The latest publications in Cadernos de Linguística develop along three main lines of inquiry. The first examines the relationships among language, politics, and digital environments: ideologically oriented interpretations of metonymic uses of “Brazil,” the production of truth effects in political videos generated with artificial intelligence, and transformations of language and subjectivity on digital platforms.
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.
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