Portuguese options
Degrees Programmes offering Portuguese as a Major language
Portuguese Staff
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Dr. Beatriz de
Paiva, Bacharelado/ Licenciaturas/ Mestrado [Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro], PhD [Heriot Watt University - Edinburgh], [Lecturer]
Tel: 01206 872 236, Email: bdepaiva@essex.ac.uk, Office: 4.211
Beatriz de Paiva graduated in Portuguese and German studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Bacharelado and Licenciaturas). She did her Master's degree (Mestrado) in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ).
She gained her PhD in Interlanguage Pragmatics, more specifically requests in Brazilian Portuguese as a second language. She is particularly interested in the interface between cognitive and communicative aspects of conversational interactions between native and non-native speakers. Other areas of interest include cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts.
She is the coordinator of all the Portuguese courses at Essex.
