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Maggie Bertolacci is a master’s student in Linguistics at Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines de l’Université Laval (Québec, Canada). At the moment, she is doing a research internship at Academia das Ciências de Lisboa and at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (NOVA FCSH) with the professors Ana Salgado and Rute Costa. For her master’s thesis (director: Bruno Courbon, Université Laval), she is studying the lexicon expressing slowness in French (Québec, France) and in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil). Her approach is a corpus semantic study comparing the contexts of use (text theme, sentence construction, co-occurrence,…) of selected lexical unities linked to the notion of slowness (ex. lenteur-lentidão; ralentir-abrandar) in the two idioms (interlinguistic approach) and between the four cultural regions (intercultural approach). The main domains of her thesis are semantic, lexicology and lexicography.