Lecture 7: Text and culture - genre.

31 Março 2025, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Genre and the cultural context as factors for the functional variation of texts. Genre as a linguistics centripetal force of regularity and stability. Genre families and characteristics: purpose and stages.

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Workshop 6: Data analysis and commentary on text 9

26 Março 2025, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Analysis of text 9 (David Cameron’s resignation speech). Selection of linguistic features pertinent for a subsequent analysis and the writing of an analysis commentary.

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Lecture 6: Text and context - Register

24 Março 2025, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Theorizing context from the analysis performed in the workshops and recorded in a table. 

The contextual configurations as Register. Field, Tenor and Mode as factors for the functional variation of texts, according to Register. Textual deduction of contexts and contextual prediction of texts. 

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Workshop 5: Analysis of a discourse sample

19 Março 2025, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Textual configurations as analytical context clues. Discourse analysis of a discourse sample: David Cameron’s farewell speech (Unit 9). Ideational, Interpersonal and textual meanings: survey of relevant linguistic features for analysis.

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Lecture 5: Language as a social semiotic.

17 Março 2025, 12:30 • Carlos Gouveia

Language as a social semiotic. Language as human life organizer: the organization of societies around systems for the production of material and symbolic culture, systems of face and solidarity, systems of socialization. The functions of language as means to respond to human societal needs.

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