PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES

Portuguese Linguistic and Cultural Complexity: A Multidisciplinary Journey Joana Cortez-Smyth, Anabela Fernandes & Rui Abel Pereira (eds.) University of Coimbra This volume offers an in-depth exploration of Portuguese linguistic and cultural complexity through a multidisciplinary lens, integrating historical, sociolinguistic, literary, and pedagogical perspectives. The introductory chapter provides a foundation for foreign students and researchers by tracing the evolution of Portuguese from its Latin origins and detailing its geographical expansion, emphasizing the language’s pluricentric character and distinct features. Subsequent chapters expand the scope by analyzing the survival of minority languages such as Mirandese, the intricacies of Portuguese Sign Language, and shifts in contemporary Portuguese fiction. The volume culminates with innovative methodological insights via podcast- based language teaching, demonstrating the intersection between tradition and technological innovation. Through critical synthesis of these diverse topics, the work highlights the interplay of language, identity, and communication, affirming the rich tapestry of cultural and linguistic diversity within Portuguese-speaking communities. This collection invites readers to engage critically with the challenges and opportunities that arise from historical roots, plural identities, and the contemporary demands of language instruction. Overall, the volume aims to foster nuanced understanding and scholarly engagement with the multifaceted nature of Portuguese language and culture in an increasingly interconnected world. ISBN 9783969392706. LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics 89. 78pp. 2025. Portuguese Pronunciation & Accents Luciano Canepari University of Venice This book applies the principles of Natural Phonetics & Tonetics to describe the pronunciation of Portuguese, including intonation, in a precise way never found in earlier treatises. It includes an introduction to the Natural Phonotonetics Method, which can be used for any other language, as well (without the sadly known limitations of official IPA). The vowels, consonants, structures, and intonation of Portuguese are fully described and transcribed, with many examples of words, sentences, and conversations, in addition to the intonationally integrated IPA sample passage ‘The North Wind and the Sun’. Different types of Portuguese pronunciation are fully described (with clear phonic maps): international, neutral, traditional, mediatic. In addition, the neutral, mediatic and broad pronunciations currently used in Brazil (16 koinés), Lusitania (12 koinés and some subdivisions), and Atlantic and Africa (adding Macau and East Timor, for 9 koinés) are extensively treated. Other chapters provide some foreign accents of Portuguese and 26 concise language phonopses and all orograms for easier comparisons. A mini-phono-dictionary contains more than 1000 words, mainly Names. ISBN 9783862888467 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 23. 260 pp. 2017. Exercícios de morfologia do português Alexandra Soares Rodrigues Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Universidade de Coimbra Este livro contém exercícios sobre morfologia do português. Nestes exercícios são trabalhadas as noções de morfema, a morfologia flexional, a morfologia derivacional e a formação de palavras, de modo geral, e as relações entre a morfologia, a semântica, a sintaxe e a fonologia. O livro é constituído por duas partes. A primeira parte consta das fichas de exercícios; a segunda parte consta da resolução das mesmas. As respostas oferecidas na segunda parte visam explicitar não só a solução para os exercícios, mas também a resolução de muitas dúvidas que vulgarmente se oferecem aos estudantes deste domínio da linguística. Como tal, este volume não deve ser tido como um simples livro de exercícios, mas como um manual de explanação de problemas de morfologia. O volume integra ainda uma lista de bibliografia essencial actual sobre morfologia. Alexandra Soares Rodrigues é Professora Adjunta do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, onde lecciona disciplinas de Linguística. É membro do Centro de Estudos de Linguística Geral. This book contains exercises on Portuguese morphology. In these exercises we will focus on notions on the morpheme, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology and word formation, in general, and on the relationships between morphology, semantics, syntax and phonology. The book consists of two parts. The first part consists of exercises; the second part consists of the resolution of those exercises. The answers that are offered in the second part aim to explain not only the solution to the exercises, but also the resolution of many doubts that students of morphology commonly have. Therefore, this volume should not be taken as a simple exercise book, but as a manual that explains problems of morphology. The volume also contains a list of current essential bibliography on morphology. Alexandra Soares Rodrigues is Associated Professor at the Escola Superior de Educação of the Instituto Politécnico de Bragança and researcher of the Centro de Estudos de Linguística Geral e Aplicada of the University of Coimbra. LINCOM Coursebooks in Linguistics 20. 106pp. 2012. ISBN 9783862885091 (print) ISBN 9783862902248 (e-book)