Introduction

In the nine articles approved to be published in this volume the issue presented and discussed can be defined as Discourse Perspectives of Science Divulgation/ Popularization. This research area is made explicit in the editorial signed by its three ad hoc editors, namely Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo (USP), Maria Eduarda Giering (UNISINUS) e Désirée Motta-Roth (UFSM), who are experts in this field. The editorial explains the specificities of the different trends that use science dissemination as their object of research and refers either to the researchers who developed them or to the article writers who adopt them (or not) in their published papers.

This issue still presents a book review by Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Júnior (UFRN) of Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning: New Perspectives [Diálogos com Bakhtin a respeito da aprendizagem de segunda língua ou de língua estrangeira: novas perspectivas], edited by J. Hall, G.Vitanova, and L. Marchenkova. This is an important book to those who work with the process of teaching and learning a foreign language.

Our heartfelt gratitude for the invaluable contributions of authors, reviewers, proofreaders and translators who allowed Bakhtiniana to publicize studies on discourse, to maintain its A1 [the highest] classification by the Qualis (journal ranking) system of CAPES [Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Undergraduate/Graduate Education] and its indexation at SciELO (a major electronic library that covers a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals), and to be accepted for inclusion in Scopus. Once again, we would like to thank MCTI/CNPq/MEC/CAPES [Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation/Brazilian National Research Council/The Brazilian Ministry of Education/Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education] and PUC-SP (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo) [Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo], which, through the Deanship of Graduate Studies, has provided us with the necessary support to publish issues of Bakhtiniana by means of their Plano de Incentivo à Pesquisa [Research Incentive Plan] (PIPEq) / Publicação de Periódicos [Journal Publication] (PubPer-PUCSP) - 2016, without which it would be impossible to publish our issues.

• Translated by Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Júnior - [e-mail]

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  May-Aug 2016