Overall objectives:

1 - This curricular unit provides the theoretical background required for describing and analyzing linguistic communication in a wide range of communicative settings.
2 - It introduces the key defining theoretical concepts in contemporary approaches to the understanding of language in communication.
3 - It is intended to enable students to recognize, describe and explain the non-literal uses of language in communication.
4 - It also aims to familiarize students with the collection, transcription and analysis of authentic data in order to develop competence in the practical application and critical evaluation of key theoretical concepts and approaches to pragmatics, discourse and cognition.

Syllabus:

1 - 1 Defining the concepts of
1.1 - 1.1text and discourse
1.2 - 1.2 context, cognition, culture
1.3 - 1.3 coherence
1.4 - 1.4 cohesion
1.5 - 1.5 sentence / utterance
1.6 - 1.6 register
1.7 - 1.7 multimodal communication
2. - 2 Approaches to language in communication
2.1 - 2.1 Text Linguistics
2.2 - 2.2 Discourse Analysis
2.3 - 2.3 Speech Acts
2.4 - 2.4 Pragmatics: Pragmatic awareness; The Anglo-American school; The European Continental school
2.5 - 2.5 Functionalist and cognitive approaches: Social SemioticsSocio-cultural knowledge and mental models; Human interaction: social, psychological-cognitive factors
3 - 3 Descriptive and interpretive language
3.1 - 3.1 Figurative uses of language: metaphor, irony and sarcasm, metonomy, hyperbole
4 - 4 Discourse communities and practices
4.1 - 4.1 Linguistic landscape: language, culture and society
4.2 - 4.2 Everyday conversation (eg. Phatic communication)
4.3 - 4.3 Media language and ideology
4.4 - 4.4 Advertising language
4.5 - 4.5 Language of Law

Literature/Sources:

Allott, N. , 2010 , A introdução à CU pretende familiarizar os estudantes com conceitos-chave em Pragmática, Análise do Discurso e Cognição, bem como os seus principais fundamentos teóricos (Itens 1 e 2). Segue-se um conjunto de sessões de natureza prática em que é supo , London: Continuum
Horn, L. And Kecskes, I. , (2013 , Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition , Geneva-Paris: Librairie Droz: 353-375
Halliday, M.A.K. and Hasan, R. , 1976 , Cohesion in English , London: Longman
Crystal, D. , 2008 , A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics , Oxford: Blackwell
Lyons, J. , 1977 , Semantics 1 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Kress, G , 2010 , Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication , New York: Routledge.
Mey, J.L. , 1993 , Pragmatics: An Introduction , Oxford: Blackwell J
Clarke, S , Macmillan English Grammar in Context: Student's Book With Key Pack , London: Macmillan
Escandell-Vidal, V in Guillén-Nieto, V. Marimόn-Llorca, C. And Vargas-Sierra, C. (eds): , 2009 , Social Cognition and Intercultural Communication in , Intercultural Business Communication and Simulations and Gaming Methodology , Berna: Peter Lang
Biber, D. and Conrad, S , 2009 , Register, Genre and Style , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
De Beaugrande, R. and Dressler, W. U. , 1981 , Introduction to Text Linguistics , New York: Routledge
James, P. G. , 2010 , An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method , New York: Routledge
Lyons, J. , 1977 , Semantics 2 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Behrens, H. , Corpora in Language Acquisition Research - History, Methods, Perspectives , Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Bowker, L. And Pearson, J. , 2002 , Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora , London: Routledge
Capone, A. And Mey, J. (eds) , 2016 , Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society , NewYork: Springer
Kecskés, I. , Oxfor , Intercultural Pragmatics , Oxford: Oxford University Press
Pinker, S. , 2015 , Language, Cognition and Human Nature , Oxford: Oxford University Press
Escandell-Vidal, V. 2009 in Guillén-Nieto, V. Marimόn-Llorca, C. And Vargas-Sierra, C. (eds): Intercultural Business Communication and Simulations and Gaming Methodology , 2009 , Social Cognition and Intercultural Communication , Berna: Peter Lang pp. 65-96
Horn, L. And Kecskes, I. , (2013 , Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition , Geneva-Paris: Librairie Droz: 353-375
Kecskés, I. , Oxfor , Intercultural Pragmatics , Oxford: Oxford University Press
Pinker, S. , 2015 , Language, Cognition and Human Nature , Oxford: Oxford University Press
Escandell-Vidal, V in Guillén-Nieto, V. Marimόn-Llorca, C. And Vargas-Sierra, C. (eds): , 2009 , Social Cognition and Intercultural Communication in , Intercultural Business Communication and Simulations and Gaming Methodology , Berna: Peter Lang
Lyons, J. , 1977 , Semantics 1 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lyons, J. , 1977 , Semantics 2 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
The presentation of theoretical content (32hrs) is backed up by theoretical-practical sessions (32hs). The teaching /learning methodology is task-oriented towards developing students' skills and competences for the independent identification of research problems, collection and description of relevant data as well as the analysis of data which evidences their critical understanding of theoretical approaches to core issues of the curricular unit. The first part of the assessment of students' output comprises their individual research proposals (50%) followed by the second part, i.e., the presentation of the project in forum (50%).