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Brazilian linguist
Leila Barbara (April 9, 1938 – June 2, 2024) was a Brazilian linguist known for her work in
applied linguistics and
systemic functional linguistics , of which she was considered a pioneer in Brazil.
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Biography
Barbara was born in 1938.
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[4] She attended the
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), graduating with a degree in Anglo-Germanic literature in 1960 and a doctorate in English in 1971.
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Beginning in 1965, she was a longtime professor at PUC-SP, where she helped found the school's applied linguistics program.
[6] She worked in various areas of linguistics, particularly systemic functional linguistics, with an emphasis on
Brazilian Portuguese , though she also studied
English and
Spanish .
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[7] She served as dean of the university from 1988 to 1992.
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Barbara died in 2024, in
São Paulo .
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Selected works
Books
Sintaxe transformacional do modo verbal (1975)
Reflections on Language Learning (edited with Mike Scott, 1994)
Reflexão e Ações no Ensino-Aprendizagem de Línguas (organized with Rosinda de Castro Guerra Ramos, 2003)
Textos e Linguagem acadêmica: explorações sistêmico-funcionais em espanhol e português (organized with Estela Moyano)
Estudos e pesquisas em Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (organized with Adail Sebastião Rodrigues-Júnior and Giovanna Hoy)
Articles and chapters
"A Survey of Communication Patterns in the Brazilian Business Context" (with M. Antonieta A. Celani, Heloisa Collins e Mike Scott, 1996)
"Homing in on a genre: invitations for bids" (with Mike Scott, 1999)
"It is not there, but [it] is cohesive: the case of pronominal ellipsis of subject in Portuguese" (with Carlos A. M. Gouveia, 2001)
"Marked or unmarked, that is not the question. The question is: where's the theme?" (with Carlos A. M. Gouveia, 2004)
"Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional para a Análise de Discurso: um panorama introdutório" (with Célia de Macêdo, 2009)
"A representação de Dilma Rousseff pela mídia impressa brasileira: analisando os processos verbais" (with Maria Carmen Aires Gomes, 2010)
"Engajamento na perspectiva linguística sistêmico-funcional em trabalhos de conclusão de curso de Letras" (with Maria Otília Ninin, 2013)
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