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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Immatricolazione dal 2025/2026.

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

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2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

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S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S002934

Teacher

Anna Zanfei

Coordinator

Anna Zanfei

Credits

9

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 17, 2020 al May 30, 2020.

Learning outcomes

The course aims to develop and consolidate the understanding of rhetorical, pragmatic and multimodal aspects of texts in contemporary English, with special focus on the varieties of tourism and commerce. At the end of the course the students should be able to demonstrate a competent use of the tools for analysis of texts pertaining to the genres of business English and English for tourism.
A C1 competence is required for the exam.

Program

- History of English for Specific Purposes
- English for tourism and commerce as ESP
- Deontic and epistemic modality for BE
- Introduction to the concept of multimodality
- Introduction to the concept of pragmatics
- Implicatures and explicatures
- Gricean Maxims: principles and application (ESP)
- Aspects of Relevance Theory
-Introduction to speech acts theory
- The historical concept of "politic behavior"
- Linguistic tools for the analysis of corporate social media




- Communicative strategies

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Griffiths, Patrick An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics Edinburgh University Press 2006
Watts, Richard J. Politeness Cambridge University Press 2003 chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 5, chapter 6
Huang, Yan Pragmatics Oxford University Press 2007 978-0-19-924368-6
van Leeuwen, Theo The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, II Approaches and Methodologies. Chapter 21 Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2015 chapter 21
Paltridge, Brian, Sue Starfield. (eds.) The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes Blackwell 2013 9780470655320 Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Chapter 27

Examination Methods

The exam consists of a test in English (close questions and semi-open questions) about the topics of the syllabus.
C1 competence level certificate is a prerequisite.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE