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Portuguese as a Foreign Language/Second Language

Português como Língua Estrangeira/ Língua Segunda

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⇑Portuguese as a Foreign Language/Second Language at University of Lisbon

Language: Portuguese Studies in Portuguese

Studies in Portuguese

Subject area: languages

University website: www.ul.pt

Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Doutor
Duration: 180 ECTS

⇑Definitions and quotes

Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

Language

Many languages fly around the world
producing sparks when they collide
sometimes of hate
sometimes of love

Bei Dao, "Language", in The August Sleepwalker, trans. Bonnie S. McDougall (New York: New Directions, 1990), p. 121

Language

The only thing in life is language. Not love. Not anything else.

Richard Burton as quoted by Melvyn Bragg in Richard Burton: A Life (1988)

Language

He has strangled
His language in his tears.

William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 1, line 158.

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