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Researchers at a Brazilian university propose using frame analysis from Cognitive Linguistics to help public school students deconstruct disinformation, combining linguistic analysis of real social media texts with Critical Pedagogy in a two-block workshop structure.


ão especialistas Apresentamos o projeto “Escola sem fake”, uma iniciativa para capacitar estudantes de escolas públicas a identificar e denunciar textos de desinformação. A ideia é usar conhecimentos de uma área chamada Linguística Cognitiva, que estuda como usamos a linguagem para entender a nossa mente e o mundo, para ajudar a perceber como narrativas falsas são criadas para enganar.

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