BACKGROUND AND MISSION

The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (PIPGLA) aims provide inter/transdisciplinary education that enables professionals to respond ethically and socially responsibly to contemporary socio-historical issues in which the constituent and constitutive relationship between language and society has a central role. Its mission is to train graduate students on the masters and doctoral programs who work in language in its most diverse forms with a view to providing society with human resources qualified to work from the basis of values that guide the education offered by the program, notably interdisciplinarity, ethics, social responsiveness, critical thinking, pro-activity, and solidarity. In its 30 years of existence, during which time it has become established as a hub of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological innovation in the field of applied linguistics in Brazil, PIPGLA has trained Portuguese and modern foreign language teachers, historians, designers, speech therapists, translators, interpreters, teachers of Portuguese and foreign literature, artists, and social activists. These professionals receive a training that crosses the boundaries of different spheres of knowledge with a view to making more intelligible current-day issues in which language plays a central role.