Sumários
Lecture 7: Mapping academic genres
7 Abril 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia
Genres as linguistic processes in sociocultural practice. A cartography of the genres in school/academia based on purpose. Mapping of 22 specific genres of different school subjects.
Lecture 6: Language stratification and language instantiation
24 Março 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia
Texts as complex communicative artifacts resulting from contextual choices. Context as strata in language description - situation and culture and their co-relative notions and Register and Genre.
Workshop 5: aspects of academic discourse
19 Março 2026, 15:30 • Carlos Gouveia
The notion of Grammatical metaphor. Survey of grammatical metaphors and definitions in text 5, a review from an academic journal.
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.