, S., Palú, D. & Franco, K., 1 Feb 2021, In: Cognitive Linguistics. 32, 1, p. 159-193 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Portuguese as a transnational language
Afonso, S., 17 Jun 2020, Transnational Portuguese studies. Owen, H. & Williams, C. (eds.). Liverpool University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Where in the network of constructions does an alternation occur? Taxonomic and horizontal links between allostructions. Evidence from Portuguese
Soares da Silva, A. (Speaker) & Afonso, S. (Speaker)
10 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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How to be maximally impersonal? The case of the impersonal null se construction in Brazilian Portuguese
Soares da Silva, A. (Speaker) & Afonso, S. (Speaker)
28 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Imagining and enacting education in the French texts of post-Conquest England
Afonso, S. (Co-supervisor)
2019 → 8 Sept 2020Activity: Supervision