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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.

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She is a researcher of the Grammar & Tex group, and develops work mainly in the domain of text theory. At present she is an Adjunct Professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas, where she teaches Portuguese language and Linguistics courses for initial teacher training students.

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