2025
Portuguese Language and Linguistics
Name: Portuguese Language and Linguistics
Code: LLT14741M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Linguistics, Literature
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- Provide students with means to critically reflect on some points relating to the pluricentric condition of Portuguese.
- Understand the status of Portuguese in foreign language teaching.
- Promote reflective and critical thinking in the analysis of the relations between syntactic knowledge and discourse production.
- Explain critical points of adverbial and coordinate clauses.
- Reflect on ongoing changes in relative clauses (variation and change phenomena).
- Develop lexical and grammatical mechanisms to achieve textual cohesion.
- Perform the interface between the semantic categories of Tense/Aspect/Mood/Modality and grammatical description.
- Acknowledge the official documents which guide the teaching practice on the domain of the Portuguese language and linguistics (at the 3º Ciclo and Secondary Education).
- Understand the status of Portuguese in foreign language teaching.
- Promote reflective and critical thinking in the analysis of the relations between syntactic knowledge and discourse production.
- Explain critical points of adverbial and coordinate clauses.
- Reflect on ongoing changes in relative clauses (variation and change phenomena).
- Develop lexical and grammatical mechanisms to achieve textual cohesion.
- Perform the interface between the semantic categories of Tense/Aspect/Mood/Modality and grammatical description.
- Acknowledge the official documents which guide the teaching practice on the domain of the Portuguese language and linguistics (at the 3º Ciclo and Secondary Education).
Contents
1. Portuguese as a pluricentric language: the Portuguese and Brazilian varieties; non-standard varieties.
1.1. The main linguistic features of each variety: morphosyntax, lexicon, pragmatics.
2. Syntactic-discursive aspects of the Portuguese language*.
2.1. Complex sentence structure: adverbial and coordinate clauses (areas of instability in Portuguese); relative clauses (changes in progress).
2.2. Word order and discourse structure: topic-focus distinction, given/new information.
2.3. Text and textuality: lexical and grammatical cohesion; personal, temporal and spatial deixis.
2.4. A brief overview of the phenomena of grammatical and discursive nature: Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality.
* Accordingly with the Programa e Metas Curriculares de Português do Ensino Básico, 3.º Ciclo (Buescu, H. C. et al., 2015) and the Programa e Metas Curriculares de Português Ensino Secundário (Buescu, H. C. et al., 2014).
1.1. The main linguistic features of each variety: morphosyntax, lexicon, pragmatics.
2. Syntactic-discursive aspects of the Portuguese language*.
2.1. Complex sentence structure: adverbial and coordinate clauses (areas of instability in Portuguese); relative clauses (changes in progress).
2.2. Word order and discourse structure: topic-focus distinction, given/new information.
2.3. Text and textuality: lexical and grammatical cohesion; personal, temporal and spatial deixis.
2.4. A brief overview of the phenomena of grammatical and discursive nature: Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality.
* Accordingly with the Programa e Metas Curriculares de Português do Ensino Básico, 3.º Ciclo (Buescu, H. C. et al., 2015) and the Programa e Metas Curriculares de Português Ensino Secundário (Buescu, H. C. et al., 2014).
Teaching Methods
- Classroom course:
a) Group teaching sessions: theoretical expositions (supported by texts or other materials, including Powerpoint presentations), followed by practical exploration and students presentations of topics covered in the syllabus. The teaching method may vary depending on the topics, as it may be more interactive, or more expository or mixed. Class support materials are made available through the Moodle platform.
b) Tutorial classes (weekly sessions): sessions for personalized monitoring of the work to be carried out by the students.
- Students autonomous work:
Documentary research; research; solving problems.
Students are supposed to prepare classes in advance based on materials previously provided.
a) Group teaching sessions: theoretical expositions (supported by texts or other materials, including Powerpoint presentations), followed by practical exploration and students presentations of topics covered in the syllabus. The teaching method may vary depending on the topics, as it may be more interactive, or more expository or mixed. Class support materials are made available through the Moodle platform.
b) Tutorial classes (weekly sessions): sessions for personalized monitoring of the work to be carried out by the students.
- Students autonomous work:
Documentary research; research; solving problems.
Students are supposed to prepare classes in advance based on materials previously provided.
Assessment
Assessment procedures are based on Regulamento Académico da Universidade de Évora (RAUÉ).
Students may choose between two modes of assessment:
(1) Continuous assessment: students will be given two opportunities to show their work and capacities at this level: one end-of-semester quiz (50%), a research project (40%) and in-class/home assignments (10%).
(2) Final written Exam (valued in 100%).
The elements of assessment, the respective weights and the dates will be provided to students in the first class.
Attendance will be registered.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment:
(1) Continuous assessment: students will be given two opportunities to show their work and capacities at this level: one end-of-semester quiz (50%), a research project (40%) and in-class/home assignments (10%).
(2) Final written Exam (valued in 100%).
The elements of assessment, the respective weights and the dates will be provided to students in the first class.
Attendance will be registered.
Teaching Staff
- Maria do Céu Brás da Fonseca [responsible]
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