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French linguistics - 1st semester

Objectives

To give an overview of how French became a national language; to outline and apply key linguistic concepts and tools to describe French: the phoneme; from morpheme to the word (word formation processes); from word to text (taking into account syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels);
To describe different modalities (written and oral) and registers (formal and informal);
To describe contemporary varieties of French;

General characterization

Code

711131024

Credits

6

Responsible teacher

Augusto Manuel Leite Múrias

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese-French

Prerequisites

Intermediate level of French

Bibliography

Boucher, Paul (2018) A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 9789027200617
Polzin-Haumann, Claudia et Schweickard, Wolfgang (Eds.), Manuel de linguistique française, édité par (2015) Manuals of Romance Linguistics, Volume 8, De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-030208-0
Pruvost, Jean et Sablayrulles, Jean-François (2016) Les Néologismes, collection Que sais-je? n.º 3674, 3e. Édition, PUF - Presses Universitaires de France, ISBN 978-2-13-078732-7
Truchot, Claude (dir., avec A. Bothorel-Witz, D. Huck, B. Wallis), Groupe d’Etude sur le Plurilinguisme européen (1994) Le plurilinguisme européen: théorie et pratiques en politique linguistique, Editions Chqmpion-Slatkine, Paris

Teaching method

The course includes lectures and practical exercises.



Evaluation method

Evaluation: final written test and essay;

Subject matter

Brief overview over the evolution of French into a national language;
Presence of French language in the world and a brief description of its varieties;
Challenges facing French as a major world language;
Exploring key linguistic concepts to describe French: the phoneme; from morpheme to the word (word formation processes); from word to text (taking into account syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels);
Different modalities of French (written and oral) and registers (formal and informal);