The cycle of studies geared towards obtaining a Masters in Linguistics: Societies and Culture, is comprised of 4 semesters (2 academic years). Those who successfully obtain 120 ECTS are awarded the title. This masters offers an advanced training programme in linguistic studies applied to a range of different societies and cultures. The intention is to provide answers for the challenges and linguistic demands in the multilingual and multicultural contempory context.
The course aims at promoting research methods in Linguistics; identifying the importance of the scientific area of Linguistics as a factor of knowledge of societies and cultures, in wide and multidisciplinary contexts; researching and appreciating different linguistic identities in local, regional and national societies and cultures; providing in depth knowledge in linguistics with a focus on areas such as Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition, Geographic and Sociocultural Variation, Comparative Linguistics, Translation Studies, Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics and Prosody as well as Linguistic Revision and Editing; developing interdisciplinary studies based on the framework of Linguistics as a Social Science for a better understanding of societies and cultures, mainly through a qualitative analysis of empirical data; handling different relevant aspects of Linguistic Studies in different varieties and norms of the Portuguese Language in the Lusophone area in addition to other culture bearing languages; promoting language awareness in different communicative situations (intercultural and multidisciplinary) and contrastive analysis in the face of other interacting linguistic codes; developing efficient, clear and unambiguous communication skills, research proposals and sociocultural, linguistic and ethnographic action.
