Portuguese Pragmatics

Recommended Prerequisites

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

Teaching Methods

Presentations, readind assignments supplemented with class discussions and empirical data analysis.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing the course, the student is expected to:

- master the core concepts covered in the syllabus;

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

- identify the discourse strategies used in Portuguese to express politeness;

- be aware of the cohesive discourse devices in Portuguese;

- be able to develop, with autonomy, a research project  on the Portuguese language, in the area of Pragmatics.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The object of knowledge in Pragmatics.

2. Speech acts in Portuguese.

3. Verbal politeness in Portuguese.

4. Discourse and text.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria da Conceição Carapinha Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

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

Bibliography

Beaugrande, R. de (1980) Text, discourse and process: a multidisciplinary science of texts. London: Longman.
Brown, P. & Levinson, S. (1987) Politeness: some universals in language use. Cambridge: CUP.
Fonseca, J. (1994) Pragmática Linguística. Introdução, teoria e descrição do Português. Poro:Porto Editora.
Gruber, H. & Redeker, G. (eds) (2014) The pragmatics of discourse coherence. Theories and applications.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Huang, Y. (2007) Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.
Kaspar, G., & Rose, K. (2002). Pragmatic Development in a Second Language. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Levinson, S. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: CUP.
Mateus, M.H.M. et al (2003) Gramática da Língua Portuguesa (5ª ed. revista e aumentada). Lisboa: Caminho.
Raposo, E. et al. (2013) Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, vol. 2. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Searle, J. (1969) Speech Acts. Cambridge: CUP.
Schneider, K. & Barron, A. (2015) Pragmatics of Discourse. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.