Research Lines

Research Line I: Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

This research line focuses on the study of the linguistic system of the mother tongue and foreign languages. It allows for investigation in phonology, lexicology, lexicography, dialectology, geolinguistics, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and other aspects of linguistic description and analysis. The line provides theoretical and methodological deepening in linguistic analysis, contributing to the advancement of studies on the linguistic system.

Research Line II: Applied Linguistics

This line emphasizes theories and approaches of applied linguistics for teaching foreign and native languages, language teacher training, language and educational policies, new technologies in language teaching, literacy, and the analysis and production of teaching materials. It aims to contribute to the development of methods and approaches in applied linguistics research and teaching-related issues.

Research Line III: Text, Discourse, and History

This line develops research projects focused on the epistemology and history of linguistic ideas—investigating how linguistic knowledge is constituted and transformed over time. It analyzes how concepts, methods, theories, materials, and linguistic instruments were developed, and how languages and language studies were conceived, evaluated, and institutionalized. In its interface with discourse studies, the line addresses theoretical and practical reflections on the text as a dialogical entity, investigating the production, circulation, and reception of discourse(s) using French Discourse Analysis methods, considering their heteroclite density in shaping historical meanings and social subjects.

Research Line IV: Brazilian Sign Language

This line conducts research across various linguistic fields focused on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and its relation to bilingual education and social inclusion of the deaf. Topics include: (a) theories and methods of studying the visual-spatial modality of sign languages; (b) teaching and learning Libras as L1 and L2, teacher training, and bilingual education for the deaf; (c) documentation, description, and linguistic analysis of Libras; (d) relationships between sign language, culture, and deaf identity; (e) sign language acquisition; (f) writing systems for sign languages; (g) teaching Portuguese as L2 to deaf students; (h) translation/interpreting in sign languages.

Research Line V: Literature, History, and Imagination

This line investigates the relationships between literature and historical, cultural, and social processes; the historicity of literary discourse; literary history and historiography; regionalism and literature from Tocantins. It also examines the study of imagination and symbolic/mythical procedures in literature, using an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates theories and methods from history, anthropology, sociology, and psychoanalysis.

Research Line VI: Theory, Criticism, and Comparativism

This research line addresses the relationships between literary theories and literary criticism, including philosophical, critical, and epistemological dimensions in literary and comparative studies. It explores connections between literature and other arts and media, literature and cultural, postcolonial, and gender studies, reception aesthetics, and literature teaching. It also examines interfaces between literary theory and comparative literature, postmodernity, postcoloniality, intertextual and interdisciplinary relations.