Text Linguistics
Objectives
This curricular unit aims at describing text organization, promoting explicit and relevant knowledge taking in account different situations, such as professional writing, editing, advertising, or languages teaching, a. o.). By the end of the curricular unit, students are supposed to have developed the following skills:
a) to master adequate tools to describe textual production contexts (physical and socio-subjective contexts);
b) to handle adequate tools to describe internal architecture of texts (general infrastructure, textualization mechanisms and enunciative mechanisms);
c) to analyse the internal architecture of texts of different genres inside a social activity or associated to different social activities (advertising, journalistic, didactics, a. o.).
General characterization
Code
711131061
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Matilde Alves Gonçalves Carvalho
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- Adam, Jean_Michel. (2008) A linguística textual. Introdução a análise textual dos discursos. São Paulo: Cortez.
- Bronckart, Jean-Paul (1999). Atividade de linguagem, textos e discursos. Por um interacionismo socio-discursivo. Sao Paulo : EDUC.
- Coutinho, A. (2019). Texto e(m) linguística: Teorias, cruzamentos, aplicações. Colibri.
- Gonçalves, Matilde; Jorge, Noémia; Coutinho, Maria Antónia; Fidalgo, Marta; Rosa, Rute, eds. (2020). Práticas Textuais 18|19. Lisboa: CLUNL, NOVA FCSH. ISBN 978-989-54081-1-5. Disponível aqui https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/106650.
- Marcuschi, Luiz Antônio, 2009. Linguística de Texto: O que é e como se faz? Recife: Editora Universitária da UFPE.
Teaching method
Lectures and practical classes (discussion and presentation of individual and group work, workshops for analysis and discussion).
Face-to-face teaching.
Evaluation method
Two written tests (35% each);
Oral presentation (on a topic or text to be selected) (20%);
Class participation (10%)
Subject matter
1. Texts as objects of linguistic analysis:
1.1 Text, textualisation and good textual formation;
1.2 Relationships and implications between language activities, texts and text genres.
2. Characterisation of genres
3. The context of textual production. Articulation between the context of production and the general architecture of texts.
4. The general architecture of texts
4.1 General infrastructure: text plans, discursive types, prototypical sequences.
4.2 Textualisation mechanisms: textual organisation mechanisms and nominal cohesion mechanisms
4.3 Enunciative mechanisms: marking points of view and distribution of enunciative responsibilities