Carla Teixeira

Carla Teixeira is an active Researcher at the Centro de Linguística da UNL (CLUNL) within the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She holds an external position as Professora Adjunta Convidada (Visiting Assistant Professor) at Instituto Politécnico da Lusofonia since September 2021, previously serving from October 2020 to July 2022.

Educational Background:

• Doctorate in Text and Discourse Linguistics from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (2014) with thesis: A Formulação e a Indução de Experiências. Análise de textos da área do vinho

Her research centers on genre analysis, interactionism, and linguistic description, with significant contributions to understanding textual configuration in presidential speeches, memorial interviews, and social media communication. Current work explores multimodal genres in post-pandemic education, particularly WhatsApp as an informal learning resource and media literacy in higher education writing. Her fingerprint analysis reveals deep engagement with interactionism (77%), linguistics (34%), and text genre studies (33%), bridging theoretical discourse analysis with practical language teaching applications.

Recent publications (2022-2024) demonstrate consistent output in discourse analysis methodologies, focusing on presidential inauguration speeches, Pelé's memorial interviews, and student text construction in digital environments. Key trends include historical contextualization of genres, didactic modalization techniques, and multimodal communication dynamics across academic and social contexts.

Academic Engagement:

• Active participant in 49 recorded activities (2012-2024) including 34 oral presentations
• Recent talks on presidential discourse (Nov 2024), memorial interviews (Nov 2024), and theoretical discourse appropriation (Jun 2023)
• Editorial roles for special issues on grammar and discourse studies

As co-founder of research networks exploring genre dynamics across Portuguese-speaking contexts, she collaborates internationally on textual analysis frameworks while maintaining strong institutional ties through CLUNL's research infrastructure. Her work increasingly addresses digital literacy challenges in contemporary education through empirical analysis of student text production.