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.
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The journalistic communication has elaborated a relevant number of complex textual, linguistic and verbal-iconic structures for special purposes, that represent an important chapter of the cultural heritage of the last two centuries.
The aim of the course is to illustrate the characteristics of this linguistic repository, considering the prevalent trends in the creation of neologisms, in the interlinguistic contacts, the rhetorical strategies and the syntactic and textual styles. At the light of the patterns of the functionalism, of the Critical Discourse Analysis and the pragmatic paradigm, we will consider the different points of view regarding the readability and the comprehension levels of various kinds of newspapers, magazines and web journalism messages.
Some activities, work-shops and exercises will be aimed to develop and to improve the writing competence of the students.
Programme
The web journalism has changing the traditional models of production and access to the articles, interviews and reportage. The course aims to explain what is the new linguistic identity of the magazines and newsparpers .The journalistic communication has elaborated a relevant number of complex textual, linguistic and verbal-iconic structures for special purposes, that represent an important chapter of the cultural heritage of the last two centuries.
The aim of the course is to illustrate the characteristics of this linguistic repository, considering the prevalent trends in the creation of neologisms, in the interlinguistic contacts, the rhetorical strategies and the syntactic and textual styles. At the light of the patterns of the functionalism, of the Critical Discourse Analysis and the pragmatic paradigm, we will consider the different points of view regarding the readability and the comprehension levels of various kinds of newspapers, magazines and web journalism messages.
Some activities, work-shops and exercises will be aimed to develop and to improve the writing competence of the students.
Core Documentation
Catricalà M. Linguistica e giornalismo, Aracne 12015.Attendance
. Lessons attendance is reccomendedType of evaluation
The written exercises and the solution of the work-shops prepared during the course will be discussed and evaluated in the oral exam. In the same time the students will be asked to answer to some questions realted to the books and the key-concepts analyzed in the classroom.