Vera Da Silva Sinha

Research Fellow

My research combines anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology and is grounded in extensive fieldwork among indigenous communities residing in the Brazilian Amazon. I explore cutting edge topics such as time and number cognition, as well as ecological cognition, indigenous teaching and learning, ethnomathematics, and autobiographical and collective narratives. I am currently working with Professor Asifa Majid on a research project funded by the British Academy. This project focuses on number and time, specifically exploring the "Amazonian perspectives on time and number within the context of cognition and communication." I am an Editor of the International Journal of Language and Culture.

Recent publications

Chapter 7 Mother Tongue Education with Indigenous Trainee Teachers: The Açaí Project
Chapter

Silva Sinha V. and Da Silva Sinha V., (2023), Teaching and Learning Resources for Endangered Languages
Learning about, learning from, learning with – Towards a critical practice and theory of situated language sciences
Chapter

Silva Sinha V. et al, (2023), Language as an Ecological Phenomenon: Languaging and Bioecologies in Human-Environment Relationships.
Time: Sociocultural structuring beyond the spatialization paradigm
Chapter

da Silva Sinha V., (2022), Approaches to Language and Culture, 275 - 305
Event-Based Time in Three Indigenous Amazonian and Xinguan Cultures and Languages
Journal article

Sinha VDS., (2019), FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 10
Mixing and mapping: Motion, path, and manner in amondawa
Chapter

Sampaio W. et al, (2008), Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin, 427 - 439

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Vera Da Silva Sinha

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