Education:

1994-2000 Ph.D.: Modern Languages and Literatures (Contrastive Linguistics - Interactional Sociolinguistics), Portuguese Catholic University, Faculdade de Letras (Viseu), Dissertation: « "Je voudrais dire un petit mot" - Langage et pouvoir: analyse du (-es) discours en télévision ». Thesis director: Prof. Maria Emília Ricardo Marques (Universidade Aberta - Lisbon) , thesis co-director Prof. Eddy Roulet (Université de Genève);
1990-1994 M.A: Applied Linguistics (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Dissertation: "O discurso e as vozes em Publicidade Teledifundida - análise semiolinguística" [The discourse and the voices in Television Advertising - a semiolinguistics analysis]. Thesis director: Prof. Maria Emília Ricardo Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa);
1973-1980 B.A.: Roman Philology (Faculdade de Letras - University of Oporto).

Employment:

October 2007 - present: Portuguese Catholic University - Institute of Health Sciences - lecturer of Communication and Relational Techniques in Health - MIMD

October 2007 - 2011: Coordinator of the PhD course in Linguistics and Language Teaching

October 2000-2010: Supervisor of the M.A. in Linguistics and Language Teaching

 October 2004 - 2010 Supervisor of the M.A. in Communication and Expression

 January 2001-present: Portuguese Catholic University, Auxiliar Professor, French Language and Linguistics and Didactics of French, Department of French