Rita Faria

Assistant Professor

Rita Faria

Assistant Professor

Generic Bio

Rita Faria is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Catholic University of Portugal where she teaches Linguistics, Portuguese as Foreign Language, Discourse Analysis and English. She also coordinates the Master in Linguistics for EFL Teachers. She holds an M.Phil in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD by the Catholic University of Portugal with a thesis on linguistic politeness in Portuguese and in English. Her research interests focus on addressivity, forms of address, language and social class, verbal aggression, computer-mediated communication and language and identity. She is a member of the NETLANG project, which investigates the language of cyberbullying and online prejudice and discrimination in annotated comparable corpora of Portuguese and English. She is also interested in translation and literature and is a regular contributor to the literary project Jogos Florais (https://www.jogosflorais.com), dedicated to poetry, criticism, translation and culture.

Areas of Research:

Culture Studies

Sub-areas of Research:

Languages and Linguistics

Publications

Other

Dificuldades de uso das preposições ‘de’ e ‘em’ no ensino de PLE em Macau

Rita Faria (with Rita Faria). 2024. Faculdade de Ciências Humanas - UCP

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Perceptions of Forms of Address in European Portuguese in Online Metadiscourse or What Happens When You Use você in Court

Rita Faria (with Rita Faria). 2024. Languages

Master's and PhD students in Culture Studies attend the Venice Biennale

"Imigração: o país precisa de políticas eficazes"

OpenSession PhD in Psychology: Emotions and Wellbeing (online)

Rita Faria

Rita Faria

Generic Bio

Dificuldades de uso das preposições ‘de’ e ‘em’ no ensino de PLE em Macau

Perceptions of Forms of Address in European Portuguese in Online Metadiscourse or What Happens When You Use você in Court

Hi, Carlinhos, how are the unicorns?’ Forms of address as stance-taking devices in the housing crisis debate on Portuguese Twitter.

O diminutivo como elemento discursivo da Língua-Cultura brasileira nas aulas de PLE

O papel da mulher em manuais de Português Língua Estrangeira

Perceções de alunos (chineses) sobre o papel do erro e feedback corretivo no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de PLE

Rita Faria sobre Antre Mim Mesmo e Mim, de Bernardim Ribeiro

Stance-Taking and Gender: Hateful Representations of Portuguese Women Public Figures in the NETLANG Corpus

What Portuguese as a Foreign Language tells us about forms of address: an analysis of discourses of legitimation

What we talk about when we talk about methodology

When translation makes the news – representations of translation and translators in the British and the Portuguese press.

‘We are obsessed with respecting others’: The (un)bearable lightness of the (im)polite Self and what metadiscourses on forms of address tell us about weight and lightness.

“Death to the ‘Doctors’!” - How speakers of European Portuguese address forms of address.

"We should all address each other by tu and stop being offended” – the conflict between volition and discernment and a metalanguage of address in European Portuguese

'Would you shut up, man?’ The Translation of forms of address in the Portuguese press

A elasticidade dos limites legais no discurso mediático humorístico.

Language attitudes and forms of address in European Portuguese – the (lack of) democracy of address.

Política de língua e atitudes face à língua portuguesa em Macau

Representações de género no espaço público português

Stance-taking and gender: aggressive representations of Portuguese women public figures in the NetLang Corpus

Will you shut up, man? The translation of forms of address in the Portuguese press.

Would you shut up, man? The Translation of Forms of Address in the Portuguese Press

Would you shut up, man? The Translation of Forms of Address in the Portuguese Press

‘How to (not) win friends and (not) influence people’: linguistic politeness in European Portuguese at the crossroads between fixity and performativity

‘How to (not) win friends and (not) influence people’: linguistic politeness in European Portuguese at the crossroads between fixity and performativity

As consequências do tratamento de 3ª pessoa em português europeu

As consequências do tratamento de 3ª pessoa em português europeu

Will you shut up, man? The translation of forms of address in the Portuguese press.

“Most voted women” – representations of gender in the Portuguese media coverage of the 2021 Presidential elections

“Most voted women” – representations of gender in the Portuguese media coverage of the 2021 Presidential elections.

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To walk (in)visible? A (in)visibilidade das Brontës

To walk (in)visible? A (in)visibilidade das Brontes

Troy: Myth And Reality. British Museum, London (21/09/2019 to 8/3/2020).

Troy: Myth And Reality. Museu Britânico, Londres (21/09/2019 – 8/3/2020). Recensão.

VOCÊS VÃO SAIR A BEM OU A MAL: AN EXAMINATION OF (IM)POLITE FORMS OF ADDRESS ONLINE IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE

Address and Impoliteness in Online Polylogues / Indelicadeza e tratamento linguístico em polílogos online

Ensino de PLE. A língua e a cultura através do erro.

International NetLang Research Project Meeting and Workshop

IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

The translation of forms of address in Roald Dahl's Matilda and Danny the Champion of the World

The translation of forms of address in Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Danny the Champion of the World

Tu não és tuga? An examination of terms of address online.

VOCÊS VÃO SAIR A BEM OU A MAL: AN EXAMINATION OF (IM)POLITE FORMS OF ADDRESS ONLINE IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE

14th ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: “People like yourself are frightening” – online address in English and in Portuguese

39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, Universidade de Évora, Portugal: ‘ The red plague rid you for learning me your language’: Standard And Non Standard Usages In English And In Portuguese

CAN A FORM OF ADDRESS CHANGE SOCIETY? – An exploration into politeness and class in Portugal , 11th International Conference on Im/Politeness – University of Valencia

Impoliteness in Wuthering Heights: to ‘fight through a bitter life.’

Review: William Shakespeare. Macbeth. 2 to 17 December 2017. Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. Dir. Nuno Carinhas.

Teaching Forms of Address in Portuguese: a linguistic and a cultural issue.

The Red Plague Rid You For Learning Me Your Language! Standard And Non-Standard Use In English And In Portuguese.

To Walk (In)Visible? A (in)visibilidade das Brontës.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 2017. MACBETH. 2 – 17 DE DEZEMBRO DE 2017. TEATRO NACIONAL D. MARIA II. ENCENAÇÃO DE NUNO CARINHAS.

William Shakespeare. Macbeth. 2 to 17 December 2017. Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. Dir. Nuno Carinhas.

‘To gobblefunk around with words’ – translating im/politeness (forms of address) and social literacy.

“The Red Plague Rid You For Learning Me Your Language! – Standard And Non-Standard Use In English And In Portuguese”

“The Red Plague Rid You For Learning Me Your Language!” – Standard and Non-Standard Use in English and in Portuguese

Political and social language: “making lies sound truthful and murder respectable”

“’Words that are easy to understand can still be elegant’ – the ‘elegance’ of im/politeness in computer-mediated argumention”

Um Livro de Fábulas em Escrita Criativa

"Flipping Reported Speech"

'The problem is, Nick, the problem is – nobody believes you: can we believe im/politeness? The role of im/politeness in successful argumentation'”

Flipping Reported Speech

Flipping Reported Speech

Naming the Names/Dar Nome aos Nomes

(im)Politeness online and the Eurozone crisis

Português para o Mundo B1/B2

Relational Work and (im)politeness in online communities

Pragmática e Sociolinguística

Legal performance, good and bad/ A boa e a má performance legal

Rita Faria sobre Antre Mim Mesmo e Mim, de Bernardim Ribeiro.

“(Im)politeness in cyberspace: the formation of a public opinion?”

Would you shut up, man? The Translation of Forms of Address in the Portuguese Press