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How do you track sentence negation in spoken language? Gois & Cardoso present negativas, a tool that automatically finds and classifies negation patterns in speech transcripts. 93% accuracy. doi.org/10.25189/267... #langsky #linguistics

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But regime wants to ban books instead of teaching critical thinking,

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Aguiar presents a Brazilian public school project that uses frames, narratives, and critical pedagogy to teach students how fake news works. From analyzing “electoral fraud” frames to decoding vaccine conspiracies, students learn to dismantle manipulation through language.
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Colonial writers used the term “Língua Geral” widely in Amazonia. Thomas Finbow shows they did not treat it as a distinct Mameluco dialect, nor as a creole born from a stable pidgin stage. The historical record tells a different story. #langsky #linguistics
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Can advertising texts be used to develop argumentative skills in the classroom? 📢
In this Public Review, Úrsula Germano highlights how the study by Dério & Nascimento explores argumentative operators in advertising to foster critical reading and student persistence.
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How do argumentative choices guide readers toward certain conclusions in advertising? This article examines the linguistic mechanisms behind a major Brazilian Christmas campaign and their broader social implications.
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This new article shows how advertising language constructs that path: it introduces a tension, steers interpretation, and channels emotion into adherence and consumption.
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Juliana Bertucci Barbosa is an Associate Editor at Cadernos de Linguística. Professor at UFTM (Uberaba, Brazil). Works on variationist sociolinguistics, Brazilian Portuguese, corpora, and grammar teaching with linguistic variation. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

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Advertising works through specific linguistic choices that make some conclusions feel natural while others recede. Seeing how meaning is organized invites more critical reading. Read the study in Cadernos de Linguística: doi.org/10.25189/267...

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Historical sociolinguistics is no longer Europe only or early modern only.
Brown, Natvig and Salmons bring together studies from Old Babylonian to Mayan inscriptions and Deaf communities to show how language, society, and history interact across time and space.
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One word can change how an ad is understood. In a Brazilian Christmas TV commercial, Dério & Nascimento show how “but” redirects interpretation, turning “Christmas is for everyone” into a question about representation. #langsky #linguistics
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Joseph Salmons is an Associate Editor at Cadernos de Linguística. Professor of Linguistics, he works on language change and sound systems, with major books and edited volumes in historical linguistics and contact linguistics.
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Meta-analysis of verbal negation in Brazilian Portuguese shows a consistent pattern: gender has little effect, education matters and age rarely explains variation. Results vary across regions due to uneven social stratification.
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In Brazilian Portuguese, “não” can go before the verb, at the end, or twice. Same referential negation, different use. This meta analysis shows where social factors do and do not matter across regions.
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Variationist Sociolinguistics is producing more results than we can reliably synthesize.
Meta-analyses can turn scattered findings—especially from big-city datasets—into testable generalizations, instead of leaving the field at the mercy of selective narrative reviews.
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In Brazilian Portuguese, “não” can appear before or after the verb. A meta analysis by Pedro Henrique Sousa dos Santos compares regional studies and finds that education often conditions this choice, sex or gender rarely does, and age yields mixed results.
#linguistics
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Social platforms can support research logistics. A new article reports an experimental study on pronoun resolution in ambiguous sentences, using WhatsApp and Facebook for participant recruitment and access to online testing.
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Jorge de Moraes is an Associate Editor at Cadernos de Linguística. At the University of São Paulo, he researches Linguistic Historiography & the History of Linguistic Ideas—Portuguese grammars/dictionaries, critical editions, and corpus-based digital humanities. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

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New in Cadernos de Linguística: André Luiz da Silva shows that words like “but” and “therefore” can steer how readers resolve ambiguous pronouns (who “he/she” refers to) and how fast they decide, in an online reading study with adult-education students in Brazil. doi.org/10.25189/267...

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When a sentence has two possible referents, the conjunction can steer how readers resolve “he”. In the study, conclusive links like “therefore/so” tended to push readers toward the first name mentioned (the more distant one), leading to the most common choice.
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Two people in a sentence, one “he” later. André Luiz da Silva and Jan Edson Rodrigues Leite show conjunctions can tilt the guess: “but” tends to favor the nearer name, “therefore/so” the earlier one, and conclusive links get faster average responses. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

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Understanding cross-language interference helps explain why learners invent certain words. A paper by Alessandra Baldo shows these forms often reflect systematic strategies, suggesting teaching can design targeted activities instead of treating them as random errors. doi.org/10.25189/267...

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A new article by Alessandra Baldo suggests that when advanced learners get stuck, they often build target-like words using patterns from their native language—pointing teachers toward feedback on recurring repair strategies rather than isolated mistakes. doi.org/10.25189/267...

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Learners sometimes fill lexical gaps by adapting a known word into a target-like form or by using an existing word with an imported meaning. Baldo documents these patterns in advanced learner writing and shows how cross-language knowledge can surface even at high proficiency.
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Most word “slips” in L2 writing happen under the radar. In this study, Baldo argues learners often don’t notice their lexical deviationsnand would likely be unable to explain what triggered them. She suggests introspective methods like verbal protocols. doi.org/10.25189/267...

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Janayna Carvalho is an Associate Editor at CadLin. She studies Brazilian Portuguese morphosyntax in a generative, Romance-comparative view, focusing on impersonal constructions and pronominal/reflexive change. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

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Advanced learners from Italy writing in Portuguese sometimes invent a word when the right one won’t come: "esfrutamento", "soferença". In 90 student essays, Alessandra Baldo finds 28 nonstandard word forms or meanings, most linked to Italian influence. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

Yes, and manner of posting matters as well. I follow several journals and even those that post infrequently but effectively can get decent engagement.

Using graphics with alt-text (esp. when URL doesn't show thumbnail), brief summaries, authors' names, hashtags for applicable feeds, etc. all help.👇🏾

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Evidence on categorization in aphasia and dementia comes mostly from a narrow language base. When experimental data are missing for some languages, cross-language comparison and clinical inference are harder. doi.org/10.25189/267...