L. A. G. Senna
Professor & Imaginer
Applied Linguistics
University of Rio de Janeiro State - UERJ
Graduate Program of Educação


Currently Researching: 
Urban homes - language in the modes of thought and ordering of photographic text

Analyzing the interference of modes of thought and mental processes of constituent terms distribution in the text expressed in the photograph of different representations of the concept of “home”, aiming to observe analogies and differences in relation to the process of constituting texts in verbal and sign languages. Research is based on the elaboration of a primary source of data consisting of 500 photographs produced in five different regions selected according to criteria of representativeness and composition of a corpus of data indexed based on categorical parameters capable of registration and hierarchization into bundles of classificatory features. Conclusions to add to research efforts on the determining factors in the textual production of subjects with learning costs in the literacy process or different levels of functional illiteracy.