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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 know 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

NA

Bibliography

  • 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. (pp.37-79). Hugin.
  • Coutinho, A. (2019). Texto e(m) linguística. Teorias, cruzamentos, aplicações. Edições Colibri.
  • Marcuschi, L. A. (2009). Linguística de Texto: O que é e como se faz? Editora Universitária da UFPE.
  • Miranda, F. (2008). Géneros de texto e tipos de discurso na perspectiva do interaccionismo sociodiscursivo: que relações? Estudos Linguísticos/Linguistic Studies, Edições Colibri/CLUNL, Lisboa, pp. 81-100. https://clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/florencia-miranda.pdf
  • Rosa, R., Fidalgo, M., Gonçalves, M., Leal, A., & Jorge, N. (2018). Organizadores textuais e plano de texto: a forma e . Revista Da Associação Portuguesa De Linguística, (4), 240–253. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln4ano2018a43

Teaching method

Theoretical and practical classes are planned, including expository sessions, but also reflection tasks on the themes and contents covered, to be developed in the class itself (in pairs, small groups or in class-group interaction) or individually, in autonomous work. The participation of each student in different contexts of interaction is favored, in the perspective of collaborative learning. Thus, alongside an on-site test, a variety of tasks problem-solving oriented will be proposed throughout the semester (to be carried out in class). Students are also asked to prepare a learning portfolio, organized according to the themes and issues addressed in the course: this resource allows, on the one hand, the deepening of diverse interests within the group of students enrolled in the course each academic year; on the other hand, it stimulates a reflective attitude, the capacity for autonomy and creativity; finally, it makes it possible to highlight the procedural dimension of learning (namely through the inclusion of revised and improved versions of different contributions).

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Learning portfolio - giving priority to the procedural nature of learning, this resource allows for (more) personalized assessment and offers the possibility of taking into account different stages of development and diverse interests within the class group(40%), Resolution Problems(20%), Written Test(40%)

Subject matter

1. Texts as an object for linguistic analysis.

1.1. Text, textuality and text construction.

1.2. Language activities, texts and genres of texts; different possibilities of text construction according to different genres.

2. Aspects of genre characterization

2.1. The context of textual production: physical context parameters and socio¬subjective context parameters;

relationship between context of production and general architecture of texts.

2.2. General architecture of texts:

2.2.1. General infrastructure: text plan, types of discourse, prototypical sequences and other non¬typified segments.

2.2.2. Textualization mechanisms: linguistic features and other resources involved in text plans; nominal and verbal cohesion.

2.2.3. Enunciative mechanisms: point of view expression and allocation of enunciative responsibilities.