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).

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link.