The course aims to illustrate how the historical perspective, the sociolinguistics, the pragmatics and the semiotics can analyze the language of newspapers highlighting the lexical, syntactic and morphological features and the intercultural aspects of different texts. A part of course will focus on the cognitive paradigm, the titles and the metaphors.
There are no prerequisites. Specific activities could be organized to support the study of the foreign students and the working students.
There are no prerequisites. Specific activities could be organized to support the study of the foreign students and the working students.
teacher profile teaching materials
1. The bibliographical references on the journalese and the communicative strategies of the news papers
1.a. The 5w of the journals origin (6h)
1.b. The approaches and the models for studying the articles and the para-texts (6h)
1.c. The grammar of the journalistic language (3h)
1.d.Trends between overspecitication and fake news(3h)
1.e. Reading Research and journals (3h)
2. The cognitive approach of the linguistic research
2.a. Prototypes, Frames and cognitive metaphores (6)
2.b. Profiling a trajectory (3h)
2.c. Corpora analysis and information retrivial (3h)
3. Analysis of texts and semantic maps of the articles and lexicons for special purposes: in particular, the study will be dedicated to relationships between behaviors and human body space, as medicine, food, fashion and sport. (3)
Handout and a text of cognitive linguistics
Programme
The course program of Lingustics and Journalism is divided in three parts, for linking the study of the journalistic language. in the same time, to the cognitive paradigma and to to the analysis of corpora.1. The bibliographical references on the journalese and the communicative strategies of the news papers
1.a. The 5w of the journals origin (6h)
1.b. The approaches and the models for studying the articles and the para-texts (6h)
1.c. The grammar of the journalistic language (3h)
1.d.Trends between overspecitication and fake news(3h)
1.e. Reading Research and journals (3h)
2. The cognitive approach of the linguistic research
2.a. Prototypes, Frames and cognitive metaphores (6)
2.b. Profiling a trajectory (3h)
2.c. Corpora analysis and information retrivial (3h)
3. Analysis of texts and semantic maps of the articles and lexicons for special purposes: in particular, the study will be dedicated to relationships between behaviors and human body space, as medicine, food, fashion and sport. (3)
Core Documentation
Catricalà M. . Linguistica e Giornalismo, Roma 2015 .Handout and a text of cognitive linguistics
Type of delivery of the course
Lessons in classroom and slide, video, handout on line.Type of evaluation
If the students do not attend the lessons in the classroom, they can not discuss the individual project