Understanding Linguistic Prejudice

Rosane de Andrade Berlinck is Professor in Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Sao Paulo State University, UNESP, at Araraquara, Brazil, since 1997. She obtained her Ph.D in Linguistics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KUL, Belgium, in 1995. From 2014 to 2015, she did a post doctorate, as a visiting professor, at the Sociolinguistics Laboratory of the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests and publications are in the fields of Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics of Brazilian Portuguese, with emphasis on linguistic variation and change in morphosyntactic processes, and correlations between textual-discursive genre, style, norm(s) and linguistic variation/change. She was editor-in-chief of Alfa: Revista de Linguística, from 2016 to 2020.

Angelica Rodrigues currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Letters at Unesp-Campus de Araraquara, where she works at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and holds the positions of Head of the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Classical Letters. She has a degree in Arts from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1998), a Master's in Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (2001) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (2006) with an internship (PhD Sandwich) at the Australian National University (2003-2004). She held an internship abroad (post-doctoral) at the University of Amsterdam between 2017 and 2018. Between March and July 2018, she performed an internship (post-doctoral) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She has experience in the field of Portuguese and Brazilian Sign Language-Libras, with an emphasis on Linguistics, working mainly on the following subjects: sign language linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic variation and change, grammaticalization, syntax and descriptive studies of sign languages (Brazilian Sign Language - Libras).