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  • capa v.22 n.1

    Contributions of Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Theory, Interfaces, and Applications – A Tribute to Anthony Julius Naro
    Vol. 22 No. 1 (2026)

    Guest Editors: Christina Abreu Gomes (UFRJ), Marcelo Alexandre Silva Lopes de Melo (UFRJ), Maria da Conceição de Paiva (UFRJ)

    Motivated by the 4th PEUL Seminar: a Tribute to Anthony J. Naro and the 45th Anniversary of PEUL, held in 2025, this issue brings together contributions in the field of Sociolinguistics addressing current topics in the study of linguistic variation and change, based on different theoretical approaches and methodologies. It includes a special dossier with papers presented at the event, as well as a section comprising additional articles in the field of Sociolinguistics.

  • Pesquisas sobre línguas e culturas Macro-Jê
    Vol. 21 No. 3 (2025)

    Guest Editors: Gean Nunes Damulakis (UFRJ), Maxwell Gomes Miranda (UFMT), Wellington Pedrosa Quintino (UNEMAT)

    This issue brings together articles derived from presentations delivered at the 10th Macro-Jê Languages and Cultures Meeting, held at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in May 2025. The event is dedicated exclusively to Macro-Jê studies and aims to foster scholarly exchange among researchers—including graduate students, linguists, anthropologists, educators, historians, and others—whose work focuses on the languages and peoples of this linguistic stock. The articles collected here reflect the diversity of topics arising from Indigenous realities in contemporary Brazil, particularly among Macro-Jê peoples. They address issues related to education, ethnography, history, and linguistic research—including phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics—from a range of theoretical perspectives.

  • capa v.21 n.2

    Cognitive Linguistics: diversity and interfaces on Translation and Interpretation Studies
    Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025)

    Guest Editors: Flávia Medeiros Álvaro Machado (UFES), Veridiane Pinto Ribeiro (IFSC) e Paulo Henrique Duque (UFRN)

    Cognitive Linguistics investigates the relationship between cognition and language, highlighting how mind, body, form, and meaning are inseparable.This journal issue discusses fundamentals, applications, and interdisciplinary dialogues.

  • capa v.21 n.1

    The field of deaf-blindness, linguistic forms, and social-haptic communication
    Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025)

    Guest Editors: Andrew Nevins (UFRJ), Elaine Vilela (UMESP), Russ Palmer (University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland) e Riitta Lahtinen (The Finnish Deafblind Organization, Helsinki)

    Motivated by the consolidation of studies that legimitize Libras as a field of linguistic research, and by the expanding discussions on translation and interpretation for people with deafblindness through various forms of communication, this issue of Revista Linguíʃtica brings together a set of articles dedicated to research in the fields of education, technological resources, communication and linguistics. The works presented here address themes that cut across different levels of linguistic analysis, as well as issues of professional training practice, and linguistic policies related to the Brazilian deafblind community. The authors of this issue explore diverse educational, institutional, technological and communicative contexts. The variety of theoretical and methodological foci here reveal the dynamism of the field and the significant contribution of researchers, deaf, deafblind, and hearing, to the strengthening of an area that articulates linguistics and accessibility. By bringing together studies that interact with each other, albeit through different paths, this issue reaffirms Revista Linguíʃtica's commitment to valuing research that arises through practice, attention, and engagement with social and linguistic transformations of our time.

  • capa v. 20, n. 3

    Formal Linguistics
    Vol. 20 No. 3 (2024)

    Guest Editors: Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros (UFRJ), Ana Paula Quadros Gomes (UFRJ), Ana Regina Vaz Calindro (UFRJ), Luciana Sanchez Mendes (UFF) e Sílvia Regina Cavalcante (UFRJ)

    Motivated by the XIV Workshop on Formal Linguistics at UFRJ, held in 2024, this issue brings together works focused on topics in formal linguistics in the areas of syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and pragmatics. It includes a dossier with papers presented at the event and a section with other articles within the broad field of formal linguistics.

  • capa v. 20, n. 2

    Brazilian Portuguese in scientific production in Brazil and Italy
    Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024)

    Guest Editors:  Karen Sampaio B. Alonso (UFRJ) e Roberto Mulinacci (University of Bologna).

    Considering both the linguistic ties and the historical coexistence between Brazil and Italy, this issue of Revista Linguíʃtica presents a collection of studies on Brazilian Portuguese (BP), bringing together research from different theoretical perspectives and covering various levels of grammatical analysis. The issue also includes articles on how speakers produce and perceive variation in their language, as well as articles that reflect, on a micro or macro level, on the teaching of BP as a native language or for Italian speakers.

  • Language and intersubjectivity
    Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024)

    Guest Editors: Diogo Pinheiro (UFRJ), Augusto Soares da Silva (UCP - Braga, Portugal) e André V. Lopes Coneglian (UFMG).

    Intersubjectivity has been pointed out as one of the most important factors for the evolutionary success of the human species – and it goes without saying that language is one of its key components. In light of that, this issue brings together studies that investigate the relationship between language and intersubjectivity from a variety of theoretical perspectives. In total, 14 articles address the different manifestations of human intersubjectivity in grammar, discourse and interaction

     

  • capa v.19, n. 3

    Valorizando a Diversidade: em Defesa da Identidade de Comunidades Linguísticas Vulneráveis / Minorizadas
    Vol. 19 No. 3 (2023)

    Guest Editors:  Ana Paula Quadros Gomes (UFRJ) e Beatriz Protti Christino (UFRJ)

    This issue encompasses twenty-five articles, in two volumes, bringing on a range of questions providing multiple views on linguistic diversity, and highlighting the need for actions in defense of several minorized linguistic communities. The topic mobilized researchers from various areas and fields and from different lines of research, focusing on linguistic rights.

  • Valorizando a Diversidade: em Defesa da Identidade de Comunidades Linguísticas Vulneráveis / Minorizadas
    Vol. 19 No. Sup. (2023)

    Guest Editors:  Ana Paula Quadros Gomes (UFRJ) e Beatriz Protti Christino (UFRJ)

    This issue encompasses twenty-five articles, in two volumes, bringing on a range of questions providing multiple views on linguistic diversity, and highlighting the need for actions in defense of several minorized linguistic communities. The topic mobilized researchers from various areas and fields and from different lines of research, focusing on linguistic rights.

  • capa v.19, n. 2

    Free themes
    Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023)

    Guest Editors: Roberto de Freitas Junior (UFRJ) e Marcos Luiz Wiedemer (UERJ)

    Dossier 19/2 of Revista LinguíStica brings together 14 articles and one interview, written by researchers from various theoretical backgrounds and diverse academic institutions. The authors explored a multitude of topics, presenting new perspectives and insights into various issues in linguistics. Such diversity reflects the breadth of the field and its interaction with different areas of knowledge.

  • capa v.19, n. 1

    Filologia e Linguística Histórica
    Vol. 19 No. 1 (2023)

    Guest Editors: Deise Cristina de Moraes Pinto (UFRJ)  and Sandro Marcío Drumond Alves Marengo (UFS)

    In this issue, LinguíStica brings to its agenda stricto sensu philological studies as well as linguistic studies, revealed in 21 articles and a review that include research in Philology, Textual Criticism, socio-historical and/or linguistic description/analysis.

  • capa v.18, n. 3

    Processamento de Segundas Línguas e Teoria Linguística em Línguas Românicas
    Vol. 18 No. 3 (2022)

    Guest Editors: Juliana Novo Gomes (UMinho), Cristina Flores (UMinho) e Maria Pilar Pereira Barbosa (UMinho)

    This issue, entitled Second Language Processing and Linguistic Theory, brings together contributions that discuss different aspects, methods and approaches to non-native language processing.

  • vol.18 no 2

    Usage-based diachronic construction grammar
    Vol. 18 No. 2 (2022)

    Guest Editors: Diego Leite de Oliveira (UFRJ) and Karen Sampaio Braga Alonso(UFRJ)

  • capa Revista Linguística v18 n1

    Studies in theory of grammar
    Vol. 18 No. 1 (2022)

    Guest Editors: Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros (UFRJ), Cilene Rodrigues (PUC-RJ) eMaria Cristina Figueiredo Silva (UFPR)

    Gathering investigations conducted by Brazilian researchers on formal properties of I-language, the present volume presents a state-of-art collection of studies on different syntax domains, from CPs to DPs, aiming at understanding their representations on the interface levels.

     

  • capa Revista Linguística v17 n3

    Synchronic and diachronic grammatical studies
    Vol. 17 No. 3 (2021)

    Guest Editors: Isabella Lopes Pederneira (UFRJ) e Thiago Laurentino de Oliveira (UFRJ)

    This edition brings together articles on synchronic and diachronic grammatical phenomena from different linguistic levels, guided by distinct theoretical perspectives, and provides a representative panorama of linguistic studies in Brazil.

  • capa v.17 n2

    Linguistics and Education
    Vol. 17 No. 2 (2021)

    Guest Editors: Ana Paula Quadros Gomes. Gean Nunes Damulakis and Maria Cecilia Mollica

  • Linguistics, indigenous languages, and analysis from a formal perspective
    Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021)

    Guest editors:  Marília Facó Soares (UFRJ) e Claudia Uller (Kingston University, U.K)

    This issue is dedicated to research in linguistics and/or indigenous languages carried out under a formal theoretical perspective. It addresses the themes of language variation and change, the relationship between language and cognition, the interactions amongst grammatical components and the dialogue between linguistics and other contemporary disciplines.

  • Contemporary research on sign languages to commemorate 25 years since “Por uma gramática de línguas de sinais”
    Vol. 16 No. 3 (2020)

    Guest editors: Marília Uchôa Cavalcanti Lott de Moraes Costa, Andrew Nevins and Anderson Almeida da Silva

    This issue pays homage to the 25th anniversary of the publication of "Por uma gramática de línguas de sinais" by Lucinda Ferreira with diverse research on sign languages.

  • Special Issue - Celebrating over 50 years of the Graduate Linguistics Program at UFRJ and of the Professor Emeritus Miriam Lemle’s career
    Vol. 16 (2020)

    Organizadora: Aleria Lage

    Esse número especial suplementar celebra o aniversário de mais de meio século do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da UFRJ, fundado em 1968, o primeiro do Brasil, e da trajetória da Professora Emérita Miriam Lemle (in memoriam).

  • Usage-based linguistics and its interfaces
    Vol. 16 No. 2 (2020)

    Guest editors: Roberto de Freitas Jr. e Maria Maura Cezario

    The present dossier, Usage-Centered Linguistics and its interfaces, presents research and reflections of cognitive-functional orientation that represent the theoretical foundation of Usage-Centered (Functional) Linguistics.

  • Empirical studies in linguistic research
    Vol. 16 No. 1 (2020)

    Guest Editors: Marije Soto and Ana Regina Calindro
    The issue The Empirical Studies in Linguistic Research presents 11 original articles, an interview and a review that reflect the complexity and diversity of empirical research in contemporary Brazilian linguistics.

  • Functional projections, cartography and nanosyntax
    Vol. 15 No. 3 (2019)

    Organizadores: Alessandro Boechat de Medeiros e Adriana Leitão Martins
    O número Projeções funcionais, cartografia sintática e nanossintaxe traz nove artigos originais que tratam dos núcleos funcionais e sua importância na variação translinguística, adotando, em sua maioria, a cartografia sintática e a nanossintaxe.

  • Athematic Issue
    Vol. 15 No. 2 (2019)

    Organizadoras: Priscilla Mouta Marques, Deise Cristina de Moraes Pinto e Christina Abreu Gomes

    Este volume da Revista Linguíʃtica, de temática livre, traz 11 artigos inéditos com temas que refletem a diversidade teórica e de áreas de pesquisa da Linguística.

  • Indigenous Languages: verbal arts
    Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019)

    Organizadoras: Kristine Stenzel e Bruna Franchetto

    “Línguas indígenas: artes da palavra” traz doze textos transcritos de execuções orais originais em línguas ameríndias, bem como uma refl exão, por parte de pesquisadores indígenas, sobre tradição e inovação nas suas artes das palavras. Em versões bilíngues, com informações etnográfi cas, sociolinguísticas e análise linguística, cada texto da coletânea contribui para o conhecimento e a valorização da diversidade cultural e linguística neste Ano Internacional das Línguas Indígenas.

  • Studies on first language acquisition
    Vol. 14 No. 3 (2018)

    Organizadora: Aniela Improta França.

    O volume “Aquisição de Primeira Língua” da Revista Linguíʃtica apresenta um leque de contribuições de correntes teóricas, temas e metodologias diferentes sobre o tema da aquisição. Além disso, o volume inclui entrevista com uma das fundadoras da área, Lila Gleitman, Professora Emérita de psicologia e linguística da University of Pennsylvania.

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