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

Budding Researchers in the Humanities: An Intercultural Online Project
Budding Researchers in the Humanities: An Intercultural Online Project
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...
Budding Researchers in the Humanities: An Intercultural Online Project
Budding Researchers in the Humanities: An Intercultural Online Project
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...
Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies
Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies
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...
EFL through the Digital Glass of Corpus Linguistics
EFL through the Digital Glass of Corpus Linguistics
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...