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    Braga Summer School in Linguistics 2024

    The Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University organizes Braga Summer School in Linguistics, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics. The event will offer advanced training in several areas of linguistic studies, especially from the perspective of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics in their most recent developments and in an interdisciplinary dialogue with other cognitive sciences.

    The Summer School will consist of five different seminar courses taught in English, in person, and counts on the presence of internationally prominent linguists from the field of Cognitive Linguistics, throughout one week. | Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences - UCP | Braga, 8-12 of July, 2024 |                        ***DEADLINE APPLICATION - JUNE 30***

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