Workshop 3: text analysis.

9 Fevereiro 2023, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

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Exercises (taken from previous the workshop) on grammatical categories. Joint correction.

Lecture 3: The framework for the course.

7 Fevereiro 2023, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

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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. Functions and metafunctions.

Workshop 2: Exercises on grammar and grammatical categories.

2 Fevereiro 2023, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

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Group work on grammar and grammatical categories: two different sets of exercises based on a news article from Newsweek and an extract from the novel Clockwork Orange.

Lecture 2: What is grammar?

31 Janeiro 2023, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

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What is meant by grammar? Grammatical categories and grammatical rules. Observation and description. The parts of speech. Syntagms and paradigms. Form and function in language. 

Lecture 1: Historical aspects involving linguistic description.

26 Janeiro 2023, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

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Saussure and the historical tradition of work on language. The founding of modern linguistics. Linguistics and semiology. The double structure or double patterning of human languages. Constituency.