Discourse Analysis

Code:

CL001

Acronym:

ADIS

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	17	CL - Study Plan	3	-	6	4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Understand the discourse as a means of self-construction and socialization.

- Understand the discourse produced in a given social context as a sign of the interrelations between languagem and society.

- Understand the discourse as an object  of analysis under specific lingustic methodologies

 Deepen the textual analytical and production skills.

Learning outcomes and competences

1. Acquire knowledge in the field of linguistic theories and methods of discourse analysis. 2. Identify the mechanisms of language conversion into speech. 3. Recognize the genres / types of discourse as features of various linguistic-discursive strategies 4. Exercise techniques of linguistic discourse analysis. 5. Exercise techniques of production in different genres / types of discourse.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I. Language and discourse 1. Theoretical and methodological paradigms of Structural Linguistics and Contextual Linguistics 2. Discourse, co-text and context: the coordinates of enunciation. 2.1 The marks of the context in the text and the marks of the text in the context. 2.1.1 The discourses as a sign of their context of production 2.1.2 The discourses as a form of intervention in their context of production 3. The concept of discourse: classical dichotomies. discourse vs. language, discourse vs. sentence; discourse vs utterance, discourse vs. text. II. Discourse analysis: historical review 1. Currents of Analysis within Discourse Analysis 1.1 Content Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Discourse Analysis, Ethnography of Communication; Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, Computer-Assisted Discourse Analysis,; Automatic Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics. III. Modes of discourse: oral and written discourse 1. Pragmatic-discursive analysis of oral sequences 1.1 Illocutionary values; contextual framework; interaction; social roles and discursive roles; face work and discursive negotiation. 2. Pragmatic-discursive analysis of opinion articles in the press 2.1 Semantic-pragmatic organizers; contextual framework; illocutionary values; argumentative movements; discourse markers; polyphony and dialogism; credit / discredit discursive strategies; discursive processes of modality. IV. Interdiscursivity; intertextuality, dialogism, polyphony and enunciative heterogeneity 1. Pragmatic-discursive analysis of the strategies "intertextual recycling of fixed formulas" and "interdiscursive recycling of textual macrostructures" V. Semantic-pragmatic and argumentative configuration of contrastive, conditional, concessive and consecutive constructions VI. Types of discourse and typologies of discourse. 1. Prototypical sequences and discursive heterogeneity 2. Multiplicity and functionality of the types / genres. 2.1 The types / genres as specialized discursive strategies at the graphic, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. VII. Computer-assisted discourse analysis: the parsers and their application to Discourse Analysis. VIII. Corpus Linguistics – General overview

Mandatory literature

ADAM, Jean-Michel; Éléments de linguistique textuelle: théorie et pratique de l’analyse textuelle, 1990
ADAM, Jean-Michel; Les Textes: types et prototypes – récit, description, argumentation, explication et dialogue, 1992
BUSTOS, J.J. et al; Lengua, discurso y texto (I Simposio Internacional de Análisis del Discurso, T. I y II) , 2000
CHARAUDEAU, P. et MAINGUENEAU, D. ; Dictionnaire d’Analyse du Discours, 2002
FONSECA, Joaquim; Linguística e Texto/Discurso, 1992
Fonseca, Joaquim; Estudos de sintaxe-semântica e pragmática do Português, Porto Editora, 1993
Fonseca, Joaquim; Pinto, Alexandra Guedes, e outros; A Organização e o Funcionamento dos Discursos - Estudos sobre o Português, Porto Editora, 1998
Gee, James Paul and Handford, Michael (ed); The Routledge Hanbook of Discourse Analysis, Routledge, 2012
HALLIDAY, M.A.K, HASAN, Ruqaiya; Cohesion in English, 1976
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Catherine; Análise da Conversação: princípios e métodos., Parábola, 2006
PEDRO, E. R. (org.); Análise crítica do discurso, Caminho, 1997
Pinto, Alexandra Guedes; Publicidade: um discurso de sedução, Porto Editora, 1997
ROULET, E.; L’ articulation du discours en français contemporain, Peter Lange, 1985
VAN DIJK, T. ; Handbook of discourse analysis, Academic Press, 1985

Complementary Bibliography

BLANCAFORT, Helena C., VALLS, Amparo T. ; Las cosas del decir. Manual de análisis del discurso, Ariel, 2004. ISBN: 84-344-8233-9
BROWN, G., YULE, G.; Análisis del Discurso, Visor Libros, 2005. ISBN: 84-7522-488-1
FRASER, B.; «An approach to Discourse Markers», Journal of Pragmatics 14, , pp. 383-395, 1990
GUIMARÃES, E.; Texto e argumentação. Um estudo de conjunções do português, Pontes, 2002
HANSEN, Maj-Britt M.; The function of discourse particles, John Benjamins, 1998
KERBRAT-ORECCHIONI, C.; Le discours en interaction, Armand Colin, 2005. ISBN: 2-200-26513-1
OLANO, Concepción O. ; Análisis Lingüístico del Discurso: La Lingüística Enunciativa, Ed. Académicas, 2006. ISBN: 84-96062-61-9
RODRIGUES, I; Sinais conversacionais de vez, Granito, 1998
TANNEN, D. et al.; Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2001
ZORRAQUINO, Mª A. M. e E. M. DURÁN (orgs.); Los marcadores del discurso: teoría e análisis, Arco Libros, 1988

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes; Tutorial guidance of students in minor research on the topics of the programme and in conducting analytical work and production of discourse in various genres / types of discourse.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	26,00
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	40,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Positive mark in the test / final exam and the research paper.

Calculation formula of final grade

Test: 60% Research work: 40% Examination (applicable to special cases): 60%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Teaching language: Portuguese