Brazilian Keynote Speakers
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
Kanavillil Rajagopalan ("Rajan") is a Full Professor (retired-collaborator) in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Languages field at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and researcher 1-A at Cnpq. She participates in graduate programs at the State University of Southwest of Bahia and the Federal University of Tocantins (Campus of Porto Nacional). He was born in India, where he obtained B.A. in English Literature (University of Kerala), M.A. in English Literature (University of Delhi) and M.A. in Linguistics (Delhi University). She holds a Diploma in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a PhD in Applied Linguistics (PUC-SP) and Post-Doctor in Philosophy of Language (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Linguistics that makes us fail (in partnership, Parabola, 2004), Politics in Language: Identity Perspectives (in partnership, Mackenzie Publishing House, 2005) and Applied Linguistics in Latin America (John Benjamins, 2006), New Pragmatics: Phases and Features of a Making (Parabola, 2010), A Critical Map in Language and Discourse Studies (in partnership, Editora Pontes, 2016) and collaborated with Yves Lacoste in published the Brazilian edition of The Geopolitics of English (Parabola, 2005) and published more than 500 articles (articles in national and international journals, reviews, abstracts, book chapters, and texts in congress proceedings). He contributed articles / chapters for encyclopedias such as Encyclopaedia of Pragmatics (Elsevier, 1998), Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics (Elsevier, 2001), Handbook of Applied Linguistics (Blackwell, 2003), Fitzroy-Dearborn Encyclopedia of Linguistics Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), Handbook of World Englishes (Blackwell, 2006), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier, 2006), World Englishes - Critical Concepts in Linguistics Language and Life (Springer, 2008), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Language in Life, A Life in Language - A Festschrift for Jacob Mey and Politics (Routledge, 2010), Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic (Greenwood Press, 2012), Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) and The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Langu age Teaching (Wiley, 2018). Since 1996, he has served as one of the editors of DELTA magazine. In 2015, he was named one of the editors of WORD magazine (New York). In December 2006, he received the Academic Recognition Award "Zeferino Vaz."