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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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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.
Full editorial team: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
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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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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.
The full team: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
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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
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In a Federal Court case in Brazil, a defendant accused of tax fraud was acquitted after the judge wove together the voices of prosecution, defense, witnesses, and police. The case shows how multiple voices in a judgment can turn guilt into doubt.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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As Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística, Dirce Waltrick do Amarante brings her expertise in translation and experimental literature to the journal’s open, multilingual vision, overseeing articles in translation studies.
Meet the full editorial team: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Alfredo Lescano (Université de Toulouse, CNRS/EHESS) expands the scope of semantics to social conflicts, showing how meaning itself can become a field of struggle.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Insertions of Russian in early-1900s German newspapers show how writing itself can signal place and identity.
📖 Stolberg & Dück (2025)
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October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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How do 1980s linguistic data meet modern privacy & Open Science laws?

This new article details the anonymization of a historic sociolinguistics database and its expansion to study language change.

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October 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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A court ruling gains strength through language. Rodrigues & Azevedo show how the voices woven into a judgment—those of the law, the parties, and the judge—help create its authority and justify the decision.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Words move the world — and sometimes, they move conflicts too.
Read Expanding the Field of Semantics: From Language to Social Conflicts, by Alfredo M. Lescano: doi.org/10.25189/267...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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As an Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística, Enoch Aboh brings his expertise in theoretical and comparative syntax, language change, and Creole linguistics to the journal’s open and global editorial process.
Meet the full team: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Most studies of language contact focus on speech — how we borrow words to fill gaps or express new ideas.
But a new paper shows that language mixing isn’t always about meaning — sometimes it’s about context, identity, and the world that writing inhabits.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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October issue is out!
Language as a Practice of Knowledge presents cutting-edge research on project registration, legal discourse, narrative conflicts, and multilingualism under empire — plus new calls, the Abralin Prize, and CIbCA 2025.
Read it here: cadlin.substack.com/p/language-a...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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One of the authors of a 2025 study on anonymization and open-science practices, Isabel Monguilhott (UFSC) coordinates the VARSUL Project, which investigates linguistic variation and change in southern Brazil and works to make its speech corpus ethically accessible.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Project Registration makes research transparent from the start — defining goals, methods, and hypotheses before results.
This five-year program on event–state alternation in Portuguese shows how open science begins with design.
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October 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Legal texts sound objective, but are they? This study in Cadernos de Linguística examines how court rulings use language to project authority and neutrality — and how those words expose who really speaks in justice.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM