Area of Concentration and Research Lines

Area of concentration: Language and Culture

The Area of Concentration “Language and Culture” enables an articulated dialogue between the lines of research, the faculty's research projects and the subjects that make up the Program's Curricular Structure, focusing on producing research and studies around the universe of the concepts of culture, thought of as all ways of life, and language, as all forms of expression and production of human meanings. This articulation turns to thinking about the social place in which the Federal University of Acre is located, in a strategic position in the South-Western Amazon, on the tri-national border Brazil-Bolivia-Peru, a macro-region that interconnects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and its social, linguistic and identity transits. For this reason, considering the social role of the university and of a postgraduate program intertwined with its socio-geographical context, the focus of Language and Culture is to house and foster studies and research aimed at producing knowledge that helps to unveil the Amazonian and Pan-Amazonian universes, with special attention to the regional ethnic, linguistic and cultural peculiarities and diversity as part of the “all-world” with which it relates.

Research Line: Language(s) and Teacher Training

It brings together studies focused on situations of contact between languages, languages and the teaching-learning of Mother Tongue (LM), Foreign Languages (FL) and Indigenous Languages (IL) of the Amazonian and Pan-Amazonian universes. It also focuses on research related to the description, analysis and documentation of indigenous languages, as well as reading and writing practices and linguistic analysis and literacy in relation to teacher training and performance and its interfaces with the production of teaching materials for basic education.

Professors linked to the research line (Quadrennium 2021-2024)

Permanent teachers

Aline Suelen Santos

Juciane dos Santos Cavalheiro

Paula Tatiana da Silva Antunes

Queila Barbosa Lopes

Shelton Lima de Souza

Simone Cordeiro Oliveira Pinheiro

Valda Inês Fontenele Pessoa

Collaborating teachers

Elizabeth Miranda de Lima

Ligiane Pessoa dos Santos Bonifácio

Subjects linked to the line of research

Linguistic Theories and Discourses
Research Seminar I
Culture, Education and Educational Practices
Ethnolinguistics
Social History of Languages in Amazonia
Reading and Writing in Indigenous Societies
Language Teaching, Production and Analysis of Contemporary Teaching Materials
Sociolinguistics
Special Topics I
Special Topics II

Research Line: Amazonian Cultures, Narratives and Identities

It focuses on the formulation of research on historical and literary narratives of the Amazonian universes, focusing on the study of cultural practices, languages, discourse analysis and processes of constitution of Amazonian and pan-Amazonian identities.

Professors linked to the research line (Quadrennium 2021-2024)

Permanent teachers

Elderson Melo de Miranda

Francielle Maria Modesto Mendes

Francisco Aquinei Timoteo Queiros

Francisco Bento da Silva

Gerson Rodrigues de Albuquerque

Marcello Messina

Maria de Jesus Morais

Collaborating teachers

Andrea Martini

Lucieneida Dovao Praun