Educational guide 2015_16 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1.- Introduction. Defining text. Oral and written texts. Register.	Oral production and written representation. Criteria for textuality. The role of context. Register: tenor, mode and domain.
2.- Oral texts. Main characteristics.	The language of conversation. interaction, language and meaning. Spoken grammars. Oral, discourse and pragmatic features. Utterances, sentences and constructions. Oral interaction.
3.- Written texts. Main features. Spoken/written language and the oral/literate continuum.	Cohesion, coherence and texture. Microstructure and macrostructure. Text construction and complexity. From speech to written textual representation. Written texts to be used orally. Written texts online.
4.- Classes of texts according to function. text type, register and genre classification.	Oral and written everyday texts. Literary texts. The media, advertising and publicity. Cartoons and strips. Scientific and technical texts. Interactive texts. Text production and the new technologies.