Discourse and Communication

Year
0
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01010422
Subject Area
Communication Sciences
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

There will be lectures and practical classes. The first ones will be taught through the presentation of issues considered relevant and fundamental for the achievement of the objectives of the course. The topics covered will start from concrete problems and from texts. Practical classes require the active participation of students as well as the prior preparation of texts and activities.

Learning Outcomes

Discourse and Communication is an obligatory course, establishing continuity with the teaching of the Portuguese Language and Writing Skills courses. As those courses addressed the linguistic and textual dimensions in Discourse and Communication, the student is led to reflect on discourse in its social, contextual and pragmatic dimensions. It is expected that at the end of the semester, students are able to:

- Articulate a reflection on the theoretical paradigms of speech, in all its complexity and diversity of manifestations, with the methodological tools most appropriate to the practice of analysis of various textual and discursive genres;

- Understand the specificity of the discourse of the news media;

- Question the neutrality and objectivity as categories of speech;

- Understand the functioning of language in the construction of persuasive discourse;

- Master the main tools of discourse analysis.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. LANGUAGE AND MEDIATION

• Text as a unit of communication

• From text to discourse

• Discourse: social and ideological dimensions

 

2. DISCOURSE AND MEDIA

• Type (s) of discourses

• Constituent discourses, discursive communities and mediation

• The media discourse and its enunciative framework

• Journalistic discourse as a media discourse

 

3. MEDIA DISOURSE ANALYSIS

• Semiotics and Images

• Narrative Analysis

* Discourse Analysis.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Teresa Fernandes Peixinho de Cristo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Boroditsky, L. (2011). “How language shapes thought”. In: Scientific American, 63-65.

Correia, J. C. (2011). O Admirável Mundo das Notícias. Teorias e Métodos. Covilhã: UBI / LabCom

Fairclough, N. (2011). Media Discourse. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Ferin, I. & Peixinho, A. T. (2020). Análise dos Media. 2.ª ed. revista e atualizada. Coimbra: IUC.

Fidalgo, A. & Gradim, A. (2005). Manual de Semiótica. Covilhã: UBI

Motta, L. G. (2013). Análise Crítica da Narrativa. Brasília: UnB.

Rodrigues, A. D. (2015). Delimitação, natureza e funções do discurso midiático. In Peixinho, A. T. et al. (Orgs.). Vinte Anos de Jornalismo Contra a Indiferença. Coimbra. IUC.

Santos, J. V. (2012). Linguagem e Comunicação. Coimbra: Almedina.

Van Dijk, T. (2005). Discurso, notícia e ideologia. Estudos na Análise Crítica do Discurso. Porto: Campo das Letras.