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  5. Text Functioning

Text Functioning

Objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to:
1. know the most relevant theoretical frameworks, within the Language Sciences, for different conceptions of text;
2. relate social activities, text genres, texts and purposes of communicative action;
3. have knowledge of the various organizational plans (contextual, macro-organizational and linguistic) involved in texts and their functioning in society
4. evaluate the good textual formation (or quality of texts) of different genres, taking into account explicit criteria(contextual, macro-organisational and linguistic)
5. master the level of analysis options according to differentiated analytical objectives

General characterization

Code

722131086

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Matilde Alves Gonçalves Carvalho

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • Adam, J.-M. 2008. A linguística textual. São Paulo: Cortez Editora.
  • Bronckart, J.-P. 2005. Os géneros de texto e os tipos de discurso como formatos das interacções de desenvolvimento.In Menéndez, F.M. (org.). 2005. Análise do discurso. Actas do SITAD. Lisboa: Hugin, 37-80.
  • Coutinho, M. A. D. C. (2012). Dos géneros de texto à gramática. Delta Documentacao De Estudos Em LinguisticaTeorica E Aplicada, 28(NA), 27-50.
  • Marcuschi, L.A. 2008. Produção textual, análise de gêneros e compreensão. São Paulo: Parábola Editorial.
  • Miranda, F. 2012. Os gêneros de texto na dinâmica das práticas de linguagem. In Cadernoscenpec, São Paulo, v.2. 121-139.9.

Teaching method

The participation of students in each session will be privileged, through the discussion of readings, the presentation ofanalysis or other tasks, previously scheduled according to the calendar of the sessions.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Oral presentation of a paper or book chapter(20%), Portfolio (60%) and its oral presentation (20%)(80%)

Subject matter

1. The texts: epistemological and methodological perspectives.
2. Interrelation between social activities, contextual factors and linguistic resources: the role of texts and genres
3. Analytical parameters of the physical context and the socio-subjective context. Context(s) of production andcirculation of texts.
4. Textual architecture: general infrastructure, textualization mechanisms and enunciative responsibility.
5. Relations and implications between the strictly linguistic plane and other semiotic planes
6. Levels of textual analysis - macro, meso and micro - description and tools of analysis.
7. Textual analysis - issues of generic and linguistic variation