Associate Professor with aggregation at the Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, Institute of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho, Portugal. She is a researcher at CEHUM, the Centre for Humanistic Studies at the University of Minho, and her main research areas are discourse analysis, with special emphasis on political, journalistic and everyday oral discourses.
PhD in Language Sciences (since 2000), specialization area of Portuguese Linguistics, from the University of Minho, she has participated, as coordinator and team member, in research projects in these areas, has supervised Master’s, PhD and post-doctoral studies, and has written papers in national and international publications.