• PROJECT 1: E-Dictionary of Literary Terms

The project of an E-Dictionary of Literary Terms , in Portuguese, intends to gather a wide-ranging and an all-inclusive database of technical terms in use in literary studies, literary criticism, academic texts related to literature, and in the specific bibliographies of literary and cultural studies.

• The database has more than 1500 entries, including cross-references, and it includes a considerable number of current terms yet to be found in many dictionaries in this area, especially in the Portuguese language. It also includes many foreign terms that are part of the technical language of literary studies, which are used in various forms in the Portuguese-speaking world.
• It provides extensively updated coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, fiction, poetry, literary history, textual criticism, etc. In addition, the dictionary is thoroughly cross-referenced and offers web links related to selected terms.
• The project is still a work-in-progress. The entries are now re-published and authors will edit their own entries from this new version. All users can now add comments (subject to approval by the webmaster).
• The research project has been produced by a team of more than 170 lecturers, both Portuguese and Brazilian. The project was initiated in 1997 and has since 2005 has evolved into this electronic publication, always under the coordination of Dr Carlos Ceia, associate professor of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, who is responsible for the conception of this work and its online edition.
• EDTL includes only technical terms, excluding authors' biographical entries. It is open to permanent revision and further terms can be added.
• There are similar projects on the Internet, for example: DITL: Dictionnaire International des Termes Littéraires (France)
• The EDTL , which is unique in the Portuguese language, is intended to every student, teacher, or reader of literature.

Team Members

• Carlos Ceia (project leader)
• Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa
• Filipe Furtado
• Miguel Alarcão
• António Lopes
• Rogério Puga
• Ricardo Marques

• External link to the complete list of collaborators

• PROJECT 2: IMAGENS DE PORTUGAL NA FICÇÃO CONTEMPORÂNEA EM INGLÊS

Team Members

• Carlos Ceia (project leader)

• Linha de investigação: Estudos Literários Anglo-Portugueses
• Vertente de investigação/projecto: estudo de romances de expressão inglesa no espaço anglo-americano (e algumas outras ficções de outras línguas com tradução inglesa) que coloquem Portugal como cenário ficcional

Em relação aos livros do espaço anglo-americano, estão completos os seguintes estudos:

• I Like It Here (1958), de Kingsley Amis
• Here Is Where We Meet (2005), de John Berger
• Alentejo Blue (2006), de Monica Ali
• The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon (2009), de Philip Graham
  

As obras a estudar nos próximos anos são:

• The Winding Stair (1968), de Jane Aiken Hodge
• Marry in Haste (1969), de Jane Aiken Hodge
• Sharpe's Enemy: Richard Sharpe and the Defense of Portugal, Christmas 1812 (1984), de Bernard Cornwell
• Sudden Fire (Postcards From Europe) (1994), de Elizabeth Oldfield
• Murder in Lisbon (1997), de Sidney F. Davis
• The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (1998), de Richard Zimler
• A Small Death in Lisbon (2000), de Robert Wilson
• Company of Strangers (2002), de Robert Wilson
• Escape to Lisbon (2002), de Bill Coulton
• Distant Music (2001), de Lee Langley
• The Dream Merchant of Lisbon - The Game of Espionage (2004), de Gene Coyle
• Night Train to Lisbon (2004), de Emily Grayson
• Born Yesterday: The News As A Novel (2008), de Gordon Burn
• Henriqueta's Treasure (2008), de Eillen Ramsay

Outras ficções/visões vindas fora do espaço anglo-americano:

• The Night in Lisbon (1961), de Erich Maria Remarque
• The Following Story (1994), Cees Nooteboom
• There is a Tide (2008), de AM Afifi

• PROJECT 3: THE PORTUGUESE AND THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE OF EAST TIMOR'S FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

• East Timor's fight for independence has particularly illustrated the way Timorese political activism benefited from the visibility given by the media of the Indonesian occupation of its territory.
• After remaining a Portuguese colony for a period of four centuries, East Timor´s situation changed drastically after the Carnation Revolution (1974) and the Indonesian military forces invasion of the territory on 7th December 1975. In 1996 Bishop Ximenes Belo, then Apostolic Administrator in Dili, and José Ramos Horta, spokesman of the Timorese resistance, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This fact aroused more interest and attention from the international media community towards East Timor's problems, until the Timorese overwhelmingly expressed their wish for independence in a referendum held on 30th August 1999.
• Set against this backdrop, the current research project aims to analyze the power of media discourse to define the agenda-setting process, influence policy-makers and create symbolic communities. The analysis will be conducted within a comparative framework, regarding the press coverage carried out by the Portuguese press versus the Anglo-American and Australian press at different time periods.
• Methodologically speaking, this analysis will draw in particular on the theories and approaches of i) content analysis and ii) critical discourse analysis (a combination of linguistic, semiotic and narrative approaches as exemplified by the works of Norman Fairclough, Teun van Dijk, Roger Fowler, Ghunter Kress, Ruth Wodak, amongst others.
• Thus texts (printed news items and newspaper images) will be interpreted on the basis of different kinds of analytical dimensions:
  • textual dimension, examining at the level of manifest content: thematization, backgrounded and foregrounded information, the authors and sources of news items, what prompted news items, amount of news and number of images on the subject, news genres, social actors represented;
  • discursive dimension, examining the way propositions are structured to form a coherent and purposeful signifying whole: transitivity, modality, lexical choices, maps of words, denotative and connotative meanings, speech acts, primary versus secondary discourses, news narrativity, intertextuality, schemata or other framing structures;
  • sociocultural dimension, examining texts' relationships with specific contexts and their perlocutionary effects on audiences.

-Team Members

• Isabel Simões (project leader)
• Senior researchers: 1/2 (names are not defined yet);
• Junior researchers: MA students in Journalism/ Seminar on Journalistic Studies at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa/ Higher School for Media and Communication Studies - Lisbon Polytechnic Institute.