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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
She holds a Bachelors degree in Language and Literature (Translation) from Faculdade Ibero-Americana (1982), a Masters degree in Linguistics and the Portuguese Language from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1989), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and the Portuguese Language from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1995). She completed postdoctoral studies at the State University of New York (20002001) and at the University of Amsterdam (20092010). She conducted a research internship at the University of Amsterdam (20132014 and 2024). She is currently an assistant professor at the Júlio de Mesquita Filho State University of São Paulo. She is on the board of the Functional Grammar Foundation. She has experience in the field of Linguistics, with an emphasis on Linguistic Theory and Analysis, focusing primarily on the following topics: functionalism, linguistic typology, modality, evidentiality, tense, and aspect. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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As a specialist in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), Professor Dr. Hella Olbertz will have research activities of two different natures during her visit at UNESP, aiming at the research projects under development in the Post Graduation Programme on Linguistic Studies: i) advisory services for the development of research projects using the theoretical approach of the FDG, and ii ) the d…
This is the program of activities for a visiting professor specialized in Functinal Discourse Grammar, more specifically at the Morphosyntactic Level, which will act as adviser and contributor to individual and collective projects from members of the Research Group on Functional Grammar at IBILCE/UNESP. (AU)
In order to improve the research projects developed within the research line "Functional Description of Oral and Written Languages" and within the Research Group on Functional Grammar, two activities are planned: the discussion of individual and collective research projects and a workshop on linguistic typology. New activities to be developed in the next three years within the research ag…
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This research aims to investigate how the assertion is built in the presidential inauguration addresess of Brasil (1984-2011).Understanding the assertion as a categorical affirmation of a proposition that the speaker believes to be true, the main purpose of this research is to investigate the form and the function of the indication of certainty used by the Presidents, who speak from a pla…
Admitindo que a negação desempenha papel fundamental na construção da argumentação, pretende-se, neste projeto, descrever as formas de expressão da negação implícita, verificando a hipótese de este tipo de operação funcionar como indicador de descomprometimento do falante ou como estratégia de polidez ao promover a -negação da informação processada no texto. Especial atenção será dada à r…
Sob um ponto de vista funcional, a linguagem é definida como um instrumento utilizado para propósitos essencialmente comunicativos, ou seja, caracteriza a capacidade que os indivíduos têm não apenas de codificar e decodificar expressões, mas também de usar e interpretar essas expressões de uma maneira interacionalmente satisfatória. Nesse cenário, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo desc…
Based on the theoretical assumptions of the Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld and Mackenzie, 2008), this project aims to make a typological analysis of the grammatical expression of modality in native languages of Brazil. Its main goal is to clarify the intricate relationship established between the epistemic modal values of certainty and uncertainty and evidential values of inferen…
Taking into account the variety of meanings attributed to evidential expressions, this research project investigates the question to what extent the grammatical expression of evidentiality in a variety of languages may be explained in terms of the threefold distinction proposed by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008) and in terms of the hierarchical relationship existing between them. Accordin…
Considerando-se que a diluição de responsabilidade é uma estratégia discursiva que se realiza por meio de diferentes recursos lingüísticos, esta pesquisa pretende analisar, sob um ponto de vista funcional, o papel que os operadores frasais de força ilocucionária, evidencialidade e modalidade epistêmica exercem na promoção do descomprometimento do falante, ao atuarem sobre o eixo do conhec…