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. doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

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. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cade… #OpenScience #TOPGuidelines

Brazil’s 2019 literacy policy promoted phonics as a simple solution. This study shows that common phonics activities can confuse learners and lead teachers to think that children have reading problems when they do not. doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

Strong gender balance, solid international participation, and meaningful contributions from Indigenous scholars mark the recent Diversity, Equity & Inclusion profile of Cadernos de Linguística, a signatory of the C4DISC Statement of Principles. Report: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cade…

Fernanda A Rezende shows that Brazilian Portuguese verb stress follows trochaic rhythm and verb morphology, not syllable weight, explaining contrasts like bate versus bati. doi.org/10.25189/2675-… #langsky #linguistics

Gabriel do Nascimento Santana maps Abraham Weintraub’s ministerial speech, where lines like “I would put these vagabonds in jail” feed an antidemocratic us versus them story in the Bolsonaro government. #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

In Brazilian Portuguese, the type of entity being talked about changes how speakers refer to it again in a story. Lira and Corrêa show that this factor drives the choice between saying the noun again, using a pronoun, or leaving it unspoken. doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

Cadernos de Linguística is now a PCI RR-friendly journal. This means authors can publish Registered Reports in Cad_Lin directly through recommendations from PCI Registered Reports — speeding up open, transparent, community-driven science. More details: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cade…

Readers often feel that poems and magazine covers teem with metaphor while scientific texts seem restrained. Dalby Dienstbach shows how cues of metaphoricity guide that intuition across genres. #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

As Associate Editor of Cadernos de Linguística, works on materialist Discourse Analysis, Spanish language education, and studies of discourse, memory, culture and decolonial perspectives in Latin America. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cade…

Luiz Ferreira shows how Karitiana expresses desire through three routes: the suffix wak for wanting something for oneself, the verb pyting for wanting events involving others, and the verb py’eep for rejecting an outcome. #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

With Bolsonaro under arrest for trying to sabotage Brazilian democracy, front pages now show the end of a project that treated lives as collateral. this paper analyzes how a cover turned “Brazil above all” into an accusation over COVID 19 deaths. doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

Whitney calls language a social institution. Saussure calls it an institution with no counterpart. Núbia Rabelo Bakker Faria tracks how this shift opens the way for a formal view of linguistic systems. #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

Oliveira, Albuquerque, and Cunha analyze how a satirical video of Bolsonaro ignited a firestorm of insults and polarization on Facebook. The line between digital fiction and political hate blurs as users weaponize their version of the truth. doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

Does a school desk promise personal glory or community hope? Fernanda Mota Pereira contrasts these views in English literature. In Thiong'o's work, learning lifts a village. In Shaw's, it often feeds vanity. A vital call to decolonize English teaching. doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

Associate Editor Felix Ameka, emeritus linguistics professor at Leiden University, brings expertise on West African languages, ethnolinguistic vitality and cross-cultural pragmatics to Cadernos de Linguística. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cade…

Ângela Alves de Araújo Barbosa studies how academic voices talk to each other inside the theoretical discussion section of dissertations, using Bakhtin and Amossy to show how otherness steers argumentative writing. doi.org/10.25189/2675-… #linguistics

A new article analyzes how "Disneyfication" in Snow White perpetuates stigmas regarding dwarfism. The authors show that changing the technology doesn't change the message if the "reading of the world" remains stuck in the circus and mockery. doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

The new Disney Snow White raises questions about how films teach us to view different bodies. Drawing on Paulo Freire, this article examines what the CGI “solution” reveals about representation and its limits. Read the full article: doi.org/10.25189/2675-…

How do classic stories teach us to read certain bodies in limited ways? Drawing on Paulo Freire, this new article examines how narrative traditions keep reinforcing narrow interpretive paths. Read it here: doi.org/10.25189/2675-…