Il modulo di English for Journalism and Media destinato agli studenti della laurea magistrale in Informazione, Editoria e Giornalismo è finalizzato allo studio dell’inglese per scopi speciali (ESP) applicato al discorso giornalistico e dei media. Considerando le pratiche comunicative proprie della comunità discorsiva nell’ambito del giornalismo e dei media, i diversi generi e le possibili relazioni intertestuali, le attività didattiche saranno incentrate sulla descrizione linguistica, l’identificazione del sistema e delle strutture concettuali, la spiegazione del testo in un contesto socioculturale, attraverso una scelta di generi utilizzati dai media tradizionali e digitali.
In relazione alle diverse aree del giornalismo e tipologie testuali esaminate, verranno illustrati e approfonditi i seguenti aspetti:
• How to analyse the language of journalism: The development of Critical Discourse Analysis.
• Forms of communication in traditional media: The discursive community, shared values and point of view; the language of the press, radio and television; advertising; types of newspapers and politics; media genres; broadcast journalism: managing the extraordinary and the ordinary; forms of language and voices in news broadcasting; magazine journalism and linguistic strategies of synthetic personalization; newspaper journalism: popular and quality styles.
• The social environment of contemporary communication: new models of communication in the Age of the Internet; the constituents of modern digital communication; properties of web communication and web genres; online journalism: live news writing; citizen journalism: practices and identities.
• Participants in the discourse of journalism: roles, relationships and identities; personal identity, social identity and identification; power and community; stance and style; audience, politeness, accommodation; texts and social structures; intertextuality; agency and power; news values, balance and bias; conflict, proximity/cultural relevance.
• The linguistic individual in media communication: media and identity in a communicational frame; history, culture and memory in press coverage; authorial identity and the audience; reader positioning and ethics; inclusion/exclusion; gender roles, irony and taboo language.
• Discourse styles and structures: parts and sequences; discourse organisation; depersonalization; nominalisation; evidentiality, coherence and cohesion; genres, gender stereotypes and discourse styles; narrative, gender and personal stories; gender, irony and taboo language; structures and lexical choices of news stories.
• Features of argumentation and dissemination in journalism and media discourse: rhetorical devices, dissemination strategies, defence strategies and legitimation techniques; ideology and power; persuasion and evaluation; conversational and emotional language in traditional and digital media; engagement features.
OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI: Il modulo è finalizzato allo studio dell’inglese per scopi speciali (ESP) applicato al discorso giornalistico e dei media. Gli studenti avranno la possibilità di esplorare un'ampia varietà di testi in questo settore.
CONOSCENZA E CAPACITÀ DI COMPRENSIONE: Al termine del corso lo studente dovrà essere in grado di comprendere e collocare il testo giornalistico in un contesto socioculturale, e saperne individuare le caratteristiche discorsive fondamentali.
CAPACITÀ DI APPLICARE CONOSCENZA E COMPRENSIONE: Lo studente dovrà essere in grado di analizzare il testo giornalistico, evidenziandone autonomamente le peculiarità linguistiche in relazione al genere e alla comunità discorsiva di riferimento
In relazione alle diverse aree del giornalismo e tipologie testuali esaminate, verranno illustrati e approfonditi i seguenti aspetti:
• How to analyse the language of journalism: The development of Critical Discourse Analysis.
• Forms of communication in traditional media: The discursive community, shared values and point of view; the language of the press, radio and television; advertising; types of newspapers and politics; media genres; broadcast journalism: managing the extraordinary and the ordinary; forms of language and voices in news broadcasting; magazine journalism and linguistic strategies of synthetic personalization; newspaper journalism: popular and quality styles.
• The social environment of contemporary communication: new models of communication in the Age of the Internet; the constituents of modern digital communication; properties of web communication and web genres; online journalism: live news writing; citizen journalism: practices and identities.
• Participants in the discourse of journalism: roles, relationships and identities; personal identity, social identity and identification; power and community; stance and style; audience, politeness, accommodation; texts and social structures; intertextuality; agency and power; news values, balance and bias; conflict, proximity/cultural relevance.
• The linguistic individual in media communication: media and identity in a communicational frame; history, culture and memory in press coverage; authorial identity and the audience; reader positioning and ethics; inclusion/exclusion; gender roles, irony and taboo language.
• Discourse styles and structures: parts and sequences; discourse organisation; depersonalization; nominalisation; evidentiality, coherence and cohesion; genres, gender stereotypes and discourse styles; narrative, gender and personal stories; gender, irony and taboo language; structures and lexical choices of news stories.
• Features of argumentation and dissemination in journalism and media discourse: rhetorical devices, dissemination strategies, defence strategies and legitimation techniques; ideology and power; persuasion and evaluation; conversational and emotional language in traditional and digital media; engagement features.
OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI: Il modulo è finalizzato allo studio dell’inglese per scopi speciali (ESP) applicato al discorso giornalistico e dei media. Gli studenti avranno la possibilità di esplorare un'ampia varietà di testi in questo settore.
CONOSCENZA E CAPACITÀ DI COMPRENSIONE: Al termine del corso lo studente dovrà essere in grado di comprendere e collocare il testo giornalistico in un contesto socioculturale, e saperne individuare le caratteristiche discorsive fondamentali.
CAPACITÀ DI APPLICARE CONOSCENZA E COMPRENSIONE: Lo studente dovrà essere in grado di analizzare il testo giornalistico, evidenziandone autonomamente le peculiarità linguistiche in relazione al genere e alla comunità discorsiva di riferimento
scheda docente materiale didattico
Il modulo di English for Journalism and Media destinato agli studenti della laurea magistrale in Informazione, Editoria e Giornalismo è finalizzato allo studio dell’inglese per scopi speciali (ESP) applicato al discorso giornalistico e dei media. Considerando le pratiche comunicative proprie della comunità discorsiva nell’ambito del giornalismo e dei media, i diversi generi e le possibili relazioni intertestuali, le attività didattiche saranno incentrate sulla descrizione linguistica, l’identificazione del sistema e delle strutture concettuali, la spiegazione del testo in un contesto socioculturale, attraverso una scelta di generi utilizzati dai media tradizionali e digitali.
In relazione alle diverse aree del giornalismo e tipologie testuali esaminate, verranno illustrati e approfonditi i seguenti aspetti:
• How to analyse the language of journalism: The development of Critical Discourse Analysis.
• Forms of communication in traditional media: The discursive community, shared values and point of view; the language of the press, radio and television; advertising; types of newspapers and politics; media genres; broadcast journalism: managing the extraordinary and the ordinary; forms of language and voices in news broadcasting; magazine journalism and linguistic strategies of synthetic personalization; newspaper journalism: popular and quality styles.
• The social environment of contemporary communication: new models of communication in the Age of the Internet; the constituents of modern digital communication; properties of web communication and web genres; online journalism: live news writing; citizen journalism: practices and identities.
• Participants in the discourse of journalism: roles, relationships and identities; personal identity, social identity and identification; power and community; stance and style; audience, politeness, accommodation; texts and social structures; intertextuality; agency and power; news values, balance and bias; conflict, proximity/cultural relevance.
• The linguistic individual in media communication: media and identity in a communicational frame; history, culture and memory in press coverage; authorial identity and the audience; reader positioning and ethics; inclusion/exclusion; gender roles, irony and taboo language.
• Discourse styles and structures: parts and sequences; discourse organisation; depersonalization; nominalisation; evidentiality, coherence and cohesion; genres, gender stereotypes and discourse styles; narrative, gender and personal stories; gender, irony and taboo language; structures and lexical choices of news stories.
• Features of argumentation and dissemination in journalism and media discourse: rhetorical devices, dissemination strategies, defence strategies and legitimation techniques; ideology and power; persuasion and evaluation; conversational and emotional language in traditional and digital media; engagement features.
- Smith, M. Higgins (2013). The Language of Journalism: A Multi-genre Perspective. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781849660662.
materiale aggiuntivo sarà fornito agli studenti alla fine del corso.
Programma
Il modulo di English for Journalism and Media destinato agli studenti della laurea magistrale in Informazione, Editoria e Giornalismo è finalizzato allo studio dell’inglese per scopi speciali (ESP) applicato al discorso giornalistico e dei media. Considerando le pratiche comunicative proprie della comunità discorsiva nell’ambito del giornalismo e dei media, i diversi generi e le possibili relazioni intertestuali, le attività didattiche saranno incentrate sulla descrizione linguistica, l’identificazione del sistema e delle strutture concettuali, la spiegazione del testo in un contesto socioculturale, attraverso una scelta di generi utilizzati dai media tradizionali e digitali.
In relazione alle diverse aree del giornalismo e tipologie testuali esaminate, verranno illustrati e approfonditi i seguenti aspetti:
• How to analyse the language of journalism: The development of Critical Discourse Analysis.
• Forms of communication in traditional media: The discursive community, shared values and point of view; the language of the press, radio and television; advertising; types of newspapers and politics; media genres; broadcast journalism: managing the extraordinary and the ordinary; forms of language and voices in news broadcasting; magazine journalism and linguistic strategies of synthetic personalization; newspaper journalism: popular and quality styles.
• The social environment of contemporary communication: new models of communication in the Age of the Internet; the constituents of modern digital communication; properties of web communication and web genres; online journalism: live news writing; citizen journalism: practices and identities.
• Participants in the discourse of journalism: roles, relationships and identities; personal identity, social identity and identification; power and community; stance and style; audience, politeness, accommodation; texts and social structures; intertextuality; agency and power; news values, balance and bias; conflict, proximity/cultural relevance.
• The linguistic individual in media communication: media and identity in a communicational frame; history, culture and memory in press coverage; authorial identity and the audience; reader positioning and ethics; inclusion/exclusion; gender roles, irony and taboo language.
• Discourse styles and structures: parts and sequences; discourse organisation; depersonalization; nominalisation; evidentiality, coherence and cohesion; genres, gender stereotypes and discourse styles; narrative, gender and personal stories; gender, irony and taboo language; structures and lexical choices of news stories.
• Features of argumentation and dissemination in journalism and media discourse: rhetorical devices, dissemination strategies, defence strategies and legitimation techniques; ideology and power; persuasion and evaluation; conversational and emotional language in traditional and digital media; engagement features.
Testi Adottati
testo in adozione- Smith, M. Higgins (2013). The Language of Journalism: A Multi-genre Perspective. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781849660662.
materiale aggiuntivo sarà fornito agli studenti alla fine del corso.
Modalità Frequenza
la frequenza non è obbligatoria ma vivamente consigliata.Modalità Valutazione
risposta esatta= 1 o 2 punti (in base alla tipologia di esercizio) risposta mancante o risposta errata=0 punti L’esame consiste in una prova scritta computerizzata (60 items) della durata di 60 minuti strutturata in esercizi di analisi del testo (multiple choice, gap filling, matching) e domande. Lo studente dovrà dimostrare di aver acquisito le nozioni fondamentali e gli strumenti di analisi applicati a un testo giornalistico, individuandone le caratteristiche strutturali e linguistiche.