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Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch

1933 – 2018

Brazilian linguist

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Lived 1933 – 2018 (aged 84). Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch was a German and Brazilian linguist and academic.

Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch (22 September 1933 — 15 May 2018) was a Brazilian linguist known for her work on text linguistics. She was a professor at the University of Campinas for almost three decades and an emerita researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Koch is considered "one of the most respected figures of Brazilian linguistics" and her works are viewed as fundamental to the development of text linguistics in Brazil. She was one of the founders of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies.

Selected bibliography Argumentação e linguagem. São Paulo: Cortez, 1984. A coerência textual. São Paulo: Contexto, 1989. (with Luiz Carlos Travaglia) A coesão textual. São Paulo: Contexto, 1989. O texto e a construção dos sentidos. São Paulo: Contexto, 1997. Desvendando os segredos do texto. São Paulo: Cortez, 2002. Introdução à linguística textual. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2004. Ler e compreender: os sentidos do texto. São Paulo: Contexto, 2006. (with Vanda Maria Elias) Intertextualidade: diálogos possíveis. São Paulo: Cortez, 2007. (with Anna Christina Bentes and Mônica Magalhães Cavalcante) Editor Gramática do português culto falado no Brasil: a construção do texto falado. Campinas: Unicamp, 2006. (with Clélia Cândida Abreu Spinardi Jubran) Homages Souza, Edson Rosa Francisco de; Penhavel, Eduardo; Cintra, Marcos Rogério (eds.). Linguística Textual: interfaces e delimitações. Homenagem a Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch. São Paulo: Cortez, 2017.

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University of São Paulo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, University of Tübingen
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University of Campinas
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Ingedore Koch

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Who was Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch?

Brazilian linguist

When was Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch born?

Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch was born on 22 September 1933 in Eisenach.

When did Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch die?

Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch died on 15 May 2018 in São Paulo.

What was Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch's occupation?

Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch was a linguist and academic.

What nationality was Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch?

Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch was German and Brazilian.

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· Wikipedia: Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch

· Wikidata: Q10302186

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