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Sonia Zyngier
Sonia Zyngier is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at
the Postgraduate Programme of Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was also Director of Cultural Affairs and Continuing
Education for 5 years. She also acted as Secretary of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics
Association) and is the current Secretary of IGEL (International Society for the
Empirical Study of Literature and Media). She has an M.A. in English Literature
from the University of Liverpool and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University
of Birmingham. Much of her work has been on stylistics and the teaching of
literature to EFL students. Specific research interests include discourse analysis and
pedagogical stylistics. She has published widely on literary awareness, stylistics,
and corpus analysis of literary discourse. She has developed a program of research in the area of the Empirical Science of Literature and its implications for literary
education. In 2006 she edited, together with Greg Watson, Literature and Stylistics
for Language Learners, published by Palgrave, and published Muses and Measures:
Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities in 2007 together with Willie van
Peer and Jèmeljan Hakemulder.
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