Sumários

Lecture 10: The grammar of textuality.

1 Dezembro 2015, 16:00 Carlos Gouveia

Text and textuality. Properties of textuality, according to Beaugrande & Dressler (1981). The notions of Theme and Rheme and the construction of texts. Thematization structures.


Workshop on text analysis (TP8): analytical essay.

26 Novembro 2015, 16:00 Carlos Gouveia

Preparation of an analytical essay on the text analysed in the previous workshop (the cover of an issue of magazine Sábado): essay writing and organization.


Lecture 9: The grammar of interpersonality.

24 Novembro 2015, 16:00 Carlos Gouveia

Discourse as exchange: roles and exchanges as potential speech functions. Moves in discourse and choice. Thw Politeness Principle and and the notion Face. Face threatning acts and face appreciation acts. Politeness systems.


Workshop on text analysis (TP7): representation

19 Novembro 2015, 16:00 Carlos Gouveia

Workshop on the analysis of a multimodal text (the cover of an issue of magazine Sábado) from the point of view of the representation being constructed.


Lecture 8: The grammar of representation.

17 Novembro 2015, 16:00 Carlos Gouveia

Discourse as representation: processes, participants and circumstances. Ideological aspects of representation:  nominalizations, naming conventions and forms of exclusion and inclusion of social actors in representation.