2024
English Language and Linguistics II
Name: English Language and Linguistics II
Code: LLT10871L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Linguistics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This curricular unit aims at developing the students advanced knowledge of descriptive English linguistics and the acquisition of communicative skills
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectivos:
- to provide students with some tools and techniques for linguistic analysis and the identification of organizing principles of the English language;
- to provide advanced training in various areas of language analysis and to develop a multidisciplinary approach within which to seek appropriate solutions to linguistic problems.
Competences to be acquired:
- to recognize and demonstrate the theoretical and practical bases of the formal properties of English descriptive linguistics in the areas of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics;
- to identify the basic structure of English words;
- to examine the choices users of English make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction, and the effects their use of language has on the other participants in an act of communication;
- to develop the student's ability to analyse natural language semantic and pragmatic phenomena.
- to provide students with some tools and techniques for linguistic analysis and the identification of organizing principles of the English language;
- to provide advanced training in various areas of language analysis and to develop a multidisciplinary approach within which to seek appropriate solutions to linguistic problems.
Competences to be acquired:
- to recognize and demonstrate the theoretical and practical bases of the formal properties of English descriptive linguistics in the areas of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics;
- to identify the basic structure of English words;
- to examine the choices users of English make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction, and the effects their use of language has on the other participants in an act of communication;
- to develop the student's ability to analyse natural language semantic and pragmatic phenomena.
Contents
1. Morphology:
1.1. Classes of words
1.2. Content/function words and morphemes
1.3. Free/bound morphemes
1.4. Root/affix (prefix, suffix, infix)
1.5. Word formation: derivation and inflection
1.6. Morphophonemic rules and allomorphs
1.7. Word coinage (compound, acronym, blend, abbreviation)
2. Syntax:
2.1. Grammaticality: syntactic rules
2.2. Grammatical relations
2.3. Sentence structure: constituent structure trees/syntactic categories
2.4. Subcategorization
2.5. Transformational rules
2.6. Structural ambiguity
3. Semantics:
3.1. Semantic properties/features
3.2. Ambiguity
3.3. Paraphrases
3.4. Antonyms
3.5. Anomaly, metaphor and idioms
4. Pragmatics:
4.1. Introduction to key concepts in pragmatics and discourse analysis
4.2. Context
4.3. Co-text
4.4. Speech acts
4.5. Politeness
1.1. Classes of words
1.2. Content/function words and morphemes
1.3. Free/bound morphemes
1.4. Root/affix (prefix, suffix, infix)
1.5. Word formation: derivation and inflection
1.6. Morphophonemic rules and allomorphs
1.7. Word coinage (compound, acronym, blend, abbreviation)
2. Syntax:
2.1. Grammaticality: syntactic rules
2.2. Grammatical relations
2.3. Sentence structure: constituent structure trees/syntactic categories
2.4. Subcategorization
2.5. Transformational rules
2.6. Structural ambiguity
3. Semantics:
3.1. Semantic properties/features
3.2. Ambiguity
3.3. Paraphrases
3.4. Antonyms
3.5. Anomaly, metaphor and idioms
4. Pragmatics:
4.1. Introduction to key concepts in pragmatics and discourse analysis
4.2. Context
4.3. Co-text
4.4. Speech acts
4.5. Politeness
Teaching Methods
This course is designed to be a broad-based overview of the scientific study of applied linguistics. The topics to be covered during the course will be examined through a series of problems, readings, and exercises. Students will be given reading assignments on each of the topics of the syllabus and will be expected to engage lively in discussions.
(1) Continuous assessment: Students will be given two opportunities to show their work and capacities at this level: one end-of-semester quiz (60%), a research project (30%) and in-class/home assignments (10%).
Note on the Research project (Written Paper): In order to reinforce the understanding of the course material, problem sets are assigned. Based on what students have learned in class, they will be asked to collect interesting data in English for a research project.
(2) Exam (normal and recurso): written + oral (only for students with a grade between 8,0 and 9,4 in the written exam)
(1) Continuous assessment: Students will be given two opportunities to show their work and capacities at this level: one end-of-semester quiz (60%), a research project (30%) and in-class/home assignments (10%).
Note on the Research project (Written Paper): In order to reinforce the understanding of the course material, problem sets are assigned. Based on what students have learned in class, they will be asked to collect interesting data in English for a research project.
(2) Exam (normal and recurso): written + oral (only for students with a grade between 8,0 and 9,4 in the written exam)
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
- Luís Sérgio Pinto Guerra [responsible]
