Linguística Contrastiva (Inglês)

Código:

FLUP0820

Sigla:

LCING

Ocorrência: 2005/2006 - 2S

Ativa?	Sim
Unidade Responsável:	Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Instituição Responsável:	Faculdade de Letras

Ciclos de Estudo/Cursos

Sigla	Nº de Estudantes	Plano de Estudos	Anos Curriculares	Créditos UCN	Créditos ECTS	Horas de Contacto	Horas Totais
EFI	12	Plano Oficial - LEFI	3	2,5	5	-
			4
EIA	9	Plano Oficial - LEIA	3	2,5	5	-
			4
EPI	22	Plano Oficial - LEPI	3	2,5	5	-
			4

Objetivos

This course will aim to improve the student's conscious knowledge of the differences and similarities that exist between Portuguese and English. The wider themes will be dealt with generally in class, but special attention will be given to those areas that are of particular interest to Portuguese speakers of English.

Students will be taught how to use monolingual, parallel and comparable corpora to study specific aspects of the lexicon, syntax and semantics using the British National Corpus and Reuter’s Corpus, the CETEMPúblico and COMPARA. They will also be expected to work with the online tools provided by the Linguateca project at http://poloclup.linguateca.pt/ferramentas These include tools to find and analyse machine translation with the aim of comparing it to human translation. Other tools will be used to study specific linguistic problems, such as differences in textual conventions and terminology usage in the two languages.

Programa

1.Introduction.
a.An analysis of the grammars, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference material which will be used during the course.
b.An introduction to electronic corpora and software for text and general language analysis.
2.The Lexicon.
a.A general view of lexical and terminological theory.
b.The study and comparison of semantic fields and lexical sets.
c.(Non-) equivalence at word level.
d.(Non-) equivalence above word level - collocation, clichés, idioms etc.
e.Problems related to terminology in technical and scientific areas
f.Construction of bilingual glossaries and mini-corpora.
3.The Sentence.
a.Basic sentence structure in English and Portuguese.
b.Syntactic and semantic aspects of the Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, and Prepositional phrase in English and Portuguese
c.The function of Adjuncts, Conjuncts and Disjuncts in context in English and Portuguese.
d.Theme, focus and information processing at sentence and text level – different conventions in English and Portuguese.
e.The use of cohesive devices in texts.
f.The analysis of real sentences in context.

Bibliografia Principal

SET BOOKS:
•Baker, Mona. 1992. In Other Words, A coursebook in translation. London and New York: Routledge.
•Downing, Angela & Philip Locke. 1993. A University Course in English Grammar. London and New York: Routledge.
•Mateus, M. Helena Mira, Ana Maria Brito, Inês Duarte & Isabel Hub Faria. 2003. Gramática da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho.
•TEXTS from the "Oficina Gráfica".

Bibliografia Complementar

•Portuguese Grammars:
o Cunha, Celso and Lindley Cintra, 1984. Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo. Lisboa: Edições João Sá da Costa.
•English Grammars:
o Collins Cobuild English Grammar 1990 London: Collins.
o Greenbaum, Sidney & Randolph Quirk. 1990. A Student's Grammar of the English Language. Longman U.K. Ltd.
o Halliday, M.A.K. 1985 An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London. Edward Arnold.
o QUIRK, Randolph et al. 1985 A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London and New York, Longman.
•Dictionaries and Thesauri: Students will be expected to use the various monolingual and bilingual dictionaries in Portuguese and English currently available in traditional and electronic form, and to examine and analyse them critically.

Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem

Aulas T/P

Software

The Corpora and language analysis tools to be found at http://www.linguateca.pt

Tipo de avaliação

Avaliação distribuída com exame final

Obtenção de frequência

75% Attendance

Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final

50% theory
50% practice

Provas e trabalhos especiais

Class presentations of practical project work

Avaliação especial (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Melhoria de classificação

Not applicable

Observações

Língua de Ensino: Inglês/ Português