Unidade Curricular | Course Unit

Língua Inglesa: Descrição do Sistema | English Language: Description of the System

Código da Unidade Curricular | Course ID

LAC2.12784

Créditos ECTS | ECTS Credits

6 ECTS

Ciclo de Estudos | Level 

Licenciatura | BA

Semestre | Semester

S2

Docente(s) | Instructor(s) 

Carlos A. M. Gouveia

Língua de ensino | Language of instruction

English

Programa (na língua de ensino) | Course description (in language of instruction)

The unit aims at describing the English linguistic system and its stratification in different strata and seeks to ensure the acquisition of knowledge regarding the differences between grammatical description paradigms and between sentence-centered descriptions and contextual and textual-based ones. The theory of description of Systemic-Functional Grammar – which assumes that texts are the product of the context, whether situational or cultural, in which they are produced and interpreted – will be privileged as a valid description model for the analysis of any type of text, written or oral.

1. General considerations on linguistic description

1.1. Historical aspects

Contemporary linguistic theories

Systemic-functional Grammar

1.2. Preliminary aspects to a functional approach

Language in use

Grammar and meaning

Functions and Metafunctions

Genre and Register

2. The clause

2.1. As message

Theme and Rheme

Thematization

2.2. As exchange

Subject and Finite

Predicator, Complements and Adjuncts

Polarity and Modality

2.3. As a representation

Processes, participants and circumstances

Ergativity

3. Above, below and beyond the clause

3.1. Clause complexes

Parataxis and Hypotaxis

Expansion and Projection

3.2. Groups and Phrases

Nominal group

Verbal group

Adverbial group

3.3. Information structure and discourse

The information unit

Given and New information

Text and texture

Cohesion elements

3.4. Metaphorical modes of expression

Grammatical metaphors

Metaphors of Modality

4. Developments

4.1. Implications of functional analysis

Genre, Register and functional components

4.2. Applications of functional analysis

Discourse analysis

Critical discourse analysis

Avaliação (na língua de ensino) | Grading and Assessment (in language of instruction)

Assessment will consist of a mid-semester test (30%), a small expositive essay (an A4 page) on one of five possible contents to be defined in the first class (25%); and an analytical essay based on group work by three students, or, alternatively, a test of an analytical nature at the end of the semester (30%). Attendance (5%) and participation (10%) will also be considered for assessment.

Bibliografia (selection) | Readings (selection)

Halliday, M. A. K. (2014). Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar. (4th ed. revised by C. Matthiesen). Routledge.

Lipson, M. & Freddi, M. (2006). Practice in Functional Grammar: A Workbook for beginners and Intermediate Students with Keys. CLUEB. 

Martin, J. R. & Rose, D. (2007). Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause (2^nd ed.). Continuum.

Matthiessen, C. & Teruya, K. (2010). Key Terms in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Continuum.

Requisitos | Prerequisites

[Referir UC ou competências, se aplicável]