Augusto Soares da Silva
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Augusto Soares da Silva is Professor of Portuguese Linguistics at the Catholic University of Portugal. His research focuses on lexical semantics, grammar and conceptualisation, and language variation and change within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. He is also interested in metaphor, ideology and discourse. He now coordinates two research projects on the comparison of European and Brazilian Portuguese: Convergence and Divergence (funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), and Conceptualisation of Emotions (funded by Gulbenkian Foundation). He is the director of the Center for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.