Stella Maris Bortoni-Ricardo graduated in Letters : Portuguese and English

:  (Lake Erie College , Ohio– first year- and  the Catholic University of Goiás

graduation  (1968. She has a Master Degree  in Linguistics – University of

Brasilia, 1977 and a Ph.D. Degree  in Linguistics from the University of Lancaster, 1983. She spent a post-doc year in 1989 at the University of Pennsylvania. She is retired now and is dedicated to writing books in Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics in Portuguese and articles in English. www.stellabortoni.com.br