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Portuguese

Research in Portuguese at Stockholm University focuses on the languages, literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world.

The research area generates studies in the fields of linguistics and literary studies and includes, but is not limited to, the following fields: linguistic variation and change in different sociohistorical contexts, language and power, language and identity, language and dialect contact, multilingualism, endangered and minority languages, language-in-education policies, autofiction, historiographical metafiction, the historical novel as well as comparative literature studies.

Estatua del escritor Fernando Pessoa en el Café Brasileira en Lisboa, Portugal.

Lusophone literature

Research in the field of Lusophone literature at Stockholm University explores various perspectives and expressions in works by African, European, and South American authors who write in Portuguese.

Lusophone literature

Portuguese Linguistics

Research in Portuguese linguistics at Stockholm University touches on all language levels, including language use, grammatical structures, pronunciation patterns and vocabulary. Our researchers see Portuguese in a broad sense and are interested in different geographical varieties, Portuguese-based Creole languages and various Iberian languages.

Portuguese Linguistics

Portuguese Second Language Acquisition

In all the varieties of Portuguese in Africa, Asia and Brazil, Portuguese has historically been, or is still, spoken mainly as a second language. Portuguese is also spoken as a second language by large immigrant communities in Portugal.

Portuguese Second Language Acquisition

Portuguese Sociolinguistics

Portuguese is the official language in ten countries in Africa, Asia, Europe South America and is spoken as a first language, second language, foreign language or heritage language in a multitude of contexts and regions around the world.