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A #DiamondOA journal sponsored by the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin), promoting responsible research practices, collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and openness in academia.

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Oliveira, Albuquerque & Cunha analyze how a satirical video of Bolsonaro ignited a firestorm of insults and polarization on Facebook. The line between digital fiction and political hate blurs as users weaponize their version of the truth.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Whitney calls language a social institution. Saussure calls it an institution with no counterpart. Núbia Rabelo Bakker Faria tracks how this shift opens the way for a formal view of linguistic systems.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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With Bolsonaro under arrest for trying to sabotage Brazilian democracy, front pages now show the end of a project that treated lives as collateral. Chaise and colleagues analyzes how an Extra cover already turned “Brazil above all” into an accusation over COVID 19 deaths.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Luiz F Ferreira shows how Karitiana expresses desire through three routes: the suffix wak for wanting something for oneself, the verb pyting for wanting events involving others, and the verb py’eep for rejecting an outcome. A clear view of volition in this Amazonian language.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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As Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística, works on materialist Discourse Analysis, Spanish language education, and studies of discourse, memory, culture and decolonial perspectives in Latin America.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Readers often feel that poems and magazine covers teem with metaphor while scientific texts seem restrained. Dalby Dienstbach shows how cues of metaphoricity guide that intuition across genres.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Cadernos de Linguística is now a PCI RR-friendly journal (@pci-regreports.bsky.social).
This means authors can publish Registered Reports in Cad_Lin directly through recommendations from PCI Registered Reports, speeding up transparent, community-driven science.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A warm welcome to two new PCI RR-friendly journals: Oxford Open Neuroscience (edited by @samgilbert.bsky.social & team) & Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social, edited by Miguel Oliveira, Jr.

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Statement of commitment: Cadernos de Linguística will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR, subject to the manuscript meeting the journal requirements concerning statistical thresholds and bias control. Disciplinary scope: Research in linguistics that advances understanding of human language. Statement of commitment: Oxford Open Neuroscience will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR, subject to the authors paying the applicable article processing charge and the manuscript meeting the journal requirements concerning bias control and formatting. Disciplinary scope: Research covering the widest interpretation of neuroscience in health and disease, encompassing basic, translational, and clinical research, and sub-fields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, neural development, neurogenetics, systems and behavioural neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience.
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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In Brazilian Portuguese, the type of entity being talked about — a person, an animal, or an object — changes how speakers refer to it again in a story. A study show that this factor drives the choice between saying the noun again, using a pronoun, or leaving it unspoken.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Gabriel do Nascimento Santana maps Abraham Weintraub’s ministerial speech, where lines like “I would put these vagabonds in jail” feed an antidemocratic us versus them story in the Bolsonaro government.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Fernanda A Rezende shows that Brazilian Portuguese verb stress follows trochaic rhythm and verb morphology, not syllable weight, explaining contrasts like bate versus bati.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Strong gender balance, solid international participation, and meaningful contributions from Indigenous scholars mark the recent Diversity, Equity & Inclusion profile of Cadernos de Linguística, a signatory of the C4DISC Statement of Principles. Full report: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Brazil’s 2019 literacy policy promoted phonics as a simple solution. This study shows that common phonics activities can confuse learners and lead teachers to think that children have reading problems when they do not. The central issue is helping students read with meaning.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Cadernos de Linguística also adheres to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. These standards guide the journal’s editorial policies and reinforce its commitment to open, ethical, and reproducible research.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Bonfim and Batista Jr show how MST educators use genres such as místicas, anthem, marches, poems, and quadrilhas to build collective identity, raise political consciousness, and confront agribusiness power. Ethnography and CDA meet in resistance.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Eulália Vera Lúcia Fraga Leurquin serves as an Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística. A distinguished researcher in teacher education and applied linguistics, she brings extensive academic and coordination experience to the journal.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In João read the letter tired and João ate the meat raw, the adjective describes how someone or something is while the action happens. Ferreira and Vicente show how Portuguese grammar connects the two meanings inside one sentence.
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The image shows a minimalistic beige background with a black syntactic tree diagram illustrating sentence structure. Below it, in bold letters, appears the Portuguese example “O João leu a carta cansado.” Underneath, a caption reads: “Portuguese grammar links an action and a state in one structure…” explaining how grammar connects both meanings without a hidden subject. At the top, the header says “READ IN CADERNOS DE LINGUÍSTICA.” The image has a clean beige background. At the top, it says READ IN CADERNOS DE LINGUÍSTICA. Below, there’s a syntactic tree diagram representing a sentence structure. Under it, in bold, is the sentence O João leu a carta cansado. A short paragraph explains that Portuguese grammar joins action and state in one structure—showing how the same participant performs the action and experiences the condition—without a hidden subject, keeping meaning and agreement consistent.
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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With 1,125 views, “Language and Identity in Historical Caucasian German” by Doris Stolberg and Katharina Dück was the most-read article in Cadernos de Linguística in October. A look at how German once echoed through the Caucasus.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Reisado, a festive street performance from Northeastern Brazil, blends song, dialogue, masks, and dance. Monteiro analyzes it as a discursive performance, showing how rhythm, melody, gesture, and costume work like language to build meaning. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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In a Brazilian tax-fraud case, the judge stitches voices from prosecutor, defense, defendant, witness, and federal police, and the ruling ends in acquittal. Rodrigues & Azevedo analyze how polyphony drives this judgment. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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How do words fuel public conflict? Alfredo M. Lescano shows how “programs” of meaning rise, clash, and stabilize—like the fight over wolves’ return to France, from mass sheep losses to policy swings. Clear tools for tracking semantic battles in real time. #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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As Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística, Fabiana Esteves Neves contributes her expertise on academic literacy, metacognition, and authorship in university writing — themes central to discussions on language, learning, and teacher education.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A new paper examines how German once spoken in the South Caucasus reflected identity and multilingual life under the Russian Empire. Doris Stolberg and Katharina Dück analyze early-1900s newspapers to trace how language contact shaped a community’s sense of belonging.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Why do we say an olive jar doesn’t open easily if a jar can’t act on its own?
This registered research project investigates how certain Portuguese sentences with eventive verbs come to express states — aiming to identify the semantic properties that make this possible.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Since 1984, VARSUL has documented how people speak across southern Brazil.
Now, its 288 interviews are being anonymized so this landmark collection can be shared openly and ethically.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM