Ana Margarida Abrantes

Assistant Professor

ana.margarida.abrantes@ucp.pt

She holds a PhD in German Language and Literature from the Portuguese Catholic University and is currently a member of the Faculty Board and Coordinator of the BA Program in Applied Foreign Languages. Between 2007 and 2009 she was visiting researcher at the Center for Semiotics of Aarhus University and at the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Since 2016 she is a member of the Scientific Board for German Studies of DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

Researcher in the line Culture, Translation and Cognition of CECC, her areas of interest are Culture and Cognition, Language and Cognition, Cognitive Poetics and German Studies.

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Shedding a Cognitive Light on the Problem of Interpretation. A Tentative Essay in Honor of Angela Locatelli

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Ana Margarida Abrantes). 2022. Translation and Interpretation
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From space to mental space

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Ana Margarida Abrantes). 2021. Diffractions
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Intersubjetividade entre a singularidade e a empatia

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2021. Linguagem, Cognição e Cultura: Estudos em Interface
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Palavras em Viagem

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Ana Margarida Abrantes). 2021. À Volta da Viagem
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Psicologia e Cultura

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2021. A Psicologia em Movimento
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Psicologia e Cultura

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Ana Margarida Abrantes). 2021. Psicologia em Movimento
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Telling vs. Showing. Imagined dialogues, the conversation frame, and sense making in teh arts

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Ana Margarida Abrantes). 2021. Cognition, culture, and the arts
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4 + 4 proposals for making sense of today's convivial cultures, publication (e-book)

Luísa Leal de Faria, Peter Hanenberg & Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Luísa Santos). 2020.
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In Bild und Wort: Formen der kulturellen Resilienz in Zeiten der Krise am Beispiel von Portugal

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2020. Europe's Crises and Cultural Resources of Resilience. Conceptual Explorations and Literary Negotiations
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Talk this dance: on the conceptualisation of dance as fictive conversation

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2019. The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science
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Talk this dance: on the conceptualization of dance as fictive conversation

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2019. The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science
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Germanistik in Portugal

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2017. Mitteilungen des Germanistenverbandes
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Sobre o Perdão. Histórias de uma Resposta Improvável

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2017. O Futuro ao Nosso Alcance. Homenagam a Roberto Carneiro
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Vom Experiment zur Neuorientierung

Ana Maria Bernardo & Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida (5A1C-1D19-BD25)). 2017. Frank und Timme
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Cognitive Science and How We Think About Money

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2015. The Cultural Life of Money
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Culture, Text, and Mind: Bridging the Gap between Cognition and History in the Study of Literature

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2015. Journal of Literary Theory
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Translation and Imagination

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2015. A New Visibility: On Culture, Translation and Cognition
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Encontros e Travessias

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Ana Maria Bernardo). 2014.
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Narrativa e Empatia. Lições do Cérebro e da Literatura

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2014. Povos e Culturas, 18 - O Cérebro: O que a Ciência nos diz!
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Narrativa e Empatia. Lições do Cérebro e da Literatura

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2014. Povos e Culturas
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Reframing the Concept of Mimesis: Literature, Cognition and the Representation of Reality

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2014. Reframing Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies: Theorizing and Analyzing Conceptual Transfer
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Reframing the Concept of Mimesis: Literature, Cognition and the Representation of Reality

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2014. WVT
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Scripta 34 - Linguagem, Discurso e Cognição

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2014. Scripta
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Cognition and Culture

Peter Hanenberg & Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Peter Hanenberg). 2011. Peter Lang AG
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Cognition and Culture. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2011. Peter Lang
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Communication today: proximity, distance and the mind in-between

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2011. Proximidade e Distância. Estudos Sobre a Língua e a Cultura
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Introdução à Semântica

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2011.
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Cognition and Culture. A Semiotic Perspective

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2010. Semiotics 2009: The Semiotics of Time: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America
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Cognitive Semiotics #6. Tropes and Schemes

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2010. Cognitive Semiotics
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Cognitive Semiotics, Issue 6: Tropes & Schemes

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2010.
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Consciousness and Self in language. A view from cognitive semiotics

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2010. TECCGOGS
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Consciousness and Self in language. A view from cognitive semiotics

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2010. TECCOGS. Revista Digital de Tecnologias Cognitivas
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Meaning and Mind. A Cognitive Approach to Peter Weiss' Prose Work

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2010. Peter Lang
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Temporal minds, timeless tales. Experiencing time in theater

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2010. Semiotics 2009: The Semiotics of Time: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America
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Fictive Interaction as an Instance of Theatricality in Cognition

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2009.
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Prática constitucional ou comunidade de memória? Apontamentos sobre a identidade colectiva da Europa.

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2009.
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The Mind on Stage: On the Relation between Theater and Cognition

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2009.
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A Modernidade paradoxal de Baudelaire: O eterno é o efémero

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2008.
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Boundaries in Space, Cognition and Art

Ana Margarida Abrantes 2008. Abrantes, Ana M. 2008. Boundaries in Space, Cognition and Art. In The Map Is Not The Territory, ed. Per Aage Brandt, Claus Carstensen, 15 - 22. ISBN: 978-87-89311-26-5. Esbjerg: Esbjerg Kunstmuseum.
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Boundaries in Space, Cognition and Art

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2008. The Map Is Not The Territory
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Gestalt, Perception and Literature

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2008. Journal of Literary Theory
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Poetry in the subway: Deixis and cognition in a journey through Lisbon

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2008. POST - A Review of Poetry Studies
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The Mythologiques: between linguistics and music.

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2008.
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A Toolbox for Thinking

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2007.
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Cognição, Linguagem e Literatura. Contributos para uma Poética Cognitiva

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2005. Minerva
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Euphemism and Cooperation in Discourse

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2005. Power Without Domination. Dialogism and the empowering property of communication
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Alemão. Uma Língua Para a Europa?

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2004. Universidade Católica Editora
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On the Cognitive Process of reading Peter Weiss’ "The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body’

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2004. Linguagem, Cultura e Cognição. Estudos de Linguística Cognitiva
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Kosovo, 1999: Situação, conflito ou guerra? A vaguidade eufemística na imprensa

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2003. Estudos de Linguística Contrastiva e Interdisciplinar (Alemão-Português)
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É a Guerra. O Uso do eufemismo na Imprensa. Um Estudo Contrastivo em Linguística Cognitiva

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2002. passagem editores
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Eufemismo e integração conceptual

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2002. Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades
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Lexik Zwischen Sein und Schein – der Euphemismus im DaF-Unterricht

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2002. Lernerlexikologie und Wortschatzerwerb im Fremdsprachenunterricht
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Guerra, paz ou pacificação? Aspectos semânticos e pragmáticos do Eufemismo na imprensa

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 2001. Linguagem e Cognição. A Perspectiva da Linguística Cognitiva
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O regresso às emoções: a expressão da raiva em português

Ana Margarida Abrantes (with Abrantes, Ana Margarida). 1999. Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades