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In the present study, we reflect on the development of phonological awareness activities that are part of a task on the production of Brazilian cartoons. The concepts of task (ELLIS et al. 2020) and of the phase of focus on language (WILLIS, 1996) were used to discuss opportunities for comprehension, reflection and manipulation of the variation of the postvocalic lateral consonant in Brazilian Portuguese (COLLISCHONN e QUEDNAU, 2009; HAHN-NONNENMACHER, 2019; CALLOU, 2009; LEITE, CALLOU e MORAES, 2007; BATTISTI e MORAS, 2016; MORAS, 2017) by the participants, by the analysis of the characters names from five Brazilian cartoons. The findings reveal that the students were able (a) to recognize different ways to pronounce the consonant according to its position, (b) to reflect about the use of the lateral in coda in Brazilian Portuguese as well as in Spanish and (c) to apply the semivocalization rule.

The present work has as general objective to investigate the potential of the use of the mental map in the teaching and learning of the grammar of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) by Chinese learners. Created and systematized by the English psychologist Tony Buzan, the mind map is widely used in diverse areas, especially in the field of education. In the light of cognitive theory, we found that this strategy, compatible with human cognition, can contribute, not only to the clarification and systematization of knowledge but also to the connection of new concepts with previous ones, promoting, therefore, meaningful learning. Through the analysis of two case studies, we believe that the mind map, as a complementary resource, should be used more and further, in conjunction with other methods, in a larger context.

Editorial para o número 02/2020.

This article presents a profile of the Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL) area in Brazilian federal universities. Very important for the internationalization process of universities and the attendance of the growing number of immigrants that Brazil has received in recent years, the PAL area is still relatively small in the country. In order to contribute to the strengthening of the area and the acknowledgement of its importance in the educational systems, we present how the field has evolved to its current state and discuss actions and policies that contributed to its growth and consolidation. In the sequence, we present and discuss data generated between November 2016 and July 2017 on the offer of PAL courses at federal universities. Considering the expansion of PAL education in recent years and the lack of published information about its insertion in higher education institutions, we understand the data we present here contribute as an important subsidy for the debate on policies for the institutionalization of the PAL area in Brazil.

On September 25th 2015, all United Nations member states unanimously approved the 2030 Agenda about the Sustainable Development of the world, which is understood as an opportunity for societies to embark in a new path of bettering the communities life, with the motto: Leave no one behind. This work shows the contributions that the Humanities and the Arts make to the agenda, from the praxis that each discipline conforms on the subject of sustainable development, ensuring the health of Latin American democracies. Our journey interacts with the critical and theoretical proposals of Graciela Speranza and Martha Nussbaum and intends on showing certain marks of said contributions that many Universities of the world are making in regards to SDGs. We will also, starting from the five tools presented by the UN, articulate the resilience in relation to the literary critic (Roland Barthes), Land art (Bernabé) and the literature (Horacio Quiroga) to draft a critical diagnosis and analysis of the actions of the Humanities and the Arts in the Sustainable Development of the world.

In human intellectual and cultural developments, all proposals for broad rational iconoclastic tendencies result in new systematizations, which necessarily rely on beliefs, dogmas, creeds and rites. These experiences are at the core of “Cântico” Negro” and “Tabacaria”, in which the poetic enunciation pervades the intellectual foundations that sustain rationality as well as the diverse modes of expressions of human knowledge through the various traditional forms of understanding. In José Régio, the transformations on how literary critics and poets understand reality, starting within particular human experiences, integrating classicism and modernism, lead the author´s reflections to establish the idea of Living Literature. In Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro’s disciple, the continuous awakening of dogmatic sleep does not allow humans to rise up from their chimeras; rather, it inserts them in perennial illusions while articulating the senses and mind.

Based on the representation of the Lebanese immigrant character Amina, in the novel Amrik, by the Brazilian writer Ana Miranda, published in 1997, this article aims to present some reflections on immigration from a gender perspective, especially from the perspective of the female experience. In immigration, the transformative character of the journey, of the crossing itself, is present in the construction of the character's subjectivity, but it still reveals the significant influence of the marks of gender, race and social condition. Through such marks, above all by the gender mark, the freedom of the immigrant character is problematized and, sometimes, it proves possible only in the solitude of the woman's body.

In the present work, there is a concern to address a very peculiar characteristic of contemporary literary texts: a narrative motivated by memory. This mechanism works, in the tales A velha da sacola and Uma fantasia para Sofia - both present in the collection Fissuras (2018), by Henriette Effenberger –, as a reminder of problems related to patriarchy, with the consequence of a break in the hegemonic construction of female roles by protagonists. To support our discussion, we used, primarily, the books Tempo passado: cultura da memória e guinada subjetiva (2007), by Beatriz Sarlo, and Memória e identidade (2012), by Joël Candau, as well as other theoretical reflections related to the subject.

Since the end of 2019, and even in 2020, the world has been face with a major health crisis. We're talking about the pandemic caused by Covid-19. A disease that has mobilized the scientific community in search of the long-aforesome cure. For us linguists, it is worth noting how the discourses conveyed by government agencies are meaning with regard to the way in which dialogue is established with the population. This process of discursivization undertaken by the public power is called biopolitics – a concept articulated by the theoretician Michel Foucault, which comprises a set of norms used to control the subjects' lives. In the light of Discourse Analysis, based on Foucault (1997; 2000; 2009), Charaudeau (2016), and Courtine (2006), the article analyzes how biopolitics appears on two posters published on the website of the Ministry of Health in Brazil. Our investigations prove that there is thus a search for the establishment of a positive effect of the government in gaining the trust of the population in coping with this health crisis

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The text analyses the short story The Cage, written by the contemporary writer Augusta Faro, from a feminist aesthetics. The narrative is situated within the scope of marginal women's literature, as, in a way, the writings are on the margin of the literary canon system. It also aim to reflect the female condition and gender violence, emphasizing the different aspects assigned to women and the different types of violence experienced by them, evidencing the possibility of rupture and objection to the perverse logic of patriarchy. The analysis reveals the breaking of stereotypes and the subversion of hegemonic patterns set for the female from the portrait of the fourth generation, that opposing to the structural sexism, empower itself, achieves the freedom and the autonomy for managing their lives and make their own choices. To promote a discussion, we based our analysis on the studies of Betty Friedan (2020), Helleith Safiotti (2015), Júlio Cortázar (2006), Nádia Gotlib (1990/2004),  Ricardo Piglia (2004), Simone de Beauvoir (1990a; 1990b), Wayne Booth (1980), among others. We conclude that the short story analyzed enable the readers, especially the female audience, a reflection on the different types of women imprisonment and, in  a special way and with an aesthetical beauty, possibilities of rupture and transgression of perverse enclosures of feminine that still exists nowadays in the sociological, ideological and moral contexts.     

In this work, we use some theories that are approached in the texts Mulheres pobres e violência no Brasil urbano (2004), by Rachel Soihet, A dominação masculina (2003), by Pierre Bourdieu, and O segundo sexo (1970), by Simone de Beauvoir, for the purpose of understand the relationship between sexual freedom and repression of female sexuality – a duality that appears in the short stories “Pai Nosso” and “Redenção”, by brazilian writer Henriette Effenberger. With this, we intend to reflect about the prohibitions imposed by the Christian religions on the woman’s sexual pleasure, based on the literary representation of such restriction.

When we draw a profile of contemporary Brazilian authors who have published collections of tales in the last thirty years, we perceive a range of names. In this way, we cut out a list of the winners of the Jabuti Prize from 1990 to 2020, so that we can draw a profile of these writers. We realized, then, that the only black woman to win the award in these thirty years was Conceição Evaristo (1946- ). Dismissing the argument that black women have not published, we confronted the canonical profile with the collection Cadernos Negros (FIGUEIREDO, 2009), listed several names, among them, Conceição itself. Also, realizing that the aesthetics of these black writers permeates other questions and, in an attempt to “listen to” them (KILOMBA, 2019; SPIVAK, 2010), we listed the concept of escrevivência (EVARISTO, 2005, 2007; FERREIRA, 2013) and Afrofeminine literature (SANTIAGO, 2012) to analyze four short stories by the gaucho author Maria Helena Vargas da Siveira (1940-2009): “Rondas” and “Filosofia da farofa”, published in O sol de Fevereiro (1991); and “Iniciação” and “Barro duro do Laranjal”, published in Odara: Fantasia e realidade (1993).

In line with feminist criticism, this article focuses on the theme of the black body taking as reference the work Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres, by Conceição Evaristo. The short stories that make up this volume, all of them entitled by the name of a woman, deal with themes that refer to the female body and its violation, whether by the husband, the father or the partner, whether they are young, mature or old women. The objective of the article is to analyze the thematic of body and writing, from the experiences-stories of the female main characters. When relating both issues, we understand that the body of the lived experience becomes a matter of narration, in a process of identification and self-definition of black women.

This text aims to reflect on the autofictional tale of Veronica Stigger, showing how the author overcomes this concept when verifying its wear in contemporary literature. For this, we will analyze three short stories by Stigger: “The book”, published in Sombrio Ermo Turvo, “True image” and “200 m2”, published in Os anões, texts that present themselves as parodies of autofiction. Thus the writer, when transmuting herself into a character, distorts her own image, in a specular process of her texts and authorship. When considering the characteristics of the contemporary tale and the specificities of Stigger's tale, we seek to highlight, taking as a theoretical contribution, above all, the studies on Vicent Colonna's autofiction and the essays on Umberto Eco's mirrors, as Stigger forges unusual lives for herself for show that everything is fiction.

Tatiana Bubnova's reflection in the field of Bakhtinian studies and her contributions to the Spanish translations of the works of Bakhtin and his Circle are already well known among experts in the area. In this interview, Bubnova addresses questions involving the translation of the work, the reception and the exegesis that received in the West. The interview consists of seven questions in which Bubnova discusses about how she began to translate the Russian authors; how to understand the problem of the translator's voice in the translations; the issue of specialized terminology for translations into different languages; the understanding of the Circle's texts in unforeseen times by their authors; the reverse translation; the theme of the “Bakhtin Industry”, gives indications of readings by other bakhtinists and designs a kind of reading itinerary for someone who will be introduced to these texts.

The current article aims at studying a few iconic aspects in Conceição Evaristo’s tales, highlighting the aspect of orality and the writer’s talent as a storyteller that reflects in her writing. That’s why we chose three tales from the author: “Mansões e puxadinhos” (2017), “O sagrado pão dos filhos’ (2017) and “A moça do vestido amarelo” (2017), all from the book of tales: “Contos de leves enganos e parecenças” (2017) from Conceição Evaristo. Every tale will be analyzed from one or two iconic aspects such as: the denunciation of injustices, the depiction of resilience, the evocation of the ancestrality and the afro-brazilin resistance. To this end, we will rely on Michael Pollak’s concept of underground memories (1993) and the concept of resilience, develop by Eurídice Figueiredo (2020).

This article analyzes “The husband's shirt”, by Nélida Piñón. It is intended to demonstrate that this text offers a suigéneris representation of women, which is no longer seen as a socially handicapped (weak, passive, dependet), but is presented as someone who has agency, that is, that he is capable of problematizing his circumstance and, furthermore, he does something to overcome it. Likewise, we want to prove that, in this story, the "bad mother" is represented, understood as the female character who is not willing to follow the social mandates that motherhood imposes. This "bad mother" privileges her individual condition rather than that referred to her children. Finally, it also wants to show that "The husband's shirt" is a story in which the difficulty of family relationships is problematized, those that do not ensure affection or harmony between the people who make up a family.

Recently, black women’s literature has gained social prominence and proved to be a reference to question white, patriarchal and LGBTQIphobic supremacy structures both in the literary field, through different themes, perspectives and styles, and in society as a whole. Among the several  issues that can be highlighted in these writings is the construction of black masculinities. In this article, we analyze two short stories by Cristiane Sobral published in her book Espelhos, miradouros, dialéticas da percepção (2011): “Afrodisíaco” and “Memórias”. Our objective is to verify how they contribute to counter-hegemonic debates by destabilizing stereotyped views about black male bodies, from themes such as stigmatization and objectification, affection, paternity and ancestry. In addition, they bring a renewal to the set of short story productions written by female authors in Brazil.