My main areas of research and publication are English Studies, Descriptive Translation Studies, English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (English), and Discourse Analysis (English). Within English Linguistics my research focuses on Global English. Within Translation Studies my research focuses mainly on English-Portuguese translation norms in both literary and media translation, indirect translation and retranslation.
My publications range from empirical descriptive research on translation of forms of address and linguistic variation in fiction, censorship in translation, and reader profiling, to conceptual research on indirect translation and retranslation.