Variation in romance languages: occitan and portuguese

Abstract

This thematic dossier, published in the first issue of volume 24 of Diadorim: Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies – a journal compiled by the Postgraduate Program in Vernacular Letters at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – , brings together views on variations and varieties of Portuguese and also on the Occitan language. It is linked to initiatives that have been taken within this program in favor of the broad internationalization of linguistic science promoted in the Brazilian academic sphere. One of these initiatives stems from the Franco-Brazilian project VariaR – Variation in Romance Languages ( https://variar.wixsite.com/variar ), whose team of researchers, working at various universities, is led by professors linked to research and post-graduate programs based at Paul Valéry University Montpellier III/ Recherches Sur les Suds et les Orients unit and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Postgraduate Program in Vernacular Letters. The dossier contains a total of 19 texts, including 13 articles submitted for double-blind evaluation and approved by expert reviewers from Brazil, Portugal, Sweden, the United States and France. It also contains two interviews with two researchers, one with a researcher from the American continent/the United States and another, written in French and Portuguese, with a researcher from the European continent/France, as well as a review of a Brazilian book by a Brazilian researcher.