Portuguese Language: Usage

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge acquired in the units of the area of Linguistics offered in the 1 cycle of Portuguese.

Teaching Methods

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

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing  the course, the student is expected to:

- master the core concepts covered in the syllabus;

- identify deictic expressions in a textand understand its functionality ;

- correlate a number of linguistic structures in Portuguese with different communicative goals and distinct social contexts of interaction;

- understand the inference processes through which implicit meanings are recovered;

identify and solve problems related to text/discourse cohesion.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Linguistic competence and communicative competence

2. Deixis in the Portuguese language

2.1. Person deixis

2.2. Time deixis

2.3. Place deixis

3. Speech acts in Portuguese

3.1. Different classes of speech acts and their expression in Portuguese

3.2. Direct and indirect speech acts

4. Conversational principles

5. Text and discourse.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Cristina Macário Lopes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 30.0%
Resolution Problems: 30.0%
Synthesis work: 40.0%

Bibliography

Duarte, I.(2000) Língua Portuguesa. Instrumentos de análise. Lisboa:Universidade Aberta.

Fonseca, J. (1994) Pragmática Linguística. Introdução, teoria e descrição do Português. Porto: Porto Editora.

Gouveia, C. (1996). Pragmática. In I.H.Faria, E.R.Pedro, I.Duarte, & C. Gouveia (orgs.) Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho.

Lima, J. P. de (2007). Pragmática Linguística. Lisboa: Caminho.

Lopes, A.C.M. e Carapinha, C. (2013) Texto, coesão e coerência. Coimbra: Almedina.

Mateus, M.H.M. et al. (2003) Gramática da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho.

Raposo et al. (2013) Gramática do Português, vol. 2. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.