Thuany Teixeira de Figueiredo

PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), currently developing the project "Between Language and Emotions: The Attribution of Emotional States in Brazilian Portuguese", funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes). Previously, she was a research fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) during her master's studies at the same university, with a project on language acquisition and second-order Theory of Mind.She holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from Unicamp, with a focus on Anthropology and Teacher Education. From 2012 to 2013, she was a CNPq undergraduate research fellow with a project in the field of the Anthropology of Religion.Currently, she is a member of the research group Acquisition and Syntax: syntax-semantics interface, as well as of ForMA Research Center in Formal Grammar, Change, and Acquisition, and Lapros Laboratory for Language Acquisition, Processing, and Syntax, all based at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL-Unicamp). At the same institution, she is also the founder and coordinator of the Study Group on Language and Cognition (InCognitus).Previously, she was a member of the Laboratory of Anthropology of Religion at Unicamp (LAR-Unicamp) from 2012 to 2014.Her main areas of research interest include Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Pedagogy. Specific research topics include: language and thought, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, social cognition, and emotion. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)