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GeoLinTerm is one of the 2025 featured projects at the PPGL, find out why.

GeoLinTerm (Geosociolinguistics and Socioterminology in Brazil) began in 1996 with the Geo-Sociolinguistic Atlas of Pará (ALIPA) Project, based at the Language Laboratory of the Institute of Letters and Communication at UFPA. GeoLinTerm, in its current configuration, is a Macroproject or Program encompassing five areas of linguistic research: a) ALiPA, which now constitutes one of the research areas, encompassing two products: the Sound Linguistic Atlas of Pará (ALiSPA) and the Sound Lexical Atlas of Pará (ALeSPA), the latter still ongoing; b) the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil – Northern Region (ALiB-Norte); c) the Regional Linguistic Atlases of Northern Brazil (ALiN); d) the Sound Linguistic Atlas of Brazilian Indigenous Languages (ALSLIB); and e) Terminology and Socioterminology in Brazil (SocioTerm).

GeoLinTerm seeks to encompass the most diverse areas of linguistics, although it almost always focuses on what might be called applied linguistics. Thus, work has been developed in various fields, such as terminology, phraseology, geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language teaching and learning, language description and documentation, language contact, sign languages, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics (such as the creation of the first sound linguistic atlas in Brazil, ALISPA 1.1, in 2004).

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The research project "In Search of Women in Literature: From Illustrious Unknowns to New Editions" by Professor Juliana Maia de Queiroz has been running since 2024 and is highly regarded for its academic achievements.

Her research focuses on the study of women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries who were silenced by literary historiography, but who have been recovered and republished through initiatives by Brazilian editors, publishers, and researchers in recent years.

Many women writers published their poems, novels, and/or opinion pieces in periodicals. Similarly, numerous critical reception texts or book advertisements were published about these women who wrote throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite being erased from official historiography, their writings remained recorded in ink and paper, serving as the basis for our primary source research today.

While previously we had to rely solely on microfilm machines or leaf through worn or inaccessible pages, in recent years, such research has expanded due to the numerous digitized editions available to readers and researchers eager to expand their knowledge of Brazilian women writers throughout the centuries. Our main objective is to read and analyze works written by women in Brazil, specifically new editions by authors who were forgotten in their original editions from the nineteenth century or the first decades of the twentieth century, or even those that never made it into literary history compendiums and have only been reprinted in recent decades.

Thus, this research aims to continue the work with primary sources and the study of literary works erased from the literary canon, work we have undertaken since 2014 at the Federal University of Pará, but now focusing on works by women. We thus seek to contribute to the advancement of current research on women's literary writing in Brazil.

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Heritage, Decolonialities, and Citizenship Education is an initiative of the Proexia Emaús program that promotes educational initiatives focused on children's literacy and literacy skills, in addition to offering support to adolescents preparing for the ENEM (National High School Exam). Coordinated by Professors Isabel Cristina França and Welton Lavareda, the project develops activities that articulate knowledge and value cultural heritage, promoting a decolonial perspective on citizenship education.

The initiatives are carried out by scholarship holders affiliated with the Institute of Mathematical and Scientific Education (IEMCI) and the Institute of Letters and Communication (ILC), with the support of volunteers from undergraduate and graduate programs.

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