Linguistic Empowerment
voice / voz
Language as a space to express presence, history, and listening.
Empoderamento Linguístico
Language as a path to voice, identity, and belonging.
A space to reflect, learn, and strengthen our relationship with language.
Linguistic Empowerment: voice / voz
Publications
Publications and featured works
Selected records connecting academic trajectory, language research, and public science communication.
Featured publication
Insurgent Voices
A collection on Brazilian diversity in Linguistics, organized by Jorcemara Matos Cardoso and Maísa Ramos.
- Organized by
- Jorcemara Matos Cardoso and Maísa Ramos
- Theme
- Brazilian diversity in Linguistics
Linguistic empowerment means recognizing that every language journey carries history, culture, affection, and possibility.
About
Dr. Jorcemara Matos Cardoso
Dr. Jorcemara Matos Cardoso is a linguist, educator, and science communicator in the language sciences. Her work connects academic research, discourse studies, Brazilian identities and cultures, and public engagement around diversity, inclusion, and the recognition of plural ways of existing through language.
She holds a degree in Letters, with a focus on Portuguese Language, from the State University of Amazonas (2008), as well as an MA and PhD in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of São Carlos — PPGL/UFSCar. She completed a doctoral research stay at Paris Sorbonne-Université (Paris IV), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dominique Maingueneau.
Academic background
Holds a degree in Letters/Portuguese Language from the State University of Amazonas and an MA and PhD in Linguistics from PPGL/UFSCar.
Research and discourse
Studies relationships among knowledge, power, identities, Brazilian cultures, racialization, and language hierarchies.
Science communication
Communicates language science through social media as part of the Empoderamento Linguístico project.
Academic profile
Her research examines knowledge production and power relations in the constitution of Brazilian identities and cultures across different media and discursive practices. She also develops research on discursive practices that racialize subjects and hierarchize languages and ways of existing.
She is part of the Laboratory for Epistemological Studies and Multimodal Discursivities (LEEDIM) and the Laboratory for Studies of Discourse, History, and Foreignness (ImaGine). She works at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena with Portuguese Language and Brazilian Cultures and has served as a Celpe-Bras examiner there since 2017.
In addition to her academic work, she communicates language science on social media through the Empoderamento Linguístico Instagram profile and the Jorcemara Cardoso/Empoderamento Linguístico YouTube channel.
Empoderamento Linguístico
Project Pillars
Four themes guide the publication archive and the editorial experience of the site.
Identity
Language as a mark of history, culture, memory, and social presence.
Voice
Expression as a right to participate, tell experiences, and be heard.
Access
Language practices that expand circulation, understanding, and inclusion.
Linguistic Awareness
Attention to choices, variation, and contexts that give meaning to speech.
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Featured Publications
A curated set of texts adapted for reading on the site, independent of social platforms.
The word that opens paths
A brief reflection on how language can expand belonging, listening, and presence.
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