Portuguese Language

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The methodologies will follow those recommended for teaching a non-native language:

• the theoretical presentation;

• practice of rules and contents that were taught in simulated situations of use.

Learning Outcomes

Portuguese Language the course unit develops lexical and grammatical content leading to an advanced oral and written communication, using long and demanding texts, fluent and spontaneous utterances on complex subjects concerning social, academic and professional contexts.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. me units and respective basic lexicon:
• Heritage: History and Culture
• News
• Travel and Leisure
• Citizenship
II. Grammatical content:
a) The classesof Words
• Nouns and adjectives: gender, number and grade (irregularities); nouns and compound adjectives
• Verb: compound forms
• Adverb and adverbial phrases: place in sentence and its implications for syntax and semantics of statements
b) Syntax
• Cases where SVO order is changed
• Clitics position in relation to verbe
• Structures of coordination and syntactic subordination
c) Syntactic-semantic aspects
• Time, Aspect and Modality

d) Instruments for textual cohesion
• Coherence and cohesion - deixis and anaphora
• Direct and Indirect Speech
e) Sociolinguistic and pragmatic-textual issues
• Subjectivity in enunciation
• Acts of speech ( said, explicit, idioms, irony)

Head Lecturer(s)

Tânia Santos Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Evaluation (75% of mandatory class attendance). It will also be considered: • Active participation in class: 40% • Final exam (oral and written): 60%: 100.0%

Bibliography

DICIONÁRIOS

Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001). Lisboa: Editorial Verbo.

Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa (2002-2003). Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores.

 GRAMÁTICAS

ARRUDA, Lígia (2012). Gramática de Português Língua Não Materna. Porto: Porto Editora.

BECHARA, Evanildo (2001). Moderna Gramática Portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Lucerna.

CUNHA, Celso; CINTRA, Lindley (1984). Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo. Lisboa: Edições João Sá da Costa.

RAPOSO, Eduardo B. Paiva et al. (orgs.) (2013). Gramática do Português. Lisboa: FCG.

RIO-TORTO, Graça et al. (2013). Gramática Derivacional do Português. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

 

BIBLIOGRAFIA COMPLEMENTAR

DUARTE, Inês (2000). Língua Portuguesa. Instrumentos de Análise. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.

FONSECA, Joaquim (1993). Estudos de Sintaxe-Semântica e Pragmática do Português. Porto: Porto   Editora.

LOPES,Ana Cristina Macário;RIO-TORTO,Graça (2007). O essencial sobre semântica. Lisboa, Caminho