Guia docente 2013_14 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1.- Introduction. The notions of Speech, Discourse and Text. Sentences and constructions as the basic units of oral and written texts.	The canonical conversation model. Oral production and written representation. Basic criteria for analysis of written and oral texts. Register: Tenor, Mode and Domain.
2.- Orality. Main conforming conversational aspects involved in the production of texts.	Discourse features, pragmatic features and conversation. Utterance, sentence and proposition. Spoken grammars. Main linguistic and organizational characteristics of oral texts.
3.- Textuality. Main distinctive characteristics of texts. The structure of oral and written messages.	Textual grammars. Cohesion, coherence, texture. Message construction and kinds of message. Hierarchy of ideas and complexity. Conversations, narratives and stories.
4.- Text, type and genre classification.	Oral and written everyday texts. Literary texts. Oral and written texts in the media. Advertising and publicity. Cartoons and strips. Scientific and technical texts. Interactive texts. The new methods of textual representation and the new technologies.