Communication Techniques in Portuguese

Code:

CC043

Acronym:

TEPOR

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Communication Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CC	94	Plano Oficial a partir de 2008/2009	1	-	5	52	135

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

-To reflect on the formative-cognitive and affective values of the mother tongue - Portuguese - as a way to access thought, world representation and human relations
- To develop grammatical, verbal, pragmatic and socio-cultural skills;
- To acquire communication techniques as well as oral and written skills in order to use them efficiently in different contexts

Program

Communication:
- Communicative act - interactive act
- Components of the communicative act
- Determining factors in the communicative act
- Communication functions
- Semiotic resources: verbal, para-verbal and non-verbal
- Interlocutory and monolocutory communication
Communication and oral expression:
- Specificity of the oral mode (co-presence of the speakers; strong contextual dependency; mobilization of different kinds of semiotic elements)
- Oral cohesion (deixis)
- From spontaneous speech (informal) to prepared speech
- Oral communication techniques (bidirectional and unidirectional)
- A few communication skills: report/commentary/narration; oral presentation/exposition; debate.
Communication and written expression:
- Features of the written mode (stages of the editing process: planning, textualization, revision)
- Fundamental principles of the text: coherence, cohesion, connection
- Text types and textual sequences (narrative, descriptive, argumentative, expositive-explanatory)
- Multiplicity and functionality of the discourse genres
- Compositional heterogeneity of texts
- structure of a few journalistic texts: chronicle; opinion article; press release; news; advertisement
- Structure of a few academic texts: critical appreciation; report; summary; synthesis; dissertation; commentary
- Textual and discursive compositional heterogeneity
- Utterance of language (direct, deferred, reported - direct speech, free direct speech, indirect speech, free indirect speech, evoked speech)
- Discourse modality
- Language registers (formal, standard, everyday, non-standard)
Syntax:
- simple sentence (direct order, inversion, ellipsis)
- complex sentence (coordination and subordination)
- clause constituents
- regular and irregular verbs (tense, mood, voice - their significance)
- punctuation
Lexicology:
- General lexicon and specialized lexicons
- Lexicon enrichment – conversion, acronyms, initials, abbreviations, amalgamation, loan words, foreignisms, metaphorical extension
- Lexical relations - antonymy, synonymy, hyperonymy, hyponymy, holonymy, meronymy, polysemy (cohesion, textual progression)

Mandatory literature

Figueiredo, O. e Figueiredo, E.; Dicionário Prático para o Estudo do Português, Porto: Asa , 2003
Adam, Jean-Michel; Les textes: types et prototypes, Paris: Nathan, 1992
Bassolds, M. e Torrent, A; Modelos textuales: teoria y práctica, 1997, 1997
Vilela, M.; Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Coimbra: Almedina , 2002
Cintra, L. e Cunha, C.; Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo, Lisboa: Sá da Costa, 1984
Fiske, John; Introdução ao estudo da comunicação, Porto: Asa, 1999. ISBN: 972-41-1133-4
Adam, Jean-Michel; Linguistique textuelle. Des gentes de discours aux textes, Paris: Nathan, 1999
Mateus, M.H.M. et al.; Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Caminho, 2003. ISBN: 972-21-0445-4

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	52,00
	Exame	2,00		2009-12-19
	Trabalho escrito	41,00		2009-11-06
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	40	2009-12-19
	Total:	40,00