Joana Aguiar

PhD in Language Sciences- Specialization in Sociolinguistics with the dissertation “Mechanisms of clause connection: the importance of social variables”, Master's in Linguistics with the thesis “Phonological Unites and Processes in Terra Quente variety: contribution to forensic analysis”.
Has integrated research projects financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in the areas of phonological frequency patterns and sociolinguistic variation.
Her main research areas are language variation and forensic linguistics.
Member of the International Association of Forensic Linguists since 2009.

EDUCATION

2017 PhD in Languages Sciences- Specialization in Sociolinguistics.
Mecanismos de conexão frásica: a influência das variáveis sociais [Mechanisms of clausal connection: the importance of the social factors].
University of Minho

2009 Master’s in Linguistics.
Unidades e Processos fonológicos no falar da Terra Quente: Contributos para a Linguística Forense [Phonological Unites and Processes in Terra Quente variety: contribution to forensic analysis].
(Best Master’s Thesis in Portuguese Linguistics 2009 – Awarded by the Portuguese Linguistics Society)
University of Minho

2004 Licenciatura (5-year degree, pre-Bologna) in Portuguese/English Teaching.
University of Minho

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Language and Linguistics

FUTURE PROJECTS

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS