Topics in Portuguese Language and Literature

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge acquired in curricular units of Portuguese Literature and Portuguese Linguistics on the 1st cycle of studies.

Teaching Methods

The development of the topics is based on background lectures, supplemented by interactive tasks and the processing of empirical data. The methodology used therefore combines active and expository methods.

Learning Outcomes

In the module Topics of Portuguese Language, at the end of the semester students should be able to:

- Understand the syllabus basic concepts;

- Identify deictics’ presence in a text and understand its functionality;

- Relate different linguistic structures with different communicative intentions and different social situations in the context of language use;

- Detect textual / discursive cohesion problems and solve them.

In the module Topics of Portuguese Literature, at the end of the semester students should be able to:

- Master the core concepts covered in the syllabus;

- Relate literary texts from various genres and typologies;

- Detect intertextual relationships;

- Envision and develop literary reading practices and strategies that articulate the different dimensions of the text's construction and meaning.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Deixis in the Portuguese (person deixis, time deixis, place deixis)

2. Speech acts in Portuguese

3. Texts/discourses and cohesion

4. Semiotic encoding of the literary text and other artistic areas

5. Cores of canon textuality

6. Types of texts and literary reading.

Head Lecturer(s)

Osvaldo Manuel Alves Pereira Silvestre

Assessment Methods

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

Bibliography

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Borges, V. (2017). Géneros literários. In M. Matos et al. Introdução aos estudos literários (pp. 370-401). Almedina.

Correia, A.M.L (2013). Literatura e outras artes. Revista de Estudos Literários, 3, 187-210.

Lima, J.P. (2007). Pragmática Linguística. Caminho

Lopes, A.C.M. (2018). Pragmática. Uma introdução. IUC

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

Luís, A. L. et al. (coords) (2021). A formação inicial de professores nas humanidades: reflexões didáticas. Imprensa da UC

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

Mello. C. (2009). Promoção da leitura literária no ensino básico. Exedra, 1, 91-106.

Raposo, E. P. B. et al. (2013/2020) Gramática do Português (3 vols.). F. C. Gulbenkian

Silva, V. M. A. (2010). As humanidades, os estudos culturais, o ensino da literatura e a política de língua portuguesa. Almedina.