Workshop 8: text production

23 Abril 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Revision and final corrections of the exposition texts jointly constructed during the last workshop. Joint construction of a Descriptive Report on Genre. 

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Lecture 9: Grammatical Metaphor

21 Abril 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

The notion of Grammatical Metaphor (GM). The relationship between congruent and metaphoric constructions. Types of GM. The use of GM in the culture, by the individual, and in a text instance. Interpersonal grammatical metaphors. The correlation between speech act theory and genre theory.

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Workshop 7: text production

16 Abril 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Revision of the review texts jointly constructed during the last workshop. Joint construction of an argument/ exposition defending the need to develop text analysis and practice of text production at the university level.

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Lecture 8: Genre and knowledge structures

14 Abril 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Genres as borders of our social life and as recurrent configurations of meaning. Hierarchical knowledge structures and horizontal knowledge structures. The notion of semantic gravity. 

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Workshop 6: text production

9 Abril 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Joint construction of the review genre. Review of Eggins, S. & Martin, J. R. (1997). Genres and registers of discourse. In T. A. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse as structure and process. Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction, Volume 1 (pp. 230-256). London: Sage.

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