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
2. The newspapers corpora and the web journalism
3. THINGS, IDENTIES and ACTIVITIES: from the corpora to the conceptual representations
4. Media and social bias: racism and discrimination between written, spoken and comunicative frames
Freddi M. La lingusitca dei corpora, 2014
Van Dijk T. Ideologie. Discorso e costruzione sociale del pregiudizio, 2004
Programme
1.-Short excursus of the different traditional approaches2. The newspapers corpora and the web journalism
3. THINGS, IDENTIES and ACTIVITIES: from the corpora to the conceptual representations
4. Media and social bias: racism and discrimination between written, spoken and comunicative frames
Core Documentation
Catricalà M. La linguistca cognitiva del giornalismo di moda , forthcoming publicationFreddi M. La lingusitca dei corpora, 2014
Van Dijk T. Ideologie. Discorso e costruzione sociale del pregiudizio, 2004
Reference Bibliography
Kiesling S,F,- Bratt Paulston Ch: Interculriral discourse amd Communication, 2005 Medici M. Proietti D. La lingua dei giornali, 1992 Murialdi P. Storia del giornalismo italiano, 1988 Ferrari A. La linguistica del testo, 2015Type of delivery of the course
Lessons face to face in classroom and power point presentation, handouts, etc, are on line.Attendance
If the students can not attend the lessons, they have to study the same books. They cannot present the individual project and the exercises.Type of evaluation
If the students do not attend the lessons in the classroom, they can not disccus yhe individual project -