2025

Lexicon Studies

Name: Lexicon Studies
Code: LLT14372M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Linguistics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

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Learning Goals

This course aims to provide a broad-based overview of the scientific fields that focus on lexicon, by presenting and discussing concepts, descriptive models, methodologies, fundamental lines of thought and specific domains of research and their interfaces. The main objective is, thus, to give an account of the complexity of the lexical level of language and also of the variety of perspectives involved in it. In addition to the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, the course specifically aims to provide competences and analytical / descriptive tools, a linguistic level which requires the confluence of several fields of linguistic knowledge, and to apply the acquired knowledge into practical work. The close relationship between theory and practice (Lexicon Workshop), which aims at working with available materials or producing new ones, allows for the development of skills that lead students from “knowledge” to a “know how to do” in specific domains of the study of lexicon.

Contents

1. The lexicon in current Linguistics
1.1. Theoretical issues: concepts, issues and models
2. Lexicon studies and lexicon sciences
2.1. Lexicology

2.1.1. Scope, methods and approaches
2.2. Lexicography
2.2.1. Scope, methods and approaches
2.2.2. From lexicographic tradition to e-lexicography
2.3. Terminology
2.3.1 Scope, methods and approaches
2.3.2 Terminology and Neology
2.4 Lexicon and interfaces: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Phraseology
2.5. Lexicon and Etymology
3. Lexicon workshop
3.1. Current tools for the study of lexicon
3.2. Analysis of lexicon aspects (e.g. words, semantic fields)
3.3. Case study (in Portuguese and other languages)

Teaching Methods

The course is carried out by means of theoretical and practical collective sessions. Theoretical exposition (with the use of power point, texts, databases and online corpora) aim to prepare students for the practical work to be developed in the Lexicon Workshop to take place during the second part of it, providing the students with the opportunity to develop individual work and to interact among them. In the Lexicon Workshop students apply acquired knowledge in the first part of the semester and are trained in the use of specific tools and production of materials in some of the topics covered in the syllabus. Students are encouraged to outline and develop work on a topic at their choice.
Students autonomous work will be supervised in weekly tutorial sessions.
During classroom activities, under the supervision of the lecturer, students may use AI to obtain data, corpora, bibliographies and to explore other elements relating to the subjects under study.
When undertaking autonomous research projects, students will be required to identify each aspect, section or piece of data for which they have used AI.

Assessment

Continuous assessment will consist of a written test (50%) halfway through the semester and the submission of an individual written research paper on a topic from the program or, alternatively, a final exam (50%).
Continuous assessment requires attendance at 75% of the seminar sessions, and and participation with small weekly tasks.
Assessment ao AI: Ff deemed necessary to assess the extent to which the student has developed the knowledge and skills specified for the course module, the teaching team may call the student to sit an oral examination, in accordance with Article 110 (n. 13) of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora, whilst ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in Article 116 (n.4) and Article 118 (n. 1) of the same Regulations. The oral examination shall carry, in the final mark for the course unit, a weighting equivalent to that of the examination whose content is to be assessed.
The final assessment will consist of a written exam (100%) on the subjects covered throughout the semester, to be held during the period specified in the academic calendar.
In accordance with the RAUE, students also have a resit period, scheduled for the period specified in the aforementioned academic calendar.

Teaching Staff

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