2025
Norm and Deviation in Portuguese Language
Name: Norm and Deviation in Portuguese Language
Code: LLT14371M
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area:
Linguistics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- To develop skills for critical reflection on language, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, recognize the tension between awareness of synchronic and diachronic variation and awareness of regularities
- To understand the relationship between the norm (oral and written) and the dynamic functioning of the linguistic system.
- To recognize the most appropriate normalization tools for linguistic revision and consultancy activities.
- To develop practices of descriptive and explanatory analysis that allow the distinction between normative and divergent statements.
- To understand the relationship between the norm (oral and written) and the dynamic functioning of the linguistic system.
- To recognize the most appropriate normalization tools for linguistic revision and consultancy activities.
- To develop practices of descriptive and explanatory analysis that allow the distinction between normative and divergent statements.
Contents
1. The concepts of norm and deviation: norm, variation and usage; the prescriptive and descriptive perspectives
2. Linguistic standardization tools: dictionaries, grammars, grammatical compendium, spelling handbook, online resources and search engines; revision and consultancy activities
3. Linguistic description and analysis of standardized deviations: verbal morphology; pronominal system; relative clauses; concordance phenomena
4. Theoretical-descriptive elements of other areas of analysis: ambiguities; referential chains; cohesive processes
2. Linguistic standardization tools: dictionaries, grammars, grammatical compendium, spelling handbook, online resources and search engines; revision and consultancy activities
3. Linguistic description and analysis of standardized deviations: verbal morphology; pronominal system; relative clauses; concordance phenomena
4. Theoretical-descriptive elements of other areas of analysis: ambiguities; referential chains; cohesive processes
Teaching Methods
The teaching methodologies combine group teaching sessions with individual tutorials. The group sessions include theoretical presentation and consolidation, analysis and critical discussion of texts, as well as guided discussion of the course content, with particular emphasis on students? active participation and debate around the topics addressed.
As part of the weekly tutorials, students will receive individualised guidance on their independent research work, particularly with regard to defining and delimiting research topics, selecting and critically analysing relevant literature, developing research skills, and preparing the assignment required for the course unit. The aim is thus to foster progressive academic and research autonomy, combining the acquisition of theoretical knowledge with its application to research work.
As part of the weekly tutorials, students will receive individualised guidance on their independent research work, particularly with regard to defining and delimiting research topics, selecting and critically analysing relevant literature, developing research skills, and preparing the assignment required for the course unit. The aim is thus to foster progressive academic and research autonomy, combining the acquisition of theoretical knowledge with its application to research work.
Assessment
Assessment may be carried out either by means of a final examination or through continuous assessment. The latter will be the preferred form of assessment and will consist of a written test (50%), a written assignment and its oral presentation (40%), as well as participation in the activities carried out during face-to-face sessions (10%).
Final assessment consists of a written examination, worth 100% of the final grade, covering the full syllabus of the course unit.
Under both assessment modes, students are considered to have successfully completed the course unit if they obtain a final grade of 10 or above on a scale of 0 to 20.
If deemed necessary in order to ascertain the extent to which the student has developed the knowledge and competences established for the course unit, the teaching team may require the student to undertake an oral examination, pursuant to paragraph 13 of Article 110 of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora. The conditions set out in paragraph 4 of Article 116 and paragraph 1 of Article 118 of the same Regulations shall be ensured. The oral examination will account for 30% of the final mark for the course unit.
Final assessment consists of a written examination, worth 100% of the final grade, covering the full syllabus of the course unit.
Under both assessment modes, students are considered to have successfully completed the course unit if they obtain a final grade of 10 or above on a scale of 0 to 20.
If deemed necessary in order to ascertain the extent to which the student has developed the knowledge and competences established for the course unit, the teaching team may require the student to undertake an oral examination, pursuant to paragraph 13 of Article 110 of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora. The conditions set out in paragraph 4 of Article 116 and paragraph 1 of Article 118 of the same Regulations shall be ensured. The oral examination will account for 30% of the final mark for the course unit.
Teaching Staff
- Ana Alexandra Lázaro Vieira da Silva [responsible]
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