31171 - Portuguese and Brazilian Language and Linguistics 2

Course contents

This 30 hours course has an exact target: students that after one year of studying portuguese grammar and culture, will upgrade their own basic knowledges, fortifyng their own linguistic level. This course is not only a part of the annual program of the lessons of the brazilian lector and my own, but also an useful way to develop some specific structures that doesn't belong anymore to the basic level.

The principal aim of this course is to work out some specific and pratical aspects  of the portuguese language, mostly concerning the lexicon, the orthography, the phonetics, the phonology and the morphology, together with a special regard to the portuguese language spoken in Brazil.
 
Phonetics:

• The onomatopoeic words
• The homophonous words
• The homonymous words
• The acccent

Lexicon:

• The "false friends"
• The foreigner words
• The idiomatic and emphatic words
• The synonymous, antonimous and denotative words
• The exclamations and the interjections
• The portuguese words in the italian lexicon
• The italian words in the portuguese lexicon 

Morphology:

• The augmentatives and the diminutives
• The suffix: -vel
• The primitive, derived, simple and composed words
• The words formed by "justaposição" and "aglutinação"
• The word derivation: prefixes and suffixes

Orthography:

• The vocal alternation in the verbs
• The orthography alternation in the verbs
• The grafic alternation in the words: i/e; o/u; j/g; ct/c; c,ç,s ou ss; ch/x; s/z
• The nasal diphthong alternation: -ão e -m
• The grafic accent
• The ponctuation

Readings/Bibliography

In the copistery Écrire in front of our University (via Cartoleria) there is a block of copies made by the teacher, that will compose the main tool of the course.

- Coimbra, Olga Matos e Leite, Isabel Coimbra, Gramática Activa II, ed. Lidel, Lisboa, 1998

 

Other bibliography proposed for individual study:

  

Castanho, José Nicau, Portoghese - esercizi , A. Vallardi,Milano, 1999

Cunha, Celso e Cintra, Luis F. Lindley, Breve Gramática do Português Contemporâneo, Edições Sá da Costa, 1985, Lisboa.

Lanciani Giulia e Tavani Giuseppe, Grammatica Portoghese, Edizioni Led, Milano, 1993

Moutinho, Lurdes de Castro, Uma introdução ao estudo da fonética e fonologia do português, Colecção Plátano Universitária, Lisbona, 2000

Silva, Mendes, Português língua viva, Círculo dos Leitores, Lisboa, 1985

Terra, Ernani, Curso Prático de Gramática, editora Scipione, São Paulo, 1996

Teyssier, Paul, História da Língua Portuguesa, Colecção Nova Universidade - Linguística, Edições Sá da Costa, 1982

Teaching methods

Personal lessons, several exercises in class and as homework.

Assessment methods

Final oral examination.

Teaching tools

Cd rom

Dvd

Cassettes

Film video

Office hours

See the website of Anabela Cristina Costa Da Silva Ferreira