Susana Afonso

Associate Professor Susana Afonso is affiliated with the University of Exeter's Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies department. Her research expertise spans Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics, and interdisciplinary Science Communication, with a focus on Portuguese as a global language and sociolinguistic variation between European and Brazilian Portuguese.

Her work addresses sociolinguistic variation within cognitive frameworks, explores power dynamics in language use, and contributes to social justice through co-production of meanings in non-formal educational contexts like museums. Publications include journals such as Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistics Vanguard, Curator: the Museum Journal, and Science Education.

In teaching, she leads undergraduate modules on global languages, language-cognition-society relationships, and intercultural communication, while co-directing the MA in Intercultural Communication and Exeter's Global Engagement initiatives.