This issue of the newsletter opens with that journey, told by three authors who recently published in Cadernos de Linguística. Their experiences help show, from the inside, some of the commitments that guide the journal. They also set the stage for an important institutional announcement: Cadernos de Linguística’s entry into the Open Journals Collective, an international network dedicated to the sustainability of Diamond Open Access.

We then turn to six new publications: the intonation of synthetic speech compared to human speech, the vocal expressiveness of teachers, a project for a corpus of stuttered speech, the history of Portuguese-language teaching in Brazilian Linguistics, the discursive action of ANTRA, and the dossier on media, technologies, and artificial intelligence.

An article’s journey, told by those who lived it

We invited three authors who recently published in the journal to share how they experienced the path from submission to final version. Ramon de Almeida Miranda, with Ana Maria Sá Martins, is the author of the research report The discursive representation of Yglésio Moyses (PRTB) on the “Abrindo o Verbo” podcast, part of the dossier presented later in this issue. Neuda Lago wrote English-Language Literatures and Social Justice: critical, decolonial, and praxeological perspectives. Leandro Silveira de Araujo published The Emergence of Brazilian Grammar for Portuguese as a Foreign Language and the Contribution of Hermine W. Topker (1942), on the pioneering work in teaching Portuguese to foreigners in Brazil.

Ramon draws attention to the collaborative nature of peer review. Commenting on the reading done by Iran Ferreira de Melo and Lilian Noemia Guimarães, he recognizes that the reviewers’ contributions became part of the article’s own history:

Publishing in Cadernos de Linguística, I noticed that the commitment and attention given to both the article and the authors is a hallmark of the journal. From review to the final editing stage, every detail was handled with great care. First, I want to highlight that the contributions of reviewers Iran Ferreira de Melo and Lilian Noemia Guimarães were rigorous and significantly helped the research mature. So the richness of the work also carries a bit of each of them.

Another aspect Ramon mentions is accessibility. For him, thinking about scientific production for different audiences integrates the commitment to democratizing knowledge:

I was also struck by the journal’s concern with the accessibility of texts, which reinforces that scientific production should be designed for everyone, from a perspective of inclusion, diversity, and the democratization of knowledge. After all, a scientific text that cannot speak to different audiences loses part of its transformative potential.

He closes by linking publication to the social circulation of research:

It is very rewarding to see research developed at the university reach greater visibility through a journal committed to scientific quality and the dissemination of knowledge. So I want to express my joy at the opportunity to publish in Cadernos de Linguística and to help broaden discussions about discourse, spark critical perspectives, and perhaps contribute to transforming the social practices around us.

Neuda Lago describes the journal from a double vantage point, as both reader and author, and highlights the chance to bring together literature, language, education, and social justice:

My experience with Cadernos de Linguística has been very positive, both as a reader and as an author. The publication of the article “English-Language Literatures and Social Justice: critical, decolonial, and praxeological perspectives” was especially meaningful, as it brings together central threads of my trajectory as a researcher and teacher. In it, I think of literary education as a practice of reading and interpretation, but also as a space for listening, critical reflection, and confronting different forms of inequality and exclusion. Finding, in the journal, a space open to dialogue among literature, language, education, and social justice mattered a great deal to me. I also want to highlight the care, warmth, and clarity of the editorial team throughout the whole process. I feel honored to be part of a publication committed to academic rigor while also circulating critical, socially relevant perspectives.

Leandro Silveira de Araujo observes how the different stages of the editorial workflow work together toward improving the manuscript:

Publishing in Cadernos de Linguística was a memorable experience. I went through an editorial process quite different from what we’re used to in Linguistics, both in Brazil and abroad. Although the workflow has multiple stages, it’s clear that each one aims to give the final scientific work greater quality. The attention and care of the whole editorial team stand out for a precise, agile process that attends to every detail.

The three accounts describe a process of interlocution. Reviewers take part in the maturing of the research, authors find room to spell out the social dimension of their work, and editorial decisions work to broaden the possibilities for reading and using the texts.

From editorial care to a shared infrastructure

The relationship between editorial care and infrastructure also shows up in Cadernos de Linguística’s entry into the Open Journals Collective (OJC). The initiative brings together researchers, libraries, university presses, and nonprofit academic organizations working to build more sustainable and equitable forms of scholarly communication.

Under Diamond Open Access, authors don’t pay to publish and readers face no financial barriers to accessing the work. Even without charging fees, the journal still has to cover platforms, preservation, DOI registration, file preparation, metadata production, accessibility, and outreach, activities that require ongoing infrastructure and labor. The OJC aims precisely to strengthen journals that carry out this work without passing the costs on to authors or readers.

Joining the collective gives international visibility to a model the journal has practiced since its founding. Published by the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin), Cadernos de Linguística maintains editorial independence, academic governance, and fully open access, with no revenue from APCs or subscriptions. Read the full announcement on the journal’s site, and see the journal’s dedicated page in the OJC catalogue, which gathers information on funding, publication languages, access policy, and institutional affiliation.

By joining the network, the journal comes to share challenges, solutions, and responsibilities with other community-led initiatives. The care described by the authors depends on institutional conditions able to sustain it over the long run.

Where human speech still stands apart from synthetic speech

In Exploring Intonational Contours in Human and Synthetic Speech: An F0-Based Study of Venezuelan Spanish, João Paulo Moraes Lima dos Santos (IF Sertão Pernambucano) and Eugenia San Segundo (CSIC) investigate a dimension that global acoustic measures don’t always capture: how fundamental frequency unfolds over time.

The study compares declarative and interrogative sentences produced by human speakers with synthetic renderings built from the same linguistic material. The voices generated by synthesis systems reproduce the broad intonational patterns associated with sentence type. The difference shows up in the details of the trajectory: human speech shows more localized shifts and greater internal variation, especially toward the end of sentences, while synthetic speech tends to smooth out the movement and produce gentler contours.

That divergence doesn’t show up as clearly in measures like overall F0 range or whole-utterance variability. The results indicate that assessing the naturalness of synthetic speech should include, alongside aggregate acoustic measures, the shape of the contour and how it develops over time.

The voice of those who teach

Voice is also examined as a professional instrument in Perceptual Analysis of Teachers’ Speech Expressiveness After Speech-Language Intervention, by Patricia Brianne da Costa Penha, Bárbara Tayná Santos Eugênio da Silva Dantas, Giordanna Emanuelle Ramos Nascimento, and Maria Fabiana Bonfim de Lima-Silva (UFPB).

Four teachers from a public school in Paraíba took part in weekly workshops on breathing, articulation, frequency and intensity modulation, resonance, and vocal warm-up. Before and after the intervention, samples of reading and classroom speech were recorded and later assessed by three evaluators using the VPA-PB protocol.

The preliminary results point to a reduction in hyperfunctional adjustments and roughness, an increase in frequency and intensity variation, and improved breath support. The study looks at vocal health in relation to expressiveness, prosodic flexibility, and phonatory effort, dimensions that affect classroom communication and how teachers relate to their daily work.

Understanding stuttering as a rhythmic process

Sandra Merlo (Unicamp) and Luciana Lucente (UFMG) present, in Building a Corpus to Analyze Stuttering According to a Dynamic Model of Speech Rhythm Production, the design for a corpus of stuttered speech in Brazilian Portuguese.

The article lays out the corpus design, its hypotheses, and the decisions that will guide data collection and annotation; at this stage, no empirical results are yet presented. The project is meant to gather data from children, adolescents, and adults, covering different degrees and profiles of stuttering, coexistence with cluttering, and recordings made before and after behavioral treatment.

Its key shift in perspective lies in not separating disfluencies from the rest of speech, and not treating them as a separate phenomenon. Drawing on the Dynamic Model of Speech Rhythm, stuttered and non-stuttered intervals will be examined as parts of a single, continuous temporal process. Vowel-to-vowel unit duration, rhythmic variability, the organization of stress groups, and clinical variables can then be analyzed together.

How Linguistics came to think about teaching Portuguese

In O ensino de Língua Portuguesa na História da Linguística brasileira (”The teaching of Portuguese in the history of Brazilian Linguistics”), Leonardo Gueiros (UFPB) traces four decades of debate, from the institutionalization of Linguistics in Brazil in the 1960s to the field’s consolidation and diversification by the late 1990s.

The article shows that the discipline’s presence in universities created the conditions for research oriented toward problems in teaching. From the second half of the 1970s on, discussions of grammar, reading, and writing began to incorporate a view of language as a socio-discursive practice. Sociolinguistics, Text Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis helped challenge the equation of Portuguese-language teaching with the transmission of normative rules, and put linguistic diversity at the center of the educational debate.

The history reconstructed there traces, beyond the theories themselves, the institutions, associations, journals, collective projects, and people who created the conditions for new ideas about language and teaching to be produced and to circulate across the country.

When a pamphlet becomes a form of action

Language appears in an even more explicitly interventionist role in Ação social e discursiva da Cartilha “Não existe cadeia humanizada!” da Associação Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais no combate à transfobia (ANTRA) (”The social and discursive action of the pamphlet ‘There is no humanized prison!’ by the National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals in the fight against transphobia”), by Marcos Antonio Rodrigues Nascimento, Priscilla Araújo de Figueiredo Freitas, and Viviane Cristina Vieira (UnB).

Drawing on Critical Discourse Studies from a decolonial perspective, the authors analyze a publication by ANTRA about LGBTQIA+ people deprived of liberty. The analysis considers, beyond the final text, the planning, production, multisemiotic resources, distribution methods, interlocutors, and social conditions of circulation.

The pamphlet identifies the practices and agents that sustain institutionalized transphobia, denounces the disregard for the law within the prison system, and calls for structural change. Producing and distributing this material is thus part of the association’s own political action: a way of documenting violations and disputing meanings in the fight against exclusion.

Politics and meaning-making in technological environments

This issue also marks the publication of the introduction to the dossier Media, Technologies, Artificial Intelligence: Analyses of Political-Discursive Practices, edited by Evandra Grigoletto (UFPE), Silmara Dela Silva (UFF), and Solange Maria Leda Gallo (Unisul), which opens with an essay by the guest editors, “IA para o bem de todos”? Discurso, sujeito, contradição.

Born out of a thematic symposium held at Abralin’s 14th International Congress, the collection brings together eight contributions from researchers across different regions, institutions, and career stages. Its objects range from comment moderation on social media to political representation in podcasts, generative models, Brazil’s National AI Plan, subject-avatars, browsing practices, archives on X, and AI-generated political videos.

The papers examine how technologies take part in producing and circulating discourse. Platforms, browsers, databases, and artificial intelligence systems regulate visibility, distribute subject positions, reproduce inequalities, and also open space for resistance and political contest.

The work that continues after publication

The pieces in this issue follow their own separate agendas. Some focus on the acoustic materiality of speech; others interrogate educational practices, build research infrastructure, reconstruct disciplinary history, or trace forms of political action. That variety is part of what a Linguistics journal should make possible.

The testimonials that open this newsletter are a reminder, in the end, that none of this work reaches its readers alone. Once published, an article begins to circulate among new readers, carrying with it the dialogue among authors, reviewers, and editors that helped shape it.

Cadernos de Linguística follows the Diamond Open Access model: authors don’t pay to submit or publish, and readers don’t pay to access the articles.

The second turns to the history, description, and preservation of linguistic knowledge. The articles investigate the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese grammars for foreign learners, map twenty-five years of postgraduate research on the description of Portuguese, and discuss museums, archives, and collections as infrastructures that also participate in the construction of disciplinary memory.

The third brings together critical perspectives on the body, literature, coloniality, and social justice. On another level, the journal’s approval for inclusion in the SciELO Brazil Collection marks a new institutional stage. Taken together, the articles and this announcement invite reflection on different ways of producing, interpreting, preserving, and circulating knowledge about language.

Cadernos de Linguística Approved for Inclusion in SciELO Brazil

On June 24, Cadernos de Linguística announced its approval for inclusion in the SciELO Brazil Collection. Among the three journals approved in 2026 up to that date, it was the only one in the field of Linguistics.

The decision recognizes both the scientific quality of the research published by the journal and the consistency of its editorial work, including publication regularity, transparent peer-review procedures, the adoption of open science practices, and compliance with international technical standards.

The approval now initiates the technical process of integration into the platform. Inclusion in SciELO is expected to expand the visibility and international circulation of the journal’s articles, strengthen long-term preservation, improve metadata interoperability, and bring the journal into even closer alignment with international standards for open scholarly communication.

This is a collective achievement, made possible by the work of authors, reviewers, editors, partner institutions, and the broader community that reads, uses, and circulates the research published by the journal.

Language, Politics, and Digital Circulation

Vinícius da Rosa da Silva Tavares and Maity Siqueira, from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, investigate how political orientation may influence the interpretation of figurative language in “Brazil, Show Us Your Face”: A Cognitive-Discursive Analysis of Metonymic Interpretations across Different Political Orientations. The study presented 194 participants with excerpts from the television program Brasil Urgente in which the word “Brazil” could refer to the territory, the population, political institutions, or other entities. Although “political institutions” was the most frequent interpretation in both groups, participants who identified with the political left selected this referent more frequently in some of the metonymic contexts. The findings indicate that ideological orientation may influence the interpretation of linguistically underspecified expressions.

In The Rumor Effect in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Voice of the People?, Juliana da Silveira, from the University of Southern Santa Catarina, analyzes political and satirical videos produced with generative artificial intelligence. The corpus includes the “Taxação BBB” campaign released by the Workers’ Party and content published by the profile “Brasil Sátira do Poder.” The author proposes reconsidering the rumor effect as an operation shaped by the technical materiality of digital media: the simulation of bodies and voices modifies regimes of evidence, credibility, and political discourse circulation, making the boundaries among propaganda, satire, information, and disinformation increasingly unstable.

Monica Ferreira Cassana, from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, discusses transformations of language and subjectivity in digital environments in Digital Discourse Analysis and the Language of Fog. Drawing on materialist Discourse Analysis, the article examines word-cutting trends on TikTok and policies that regulate linguistic circulation on platforms such as YouTube. The concept of a “language of fog” seeks to describe fluid, unstable forms of expression that remain open to shifts in meaning and are produced through the relations among subjects, machines, platforms, and contemporary demands for speed, productivity, and ephemerality.

Together, these three studies demonstrate that digital circulation is not merely a new medium for pre-existing forms of discourse. Platforms, algorithms, image-generation systems, and technical rules intervene in the conditions under which language is produced, in interpretive processes, and in the constitution of the subjects who speak, read, and share content.

Linguistic History, Description, and Memory

Leandro Silveira de Araujo, from the Federal University of Uberlândia, reconstructs a little-studied chapter in the history of Portuguese language teaching in The Emergence of Brazilian Portuguese Grammar for Foreign Learners and the Contribution of Hermine W. Topker (1942). The article situates Topker’s A língua portuguesa para estrangeiros, published in 1942, within the historical, scientific, and pedagogical context of its production. The analysis shows that the work inaugurated a Brazilian systematization of grammar designed for foreign learners, combining the normative tradition with the occasional incorporation of features of Brazilian Portuguese and with the practical demands of language teaching.

Jefferson Evaristo, Cynthia Vilaça, and Cláudia Moura da Rocha, from Rio de Janeiro State University, present a state-of-the-art review in Linguistic Panoramas of Brazilian Portuguese: The “Description of Portuguese” in Brazilian Postgraduate Research, 2000–2024. Drawing on the CAPES Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations, the study identifies 176 research projects associated with the expression “description of Portuguese” and distributes them across seven major groups. The mapping makes it possible to identify trends, priorities, and gaps in the field, with particular attention to historically oriented studies. One of the tendencies identified is the significant presence of research on Portuguese as a foreign or second language.

Gissele Chapanski and co-authors from several Brazilian institutions broaden the discussion of archives in Linguistic Museums and Collections: Between Memory and Experience. The essay analyzes six Brazilian initiatives, including documentation centers, catalogues, collections, physical museums, and digital museums. Rather than treating collections as passive repositories of documents, the article understands them as dynamic constructions of knowledge. Decisions about what to preserve, classify, display, or make accessible affect the formation of canons, the exclusion of particular traditions, and the future conditions of linguistic research.

These three articles bring grammars, theses, dissertations, museums, and archives together as both objects and infrastructures of linguistic history. They show that description and preservation are not neutral operations: both involve decisions about which languages, varieties, authors, documents, and intellectual traditions will be recognized and transmitted.

Body, Literature, and Social Justice

In Corporeal Experiences in Confronting Coloniality: Developments of the Concept in Critical Applied Linguistics, Ricardo Regis de Almeida, from the Federal University of Pará, reflects on the relationships among body, language, experience, and resistance. The article traces the appropriation of the concept of corpovivências by research in Critical Applied Linguistics and shows how it can be used to challenge forms of erasure produced by coloniality. The analyses connect the body, subjectivity, writing, lived experience, resistance, and re-existence, both within and beyond the English-language classroom.

In English-Language Literatures and Social Justice: Critical, Decolonial, and Praxis-Oriented Perspectives, Neuda Lago, from the Federal University of Goiás, approaches literary reading as a social practice capable of destabilizing historical inequalities and re-educating attention toward difference. Through works by Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, Seiko Tanabe, H. Melt, and Ntozake Shange, the essay discusses racism, colonialism, disability, and gender. Ambiguity, narrative voice, temporality, translation, and performance are examined not as merely formal features, but as critical procedures. The article also presents reflective questions that connect literary analysis, reader education, and pedagogical praxis.

In both articles, experience ceases to occupy a peripheral position in the production of knowledge. The body, reading, listening, and subjectivity become central dimensions for understanding how language can reproduce inequalities while also opening possibilities for resistance, recognition, and social transformation.

Producing, Preserving, and Circulating Linguistic Knowledge

Across different scales, the articles gathered in this issue demonstrate that language never circulates under neutral conditions. Ideologies, digital platforms, artificial intelligence technologies, disciplinary traditions, archives, bodies, and reading practices all intervene in the ways meanings are produced, legitimized, preserved, and contested.

This perspective also makes it possible to connect the articles with the new institutional stage of Cadernos de Linguística. Inclusion in the SciELO Brazil Collection expands the conditions for the visibility, preservation, interoperability, and accessibility of the research published by the journal. At the same time, it reinforces a broader editorial commitment: ensuring that different objects, approaches, intellectual traditions, and experiences can find a place within a rigorous, open, and socially relevant scholarly infrastructure.

By bringing together studies on political discourse, digital environments, the history of Linguistics, archival collections, coloniality, and social justice, this issue reaffirms that producing knowledge about language also requires reflection on who produces that knowledge, through which means it circulates, which memories it preserves, and which possibilities for transformation it helps to create.

CadLin follows the Diamond Open Access model: authors do not pay to submit or publish, and readers do not pay to access the journal’s articles.

CadLin’s endorsement of the Stockholm Declaration and the new theme issue call supported by CIPL add an editorial and institutional dimension to this update. Together, these items raise a common question: how should knowledge about language be produced, evaluated, shared, and published in a research environment marked by digital platforms, automation, and new demands for scientific openness?

Digital platforms as objects of analysis

Thiago César da Costa Carneiro (UFPE) opens one path into this debate in How much is it worth to be a subject? Subject effects in the constitution of the archive of/on X. The article compares answers given by Grok to the question “what is a dictatorship?” across different X profiles and across the free and paid versions of the platform. The variation is not treated simply as a matter of bias. It becomes a way of examining the subject-user produced by the platform and the non-neutral archive constituted by X.

Thomas Falconi and Lucas Alves Selhorst (UNISUL) take browsers themselves as objects of analysis in Subject-avatar in computerized enunciative spaces: between technical normalizations and resistance practices. Chrome and Tor are compared as enunciative spaces with distinct regimes of individuation. Chrome is associated with an extractivist logic of data circulation; Tor makes possible other forms of technical individuation, with discursive consequences.

Aude Seurrat (Université Paris-Est Créteil) and María Inés Laitano (Université Paris 8) publish, in French, Réseaux socio-numériques et frontières du lire/écrire dans la modération des commentaires, a comparative study of comment moderation on X, YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram. The article treats moderation as a way of regulating reading and writing. Each platform combines algorithmic automation and human judgment differently, producing its own conditions for online interaction.

Letícia Moraes (UFPB) and Silvia Maria de Sousa (UFF) bring discursive semiotics to the problem of datafication in Generative AI and meaning-making: a semiotic approach from the Global South. The article examines how generative AI models participate in meaning production and argues for an analysis grounded in an enunciative position from the Global South, rather than one derived from dominant centres of theoretical production.

Evandra Grigoletto (UFPE), Silmara Dela Silva (UFF), and Solange Maria Leda Gallo (UNISUL) analyse the Brazilian federal government’s July 2024 proposal on artificial intelligence in “AI for the good of all”? Discourse, subject, contradiction. From the perspective of Pecheutian Discourse Analysis, the phrase “AI for the good of all” is read as a discursive formulation marked by contradictions in the relation between technology, subject, and public interest.

Ramon Miranda and Ana Maria Sá Martins (UEMA), in The discursive representation of Yglésio Moyses (PRTB) in the podcast “Abrindo o Verbo”: an analysis through CDA, apply Critical Discourse Analysis to a political interview podcast. The regional focus — a politician from Maranhão — shows how public images and political representations are built in media circuits outside the traditional press.

These six articles form part of the theme issue Media, Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence, organized by Silmara Dela Silva, Evandra Grigoletto, and Solange Maria Leda Gallo, which remains open to new submissions.

A related discussion appears in the journal’s next theme issue, Languages, Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Struggle for Rights. In Algorithmic textuality and necroalgorithmization, Júlio Araújo (UFC) argues that exclusions produced by AI systems around race, gender, and sexuality are part of how those systems operate. To analyse them, he proposes the Discursive Triangle of Algorithmic Textuality, distinguishing text-prompt, text-algorithm, and text-response as instances with their own regimes of production and reading.

Pretonic mid vowels in Brazilian Portuguese: a registered protocol

Livia Oushiro (UNICAMP) publishes Reanalysis of mid pretonic vowels with the MFA forced aligner, the third Registered Report protocol in the dossier Reproducibility in Linguistics. It follows the protocols by Godoy, Ananias, and Sidhu on lexical iconicity and by Alves et al. on automatic prosodic segmentation with machine learning.

The study will replicate earlier analyses of pretonic /e/ and /o/ in the speech of Northeastern migrants in São Paulo, using the Montreal Forced Aligner instead of manual segmentation. The protocol is registered publicly from the start. The full analysis and results will be published in the next stage.

Sharing linguistic data as collective infrastructure

The theme issue Sharing of Linguistic Data, organized by Juliana Bertucci Barbosa, Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira, and Raquel Meister Ko Freitag, now has its editorial presentation. The text treats data sharing as a matter of scientific infrastructure: metadata, licensing, documentation, long-term access, and reuse.

Pedro Perini-Santos (UFVJM) contributes to the dossier with Child Verb Timeline: 21 months of verbal expression from a Brazilian child. The corpus, developed within the CIL project — Longitudinal Child Corpus — records 587 verbal occurrences across 210 excerpts of interaction among a child, her mother, and her grandmother in a city in northeastern Minas Gerais, from March 2016 to February 2018. Each occurrence is categorized according to a taxonomy of verbal diatheses in Brazilian Portuguese. The data are available under an open licence on Zenodo.

CadLin signs the Stockholm Declaration

CadLin has joined the group of journals endorsing the Stockholm Declaration, published by Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar in Royal Society Open Science. The document proposes action on four fronts: returning control of scientific publishing to academia, valuing quality over quantity, creating independent mechanisms for detecting fraud, and strengthening scientific integrity policies.

These principles are aligned with practices already adopted by CadLin: diamond open access, open peer review, preprint deposit, and mandatory statements on data, materials, and code.

A call to document the history of scientific associations

The call Scientific Associations in Linguistics: history, impact, and current perspectives is open, with the endorsement of CIPL — Comité International Permanent des Linguistes.

The theme issue invites presidents, former presidents, and other formal representatives of associations, societies, academies, committees, and research networks to submit texts in the Critical Perspective format. Contributions should offer analytical accounts of these organizations’ histories, forms of action, and present-day difficulties.

Submissions are open until October 30, 2026, at cadernos.abralin.org.

Open calls

CadLin is also receiving submissions for the following calls:

• Diachronic Construction Grammar

• Cognitive Linguistics in the Real World

• From the Roots to New Directions: The Trajectory of Brazilian Dialectology

• Media, Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence

• Contemporary Historiographies of Linguistic Studies and Language Teaching

Deadlines and guidelines are available at cadernos.abralin.org.

CadLin follows the Diamond Open Access model: authors do not pay to submit or publish, and readers do not pay to access articles. Learn how to submit.

The first protocols from the reproducibility issue

The theme issue Reproducibility in Linguistic Research is taking shape with the publication of its first three papers. Two are Registered Report Protocols — a format in which the research project is peer-reviewed and approved before data collection begins, with hypotheses, methods, and the analysis plan on public record from the start.

Why does this matter for open science? Registered Reports separate the research plan from its results, which reduces the incentive for post-hoc adjustments and makes the scientific process easier to trace and evaluate. Pre-registration is not a formality: it is a public commitment to answering specific questions in a specific way, independent of what the data turn out to show. The final reports — with collected and analysed data — will follow. Stay tuned.

Iconicity and word recognition in Brazilian Portuguese

Replicating the Effects of Iconicity in Lexical Decision Task: A Study in Brazilian Portuguese, by Mahayana C. Godoy, Thayná C. Ananias, and David M. Sidhu, sets out to replicate a classic experiment on lexical iconicity with Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Iconic words — such as sussurro (”whisper”), chiado (”hiss”), or zanzar (”to wander”) — bear a resemblance between sound and meaning that, in English, has been shown to speed up visual word recognition. Whether this holds for Portuguese remains an open question. The protocol lays out the stimulus selection criteria, experimental procedure, and statistical analysis plan that will guide the study.

Automatic prosodic segmentation with machine learning

Alves et al., from the University of São Paulo, present the protocol Testing the Efficiency of a Machine Learning-Based Automatic Prosodic Segmentation Method for Brazilian Portuguese. The study replicates, on a new corpus of spontaneous speech, a Random Forest classifier trained to identify terminal prosodic boundaries in Brazilian Portuguese. Testing the model on data outside its original training set — the NURC Minimal Corpus, with over 17 hours of recordings from the 1970s — allows the authors to assess how well the method holds up across different speakers and audio conditions.

Word predictability in Portuguese: humans versus language models

Word Predictability in Portuguese: Cloze Norming Study vs. LLMs, by Jane Aristia (Université Paris Nanterre), compares a traditional cloze study — in which participants complete sentences — with the predictions of two Portuguese language models, Grevásio and Tucano. The correlations between human and model probabilities are weak to moderate, suggesting that, at least for Portuguese, LLMs are not yet a substitute for human participants in this kind of task. They may, however, be useful as complementary data.

Abralin Award for Best Article

Cadernos de Linguística is proud to share that the Abralin Award for Best Article has been awarded to Exploring variation and change in the distant past: /s/-variation and its implications for the reconstruction of Ancient Babylonian, by Rodrigo Hernáiz. The announcement was made by ABRALIN at InterAb 14, in the award’s second edition.

The paper examines variation in the written representation of /s/ in Ancient Babylonian, demonstrating that the variation is not random: it correlates statistically with geographical and temporal factors, points to a historical process of diffusion, and sheds light on the reconstruction of one of the oldest writing traditions in the world. ABRALIN singled out the work for its originality, analytical consistency, and the way it brings together variation and change, historical reconstruction, and computational analysis — connecting longstanding questions in Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics with contemporary quantitative methods.

Read the full announcement on the Cadernos de Linguística website.

CadLin at InterAb 2026

CadLin participated in two roundtables at InterAb 2026 that addressed questions central to linguistic research and academic publishing in Brazil.

The roundtable Reproducibility and quantitative methods in linguistics gave us the opportunity to discuss CadLin’s experience with the Registered Reports format and the practical challenges of building open science practices in a field still working through what those practices mean.

The roundtable Evaluation policies, knowledge circulation, and challenges for Language Studies brought together a broader set of voices, including Dr. Antônio Gomes de Souza Filho, Director of Postgraduate Evaluation at CAPES. The conversation ranged across editorial practices, assessment criteria, and the place of the open science model in the Brazilian academic context — and kept returning to the tensions between established evaluation systems and the demands for greater transparency, data sharing, and reproducibility.

Open calls

CadLin’s open calls are standing invitations for the academic community to shape the field’s conversations. The following are currently open:

Diachronic Construction Grammar — language change, cognition, and usage in a constructional perspective. Learn more.

Cognitive Linguistics in the Real World — research on language as it is actually used. Learn more.

Roots to New Directions: The Trajectory of Brazilian Dialectology — contributions engaging with the different approaches to Dialectology in Brazil. Learn more.

Media, Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence — research on media, technologies, and AI in political-discursive processes. Learn more.

Contemporary Historiographies of Linguistic Studies and Language Teaching — trajectories of knowledge and practice in language and teaching. Learn more.

Browse all open calls at cadernos.abralin.org.

A note on our editorial work

CadLin’s work goes beyond publishing papers. We have a genuine commitment to helping the community learn what open and reproducible science looks like in practice — because we know that for many researchers, these models and formats are still new territory.

When a submission does not yet meet our requirements, the editorial team does not simply turn it away. We work through the issues with authors, showing them concretely what needs to change and why. The goal is to bring good research into a framework that makes it more transparent, more reusable, and easier for others to build on.

A reminder about what we publish: CadLin exclusively accepts Registered Reports (Protocols and full Registered Reports), reproducibility reports, critical perspectives, and papers submitted to theme issues. Please read our submission guidelines before submitting.

CadLin supports format-free submission — no house style required at the submission stage. Find out how to submit your manuscript here.

In this edition, we feature our most recent articles and offer a brief snapshot of the editorial year. We also share two updates that point directly to the journal’s next steps: adopting the TOP Guidelines as a practical framework for initial checks, and Cad_Lin’s inclusion as a PCI RR-friendly journal—reinforcing our commitment to transparency, reproducibility, and rigorous evaluation.

And if 2025 was intense, 2026 is already taking shape with energy. A new series of thematic issues is scheduled, spanning language and rights; linguistic change from constructionist perspectives; dialectology; historiographies; Cognitive Linguistics applied to social processes; K–12 education; media and AI; the neurobiology of early language development; and prosody—alongside a special issue on reproducibility. Thank you for following, reading, citing, sharing, and submitting: we move forward together in support of science that is more open, transparent, and publicly accountable.

Most Recent Articles

In this final stretch of the year, we’ve gathered our newest publications below. Together, they show how current Linguistics gains strength when it connects cognition, variation, discourse, education, and data infrastructure — spanning processing and multimodality, public debate, and the interplay between lexicon, language contact, corpora, and tools for research at scale.

Cognition and processing (typical and atypical contexts)

From clinical settings to online experiments, these works examine how meaning and structure are built under pressure — across neurological conditions, ambiguity, multimodality, and acceptability judgments.

• Why do humans have linguistic intuition? (Scott-Phillips) — argues that acceptability intuitions arise from general mechanisms of communicative interpretation, rather than a dedicated “grammar detector.” DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n3.id868

• Cognição e compreensão leitora: uma análise sobre a influência da informação lógica de conjunções para a resolução da anáfora pronominal (A. L. da Silva & Leite) — shows how logical relations (e.g., adversative vs. conclusive) affect both choices and response times when resolving ambiguity in pronominal anaphora. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id843

• Categorização linguístico-cognitiva nas afasias e demências: uma revisão integrativa (Costa & Leite) — synthesizes experimental evidence on categorization and the added “cost” to production and comprehension in aphasia and dementia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id848

• “Eles tavam jogando a bola de neve um no outu”: os gestos icônicos como evocadores de sentido em cenas pantomímicas infantis… (Nóbrega et al.) — treats gesture and speech as a single utterance structure in child narrative, using multimodal analysis in ELAN. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id849

Discourse, argumentation, and public disputes over meaning

Here, language appears as social practice: relabeling positions in debate, producing argumentative effects, reading media critically, and tracing disputes in digital environments.

• A ressemantização não é um espantalho (Camus) — describes discursive-semantic mechanisms of disqualification in political assemblies that resemble “strawman” moves without collapsing into that category. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id825

• Efeitos de sentido dos operadores argumentativos na publicidade (Dério & Nascimento) — offers an analytic, teaching-oriented approach to reading advertising through argumentative operators and their effects. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id842

• Os modalizadores discursivos no gênero projeto pedagógico de curso do ensino superior (V. S. da Silva) — analyzes discursive modalization in Brazilian higher-education curriculum documents (PPCs), focusing on frequency, co-occurrence, and function. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id804

• O conceito freireano de leitura do mundo no live action de Branca de Neve… (Machado & Teodoro) — offers a sociopolitical, discourse-based reading of representations of dwarfism and meaning-making in processes of “Disneyfication.” DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id828

• Romantização da obesidade? escolhas lexicais em referência ao corpo feminino gordo (Leal) — examines lexical choices and evaluative tensions around fat women’s bodies in social media content. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id859

• Contribuições da Linguística Cognitiva para o projeto de ensino “Escola sem fake” (PROLICEN/UFPB) (Aguiar) — a project record describing reading/writing workshops and linguistic analysis aimed at tackling misinformation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id850

Lexicon, contact, and the social history of categories

Across lexical innovation, the circulation of borrowings, and the history of the names we give to languages, these pieces connect form, social memory, and contact.

• Uma análise sociofilológica da formação e evolução do termo “língua geral”, com ênfase na Amazônia (Finbow) — critically reassesses hypotheses about “língua geral,” its periodizations, and its colonial and modern uses. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n1.id806

• Análise de neologismos em corpus escrito de aprendizes de português LE (Baldo) — examines neologisms and borrowings in advanced Italian learners’ writing, with a critical discussion of psychotypology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id816

• Empréstimos linguísticos: conceitos centrais e o caso do wasei eigo (Valverde da Silva) — outlines core concepts in borrowing and develops a case study of wasei eigo (“Japanese English”). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n3.id796

Variation, corpora, and infrastructure for research at scale

From meta-analytic mapping to tools and open corpora, this set points to comparable methods, provenance-aware data, and resources for high-volume research.

• Broadening the Base of Historical Sociolinguistics (Brown, Natvig & Salmons) — an editorial for the special issue, setting an agenda to broaden languages/regions and deepen historical time spans in Historical Sociolinguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n1.id917

• Meta-análise dos estudos de negação verbal nas regiões Nordeste e Sudeste… (Santos & Vitório) — a meta-analysis of social conditioning effects, focusing on sex/gender, schooling, and age group. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n4.id858

• Negativas: um protótipo para a busca e classificação de negação sentencial em dados de fala (Gois & Cardoso) — presents a Python tool to identify/classify NEG1/NEG2/NEG3 in transcribed speech, with discussion of limits tied to punctuation and prosody. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n4.id861

• Construindo o Carolina: metadados de proveniência e tipologia em um corpus do português brasileiro contemporâneo (Finger et al.) — reports on building an open corpus with typology and provenance metadata (WaC-wiPT). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n4.id812

• Plataforma da diversidade linguística brasileira: dados linguísticos para uma IA brasileira (Freitag et al.) — a project record proposing shared protocols for collection, transcription, and annotation, aiming at structured data for language models and linguistic diversity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n4.id863

Issues Published in 2025

In 2025, we published five issues (Vol. 6, No. 1–5). Four were thematic dossiers, and one brought together rolling-submission articles — spanning topics from variation and change over time to semantics, literacy, and data infrastructure.

• Vol. 6, No. 1 — Historical Sociolinguistics: Research on linguistic change and variation across diverse historical settings, combining documentary evidence, theoretical discussion, and case studies (including Indigenous languages of the Americas, Germanic varieties, and debates over historical categories and labels).

• Vol. 6, No. 2 — Beyond Letters: Perspectives on the Effects of Illiteracy from Linguistics and Beyond: A focus on literacy, its effects, and assessment/teaching practices: teachers’ perceptions of materials and emergent skills, post-pandemic challenges for reading-comprehension assessment (including the cloze test), and broader discussion of how education and literacy connect to linguistic knowledge.

• Vol. 6, No. 3 — General (rolling submissions): A wide-ranging issue featuring work on social language practices (linguistic landscape and writing), reflections on cognition and language (including linguistic intuition), conceptual discussion of borrowing (with the wasei eigo case), and project/methods records at the interface with technology.

• Vol. 6, No. 4 — Linguistic Data Sharing: A dossier centered on data infrastructure and practice: challenges in preserving and documenting collections, building corpora with robust metadata, tools and protocols for automated analysis (such as sentential negation), and large-scale initiatives geared toward research data and computational applications.

• Vol. 6, No. 5 — Semantics: Contemporary Dialogues: Semantics in conversation with interaction, argumentation, reading, cognition, and discourse — from semantic-discursive mechanisms in political arenas and advertising to empirical studies on ambiguity resolution, neologisms in Portuguese as an additional language, and lexical choices in digital environments, alongside reviews and project records with implications for education and health.

Theme Issues Scheduled for 2026

The 2026 calendar is already well underway, with a new sequence of theme issues spanning key fronts in Linguistics today — research, education, the history of ideas, technology, and social justice. The year ahead is shaping up to be a busy one.

• Languages, Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Struggle for Rights — Kleber Aparecido da Silva (UnB)
  A dossier on how language and social markers intersect in inequality and resistance, with a focus on rights, social justice, and confronting marginalization (Indigenous peoples, Black communities, LGBTQIA+ groups).

• Linguistic change at the cognition–experience interface: contributions from Construction Grammar approaches — Karen Sampaio Braga Alonso (UFRJ), Taísa Peres de Oliveira (UFMS) & Martin Hilpert (UniNE)
  Studies of linguistic change from constructionist perspectives, combining corpus-based research, case studies, and theory across languages.

• From roots to new directions: the trajectory of Brazilian Dialectology — Amanda dos Reis Silva (UFRB) & Amanda Chofard (UFBA)
  A historical view of Dialectology in Brazil and its current directions, with attention to mapping methods and the diversity of Brazilian Portuguese.

• Contemporary historiographies of linguistic studies and language teaching: traditions, instruments, and policies in historical perspective — Francisco Eduardo Vieira (UFPB) & Olga Ferreira Coelho Sansone (USP)
  Historiographic work connecting traditions, instruments, and policy — from the colonial period to present-day debates on research and teaching.

• Cognitive Linguistics in the real world: understanding language-mediated social processes — Maity Siqueira (UFRGS) & Jan Edson Rodrigues Leite (UFPB)
  Cognitive Linguistics applied to concrete social issues, including metaphors in politics, discourse about minorities, and communication in health crises.

• Linguistics in K–12 education: theory and practice for transformative education — Suzana Ferreira Paulino (UFRPE) & Carlos Eduardo Nunes Garcia (CEFET-MG)
  Work on Linguistics in school settings, including multiliteracies, critical grammar teaching, teacher education, and language policy in education.

• Media, technologies, artificial intelligence: analyses of political-discursive practices — Evandra Grigoletto (UFPE), Silmara Dela Silva (UFF) & Solange Leda Gallo (UNISUL)
  How digital media and AI are reshaping political discourse practices: misinformation, online rhetoric, and algorithmic effects.

• Neurobiology of Early Language Development — Mirela C. C. Ramacciotti (USP) & Caroline Handley (Wenzhou-Kean University)
  Advances in neuroimaging (such as fNIRS), ecological methods, and translational perspectives to study acquisition, literacy, and early developmental pathways.

• Voices & Beyond: Interdisciplinary Advances & Applications in Prosody Research — Leônidas Silva Jr. (UEPB), Plínio A. Barbosa (UNICAMP), Sandra Madureira (PUC-SP) & Renata R. Passetti (UFSCar)
  Prosody in an interdisciplinary frame, with applications in speech technology, language teaching, speech-language therapy, and forensic phonetics.

• Echoes of Resilience, Architectures of Revitalization: Decoloniality, Digitality, and the Dynamic Life Cycles of Languages in the Caribbean — Jo-Anne S. Ferreira (The University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
  Language life cycles in the Caribbean (insular and continental) through a decolonial, ecological lens: documentation, revitalization, digital technologies, and community-led initiatives.

• Reproducibility in Linguistic Research — Miguel Oliveira Jr. (UFAL) & Mailce Borges Mota (UFSC)
  A special issue on reproducibility practices and studies in Linguistics, encouraging methodological rigor, transparency, and open science — including concrete examples and implementation-focused discussion.

Access Statistics in 2025

Throughout 2025, readership grew month after month, with a more pronounced uptick in the year’s final stretch. It’s an encouraging sign that thematic dossiers, rolling submissions, and outreach on social media are steadily widening the audience for what we publish.

To close the year with a quick snapshot of what circulated most among readers, here are the ten most accessed articles:

• Traugott - A constructional perspective on the rise of metatextual discourse markers (3,303)

• Neto - Revitalization and teaching of the Puruborá language (2,854)

• Henriques et al. - Russian Immigrants in Brazil: to Understand, to be Understood (2,470)

• Hamans et al. - The Economic Value of Endangered Languages (2,312)

• Santos - Kuin Kahab Mikahab: Hãhãhãe Pataxó Hãhãhãe Ũg Iẽ Ikhã Ikô Tâypâk Anekö: I want to eat, i want to live: the fight for bringing back the Pataxó Hãhãhãe language (2,047)

• Feist - Following Locations Across Languages: Spatial Meanings and Concepts in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (1,920)

• Freitas et al. - The Use of the Cloze Test in Reading Comprehension Assessment in Brazil: Post-Pandemic Challenges (1,915)

• Ramirez - Teachers’ Perceptions Towards Textbook Suitability and Emergent Literacy in EFL Students (1,882)

• Franzen et al. - The Processing of “O Mesmo” as a Coreferencial Anaphora (1,766)

• Mora-Marín - Historical Sociolinguistics of the Classic Maya Lowlands: The Generic Preposition Variable (1,753)

Two Updates to Close the Year

TOP Guidelines in initial editorial checks
In 2025, we standardized our initial editorial checks around the TOP Guidelines (Transparency and Openness Promotion). Submissions are now screened through a clear checklist covering items such as study registration, protocol and analysis plan, and the transparency of materials, data, and code (with deposit in a trusted repository and a DOI whenever applicable). When ethical or legal constraints apply, authors are asked to state the access conditions explicitly. More details: https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/top.

Cad_Lin is now PCI RR-friendly (Registered Reports)
We also took an important step for transparent publishing and robust evaluation: Cadernos de Linguística is now listed as PCI Registered Reports-friendly. This means we accept—without a new round of peer review—any Registered Report that receives a positive final recommendation on the PCI RR platform. For submissions through this route, we request: (i) the URL of the recommendation and reviews; (ii) confirmation that the manuscript is identical to the recommended version; and (iii) a brief cover letter indicating that this is a PCI RR submission. Information: https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/announcement/view/62.

Two categories are especially relevant to Cadernos de Linguística readers:

• Best Article – dedicated to papers published in Abralin journals (Revista da Abralin and Cadernos de Linguística), recognizing scientific contributions that expand the impact and quality of linguistic research.

• Open and Reproducible Science Award – an initiative in collaboration with the Brazilian Network for Reproducibility, promoting methodological transparency, responsible data sharing, and scientific integrity, strengthening a more open and reliable research culture.

Receiving an Abralin Award is a significant academic distinction that enhances your curriculum and increases your visibility in funding calls, academic competitions, and selection processes.

The Abralin Awards also include:

• Book in Linguistics (Joaquim Mattoso Câmara Jr. Award);

• Dissemination and Popularization of Linguistic Science (Roseta Award);

• Technology and Innovation in Linguistic Research;

• Presentation Award at the Abralin International Congress.

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Applications must be submitted through the Abralin member system, under the Forms tab (visible only to active members).

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Join here: https://www.abralin.org/associados/quero-ser-socio

Registering Projects to Strengthen Science

In the context of open science, publicly registering research projects represents a commitment to transparency, traceability, and scientific integrity. By making their objectives, hypotheses, methods, and analytical plans public, researchers document the originality of their investigations and make replication, collaboration, and future expansion easier. The project registration State as a Derived Aspect: A Syntactic-Semantic Analysis, by Letícia Lucinda Meirelles, outlines a five-year research program on how eventive verbs can give rise to stative interpretations in Portuguese, detailing hypotheses, corpus, analytical procedures, and timeline.

Language and Power in Legal Discourse

Legal texts are often presented as neutral, but a new study shows that legal language is deeply argumentative. Simone Ramos Silveira Rodrigues and Gioconda Maria Medeiros Azevedo analyze in Diante do exposto, julgo: An Analysis of the Polyphony of Speakers in a First Instance Criminal Sentence under Ducrot’s Framework, how expressions such as “it is evident that” or “as can be seen” introduce different voices into the text: those of the law, the judge, the prosecution, and the defense. This shows how language shapes authority, distributes responsibility, and sustains decisions.

Social Conflicts as Struggles Over Meaning

The return of wolves to France reignited a public debate: were they reintroduced by humans or did they return on their own? The article Expanding the Field of Semantics: From Language to Social Conflicts, by Alfredo M. Lescano, examines how competing narratives emerge, clash, and influence public policy. The findings suggest that social conflicts are fundamentally struggles over meaning, through which discourse guides action and confers legitimacy on collective decisions.

Multilingualism and Belonging in the Imperial Caucasus

In the early 20th century, German-speaking communities living under Russian rule in the Caucasus used both German and Russian in their daily lives. Examining newspapers from the period, the article Language and Identity in Historical Caucasian German, by Doris Stolberg and Katharina Dück, shows how this bilingual coexistence influenced language use in education, public identity, and collective belonging within an imperial context.

Cadernos de Linguística at CIbCA 2025

In 2025, Cadernos de Linguística will be the only Brazilian linguistics journal with confirmed participation in the Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia Abierta (CIbCA), organized by the Fundación OpenLab. The event will bring together institutions, journals, and researchers leading the transition toward more open, collaborative, and inclusive scientific practices. View the CIbCA 2025 program.

Compete for the Abralin Prize

The Abralin Prize honors articles published in Cadernos de Linguística and the Revista da Abralin that make substantial contributions to linguistic science and advance the principles of open research. Submissions are considered in two categories:

• Best Article — awarded to studies that present original and influential contributions to linguistic research.

• Open and Reproducible Science Prize — awarded to articles that provide transparent methodological documentation, share data responsibly, and exemplify best practices in reproducibility.

More than a recognition of individual achievement, the prize aims to strengthen research standards across the field and to foster a scientific culture grounded in integrity, openness, and collaboration. The submission deadline is October 31, 2025.

Open Calls: Contribute to Upcoming Issues

Thematic calls for papers in Cadernos de Linguística are invitations to the academic community to co-construct the scientific debate on important issues in the field.

Current calls include:

• Cognitive Linguistics in the Real World — deadline: December 30, 2025

• From Roots to New Directions: The Trajectory of Brazilian Dialectology — deadline: November 08, 2025

• Media, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence — deadline: October 31, 2025

• Contemporary Historiographies of Linguistic Studies and Language Teaching — deadline: January 31, 2026

• Reproducibility in Linguistic Research — protocols deadline: October 31, 2025

Cadernos de Linguística fully supports the format-free submission policy, designed to streamline manuscript preparation and allow authors to focus their time on research. Read how to submit your paper here.

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New Theme Issues

The first articles of two new theme issues have just been published, with more contributions to follow. The issue Linguistic Data Sharing is dedicated to discussing protocols for data management, licensing, and reuse to promote transparency and reproducibility in our field. Semantics: Contemporary Dialogues investigates how meaning is structured and interpreted, exploring its interfaces with cognition, discourse, and artificial intelligence.

New Published Articles

Check out our latest publications:

• Sharing and Preserving Sociolinguistic Corpora on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Christoffersen et al.) details the creation of two sociolinguistic corpora on the U.S.-Mexico border, serving as a practical guide for data management and highlighting how research can validate bilingual communities.

• Following Locations Across Languages: Spatial Meanings and Concepts in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Feist) investigates how different languages categorize spatial relations (such as 'in' and 'on'), using computational methods to map the conceptual similarities and differences between them.

• Historical Sociolinguistics of the Classic Maya Lowlands: The Generic Preposition Variable (Mora-Marín) applies quantitative sociolinguistic methods to ancient Mayan writing to track the diffusion of a preposition over centuries and correlate this linguistic change with historical events, such as the migration of scribes.

All articles are accompanied by open peer review, which promotes scientific transparency.

Compete for the Abralin Award

We remind you that articles published in Cadernos de Linguística are eligible for the Abralin Award in two categories: Best Article and the new Open and Reproducible Science Award, a partnership with the Brazilian Reproducibility Network. To compete, authors must register directly on the Abralin members' platform.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Cadernos de Linguística officially adheres to the C4DISC Joint Statement of Principles, reaffirming our commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. This practice is already expressed in our diamond open-access model, the adoption of inclusive language, the promotion of research from underrepresented contexts, and the publication of articles in formats accessible to screen readers.

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Newly published articles

Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa (Nolan) investigates how William B. Hodgson’s documentation of Lingua Francainfluenced Louis Faidherbe, Governor of Senegal, to adopt reduced forms of French in the colonial context. Drawing on unpublished archival sources, the article shows how this pragmatic approach to essential communication informed language policies and may have played a role in the emergence and use of the military pidgin Français Tirailleur.

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The Structure and Geography of the ASL Signing Community in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Hartford Gatherings of 1850 and 1854 (Power & Meier) examines two landmark meetings of the Deaf community in Hartford, with 210 and 369 Deaf participants, respectively. The study demonstrates how signing networks formed in the ASD and NYSD schools remained active among adults across the Northeastern United States, highlights the growing importance of urban hubs such as New York, Boston, and Hartford, and suggests that interregional interaction may have contributed to limiting regional variation in ASL.

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Thematic issues at InterAB 14

Seven thematic issues have been approved as dedicated symposia within the scientific program of the 14th International Congress of Abralin, to be held in March 2026 in Recife, Brazil. Topics range from artificial intelligence in political discourse to the history of linguistic thought, including prosody, dialectology, cognitive linguistics, language change, and language education. All will be published in open access, extending the scientific legacy of the event.

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Call for papers – Reproducibility in Linguistics Research

Submissions are now open for the thematic issue “Reproducibility in Linguistics Research”, which will feature studies in the Registered Reports format. In this model, the methodological protocol is evaluated and published before data collection, and the final article is accepted based on adherence to the approved plan, regardless of the results. The deadline for protocol submission is October 31, 2025. The call seeks concrete examples of reproducibility across different subfields, reinforcing methodological rigor, transparency, and a commitment to open science.

See Full Guidelines

At Cadernos de Linguística, the central question is not “what to publish?” but “what merits scientific recognition?”Articles are submitted as preprints already available to the public, and editorial evaluation begins from this material, with the goal of developing it into a commented, technically reviewed, and signed publication. This model accelerates the dissemination of knowledge, promotes transparency, fosters dialogue between authors and readers, and breaks away from blind submission and unjustified rejections.

Baniwa-Koripako Dictionary

A new article in Cadernos de Linguística presents an inspiring example of citizen science: the creation of the first bilingual, bidialectal Baniwa-Koripako–Portuguese dictionary, led by the Medzeniakonai (Baniwa-Koripako) community itself. The project involved collaborative workshops with teachers, community leaders, and residents, resulting in 600 entries, 1,400 usage examples, and a rich multimedia collection. In open peer review, Artur Garcia Gonçalves’s article was described as “a valuable metalexicographic contribution that offers an effective fieldwork-based approach for collecting lexical data.”

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Outreach

Cadernos de Linguística continues to strengthen its commitment to public engagement through initiatives that bring linguistic science closer to diverse audiences. Our WhatsApp group shares short, clear messages designed for students, teachers, and anyone interested in language, making scientific knowledge more accessible. The journal’s new podcast presents published articles in short, engaging episodes — perfect for listening on the go, at the gym, or sharing with friends and colleagues.

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InterAb 14

The deadline to submit theme issue proposals for InterAb 14 — Abralin’s International Congress of Linguistics (Recife, 2–6 March 2026) has been extended to 20 July 2025. By submitting a theme issue proposal, you are not only proposing a symposium for the event: you are ensuring a cohesive set of invited contributions, open-access publication with international reach, lasting impact through a complete journal issue, and the experience of serving as a guest editor for a scientific journal. Unlike a conventional symposium proposal, a theme issue guarantees stronger academic cohesion, greater visibility for contributors, and a meaningful scientific legacy.

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New study on anaphora processing

A recent article by Bruna Alexandra Franzen and Ana Cláudia de Souza presents an experimental investigation on the use of the phrase o mesmo as a coreferential anaphor in Portuguese.

Using a self-paced reading method, the study shows that this type of referential expression does not increase reading time nor hinder text comprehension.

In open peer review, the work was praised for its methodological rigor, the clarity of its analysis, and its valuable contribution to research on textual cohesion and anaphora processing.

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Call for theme issues — INTERAB 14

Proposals are now open for theme issues linked to the 14th International Congress of Abralin — INTERAB 14, which will take place from March 2 to 6, 2026, in Recife. The deadline for submissions is July 6, 2025.

Approved proposals will be included in the official congress program as thematic symposia, fostering interdisciplinaryand inter-institutional dialogue, and will result in a special publication in Cadernos de Linguística.

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Scientific recognition: Prêmio Abralin

The Prêmio Abralin honors academic and professional contributions of outstanding quality and impact in the field of Linguistics. Among the categories is the prize for Best Article Published in the association’s journals, including Cadernos de Linguística.

In addition to public recognition, the award enhances the authors’ academic profiles, making their CVs more competitive in evaluation and selection processes.

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Cadernos de Linguística is committed to transparent editorial practices and to the principles of open science. Its publications receive wide dissemination, and authors have access to tools to monitor the impact of their work.

The journal supports formats that promote reproducibility and the open sharing of knowledge.

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