Class Oral and Written Communication Practices

The course unit Oral and Written Communication Practices develops essential skills in expression, argumentation and interaction across different communicative contexts. As part of the BA in Portuguese Studies, this unit promotes the improvement of students' abilities in producing and interpreting oral and written discourse, combining linguistic accuracy, clarity, appropriateness and communicative effectiveness. Through a practical and interdisciplinary approach, students explore different textual genres and situations of academic, professional and cultural communication, developing strategies for organising, arguing and presenting ideas. The unit contributes to a critical understanding of language as a tool for communication, knowledge construction and social participation, while strengthening key competences for contemporary academic and professional contexts.

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1. Communication Communicative act - interactive act Components and conditioning factors of the communicative act The functions of communication Linguistic competence and communicative competence Norm and usage Varieties and registers of language Modes of communication: oral and written 2. Communication and oral expression Oral expression and multimodality Interaction: space for negotiation 3. Communication and written expression Stages of writing: planning; textualisation; revision Grammatical aspects of writing: lexicon, syntax, semantics, others -Constituent principles of the text: textuality - cohesion, connection, coherence. 4. Text and discourse Genres of discourse: The compositional heterogeneity of texts. Polyphony Textual sequences: narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explanatory Structure of some technical, scientific and administrative texts The compositional heterogeneity of texts Modes of enunciation, modalities and modalisation in discourse Multimodality and new media.

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