Unidade Curricular | Course Unit

Língua Inglesa: Sistema e Uso | English Language: System and Use

Código da Unidade Curricular | Course ID

LAC2.12916 

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 course aims at surveying different types of descriptions of discourse, providing students with the acquisition of skills for the analysis of written, spoken and multimodal texts in English and of the specific knowledge of their features as functional variations of different contexts of use and different sociocultural purposes. It is intended to provide students with the necessary skills to develop objective analysis of the texts they are asked to analyse, according to the analytical purposes guiding them, be they linguistic or extralinguistic.

1. What is Discourse Analysis
2. English as a language of research
3. The discursive turn in the social sciences
4. Register: text and situational context
5. Genre: text and cultural context
6. Ideationality: the discursive representation of actors and social actions 

7. Interpersonality: speech roles, mood functions and appraisal
8. Textuality: symbolic organization, rhetorical structures

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

Depending on the number of students enrolled in the CU, assessment will consist of, i) in classes with up to 30 students enrolled, a mid-semester test, a small expositive text (an A4 page) on the contents of a lecture chosen by the student; and a portfolio with short reviews (250 words) on each of the twelve compulsory readings of the CU and short descriptive/concluding reports (250 words) of the analytical work developed in six of the eleven workshops of the CU; Attendance - 5 %; Participation - 10 %; Portfolio - 50 %; Mid-semester test: 15 %; Expositive text - 20 %.
In classes with more than 30 students enrolled, a mid-semester test, a small expositive text (an A4 page) on the contents of a lecture chosen by the student; 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. Attendance - 5 %; Participation - 10 %; Mid-semester test: 25 %; Expositive Text - 25 %; Analytical Essay - 35%

Bibliografia (selection) | Readings (selection)

Baker, P., Sibonile, E. (2011). Key terms in discourse analysis. London: Continuum.

Candlin, C., Crichton, J. & Moore, S. H. (2017). Exploring Discourse in Context and in Action. Palgrave/Macmillan.

Hyland, K (2009). Academic Discourse: English in a Global Context. Continuum.

Ken Hyland, K. & Paltridge, B., Eds., (2011). The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis. Continuum.

Rodney H Jones, R. H., Chik, A. & Hafner, C. A., Eds. (2015). Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing discourse analysis in the digital age. Routledge. 

Requisitos | Prerequisites

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