Sonia Zyngier
Sonia Zyngier is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at
the Postgraduate Programme of Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was also Director of Cultural Affairs and Continuing
Education for 5 years. She also acted as Secretary of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics
Association) and is the current Secretary of IGEL (International Society for the
Empirical Study of Literature and Media). She has an M.A. in English Literature
from the University of Liverpool and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University
of Birmingham. Much of her work has been on stylistics and the teaching of
literature to EFL students. Specific research interests include discourse analysis and
pedagogical stylistics. She has published widely on literary awareness, stylistics,
and corpus analysis of literary discourse. She has developed a program of research in the area of the Empirical Science of Literature and its implications for literary
education. In 2006 she edited, together with Greg Watson, Literature and Stylistics
for Language Learners, published by Palgrave, and published Muses and Measures:
Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities in 2007 together with Willie van
Peer and Jèmeljan Hakemulder.
Publications
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Vander Viana, Anna Chesnokova, Sonia Zyngier, Willie van Peer.
© 2012. 14 pages.
This chapter aims at describing the networks within the Research and Development in Empirical Studies (REDES) Project, an intercultural enterprise aimed at promoting empirical...
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Vander Viana, Anna Chesnokova, Sonia Zyngier, Willie van Peer.
© 2010. 14 pages.
This chapter aims at describing the networks within the Research and Development in Empirical Studies (REDES) Project, an intercultural enterprise aimed at promoting empirical...
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Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier, Vander Viana.
© 2010. 254 pages.
Today’s popularization of modern technologies has allowed literature specialists to access an array of new opportunities in the digital medium, which have brought about an equal...
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Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier.
© 2009. 18 pages.
Like the advent of the telescope, computers today can provide ways of looking into language patterns that cannot be seen with the naked eye. From this perspective, this chapter...
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