The course aims to present the fundamental criteria and rules of the cognitive linguistics applied in the analysis of the journalistic discourse.
The purpose of the teaching/learning activities is the critical study of the the linguistic research trends focused on the mass media communication and, in particular, on the lexicon and the rhetorical figures present in the magazines and in the newspapers. In the same time, the relationships between grammar and semantic values are illustrated at the light of the holistic model of conceptualization and construction.
The course is divided in three sections:
1. Descriptions of the bibliographical references;
2. The cognitive linguistics: frames, prototypes and profilings.
3. Corpora analysis and ontologies linked to journalistic texts for special purposes present or not in internet.
Workshops, experiments and surveys complete the lessons face to face for improving a theorical and applied training.
The purpose of the teaching/learning activities is the critical study of the the linguistic research trends focused on the mass media communication and, in particular, on the lexicon and the rhetorical figures present in the magazines and in the newspapers. In the same time, the relationships between grammar and semantic values are illustrated at the light of the holistic model of conceptualization and construction.
The course is divided in three sections:
1. Descriptions of the bibliographical references;
2. The cognitive linguistics: frames, prototypes and profilings.
3. Corpora analysis and ontologies linked to journalistic texts for special purposes present or not in internet.
Workshops, experiments and surveys complete the lessons face to face for improving a theorical and applied training.
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