2023
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 devised consist of teaching sessions, in which students are required to actively participate, and weekly tutorial sessions, so as to supervise students‟ autonomous research work.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment: (i) continuous assessment, including participation in in-class activities (accounting 40% of the final grade) and the writing and oral presentation of one end-of-semester essay (accounting 60% of the final grade); (ii) exam.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment: (i) continuous assessment, including participation in in-class activities (accounting 40% of the final grade) and the writing and oral presentation of one end-of-semester essay (accounting 60% of the final grade); (ii) exam.
Teaching Staff
- Ana Alexandra Lázaro Vieira da Silva [responsible]
