Use of Portuguese Language II

Recommended Prerequisites

Level C1 in Portuguese is a prerequisite for all courses in the program.

Teaching Methods

Syllabus topics are developed through explanations and reading assignments, supplemented by class discussions and empirical data analysis. The teaching method thus intersects lectures and student collaboration.

Learning Outcomes

The syllabus aims at developing awareness of (i) language contact situations, (ii) the status of Portuguese worldwide, (iii) patterns of sociolinguistic and dialectal variation in selected communities.

Upon completing the course, the student is expected to:

1. General competencies:

- be able to define, with guided supervision, adequate research goals;

- be capable of selecting, with autonomy, credible and relevant information in the light of the research goals defined;

- plan and write an essay/report on the research carried out, and to present it orally.

2. Specific competencies:

- include, in his/her own conception of the functioning of natural languages, the inherent feature of variation in its different forms of expression;

- identify theoretical issues and methodological procedures relevant to the study of language contact and variation;

-reveal knowledge and skills enabling the description of the dynamics of the Portuguese language in different communities.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Basic concepts add background

1.1. Language contact;

1.2. Linguistic variation;

1.3. Variation and change;

1.4. Human rights and linguistic rights;

1.5. European political policies.

 

2. Portuguese in Portugal and in the Iberian linguistic context

2.1. Geolinguistic and sociolinguistic variation;

2.2. Languages in contact on the Portuguese-Spanish border;

2.3. Languages in contact in Portugal.

 

3. Portuguese worldwide

3.1. Portuguese in Africa, Latin America and in Asia;

3.2. Portuguese in emigrant communities.

 

4. Symbolic representations of Portuguese.

Assessment Methods

Continous Assessment
Other: 15.0%
Synthesis work: 35.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Corrêa-Cardoso, J. (2011). Sociolinguística urbana de contacto. O Português falado e escrito no Reino Unido. Coimbra: Palimage.

Corrêa-Cardoso, J. (2011). Quando falo português sinto-me diferente, um pouco estrangeira. As atitudes linguísticas de um grupo infanto-juvenil cabo-verdiano. Separ. da Misc. de Est. em Hom. a Maria Manuela Gouveia Delille (Vol.I). Coimbra.

Corrêa-Cardoso, J. (1999). Sociolinguística rural. A freguesia de Almalaguês. Lisboa.: Colibri.

Corrêa-Cardoso, J. (1998) Estudo de sociolinguística escolar em torno das atitudes das crianças de Maputo. Separ. da RPF. Vol. XXIII.

Ferronha, A. L. (1992). Atlas da língua portuguesa na história e no mundo. Lisboa: INCM.

Gonçalves, P. (2013). O português em África. In E.P. Raposo, F.B. Nascimento, M.A. Mota, L. Segura & A. Mendes (Eds.),Gramática do Português. (Vol. I). Lisboa: FCG.

Mateus, M. H. & Cardeira, E. (2007). Norma e variação. Lisboa: Caminho.