Communication Techniques in Portuguese

Code:

CC043

Acronym:

TEPOR

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
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	115	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
Evaluation	Exame	2,00		2012-02-15
Preparation of Exam	Exame	40,00		2012-02-15
Elaboration of Essay	Trabalho escrito	41,00		2011-12-16
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of tutorials
Positive grade in the final exam and in distributed assessment

Calculation formula of final grade

To be established with the students at the beginning of the semester, taking into consideration the FLUP regulations in force.
(Preliminary proposal: written assignments (30%), to be submitted by the beginning of November, and reformulated by no later than the beginning of December; final exam (70%))

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

According to FLUP regulation

Observations

Teaching language: Portuguese