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LINHA D’ÁGUA JOURNAL

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil

Publication frequency: quarterly (April, August and December).

About the journal

2026-01-31

Linha D’Água is an academic journal in the fields of Linguistics and Literature, published since 1980 by the Graduate Program in Philology and Portuguese Language (FLP) at the University of São Paulo (USP).

The journal adopts the Diamond Open Access (OA) model and is supported and certified by the Agency of Libraries and Digital Collections at the University of São Paulo (ABCD-USP). It accepts submissions in response to thematic calls for papers, each with a specific submission and publication schedule, detailed below.

Published every four months (quarterly), Linha D’Água features thematic issues comprising articles, reviews, translations, and interviews in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish. Submissions must follow the journal’s guidelines, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions.

Linha D’Água is indexed in major databases, including Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports (JCR), MLA, Latindex, DOAJ, MIAR, Linguistic Bibliography, and others.

eISSN: 2236-4242

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Thematic issue 39/2 (2026): Rethinking language education of the Global South in the age of Artificial Intelligence, to be published in August 2026. NEW deadline for submission: February 13, 2025. For more information, click here.

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ISSUES IN PROGRESS

Thematic issue 39/1 (2026): Digital Discourse – Contemporary Challenges and Problems, to be published in April 2026. Deadline for submission: closed. For more information, click here.
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Thematic Issue 39/3: Systemic Functional Linguistics ― Theory, Description, Analysis, and Appliability in a Global Perspective

2026-01-31
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a distinctive tradition in the linguistic landscape, centrally characterized by its conception of language not as a set of rules, but as a meaning potential — a resource for making meaning within social and cultural contexts. Since its inception, contributors to SFL have positioned it as appliable linguistics, a framework designed to transcend the divide between theoretical and applied linguistics by addressing both research problems and practical issues faced by modern society; in this way, research in SFL is typically translational research.

While SFL has flourished globally, becoming a collective undertaking across all continents, it continues to face challenges regarding its visibility and accessibility within the broader academic community — in part, arguably, because it is inherently transdisciplinary in academic orientation: since the start in the 1960s, it has developed in dialogue with other fields of expertise, always remaining “permeable”. This special issue of Linha D’Água seeks to showcase the theory's worldwide vitality while fostering a productive dialogue with “fellow travelers” from neighboring disciplines and theories.

We invite contributions that represent frontier research and application in SFL while at the same time presented as accessible and engaging to researchers working in other functional, cognitive, or critical frameworks, including other “usage-based” approaches. Our goal is to move beyond a narrow circle of specialists and demonstrate how SFL can make a positive difference both in (1) illuminating analytical and descriptive issues in linguistics and (2) solving real-world problems.

We encourage submissions that explore the full spectrum of systemic functional activities, including the complementarity of theory and description, the exhange between theory-&-description and application, and the interdependent nature of description and analysis through the following themes:
- Analytical Methods and Descriptive Modeling: SFL approaches to linguistic/semiotic description and to text and discourse analysis, including corpus-based, multimodal, or qualitative methods that contribute to descriptive endeavors.
- Descriptions as Analytical Tools: Critical applications of existing systemic descriptions to reveal how meaning is construed in diverse contexts.
- Cross-Linguistic and Multilingual Studies: Research that uses the analysis-description interplay to refine or compare linguistic descriptions across different languages, moving beyond “Anglo-centric” models to reflect the diversity of the “Global South”.
- Theoretical Innovation: Explorations of how the dialectic between theory, description and analysis informs ongoing developments in SFL.
- Interfaces with “Fellow Travelers”: Dialogue between SFL and other frameworks, including (but not limited to) other usage-based approaches to language, other functional theories, Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, or Legitimation Code Theory.
- Social Appliability and Practice: The application of SFL theory and descriptions to professional domains, including education, healthcare communication, clinical applications, translation studies, and Natural Language Processing.
- Reflexive and Methodological Perspectives: Discussions on the challenges of representativeness, delicacy, and the role of linguistic databases, digital archives and open-access tools in ensuring the future of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
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Linha D’Água accepts manuscripts in Portuguese, English, French, or Spanish. Submissions must comply with the author guidelines, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

The journal is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline: June 30^th, 2026.

Expected publication: December 2026.

Guest Editors:

Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
cmatthie@mac.com
Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain)

Paulo Roberto Gonçalves-Segundo
paulosegundo@usp.br
University of São Paulo (USP, Brasil)

Theodoro C. Farhat
farhat@usp.br
University of São Paulo (USP, Brasil)
Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain)
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New issue – v. 38, n. 3 (2025)

2025-12-28

Revista Linha D’Água (USP, Brazil) has just published a new issue under the theme: “Chronotopic dimensions of women's life writings” (vol. 38, no. 3, 2025).

The dossier comprises 11 articles and one book review. This issue of Revista Linha D’Água proposes a reflection on the ways in which women, in different socio-historical contexts and across multiple discursive materialities, inscribe their life experiences within specific spatio-temporal dimensions. Such dimensions, in the specific case of chronotopes as formulated by Mikhail Bakhtin (2018 [1937–38]), are understood here not only as narrative categories, but also as forms of perception, organization, and meaning-making of narrated experience. We start from the assumption that analyzing life narratives authored by women entails investigating how temporal and spatial dimensions condition discursive interaction and shape female subjectivity in its different forms of inscription.

The issue was made possible by the contribution of more than 50 peer reviewers affiliated with institutions from all regions of Brazil, as well as with international institutions in Portugal and Peru.

The thematic dossier was guest-edited by Prof. Dr. Vânia Lúcia Menezes Torga (UESC, Brazil), Prof. Dr. Vanessa Fonseca Barbosa (USP, Brazil), Prof. Dr. Yuri Andrei Batista Santos (USP, Brazil / Paris Est Créteil, France), Prof. M.A. Girlandia Gesteira Santos (UESC, Brazil), and Prof. M.A. Ana Cláudia Guimarães Senna (UESC, Brazil).

We invite all readers to access the articles in the dossier, available at:
https://revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13839
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New issue – v. 38, n. 2 (2025)

2025-11-11

Revista Linha D’Água (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) has just published a new issue under the theme “Text, Society, and Democracy” (vol. 38, no. 2, 2025).

This dossier features 28 research articles and two book reviews that highlight the relevance and vitality of the theme Text, Ethics, Democracy, and Social Inclusion, as well as the importance of text and discourse studies in confronting the broad spectrum of manifestations of violence, hate, discrimination, and intolerance.

In this issue, the contributions address gender issues, misogyny, and racism; expose prejudice, censorship, and misinformation; and discuss freedom of expression, resistance, decoloniality, patriotism, and inclusive language. Drawing on theoretical frameworks including, among others, pragmatics, theories of enunciation, various discourse analysis approaches, text linguistics, and comparative linguistics, the studies examine a wide range of corpora, encompassing literary discourse, journalism, social media interactions, political discourse, and advertising.

This issue was made possible thanks to the contributions of more than 100 peer reviewers affiliated with institutions from all regions of Brazil, as well as international institutions in Portugal, Chile, Spain, and the United States.

The thematic dossier was guest edited by Prof. Dr. Ana Lúcia Tinoco Cabral (IP/PUC-SP, Brazil) and Prof. Dr. Rivaldo Capistrano Júnior (UFES, Brazil).

We invite all readers to access the articles in the dossier, available at:
https://revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13807
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Thematic Issue 39/1: Digital Discourse – Contemporary Challenges and Problems

2025-06-27
In recent decades, the expansion of digital ecosystems - especially with the advent of Web 2.0, social networks, and digital communication platforms - has posed new challenges to the field of language studies, demanding approaches that integrate the technological dimension intrinsic to linguistic productions. This context constitutes a scenario of technodiscursivity, a concept that emphasizes the hybrid nature of digital discourse as the result of the interplay between language and technology. Thus, the analysis of digital discourse, according to Marie-Anne Paveau (2021), takes into account the co-presence of linguistic and technical material, recognizing that elements such as hyperlinks, URLs, hashtags, and other technoparticles form a new discursive ecology that transcends traditional linguistic categories.

In this context, the role of hypertextuality and non-linearization stands out (Paveau, 2021), as structuring phenomena of native digital discourse that break away from traditional textual linearity. Hypertextuality, characterized by connectivity and the multiplicity of possible reading and writing paths, redefines the communicative act, transforming the reader into a writer-reader (écrilecteur) - an active subject and co-constructor of meaning in a dynamic process of simultaneous reading and writing. Non-linearization, in turn, manifests itself not only visually - through colors and underlining - but also syntagmatically, semiotically, and enunciatively, profoundly altering the traditional forms of discursive production and reception (Paveau, 2021).

In addition, within the scope of digital technologies, the emergence of discussions surrounding Large Language Model (LLM) artificial intelligence has fueled new areas of research. This is a moment marked by the proliferation of sophisticated computational systems, characteristic of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.0 (Mavrepisa et al., 2024), or the “Artificial Revolution” (Bartoletti, 2020). These automated systems have been used in the generation of various types of content, producing impressive results and articulating different political, ideological, and other discourses. Such circumstances bring to the forefront ethical, social, and communicational challenges, highlighting the need for critical analyses that take into account the impacts of discursive automation on misinformation and/or digital activism.

On the other hand, computer-mediated communication (Herring, 2004) and platform studies (D’Andrea, 2020; Burgess, 2021) - that is, the organization of discursive practices within environments governed by digital platforms - give rise to new forms of interaction and meaning circulation. In this context, content producers find themselves navigating the tension between coercion and agency - in terms of strategies and tactics (Manovich, 2009) - as they construct and negotiate meaning. Reflecting on these processes is essential to understanding the current dynamics of digital discourse, along with its challenges and possibilities.

In light of these aspects, this issue aims to gather research that problematizes the multiple dimensions of contemporary digital discourse, with a focus on the technolinguistic and discursive transformations emerging from digital technologies. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the goal is to bring together contributions from Textual Linguistics (TL), Digital Discourse Analysis (DDA), Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Platform Studies, among others. This thematic issue invites authors to submit contributions that explore, among other topics, the following axes:
- Technodiscursivity, drawing on categories from Digital Discourse Analysis (DDA) as phenomena for understanding writing-reading and native digital discourse.
- Characteristics of computer-mediated communication and the challenges posed by digital platforms to the production and circulation of meaning.
- Critical studies on digital platforms, including the role of algorithms and the policies of digital ecosystems in contemporary communicative practices.
- The role of digital spaces in disinformation, argumentation, and multimodal phenomena across different discursive practices.
- Digital technologies and argumentation, exploring different types of production and multisemiotic configurations.
- Implications of artificial intelligences in content generation, such as misinformation texts or various modalities of argumentative discourse.
In general terms, this issue presents itself as an open space for researchers in language studies who investigate the textual and discursive transformations brought about by the convergence between language and digital technologies. We hope that the contributions gathered here will expand the theoretical and empirical debate on contemporary issues in digital discourse and foster essential reflections on the socio-communicational challenges of our time.

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Linha D’Água welcomes submissions in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish. To access the submission guidelines, please click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Linha D'Água is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline: October 31, 2025.

Expected Publication: April 2026.

Guest Editors:

Eduardo Glück
eduardogluck@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-9582
Linguistics Research Centre of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (CLUNL, Portugal)
Universidade do Vale do Taquari (Univates, Brazil)

Evandro de Melo Catelão
evandrocatelao@utfpr.edu.br
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3006-5051
Department of Language and Communication / Graduate Program in Language Studies, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR, Brazil)

Gabriel Isola-Lanzoni
isola.lanzoni@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2066-1298
Universidade de São Paulo (USP, Brazil)
Language Sciences Research Group of Universidade do Porto (GICIL/CLUP/U.PORTO)

References:

BARTOLETTI, Ivana. An artificial revolution: on power, politics and AI. Londres: The Indigo Press, 2020.

BURGESS, J. Platform Studies. In: CUNNINGHAM, S.; CRAIG, D. (org.). Creator Culture. [S. l.]: New York University Press, 2021. p. 21–38. Disponível em: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9781479890118.003.0005/html. Acesso em: 4 jun. 2025.

D'ANDRÉA, Carlos. Pesquisando plataformas online: conceitos e métodos. Salvador: EDUFBA, 2020

HERRING, S. C. Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior. In: BARAB, S.; KLING, R.; GRAY, J. H. (org.). Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. 1. ed. [S. l.]: Cambridge University Press, 2004. p. 338–376. Disponível em:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/CBO9780511805080A027/type/book_part. Acesso em: 4 jun. 2025.

MANOVICH, L. The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass Cultural Production?. Critical Inquiry, v. 35, n. 2, p. 319–331, 2009. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1086/596645.

MAVREPISA, Philip; MAKRIDIS, Georgios; FATOUROS, Georgios; KOUKOS, Vasileios; SEPARDANI, Maria Margarita; KYRIAZIS, Dimosthenis. XAI for All: Can Large Language Models Simplify Explainable AI? arXiv:2401.13110v1 [cs.AI], 23 jan. 2024. Disponível em: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13110. Acesso em: 05/03/2025.

PAVEAU, Marie-Anne. Análise do discurso digital: dicionário das formas e das práticas. COSTA, José Luiz; BARONAS, Roberto Leiser (Org.). 1 ed. Campinas: Pontes, 2021.
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New issue – v. 38, n. 1 (2025)

2025-04-25
The journal Linha D’Água (University of São Paulo, Brazil) has just published a new issue on the theme: "Dialogues of Bakhtin's Work and the Circle with Other Theories and Areas of Knowledge."
This special issue includes 21 articles and three reviews that highlight the intersections between different fields of knowledge and theories with the thinking of Bakhtin and the Circle. These intersections are explored by the authors across two main axes:
1. The investigation of bibliographic sources from different theoretical traditions (philosophical idealism, Humboldt’s linguistic idealism, Russian formalism, phenomenology, religious philosophy, etc.). The works in this section examine how identifying the sources of Bakhtinian ideas is essential to understanding them — showing how these influences shed light on aspects of Bakhtin and the Circle’s theory.
2. Considering that Bakhtinian theory is increasingly engaging with various fields and theories, the works in this axis highlight the contributions of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle to those domains. A key concept in this discussion is contemporary transdisciplinarity, where a field is constituted through the movement of concepts from different disciplines. In this sense, the aim was to explore how Bakhtinian theory contributes to inherently interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary domains — such as education and applied linguistics in Brazil.
This thematic issue was guest-edited by Professor Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo (USP, Brazil).

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Thematic Issue 39/2: Rethinking language education of the Global South in the age of Artificial Intelligence

2025-03-10

This special issue aims to fill a gap in Artificial Intelligence (AI) theory, research and pedagogical practices in language education in the Global South. Through critical and/or decolonial studies, research and reflections from the field of Critical Applied Linguistics (Silva and Cobucci, 2024; Antia and Makoni, 2023; Makoni et. al., 2023; Pennycook and Makoni, 2020; Ndlovu and Leketi, 2020), this special issue aims to offer critical insights and theoretical-methodological implications for reimagining both language teaching and language teacher education in the age of AI.

Contributors will be able to explore a wide range of issues, reflections and innovations in AI and language teaching and teacher education for and in multidiverse contexts, including ESL, EFL, additional language teaching and learning, international student mobility programs and language teacher education programs. The topics and themes that may be presented, discussed and problematized are: critical literacy in AI, teaching and assessment of an additional language based on GenAI, perceptions of teachers and students, development of tools for language learning, as well as considerations aimed at (re)constructing more ethical and critical orientations and/or guidelines, based on an intercultural, plurilingual, collaborative and dialogical process.

Linha D’Água welcomes submissions in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish. To access the submission guidelines, please click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Linha D'Água is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

New submission deadline: February 13th, 2026.

Expected Publication: August 2026.

Guest Editor:
Kleber Aparecido da Silva
Universidade de Brasília/CNPq, Brasil
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7815-7767
Kleber Aparecido da Silva is Associate Professor 4 of the Languages Course (Brazilian Portuguese as a Second Language) and the International Relations Course and is a researcher/professor in the Graduate Program in Linguistics and International Relations at the University of Brasília. His main fields of interest include languages, artificial intelligence, gender, race and language education; race, international relations and (de)colonialities; languages, discourse and identities; (multi)literacies, language/international policies and critical education in teacher training. He has a CNPq Research Productivity scholarship.

Lauro Sérgio Machado Pereira
Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais, Brasil
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7144-2733
Lauro Sérgio Machado Pereira has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Brasília. He teaches English at the Federal Institute of Northern Minas Gerais (IFNMG). His research interests include critical applied linguistics, continuing English teacher education, collaborative-critical action research, internationalization of education and language policies.

Leketi Makalela
University of the Witwatersrand, África do Sul
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6375-5839
Leketi Makalela is the director of the Hub for Multilingual Education and Literacies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and is a visiting professor at the City University of New York. His research interests include translingualism, African multilingualism and African languages and literacies.

References
Antia, B. E; Makoni, S. (2023). Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South. London, UK: Routledge.

Makoni, S.; Kaiper-Marquez, A.; Mokwena, L. (2022). The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s. London, UK: Routledge.

Makoni, S. (2019). Conflicting reactions to chi‟ixnakax utxiwa. Language, Culture and Society, 1(1), 147-151.

Ndlovu; F.; Leketi, L. (2020). Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa: Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South. London, UK: Routledge.

Pennycook, A. & Makoni, S. (2019). Applied Linguistics from the Global South. London, UK: Routledge.

Silva, K. A.; Cobucci, P. (2025) Perspectivas decoloniais nos estudos da linguagem. Campinas, SP: Mercado de Letras. Read more about Thematic Issue 39/2: Rethinking language education of the Global South in the age of Artificial Intelligence
New Issue Published - Vol. 37, No. 4 (2024)

2025-01-25

The journal Linha D'Água (USP, Brazil) has just published a new issue on the theme: 'Chiffons de Papier and the Resurgence of the Epistolary: Metamorphoses, Dynamics, and Confluences.'

This issue offers a significant contribution to the study of letters, not only as historical or biographical documents but also as spaces of resistance, memory, and identity construction.

In the 18 articles that comprise this issue, it is possible to observe how the epistolary genre, in its multiple forms and meanings, remains a powerful tool for communication, expression, and resistance. Whether as a means to construct and reflect on individual or collective identities or as a space for dialogue between the past and the present, the letter endures as a form of writing that adapts to societal transformations without losing its ability to uniquely connect us with others and ourselves.

The thematic dossier was guest-edited by Prof. Dr. Isabel Roboredo Seara (UAb | CLUNL/NOVA, Portugal), and Prof. Dr. Renata Ferreira Costa (UFS, Brazil).

We invite everyone to access the articles in the dossier, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13483
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Thematic Issue 38/2: Text, Society, and Democracy

2024-12-06

This thematic issue, titled Text, Society, and Democracy, is justified by the relevance of combating anti-democratic practices in contemporary society and is guided by the central question: How can the theoretical and methodological principles of language research support analyses of the textual-discursive nature of hate speech, prejudice, discrimination, and social exclusion and their multiple manifestations, in order to combat anti-democratic practices?

The aim of this publication is to bring together researchers from different fields of text and discourse studies to foster an interdisciplinary debate on the topic.

The Linha D’Água journal welcomes submissions in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish. To access the submission guidelines, please click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Linha D'Água is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline closed: March 31, 2025.

Expected Publication: August 2025 / Second Half of 2025.

Update: Due to the exceptionally high number of submissions to the dossier (over 70), the editorial process had to be strictly rigorous in enforcing the submission guidelines. Even so, the editorial timeline has been extended. Therefore, the issue will be published during the second half of 2025.

Guest Editors:

Ana Lúcia Tinoco Cabral
altinococabral@gmail.com
Instituto de Pesquisa da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (IP/PUC-SP), Brazil.

Rivaldo Capistrano Júnior
r.capistrano@uol.com.br
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil.
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Thematic Issue 38/3: Chronotopic dimensions of women's life writings

2024-10-01
This issue aims to investigate the discursive construction of life stories written by women, considering the influence of different chronotopic dimensions on the constitution of discourses.

In the sense of Bakhtin and the Circle, language is constituted in a dual perspective, both by verbal elements, internal to the forms of language, and by extraverbal elements (time, space, values, ideologies, history, culture, etc.), the latter influencing interaction and delimiting the construction of discourses.

From this premise, in line with the discussions of Machado (2010) and Santos (2023), the concept of chronotope proposed by Bakhtin (at different points in his production) allows us to identify, from verbal marks, how extraverbal elements define the constitution of language.

By chronotope we mean the fusion of space-time elements and how they condition and place value on discourse, giving visibility to correlations between the conditions of "saying", who says it, how it is said, what is said (or even who cannot say it, what cannot be said, etc.), as a function of the chronotopic dimensions (space-time) that mark a given use of language.

In the context of the adventure novel, for example, Bakhtin suggests the "chronotope of the roads" as a space-time in which the encounters and events of the plot occur. The author also proposes the "chronotope of the house", in the biographical novel, as a space that indicates a certain stability, while highlighting the factor of transformation in the construction of the characters. When thinking about the first autobiographical forms and their space-time dimensions, Bakhtin (2018) sees two distinct chronotopes: the "internal chronotope", the space-time of the represented life, and the "real external chronotope" or "external chronotope of the report" in which the represented life takes place, whether it is that of a third party (biography) or that of the speaker himself (autobiography). We can also think of the "external chronotope of the reported facts", the space-time in which the events reported are situated and take shape (Santos, 2023, p. 61-62).

In general terms, our focus is to investigate how space and time dimensions are discursively constructed in the different life stories written by women and how these two variables (space-time) also shape the conditions of production, reception and discursive circulation of these stories. We are therefore interested in reflecting on the singularities in the way the discursive elements, in different chronotopes, mark the life narratives produced by women in various socio-historical-cultural contexts.

We expect contributions that investigate life stories in the most diverse forms of language and linguistic-discursive materials (written, oral, audiovisual, digital, among others). Likewise, we seek to gather works that investigate female authorship in the breadth of the inscriptions of the term "woman", regarding the different definitions of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, culture, language, etc.

By means of illustration, but not exhaustively, we present some topics and questions to be considered:
- How do the primary chronotopic conditions of the narrated events influence the discursive construction of women's life narratives?
- How does the space-time in which the works were produced delimit the production, reception, and/or circulation of discourses in women's life narratives? How does the social, historical and cultural position of women in this external chronotope shape the construction of the narrative?
- How does the space-time constructed in the life narratives allow for the visualization of the interrelation of formal, stylistic, and thematic aspects in the construction of discourses?
- Which internal chronotopes are most significant in the internal construction of women's life narratives in their various inscriptions?
- How do the external chronotopic dimensions relate to the internal chronotopic dimensions of women's life narratives?
- How do the internal/external chronotopes of different women's life narratives interrelate in the elements of their discursive constitution?
As such, this thematic issue is open to contributions from researchers who, regardless of their area of expertise, investigate the space-time dimensions in the discursive construction of life stories written by women.

The Linha D’Água journal welcomes submissions in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish. To access the submission guidelines, please click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Linha D'Água is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline closed: April 30th, 2025.

Expected Publication: December 2025.

Guest Editors:

Vânia Lúcia Menezes Torga
vltorga@uol.com.br
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC), Brazil.

Vanessa Fonseca Barbosa
vanessafonbar@usp.br
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil.

Yuri Andrei Batista Santos
batista.yuriandrei@gmail.com
Université Paris Cité, France.

Girlandia Gesteira Santos
girlandiagesteira@yahoo.com.br
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC), Brasil.

Ana Cláudia Guimarães Senna
anaguisenna@hotmail.com
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC), Brasil.
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New Issue Published - Vol. 37, No. 3 (2024)

2024-09-30

The journal Linha D'Água (USP, Brazil) has just published a new issue on the theme: "Language/Languages in Textual, Enunciative, and Discursive Studies."

The aim of this issue was to highlight the importance of the theme of language/languages in discursive interaction across different social spheres, such as political, legal, religious, educational, academic, media, artistic-literary, and digital contexts.

From various theoretical perspectives, readers will find articles analyzing political texts, literary texts, legal texts, teacher education, social media discourse analysis, reflections on argumentation, work with the deaf community, as well as the translation of an article by Marianne Doury (Université Paris Cité/Campus Saint Germain) and Christian Plantin (Université Lyon 2), and an interview with Joaquim Dolz, Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Université de Genève, Switzerland. This significant collection of texts is based on the notion of language/languages in different discursive interactions, underscoring how the discourse process encompasses linguistic markers in the enunciative-discursive life process.

The thematic dossier was guest-edited by Prof. Dr. Maria Inês Batista Campos Noel Ribeiro (USP, Brazil), Prof. Dr. Maria das Graças Soares Rodrigues (UFRN, Brazil), and Prof. Dr. Sueli Cristina Marquesi (PUC-SP, Brazil).

We invite everyone to access the articles in the dossier, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13483
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New Issue Published - Vol. 37, No. 2 (2024)

2024-06-10

The journal Linha D'Água (USP, Brazil) has just published a new issue on the theme: "Linguistics and Health Literacy: Crossing Perspectives."

The scientific contributions that make up the thematic dossier "Linguistics and Health Literacy: Crossing Perspectives" illustrate the richness of a multidisciplinary vision, combining, on one hand, theoretical and methodological approaches from language sciences and, on the other hand, a focus on topics that support health literacy. This creates the guiding thread of the dossier. The collection of 12 contributions and a review share the common goal of presenting foundations, strategies, and results that promote and help improve health literacy.

The thematic dossier was guest-edited by Prof. Dr. Raquel Silva (CLUNL / VOH.CoLAB, Portugal) and Prof. Dr. Sara Carvalho (CLLC / CLUNL, Portugal).

We invite everyone to access the articles in the dossier, which is available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13356
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New Issue - v. 37, n. 1 (2024)

2024-03-15

The journal Linha D'Água (USP, Brazil) has just released a new issue with the theme: "Dialogue between Brazil and Portugal in Textual and Discourse Studies."

In this issue, 13 articles are gathered, focusing on the relationship between language, text, and discourse from various perspectives: Cognitive Linguistics, Textual Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory, and Dialogical Theory.

The two opening texts of the issue are grounded in Conceptual Metaphor studies, within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The issue continues with a set of four texts that, to a greater or lesser extent, are anchored in textual studies, either from the perspective of Textual Discourse Analysis or Textual Linguistics. Two of these articles delve into digital discursive practices, a subject that has gained much attention in the field. This is evident in three other articles that comprise the issue, as they present studies on the digital from the perspectives of Rhetoric, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Argumentation Theory. Argumentation serves as the point of articulation between the last text of the set and the following text, which theoretically examines the concept of argument. The three texts that conclude the issue are grounded, to varying degrees, in the dialogical perspective of language. The first article in this set establishes a connection with the previous set by focusing on one of the rhetorical proofs, ethos.

The issue was organized by the journal's editors, Paulo Roberto Gonçalves-Segundo (Editor-in-Chief) and Gabriel Isola-Lanzoni (Associate Editor).

We invite everyone to access the articles of the dossier, which are available at: https://revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13259
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Thematic Issue 38/1: Dialogues of Bakhtin's Work and the Circle with Other Theories and Areas of Knowledge

2024-02-08

The work of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle was produced between the late 1910s and 1975, the year of Mikhail Bakhtin's death. This period was marked by epistemological innovations in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, linguistics, education, etc., which was originated, among other factors, from intersections between different areas of knowledge and theories. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle is a concrete example that statements, including those of the scientific sphere, are constituted primarily, but not exclusively, in dialogue with other statements within the same field. These intersections will be the object of reflection in this thematic issue along two main axes:

1) The investigation of theoretical bibliographic sources derived from different theories (Marxism, philosophical idealism, linguistic idealism of Humboldt, Russian and Western European formalism, phenomenology, religious philosophy, etc.). The works in this axis should address how the perception of the sources of Bakhtinian ideas is fundamental to their understanding, i.e., how knowledge of these works illuminates aspects of Bakhtin's and the Circle's theory. Due to the complexity of the theories involved, authors are expected to propose in-depth and detailed studies on an author, a work, or a fundamental theory in the constitution of Bakhtinian thought;

2) Considering that, in contemporary times, Bakhtinian theory has come into contact with different areas of knowledge and theories, the works submitted in this axis should highlight the contributions of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle to these areas and theories. Emphasis is placed in this axis on the contemporary concept of transdisciplinarity, in which an area of knowledge is constituted by the displacement of concepts from different areas. In this context, the aim is to address how Bakhtinian theory contributes to domains assumedly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, such as education and applied linguistics in Brazil.

Linha D’Água accepts submissions in Portuguese, English, French, or Spanish. This journal is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline closed: June 30, 2024.

Estimated publication: April 2025.

To access the submission guidelines, click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Guest Editor:

Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo
Diálogo Research Group (USP/CNPq)
University of São Paulo, Brazil

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GRILLO, S. V. C.. Mikhail Bakhtin: pensador do riso, da crise e da mudança na teoria dos gêneros do discurso. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, v. 30, p. 1185-1205, 2022.

MEDVIÉDEV, P. O método formal nos estudos literários. Introdução crítica a uma poética sociológica. Tradução e notas E. V. Américo e S. Grillo. São Paulo: Contexto, 2012[1928].

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VOLOCHINOV, V. N. (CÍRCULO DE BAKHTIN). Marxismo e filosofia da linguagem. Problemas fundamentais do método sociológico na ciência da linguagem. Tradução, notas e glossário S Grillo e E. V. Américo. 3. ed. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2021[1929].
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New Issue - v. 36, n. 3 (2023)

2023-12-28

The journal Linha D'Água (USP, Brazil) has recently published a new issue with the theme: 'Teaching Argumentation.'

In this special issue, readers will find studies discussing the teaching of argumentation from various perspectives and in different curriculum components of basic and higher education. These studies provide theoretical reflections, analytical procedures suitable for didactic purposes, and teaching proposals on argumentation that can serve as a resource for educators and researchers at any level of education.

The issue comprises a collection of nineteen articles and two book reviews, divided into three axes: (i) texts discussing teacher training for teaching argumentation, (ii) texts analyzing the multiplicity of possibilities in the materialization of teaching argumentation, and (iii) texts with contributions from the exact sciences, particularly Mathematics, but also Physics.

The thematic issue had as guest editors Prof. Dr. Eduardo Lopes Piris (UESC, Brazil and Prof. Dr. Isabel Cristina Michelan de Azevedo (UFS, Brazil).

We invite everyone to access the articles in the dossier, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/issue/view/13161
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Thematic Issue 37/4: Chiffons de Papier and the Resurgence of the Epistolary: Metamorphoses, Dynamics, and Confluences

2023-11-21

In an increasingly digitalized world, hand-written letters were once the main media of communication and now face imminent extinction. The secular habit of transposing dialogs in absentia in a white piece of paper, during millennia considered ordinary, have become rare. The digital age has changed our experiences of written interaction in everyday life and from e-mail to different apps for short fragmented dialogues; we see the resurgence of modus epistolaris and these polymorphic, nomadic and paradoxical texts.

On the context of transformation, this issue of Linha D’Água has the objective precisely to analyze, in a multi and interdisciplinary perspective, the contemporaneity of the epistolary and examine the metamorphoses triggered by the rise of digital forms of communication.

We welcome reflection on the development of digital humanities, which present significant challenges to the study and analysis of epistolary discourse, insofar as the potentialities of digital technology provide access to and exploration to various dimensions that were once difficult to circumscribe and systematize, covering the philological, linguistic, historical and sociocultural levels.

This thematic issue also encourages investigations on various sides of the epistolary that attracts great interest: primarily, questioning the letter as fragmentary, autobiographical text and highly significant historical and sociological document. In parallel, the use of epistolary resources in literature, including the study of epistolary novels and pamphlet letter, as well as their presence in cinema, are desirable complementary approaches in line with the interdisciplinary dynamic that guides this issue.

The Linha D’Água journal welcomes submissions in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish and is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline (CLOSED): May 31st, 2024.

Expected Publication: December 2024.

To access the submission guidelines, please click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Guest Editors:

Isabel Roboredo Seara
irseara@gmail.com
Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal
Linguistics Research Centre of NOVA University Lisbon (CLUNL/NOVA), Portugal.

Renata Ferreira Costa
renatacosta@academico.ufs.br
Universidade Federal do Sergipe (UFS), Brazil.
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New Issue - v. 36, n. 2 (2023)

2023-08-13

The journal Linha D'Água (University of São Paulo, Brazil) has just published a new issue with the theme: "Studies in Grammar, Text, and Discourse." This special issue comprises a range of proposals that either delve into specific linguistic phenomena to gain deeper insights into texts/discourses or facilitate a better understanding of language functioning from diverse perspectives – pragmatic, semantic, and morphosyntactic – anchored in textual/discursive configurations.

The issue aims, more than the exhaustive description and analysis of grammatical, textual, and discursive phenomena, to highlight the complex relationships and interactions that are established among the various levels that, methodologically distinct, constitute the inherent dynamism of linguistic functioning, uses, and applications.

The thematic issue was edited by six professors and researchers from different Portuguese universities.

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Thematic Issue 37/3: Language(s) in textual, enunciative and discursive studies

2023-07-31

This issue aims to collect articles on language(s) in textual, enunciative and discursive studies within the scope of political, legal, religious, educational, scientific, academic, media, artistic-literary and digital spheres. We expect diverse contributions that investigate different linguistic-discursive materialities (written, spoken, verbal-visual, digital, etc.).

It's expected texts that intend to contextualize the data under investigation, establishing relations between text and discourse – and/or between them and education -, expressing the position of speakers/enunciators/actors/subjects, considering the different theoretical perspectives.

This thematic issue, dedicated to the topic of language(s) in the multiple social fields, is open to contributions from researchers, regardless of their field of work, who can offer theoretical thoughts and analytical procedures in the field of textual, enunciative and discursive studies.

The Linha D’Água journal welcomes submissions in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish and is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline closed on February 06 , 2024.

Expected Publication: September, 2024.

To access the submission guidelines, please click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Guest Editors:

Maria das Graças Soares Rodrigues
gracasrodrigues@gmail.com
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Maria Inês Batista Campos Noel Ribeiro
maricamp@usp.br
University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Sueli Cristina Marquesi
maricamp@usp.br
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil.
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New Issue - v. 36, n. 1 (2023)

2023-05-23

Em abr. 2023, foi lançado o novo número da Revista Linha D'Água, cujo tema foi: Toponímia, seus caminhos: Tradição e inovação no estudo dos nomes de lugares.

A edição foi organizada pela Profa. Dra. Patricia Carvalhinhos (USP) e pela Profa. Ma. Adiana Tavares Lima (USP).

Este dossiê temático sobre Toponímia e seus rumos tomou como diretriz as palavras-mote tradição e inovação. A chamada captou contribuições que ilustram esses direcionamentos e são provenientes de pesquisadores de diferentes partes do Brasil e de outros países, permitindo-nos associar os nove artigos aprovados em três grupos distintos. Além disso, o número conta com duas entrevistas; a primeira, de um professor português e, a segunda, de uma professora italiana.

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Thematic Issue 37/1: JADIS IX & CIED IV

2023-03-13

This call for papers is intended for participants of the JADIS IX - CIED IV Meeting, which took place on the 12th, 13th and 14th of October 2022, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto, under the motto: “Past, Present and Future: discussing the relevance of Discourse Studies”.

The call is launched simultaneously in the journals Linha D’Água and REDIS, which will organize a thematic issue each, destined to the publication of works of this Scientific Event. Participants must submit their proposal to one of the two journals. The objective is that the two issues absorb all the works sent and selected through the peer review system.

This thematic issue will thus bring together articles resulting from the communications, plenaries and workshops presented at the Meeting, which must comply with the “Submission Rules” of the journals (Linha D’Água paper submission instructions; REDIS instructions for authors).

The theme of the event started from the recognition of the multifaceted and dispersed character of the currents of analysis and coexisting schools in the area, launching the challenge for an integrated reflection on the object of discourse and its scientific and social relevance. Each proposal presented at the Meeting contributed to demonstrating the said relevance and to favoring the dialogue between the theoretical-methodological proposals, highlighting what they have in common.

NEW submission deadline: July 15, 2023.

Publication preview: April 2024.

Guest Editors for the Special Issue

Paulo Roberto Gonçalves-Segundo
Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences. University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Alexandra Guedes Pinto
Faculty of Arts and Humanities. University of Porto (Portugal)

Zilda Aquino
Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences. University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Gabriel Isola-Lanzoni
Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences. University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Vanessa Anachoreta
Faculty of Arts and Humanities. University of Porto (Portugal)
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Thematic Issue 37/2: Linguistics and health literac(ies): crossing perspectives

2023-02-11
This call focuses on the concept of health literacy, which refers to the motivation and set of abilities each individual has or should have to access, understand, assess and use information about health. Therefore, health literacy is currently a pivotal axis in what concerns public health, both at a national and international level.

In addition to its relevance as a gateway to health education as a right, health literacy also contributes to improving people’s lives by expanding their cognitive skills and by fostering behavioural changes.

However, despite the relatively easy access to health-related information nowadays, several international health literacy assessment questionnaires conclude that a vast majority of individuals struggle to fully grasp that information. Understanding the discourse from a healthcare professional, assimilating information about the way a given medicine is taken, discerning the results of diagnostic examinations, or reading and completing an informed consent before a medical procedure represent some of the challenges depicted in the literature addressing this topic.

International studies show a strong correlation between education, literacy level and one’s state of health, indicating that there is, indeed, a connection between an individual’s literacy and his/her respective ability to understand, argue, question or simply act upon his/her health.

On the other hand, health literacy plays a key role in citizen action by empowering people to make informed decisions and stimulating their autonomy in preventing disease and managing their own health. In short, it is based on the notion of citizen engagement (active involvement), aiming at beneficial impacts for society, such as promoting equity in healthcare access and contributing towards the sustainability of healthcare systems.

Within this scope, language sciences constitute a critical pillar in the development of health literacy as being increasingly effective, efficient and, above all, humanised.

Given the preceding background, we believe it is extremely relevant to dedicate a special issue to the topic of health literacy, highlighting its diverse perspectives and shapes, hence the reference to health literac(ies) in the title.

In order to foster knowledge sharing and to further stimulate reflection, we encourage the submission of original articles, therefore inviting the contribution of specialists, researchers and students whose studies or academic results relate to this topic. We particularly welcome inter- or multidisciplinary studies which emphasise the contribution of language and communication sciences to the promotion of health literacy.

The articles may be more theoretical or methodological in scope or, in turn, oriented towards the presentation of results, as long as the general perspective is centred on the citizen/patient, and may include more traditional formats, as well as others more oriented towards digital health literacy.

The approaches may be diverse, including:
- the analysis of language usage in its various dimensions, through lexical, semantic and morphosyntactic studies;
- the description of grammatical, discursive and textual phenomena, with a view to argumentative and/or descriptive analysis;
- the analysis of specialised phraseology, recurrent in the healthcare domain;
- the use of discourse popularisation for the purposes of effective communication;
- the exercise of terminology popularisation, maintaining the precision and its respective adequacy to the overall communication purpose;
- the use of plain language techniques;
- the discourse mediation between healthcare professionals/patients and expert patients/patients;
- the creation of terminological resources and glossaries with simple and clear explanations or definitions;
- the use of knowledge organisation to aid the understanding of healthcare concepts;
- the design of information materials for health literacy, aimed at the different user profiles and based on the assessment of their needs;
- the creation of storytelling or podcast content as alternative formats for conveying health information;
- the use of narrative medicine techniques, as a practice anchored in the attention to language and to stories, based on the experiences lived and reported by patients;
- the application of health literacy assessment tools to observe aspects of comprehension or perception of health information.
The Linha D’Água journal welcomes submissions in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish and is indexed in: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, among others.

Submission deadline closed on October 31st, 2023.

Publication preview: June, 2024.

To access the submission guidelines, please click on https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Guest Editors:

Raquel Silva
raq.silva@fcsh.unl.pt / raquel.silva@vohcolab.org
NOVA CLUNL – Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Portugal.
VOH.CoLAB – Laboratório Colaborativo Value For Health CoLAB / Portugal.

Sara Carvalho
sara.carvalho@ua.pt
NOVA CLUNL – Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Portugal.
CLLC - Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da Universidade de Aveiro / Portugal.
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New Issue - v. 35, n. 3 (2022)

2022-12-05

Em dez. 2022, foi lançado o novo número da Revista Linha D'Água, cujo tema foi: Estudos comparativistas – Literatura comparada & estudos interartes.

A edição foi organizada pelo Prof. Me. Yuri Andrei Batista Santos (UParis, França/Diálogo-USP), pela Profa. Dra. Daniela Nienkötter Sardá (Diálogo-USP) e pelo Prof. Dr. Urbano Cavalcante Filho (IFBA/UESC/Diálogo-USP).

O número contou com contribuições de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores de diversas universidades brasileiras e estrangeiras. Na seção artigos, foram dez os textos aprovados, além da tradução de um artigo recentemente publicado na revista L’Annuaire théâtrale (atual Percées – Explorations en arts vivants). O número conta, além disso, com uma entrevista com uma pesquisadora e escritora brasileira da área da literatura, e com a resenha de uma obra publicada este ano pela editora Pontes, intitulada “Tradução, comparatismo e estudos interartes”.

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Thematic Issue 36/3: Teaching Argumentation

2022-10-05

The argument is presented in this call as central to gather articles and academic essays that highlight how this object of knowledge has been approached by those who are concerned with the teaching practices carried out in basic education and higher education, mainly in Brazil, but also in many countries of the so-called West.

Linha D’água expects manuscripts that discuss the teaching of argumentation from different perspectives, so that it is possible to know different ways to develop argumentative abilities and/or competences at different educational levels, in alignment with social language practices and different modalities of argumentative interaction .

Multiliterate social practices, educational demands and educational systems are already showing signs that pedagogical practices need to go beyond the traditional teaching model of writing dissertations and academic essays; therefore, there is an expectation that the submitted manuscripts can explore proposals that are associated with contemporary demands for language use.

For these reasons, this thematic issue dedicated to the teaching of argumentation is open to contributions from scholars who, regardless of their area of expertise, can offer theoretical reflections, analytical procedures capable of teaching and proposals for teaching argumentation that serve as a subsidy for teachers who work at any level of education.

Thus, this thematic issue intends to bring together in the same space important discussions that innovate the theoretical, methodological, analytical and didactic scope regarding the teaching of argumentation in Brazil and in other countries.

Linha D’Água accepts works in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, and is indexed in the main databases: Web of Science - Clarivate (ESCI), MLA, MIAR, Latindex, REDIB, Linguistic Bibliography, DOAJ, and more.

NEW submission deadline: April 30, 2023.

Issue publication: December 2023.

To access the submission rules, click https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Guest Editors:

Professor Eduardo Lopes Piris (UESC, Brazil)

Professor Isabel Cristina Michelan de Azevedo (UFS, Brazil)
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New Issue - v. 35, n. 2 (2022)

2022-09-01

Em ago. 2022, foi lançado o novo número da Revista Linha D'Água, cujo tema foi: A análise de discursos comparativa e outras abordagens comparativistas em ciências da linguagem.

A edição foi organizada pela Profa. Dra. Daniela Nienkötter Sardá (Diálogo-USP), pelo Prof. Dr. Urbano Cavalcante Filho (IFBA/UESC/Diálogo-USP) e pelo Prof. Me. Yuri Andrei Batista Santos (UParis, França/Diálogo-USP).

O número contou com contribuições de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores de diversas universidades brasileiras e estrangeiras. Na seção artigos, foram nove os textos aprovados, além da tradução de um artigo recente publicado na revista francesa Langage & Société. O número conta, além disso, com duas entrevistas — uma nacional e outra internacional — e com a resenha de uma obra recentemente publicada no exterior sobre análise de discursos e comparação.

O número pode ser acessado pela aba "ATUAL" ou clicando aqui.
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Thematic Issue 36/2: Studies in Grammar, Text, and Discourse

2022-05-22

This call for papers is intended for the participants in the 7th GRATO – International Conference on Grammar & Text, which took place online from the 18th to the 21st of November 2021, organized by the research group Grammar & Text (G&T) of the Linguistics Center of the NOVA University of Lisbon (CLUNL).

This edition of the Linha D’Água journal will bring together articles that contribute to the deepening of the relationship between grammar and text/discourse as a space for convergences and interactions. The research work presented and discussed in them can be developed in different theoretical-methodological frameworks and may also focus on the treatment of topics from different domains of linguistic functioning and activity: morphology, semantics, text theory and discourse analysis, from synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

The journal is indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science), Latindex, DOAJ, REDIB, MLA, Linguistic Bibliography, EZB, Diadorim, Google Scholar, and Portal de Periódicos da CAPES.

Please note that submitted articles must be in accordance with the "Submission Guidelines" of Linha D'Água: https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/about/submissions

Submission deadline: November 30, 2022.

The thematic issue will be published in August, 2023.

Guest editors:

Helena Topa Valentim (NOVA FCSH / CLUNL)

Matilde Gonçalves (NOVA FCSH / CLUNL)

Teresa Oliveira (IP Portalegre – ESECS / CLUNL)

Isabelle Simões Marques (Universidade Aberta / CLUNL)

Carla Teixeira (IP Lisboa -ESE / CLUNL)

Rute Rosa (CLUNL)
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Atualização da plataforma de publicação de Linha d'Água

2019-01-10

No início de agosto de 2018, o Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas da Universidade de São Paulo /SIBi atualizou a plataforma de publicações de periódicos da Universidade, Open Journal Systems/ OJS. A mudança tem como objetivo oferecer a autores, avaliadores, editores um ambiente mais interativo tornando o processo editorial mais rápido no envio dos textos até sua publicação.

O processo de submissão dos artigos sofreu alterações.Os autores na revista, ao acessarem o site da Linha d'Água para submeter o artigo, são direcionados a uma área interna da plataforma, onde estão disponíveis todos os formulários e instruções de submissão, e por onde o envio de arquivos será realizado. Toda a comunicação com os editores, da submissão à publicação, pode agora ser realizada nessa dessa área interna da plataforma com grande agilidade.

Caso alguém se depare com algum problema no funcionamento no espaço digital, estamos às ordens e para isso basta entrar em contato conosco no email

ldagua@usp.br
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