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Raquel Alves da Silva has a PhD degree in Linguistics - Lexicology, Lexicography, and Terminology at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH, 2014) and a Postgraduate Degree in Health Literacy at Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida - ISPA, (2021).
She is a visiting scientist (grant) at the International Portuguese Language Institute - IILP. From 2020 to 2024, she was head of Health Literacy at VOH.CoLAB - Collaborative Laboratory Value for Health CoLAB, where she worked in health communication, health literacy and digital health literacy.
She was an integrated researcher at the Linguistics Centre of NOVA University Lisbon - NOVA CLUNL (until February 2025). Currently, as a collaborator, she is part of the LLT research team carrying out fundamental research in the scientific areas of Lexicology, Lexicography, and Terminology, focusing on the lexicon, vocabularies, and terminologies.
She received 2 award(s) and/or honours (National Health Literacy Award 2023 and Com@Rehab Communication for interactive rehabilitation in virtual reality winner of the Santander/NOVA Collaborative Research Award 2019-2020 financed by Santander).
She also is a member of the Portuguese mirror committee of ISO at Instituto Português para a Qualidade IPQ/CT 221 "Terminologia, Língua e Linguagens" where she follows the work related to Terminology and Plain Language standards, since 2021.
The most frequent terms in the context of its output are Terminology; Lexicology; Lexicography; Ontology; Morphology; Quality; Digital health; Health literacy; Plain language; Mediation; Legacy dictionary; Concept; Term; Cocreation; Popularization; Definition.
Education/Academic qualification
Linguistics, Doctorate, Gestão de Terminologia pela Qualidade - Processos de validação, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Award Date: 3 Jul 2014
External positions
Investigador principal, Value for Health CoLAB
1 Feb 2020 → 29 Jan 2024
Keywords
- P Philology. Linguistics
- terminology
- lexicology and lexicography
- Translation
- Literacy
- Digital Transformation
- plain language
- validation data
- Citizenship Education
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Usage labelling in Diccionario da Língua Portugueza by Morais Silva: A study of linguistic variation and knowledge construction
Salgado, A., Costa, R., Tasovac, T., Romary, L., Khan, A., Khemakhem , M., Ramos, M., Almeida, B., Carvalho, S. & Silva, R., 4 May 2026, Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies. Latorraca, R., Calabrese, R., Aiello, J. & Geeraerts, D. (eds.). Amesterdão: John Benjamins, p. 123-141 19 p. (Terminology & Lexicography; vol. 25).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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A linguística em ação na melhoria do(s) letramento(s) em saúde
Silva, R. & Carvalho, S., 2024, In: Linha d’Água. 37, 2, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Deliverable 3.4: Medical terminology. HEREDITARY Project: HetERogeneous sEmantic Data integratIon for the guT-bRain interplaY
Costa, R., Vezzani, F., Maria Di Nunzio, G., Ramos, M., Silva, R., Carvalho, S., Canelas, A. M., Bonato, V., Romanovych, A. & Boytcheva, S., 18 Dec 2024, European Commission, p. 1-64, 64 p.Research output: Working paper
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HEREDITARY - Deliverable 3.4: Medical terminology
Costa, R., Vezzani, F., Di Nunzio, G., Ramos, M., Silva, R., Carvalho, S. & Canelas, A. M., Dec 2024, 64 p. (Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Università degli Studi di Padova)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
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Metodologia para a OCeRização do Diccionario da Lingua Portugueza de António de Morais Silva
Ramos, M., Costa, R., Salgado, A., Silva, R., Almeida, B. & Carvalho, S., Mar 2024, 32 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Activities
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Projeto TTC-CPLP - Terminologias Técnicas e Científicas para a CPLP (External organisation)
Costa, M. R. V. (Chair), Silva, R. A. D. (Member), Ramos, M. (Member) & Salgado, A. (Member)
2024 → 2026Activity: Membership › Membership of network/project
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Usage Labels in an Eighteenth-century Portuguese Dictionary: the Case of Morais (1789)
Salgado, A. (Speaker), Khan, F. (Speaker), Costa, M. R. V. (Speaker), Tasovac, T. (Speaker), Romary, L. (Speaker), Almeida, B. (Speaker), Ramos, M. (Speaker), Carvalho, S. (Speaker), Silva, R. A. D. (Speaker) & Khemakhem , M. (Speaker)
27 Sept 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Projeto e-Term ANCV (External organisation)
Costa, M. R. V. (Chair), Silva, R. A. D. (Member) & Ramos, M. (Member)
1 Dec 2023 → 31 Dec 2025Activity: Membership › Membership of network/project
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Revista Linha d´Agua (Journal)
Silva, R. A. D. (Guest editor) & Carvalho, S. (Guest editor)
Jun 2023 → Jun 2024Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems (MDTT 2023)
Costa, M. R. V. (Chair), Nunzio, G. D. (Chair), Vezzani, F. (Chair), Silva, R. A. D. (Member of programme committee), Salgado, A. (Member of programme committee), Carvalho, S. (Organiser) & Ramos, M. (Organiser)
29 Jun 2023 → 30 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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