The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) words ‘poverty’ and ‘sustainability’ in the brazilian research

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address the global challenges the planet faces, including those related to poverty, inequality and climate change. Researchers worldwide have kept the seventeen SDGs as their aim and English has been the international lingua franca of knowledge transfer (Jenkins, 2014). In order to carry out a preliminary exploratory research about the SDGs’ lexicon, we used the Brazilian Corpus of Academic English - BrACE (TAVARES PINTO, P., REES, G., FRANKENBERG-GARCIA, A., 2021; PINTO et al., 2021), which was compiled with articles in English published by Brazilian researchers, to observe how some of the SDG themes were discussed between the years 2017 and 2018. We used a corpus-based theoretical and methodological background (SINCLAIR, 2001; BERBER SARDINHA, 2004; VIANA and TAGNIN, 2011) to analyse the general SDG-themes in BrACE with the aid of Sketch Engine tool (KILGARIFF, 2004) . The preliminary results showed that some themes were more discussed across the areas, such as sustainability, and others, such as poverty, are still not discussed as much. We point out that BrACE is being updated so that we can have better results of how the SDGs have been discussed in the Brazilian research in recent years. We intend to contribute to a broader view about the SDGs in Brazil and, as a consequence, publicize Brazilian studies to the scientific community and to civil society.