Pluricentric Portuguese II

Recommended Prerequisites

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

Teaching Methods

Using b-leaning and the flipped classroom model, students explore different materials (relevant literature, authentic products, corpora, audiovisual materials, etc.) in a learning management system (LMS). In synchronous sessions (SS) students consolidate concepts and analytical skills of both authentic morphosyntactic and lexical data and the geopolitical reality of Portuguese around the world.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing the course, the student is expected to:

1. General skills:

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

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

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

2. Specific skills:

- identify, describe and explain particularities of the different emerging national varieties of Portuguese in morphosyntactic and lexical terms;

- integrate a pluricentric perspective of language in the analysis and explanation of morphosyntactic and lexical phenomena of Portuguese;

- identify and critically analyse the linguistic policies adopted by the different Portuguese-speaking countries.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Morphological variation

1.1. Inflection

1.2. Derivation

2. Morphosyntactic variation

2.1. Verbal agreement

2.2. Nominal agreement

3. Lexical variation

3.1. Borrowing

3.2. Semantic values

3.3. Grammaticalization processes

4. Pluricentricity and standard varieties. Language policies.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Álvarez-López, L., Gonçalves, P. & Avelar, J. (Eds.) (2018). The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil. John Benjamins.

Barbosa, P., Paiva, C. & Rodrigues, C. (Eds.) (2017). Studies on Variation in Portuguese John Benjamins.

Castilho, A. (2014). Nova Gramática do Português Brasileiro. Contexto.

Muhr, R., Duarte, E., Mendes, A, Amóros Negre, C. & Thomas, J. A. (Eds.) (2016). Pluricentric Languages and Non-Dominant Varieties Worldwide. Part II: The Pluricentricity of Portuguese and Spanish. New Concepts and Descriptions. Peter Lang.

Pinto, P. F. & Pfeifer, S. (Eds.) (2018). Políticas linguísticas em português. LIDEL.

Raposo, E. P., Nascimento, F.B., Mota, M. A., Segura, L. & Mendes, A. (Eds.) (2013/2020). Gramática do Português (Vols. 1 e 3). FCG.

Silva, A. (Ed.) (2014). Pluricentricity: Language variation and sociocognitive dimensions. De Gruyter.