European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: variation and linguistic adaptation between these varieties

Code:

PEPB1

Acronym:

PEPB

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Mother-tongue language and literature

Instance: 2023/2024 - SP (of 22-01-2024 to 26-01-2024)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: variation and linguistic adaptation between these varieties

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PEPB	0	study plan	1	-		20	20

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Observing and discussing the differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese has become more and more important. Some of the reasons are:
-the mediatic content produced in both varieties that easily crosses geographical borders, thanks to the Internet. Recognizing the linguistic aspects of each of these varieties may reduce linguistic confusion and conflicts;
-the increasing number of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal and of Brazilian-Portuguese-speaker students at U.Porto. There having a course that aims to facilitate their linguistic insertion may contribute to the promotion of U.Porto at an international level;
-the need to highlight Brazilian Portuguese aspects that, in spite of not being accepted by normative grammars, are today well established in its informal language and in descriptive grammars. It is thus necessary to differ its application to different contexts, to identify possible misuses in formal written contexts;
-the increasing discussion on the acceptance of Brazilian Portuguese aspects in students’ answers on Secondary and Higher education exams. Making students able to adapt their writing skills to European Portuguese may be a strategy to reduce the likelihood of linguistic conflicts.

Learning outcomes and competences

- Understand the multiple forms of linguistic variation of the Portuguese Language;
- Brainstorm the factors responsible for the existence of the European and Brazilian geographical varieties of Portuguese;
- Identify the phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of variation between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, applying the principles of contrastive analysis;
- Acquire competences to produce written and oral texts in both varieties of Portuguese.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 Historic aspects of the Portuguese Language
  1.1 Cultural assimilation vs. diversity
2 Linguistic variation
  2.1 National varieties in Portugal
  2.2 Portuguese as a pluricentric language
  2.3 Brazilian Portuguese: standard norm vs. contemporary norm
3 Aspects of variation between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
  3.1 Phonetic features
  3.2 Morphological features
  3.3 Lexical and semantic features
  3.4 Syntactic features
  3.5 Pragmatic features
4. Intercultural communication between Portugal and Brazil
5. Linguistic discrimination and adaptation between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese

Mandatory literature

Bagno, M. ; Português ou brasileiro? Um convite à pesquisa, São Paulo: Parábola Editorial, 2001
Barbosa, P. et al ; Studies on variation in Portuguese, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017
Batoréo, H. ; Que gramática(s) temos para estudar o Português língua pluricêntrica? , Revista Diadorim. v. 16, pp. 1-15, 2014
Biderman, M. T. C. ; O português brasileiro e o português europeu: identidade e contrastes, Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire, v.79 (3), pp. 963-975, 2001
Djajarahardja, N. ; Aspectos da variação entre o PE e o PB: guia para a adaptação linguística entre as duas variedades, Dissertação (Mestrado em Tradução e Serviços Linguísticos) – Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Porto, 2020
Duarte, M. E. L. ; Aspetos contrastivos entre o português do Brasil e o português europeu. In Raposo E.B.P. et al. (orgs.) Gramática do Português, vol. III. , Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, pp. 2735-2778, 2020
Ilari, R., Basso, R. ; O português da gente: a língua que estudamos, a língua que falamos, São Paulo: Contexto, 2006
Luchesi, D. e Lobo, T. ; Aspectos da Sintaxe do Português Brasileiro. In Faria, I. H. et al. (orgs.) Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa, pp. 303-311, Lisboa: Caminho, 1996
Marujo, L. et al. ; ). BP2EP–Adaptation of Brazilian Portuguese texts to European Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 15th EAMT, pp. 129–136, 2011
Mattos e Silva, R. V. ; O português do Brasil. In Raposo, E. B. P. et al (orgs.) Gramática do português, vol. I, Lisboa: Calouste Gulbenkian, pp.145-154, 2013
Segura, L. ; Geografia da língua portuguesa. In Raposo E.B.P. et al. (orgs.) Gramática do Português, vol. I , Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, pp. 71-81, 2013
Teyssier, P. ; História da língua portuguesa, São Paulo, Martins Fontes. Trad. Celso Cunha, 2001

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course includes theoretical presentation sessions and application activities, aiming the identification of the aspects of variation between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, and the linguistic adaptation of texts between these two varieties.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Total:	20,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance

Calculation formula of final grade

Not applicable.