67038 - Portuguese 2

Learning outcomes

At  the end of  this module, students should be able to reach Level B2 of the language proficiency levels described in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Course contents

The 30 hours Linguistics course takes place during the first semester and is addressed to new order students, who, after one year studying the language, have  the possibility to deepen their skills, improving their linguistic level and extending their cultural knowledge about Portuguese speaking areas. The course is integrated with the lessons of the readership of European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese that will take place in the first and second semester. During the course, some specific grammar structures will be explained, concerning morphology, syntax, lexicon and spelling of European and Brazilian Portuguese. Main features of Mozambique variety of Portuguese will also be analysed. The list of the main topics:

The concept of linguistic norm: Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique.

Short Social History of Brazilian Portuguese.

Mozambique Portuguese: a variety in construction

Lexicon 

• Neologisms. Processes of word formation: extension, transformations, loanwords and calques, abbreviations, acronyms, blendings, onomatopoeia, hybridisms. Derivation and composition.
• Main features of Brazilian Lexicon
• Main features of Mozambique Portuguese Lexicon

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  Syntax

•   Main Syntax features in European, Mozambique and Brazilian Portuguese.

Spelling

• Short History of Portuguese Spelling
• The New Ortographic Agreement

Portuguese Language in music between Europe and Brazil: an introduction.     
Students of Anthropology, religions and Oriental Civilizations shall be exempted from preparing the arguments of Syntax and Spelling.


Readership in European Portuguese  (Teacher: Silvia Cavalieri)
Morphology and syntax

• Past continuous (Pretérito imperfeito)

 Past Perfect Simple

• Personal and impersonal infinitive

• Past participle (regular and irregular)

·        Pretérito mais-que-perfeito composto

• Future indicative

• Conditional

• Indirect speech

• Pretérito perfeito composto

• Relative pronouns

• Placement of personal pronouns

• Double participles 

• Passive

• Pronominal contraction

             Spelling and pronunciation

• Oxytone, paroxytone and proparoxytone words

• Mute consonants 

• Words with c, ç, s or ss.

• Words with ch or x.

• Words with s or z.

• Words with j or g.

• Homographs

• Paronymous words

• Homophones words             

Themes 

· Healthy Living - Health and hygiene 

· Employment, professions, businesses and services 

· Film and Music 

· Holiday and Tourism 

· Shopping Habits 

· Itineraries of points of cultural interest (rural or urban) 

· Portugal: cultural and socioeconomic characteristics of different regions 

· Distribution of the population and main economic activities 

· Key figures and political actions. 

· Popular Events 

· Unemployment 

· PortugueseLiterature: a colonial war 

· Other Portuguese-speaking countries: Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor.   

Book: Português XXI - Livro do Aluno - A2, de Ana Tavares, Lisboa-Porto, Lidel ed. 

The oral test will start from the analysis of the written one. Students can prepare an argument among those listed above, please report it to the teacher at the beginning of the interview.

Readership in Brazilian: you can find the program for this part of the examination in teacher Lívia Assunção Cecílio's page: http://www.unibo.it/SitoWeb/default.aspx?UPN=livia.assuncao%40unibo.it

    
   

Readings/Bibliography

To prepare the exam, students have to study the photocopies prepared by the teacher, which can be xeroxed by “Écrire”, the copy shop in front of the faculty (via Cartoleria). Students of Anthropology, Religions and Oriental Civilizations musn't study texts of  Inês Duarte, Perpétua Gonçalves, of Gramática Pedagógica by Marcos Bagno and o Novo Acordo Ortográfico, that they can avoid to xerox.

In the photocopies, students will find texts taken from the following books:

Bagno, Marcos, Gramática Pedagógica do Português Brasileiro, São Paulo, Parábola Editorial, 2011.

- A Norma Oculta. Língua & Poder na Sociedade Brasileira, São Paulo, Parábola Editorial, 2003.

- Castilho, Ataliba T. de, Nova Gramática do Português Brasileiro, São Paulo, Editora Contexto, 2003.

- Castro, Ivo, O Português, de Compostela ao Atlântico Sul, in Da Roma all'Oceano - La lingua portoghese nel mondo, a cura di Giulia Lanciai, Roma, La Nuova Frontiera, 2008.

- Correia, Margarita - Lemos, Lúcia San Payo de, Inovação Lexical em Português, Lisboa, Edições Colibri, 2005.

- Duarte, Inês, O português moderno: da România à România Nova, in Da Roma all'Oceano..., cit. 

- Gomes, Aldónio – Cavacas, Fernanda, Escutar, Falar - Oralidade, Clássica Editora, Lisboa, 2005.

- Gomes, Aldónio – Cavacas, Fernanda, A Vida das Palavras - Léxico, Clássica Editora, Lisboa, 2004.

- Gonçalves, Perpétua, Aspectos da Sintaxe de Português de Moçambique, em Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa, organização de Isabel Hub Faria, Emília Ribeiro Pedro, Inês Duarte, Carlos A. M. Gouveia, Lisboa, Caminho,.1996.

- Kassab, Álvaro, A gramática na ponta da língua (e na linguïstica de ponta), "Jornal da Unicamp", 4-5

- Mateus, Maria Helena Mira - Cardeira, Esperança, Norma e Variação, Lisboa, Caminho, 2007.

Monari, Giorgio, A língua portuguesa em música no país do belcanto, in Congresso Internacional A Língua Portuguesa em Música, cit. 

- Novo Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 2009.

- Panorama do Português Oral de Maputo. Vol. 2: A Construção de um Banco de "Erros", organização de Christopher Stroud e Perpétua Gonçalves, Maputo, Edição INDE, 1997.

- Sengo, Alice Graça Samuel, Processos de enriquecimento do léxico de português de Moçambique, Tese de Mestrado, Maputo-Porto, Universidade do Porto, 2010.

Sousa, Wélia Leão de - Philippsen, Neusa Inês, Música: um recurso didático-metodológico para as aulas de língua portuguesa, pdf

Teaching methods

The course consists of a series of lectures (30 hours) which will be integrated with Portuguese language classes.

Assessment methods

The examination consists of an oral exam - the student can choose if making it in Italian or in Portuguese - on the topics on the agenda, made by the lecturer responsible for the module, and of an assessment (written and oral) of the language skills gained during the specific readership course, made by the native speakers teachers. To make the oral examination of Language, you have first to pass the written exam, whereas you can make Linguistics even before having passed the written exam. The achievement by the student of an organic vision of the topics discussed in class, the ability to articulate them in a cohesive discourse, creating links between the different topics and analyzing them with critical awareness, together with use of the specific language of the discipline and good mastery of expression, will be assessed with a mark of excellence. The knowledge rather mechanical and / or mnemonic of matter, the capacity of synthesis and analysis not articulated and/or the use of a proper language but not always appropriate will bring to discrete evaluations; basic knowledge that denote however gaps in learning and/or the use of a substantially inappropriate language will lead to votes that will not exceed the sufficiency. Gaps in learning, inappropriate language, deep lacks in the exposition of the material proposed will be evaluated negatively.

Teaching tools

Audio/visual resources.

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Cavalieri