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Pedagogical activity

1. Teaching

At the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal):

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  • Pragmatics (Master)

 

  • Sociolinguistics (Master)

 

  • The Language of Humour (Master)

 

  • Language and Society in an English-speaking Context (Master)

 

  • English Linguistics 1 - Phonetics and Phonology (Bachelor)

 

  • English Linguistics 2 - Morphology and Syntax (Bachelor)

 

  • English Linguistics 3 - Semantics and Pragmatics (Bachelor)

 

  • English Linguistics 4 - Sociolinguistics (Bachelor)

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At the University of Florence, Italy (2015):

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  • Linguistic Mechanisms of Humour (Erasmus seminar)

 

  • The Pragmatics of Humorous Interaction (Erasmus seminar)

 

  • (Im)politeness in Online Communication (Erasmus seminar)

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At the University of Krakow, Poland (2008)

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  • Pragmatic Transgressions in Humour (Erasmus seminar)

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At the University of Krosno, Poland (2008):

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  • Taboo in Humorous Communication (Erasmus seminar)​

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  • The Language of Humour (Erasmus seminar)​​

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At the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (1998):

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  • Foundations of Speech Act Theory (Erasmus seminar I)​

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  • Foundations of Speech Act Theory (Erasmus seminar II)​

 

  • A Case Study: Speech Acts in Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson (Erasmus seminar)​

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2. PhD Supervision

  • Ongoing: Anthony Manu (VUB, Free University of Brussels, Belgium), "Towards a model for nineteenth-century humour in lyric texts". Co-supervision with Prof. Hans Vandevoorde.

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  • ​Ongoing: Ekaterina Vladimirovna Tokmakova, "Comparative Analysis of the Lexical-Semantic Field 'Man' in the Russian and English Languages". Co-supervision with Maria Helena Monteiro and Nádia Machado. Beginning: March 2019.

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  • Ongoing: Susana Ximena Orellana, "Representing the Powerless: How people with disabilities are represented in British and Ecuadorian online tabloids". Beginning: February 2019.

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  • Completed: Ndjimi Dumba Watembo Malaka, "Teacher Education: a Proposal of a CLT in-service training course for unqualified Secondary School. Beginning: December 2016.​

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  • Completed: Anabela Alves dos Santos Rato, "Cross-language perception and production of English vowels by Portuguese learners: The effects of perceptual training". Co-supervision with Prof. Ocke Bohn, U. Aarhus). Defense: January 30, 2014.

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  • Completed: Habiba Chafai, "(Mis) Representing the" Other ": Ethnicity, Gender and the Case of Honor Killings in the British Press". Co-supervision with Prof. George Joffé, U. Cambridge. Defense: December 10, 2013.

3. Post-doctoral Supervision

  • Anastasiia Belyaeva, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine, “A Semantic Cognitive Analysis of the Concept Structure EDUCATION in contrast”. December 2015 – May 2016.

4. Master Supervision

  • Ongoing: Jéssica dos Santos Clemente, "Online Hate Speech: Pragmatic Strategies to Express Hate and Prejudice With a Focus on Racism".

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  • ​​Ongoing: Priscila Agra Melo Machado, "Speech pathologies in English pronunciation: A case study with cleft palate informants". (Co-supervision: Profª Anabela Rato)

 

  • Completed: Elsa Margarida Almeida de Sousa, "Perception and production of the English / h /: the case of native Portuguese speakers of English as a Foreign Language". English Linguistics. UMinho. (Co-supervision: Profª Anabela Rato). Defended on April 20, 2017 with 17 marks​​unanimously.

 

  • Completed: António Carlos Martins Ferreira, "The Role of Cartoon Humor as a Complementary Tool in Second Language Learning." Defended on March 27, 2017 with 16 marks.

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  • Completed: Isabel Maria Varandas dos Santos, "O universo do slang – As implicações da aprendizagem do inglês na sua vertente coloquial", January 24, 2013. 

 

  • Completed: "Conversational Interaction in the Interview of the Television Talk Show: Institutionality and Gender in Late Night with Conan O'Brian and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", by Anabela Alves dos Santos Rato, defended on November 26, 2009, with 18 (Very Good), unanimously, at the University of Minho.

 

  • Completed: Habiba Chafai's "Gender and the discourse of advertising: A sociolinguistic approach to British and Moroccan magazine advertisements", defended on January 17, 2008 with Very Good by Unanimity at the University of Minho.

 

  • Completed: "The Language of Power and the Power of Language in 1984 by George Orwell: A Linguistic-Pragmatic Approach", by Cristina Maria Vinha Maia Gonçalves, defended with Very Good by Unanimity on March 5, 2007 at the University of Minho.

 

  • Completed: "Adverstising Dicourse: Language, Ideology and Pragmatic Organization", by Carla Georgina Ramalheira Sousa Maia, defended with Very Good by Unanimity on October 17, 2005 at the University of Minho.

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