Pluricentric Portuguese II

Recommended Prerequisites

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

Teaching Methods

Following the flipped classroom model, students are provided with different types of resources in the learning management system (LMS), aiming at defining theoretical frameworks and systematically describing the phonetic and syntactic specificities of the national varieties of Portuguese. In this way, autonomous learning is promoted. In synchronous sessions, individual or collaborative activities are developed to systematize the relevant concepts and to observe/analyze authentic linguistic data.

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 research goals defined;
- plan and write an essay/report on the research carried out, and to present it orally.
2. Specific skills:
- acquire theoretical and methodological tools for the analysis of the relations between languages and between varieties;
- view Portuguese as a pluricentric language;
- be able to recognize, describe and explain particularities that define the different national varieties of Portuguese in the phonetic and syntactic scope.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction: key concepts to phonetic, phonological and syntactical description
2. Phonetic variation of Portuguese
2.1 Vowel system
2.2 Consonant system
2.3 Syllabic structure
3. Syntactic variation of Portuguese
3.1 Pronominal clitics
3.2 Subject and object structures
3.3 Nominal group structure
3.4. Argument structures.

Head Lecturer(s)

Isabel Maria de Almeida Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Resolution Problems: 60.0%

Bibliography

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