Sumários

Lecture 7: Mapping academic genres

26 Outubro 2021, 09:30 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.


Evaluation 1: written test

22 Outubro 2021, 09:30 Carlos Gouveia

Mid-semester test. 


Lecture 6: Language stratification and language instantiation.

19 Outubro 2021, 09:30 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 4: text analysis

15 Outubro 2021, 09:30 Carlos Gouveia

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


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

12 Outubro 2021, 09:30 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.