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

17 Março 2026, 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

12 Março 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Analysis of purpose and staging in different texts, as defining characteristics of their genres. Genre as a centripetal, stable category in language vs register as a centrifugal, diversifying force.

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

10 Março 2026, 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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Workshop 3: text analysis of lexemes and clauses

5 Março 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

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

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Lecture 3: Academic literacy and vertical discourse

3 Março 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

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.

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