Augusto Soares da Silva

Augusto Soares da Silva is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal. His research spans Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics, with a focus on Portuguese language variation, pluricentricity, and metaphor analysis.

• PhD in Portuguese Linguistics (1997), Catholic University of Portugal
• Specializes in European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese comparative studies
• PI for projects like CONDIV and Global Portuguese

His work integrates corpus linguistics, conceptual metaphor, and cultural cognition, analyzing political discourse, emotional conceptualization, and grammatical theories. He has supervised over 166 scientific productions and co-created the CONDIVport2 Corpus for political and societal texts.

Dr. da Silva actively contributes to academic discourse through edited volumes, invited talks, and organizational roles. Recent activities include co-organizing the 2024 conference on Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience.