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
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.