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Rita Faria is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa's Faculty of Human Sciences, specializing in linguistics and discourse analysis. She teaches courses such as Contrastive Linguistics and Media Discourse Analysis. Her research focuses on (im)politeness, forms of address, gender language dynamics, and online communication, with particular attention to hate speech and corpus linguistics.
Education includes a PhD in Contrastive Linguistics (2010, UCP), M.Phil in Linguistics (2002, University of Cambridge), and BA in Portuguese/English Studies (2001, University of Lisbon). She contributes to the NetLang project (2018-2023), analyzing cyberbullying and prejudice in Portuguese/English corpora.
Her work examines language ideologies in digital spaces, such as address form usage in legal contexts and gendered discourse toward public figures. Recent studies include analyzing stance-taking in hate speech directed at Portuguese women and the pragmatic challenges of Portuguese as a foreign language instruction.
She actively participates in academic conferences and supervises research projects at UCP, contributing to the CECC research center.
