This study aims at investigating how and which theoretical aspects of linguistics are effective for implementing a Letters course directed across the educations of Portuguese language teachers. This doctoral dissertation ...

Research in the field of computer assisted language learning and teaching has discussed the necessity of defining a research agenda in area. Because of this, some of these studies have focused on the analysis of research ...

The scope of this thesis is to contribute to the theoretical discussion about the emergence and the modes of operation of discourses overlapped by dominant or antagonist ideologies in Latin America. From the perspective ...

This research investigates how homoerotic males represent themselves in personal ads from internet. Thus, the theoretical background was Appraisal Theory, Martin & White (2005), discoursive studies from Bakhtin s Circle, ...

In our work we tried to understand the ways in which media discourses, considering the production conditions of media practices as a part of a society marked by the profusion of images and by the (re)production of meanings. ...

The current study, of qualitative nature, had as its central theme the passive smoking through the perspective of Education in Science. Seeking to generate subsidies which would cooperate to the establishment of pedagogical ...

This study had the objective of evaluating the effect of planting spacing on the growth, yield and wood quality of Pinus taeda L. Nine different spacing were analyzed, with six trees sampled per treatment, totalizing 54 ...

The overall objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the forestry (eucalyptus plantations) in Campos Sulinos biome vegetation. It were installed permanent and temporary plots in different grassland types ...

Erva mate (Ilex paraguariensis A. St.-Hil.) is a species widely cultivated in southern Brazil and adjacent countries, whose leaves and fine branches, appropriately prepared, offer the mate-tea, the most popular tea consumed ...

The aim of this work is to rise up a procedure to support the management plans. This research is divided into seven chapters. In the first chapter, the introduction, with justification and the objectives of the work are ...