Lecture 5: language metafunctions and functions: from society and culture to everyday communicative competence.

14 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Functions of language. How grammars of natural languages express ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings. Register and Genre. The variables of Register: field, tenor and mode. Genre: purpose and staging.  

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Workshop 4: text analysis

9 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Continuation of the previous workshop: counting of lexical words in texts.

Textual deduction of the situational contexts of the nine sample texts. Aspects of Register variation. Filling in of a table with the Register information of each unit.

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Lecture 4: the framework for the course: systemic functional linguistics and genre pedagogy.

7 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Systemic Functional Linguistics as both a theory of grammatical description and an analytical model for the analysis of texts. The functions of language and how these reflect the needs of the speaker. Context deduction and text prediction. 

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Lecture 3/ Workshop 3: academic literacy and vertical discourse

2 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Lecture: the notion of literacy. Academic literacy and professional development. Bernstein’s notions of horizontal and vertical discourse. Academic discourse as vertical discourse. Horizontal knowledge structures and hierarchical knowledge structures in vertical discourse: the social sciences and the humanities vs the sciences.

Workshop: Lexical words vs function words. Counting of lexical words in texts.

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Formal opening of the academic year

30 Setembro 2024, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

No class taught, as there were no classes during the afternoon, due to the formal opening of the academic year at the faculty.

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