Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

Study Plan

A.A. 2024/2025 A.A. 2023/2024 A.A. 2022/2023 A.A. 2021/2022 A.A. 2020/2021 A.A. 2019/2020 A.A. 2018/2019 A.A. 2017/2018 A.A. 2016/2017 A.A. 2015/2016 A.A. 2014/2015 A.A. 2013/2014 A.A. 2012/2013 A.A. 2011/2012 A.A. 2010/2011 A.A. 2009/2010 A.A. 2008/2009

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 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:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
One course to be chosen among the following
6
A
M-GGR/01
6
A
M-STO/04
3
F
INF/01
3rd foreign Language (b1)
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
9
C
L-FIL-LET/14
9
B
L-LIN/01
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-ART/02
6
C
M-FIL/06

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
M-FIL/04
6
C
L-ART/07
6
C
L-FIL-LET/15
6
C
L-FIL-LET/09
6
C
L-LIN/21
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-ART/06
6
C
L-ART/05
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/12
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
One course to be chosen among the following
6
A
M-GGR/01
6
A
M-STO/04
3
F
INF/01
3rd foreign Language (b1)
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
9
C
L-FIL-LET/14
9
B
L-LIN/01
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-ART/02
6
C
M-FIL/06
activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
1st foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature
9
B
L-LIN/10
9
B
L-LIN/03
9
B
L-LIN/13
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/05
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
M-FIL/04
6
C
L-ART/07
6
C
L-FIL-LET/15
6
C
L-FIL-LET/09
6
C
L-LIN/21
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-ART/06
6
C
L-ART/05
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
12
D
-

Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)

TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

English language 2  (2017/2018)

Teaching code

4S002919

Teacher

Valeria Franceschi

Coordinator

Valeria Franceschi

Credits

9

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH

Period

Semester 2 dal Feb 26, 2018 al Jun 9, 2018.

Lessons timetable MoodleMoodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Pre-requisites:
To sit the exam, students need to have already passed:
• English Language 1
• English C1 computer-based test
• English Literature 1

ERASMUS students are invited to contact the instructor

The aim of this course is providing students with the basic theoretical notions of pragmatics and an introduction to discourse analysis as well as the practical tools to analyze written and spoken texts from a pragmatics perspective. These approaches will then be applied to the analysis of political discourse.

Program

The course will focus on the linguistic analysis of spoken and written texts, with specific attention to political texts (political speeches, debates, etc.). The main concepts of pragmatics, discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis (CDA) will be illustrated.

The main topics covered will be:
- Definition of pragmatics and discourse analysis
- Text, context, and co-text: context inside and outside the text
- Cohesion and coherence: the elements that make a text grammatically and lexically cohesive
- Speech Act Theory: Austin’s definitions of locution, illocution, perlocution; constative and performative acts; felicity conditions; Searle’s classification of speech acts.
- Grice’s Cooperation principle and conversational maxims: definition of the Cooperative Principle and of the maxims of Quantity, Quality, Relation and Manner; violating, flouting, infringing and opting out of maxims; conversational implicatures
- Face and politeness strategies: definition of the notion of positive and negative face; Face Threatening Acts; politeness strategies
- Definition of political discourse
- From discourse analysis to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): ideology, language and power
- The Aristotelian proofs: ethos, pathos and logos. Appealing to credibility and goodwill, rationality, emotions in political speeches.
- Other rhetoric devices in political speeches: lexical choices, metaphors, rule of three, sound bites.
- Analysis of speech acts, conversational maxims and politeness strategies in political speeches.

The course will be delivered in interactive lectures; active involvement of the students is encouraged.

Students who cannot come to class are invited to contact the instructor to obtain the password of the Moodle platfom.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Jonathan Charteris-Black Analysis Political Speeches Palgrave Macmillan 2014 978-0-230-27439-6 Capitolo 1, pp. 93-100.
Brian Paltridge Discourse Analysis: An Introduction Continuum 2006 Chapters 1.1, 1.2, chapter 3
Musolff, A Metaphor, irony and sarcasm in public discourse. 2017 Journal of Pragmatics 109: 95-104
Siobhan Chapman Pragmatics Palgrave Macmillan 2011 0333693442 Pages 1-13; 19-23; chapter 4; 132-141
Joan Cutting Pragmatics: a resource book for students (Edizione 3) Routledge 2015 978-0-415-53437-6 eccetto sezioni 5 e 8 / NOT sections 5 and 8
Biria, R. Mohammadi, A The socio pragmatic functions of inaugural speech: A critical discourse analysis approach. 2012 Journal of Pragmatics 44(10): 1290-1302

Examination Methods

Pre-requisites:
To sit the exam, students need to have already passed:
• English Language 1
• English C1 computer-based test
• English Literature 1

The final exam will be written and it will focus on the topics covered during the course, that is, lesson slides (downloadable on the Moodle platform) and the bibliographic references provided on this page.

The exam will constitute in a written test including a number of questions (usually 8-10), for a total of 30 points, focusing on the topics covered during the course. There may be three types of questions: multiple choice questions and open-ended questions on the theoretical notions, or textual analysis questions that ask student to apply their knowledge to linguistic data. In the latter case, students may for example be asked to identify speech acts, implicatures, lack of observation of maxims, or they may be asked to analyze a brief passage of a political speech, identifying the use of Artistotelian proofs, Face Threatening Acts, politeness strategies, etc.

A simulation of the exam will be uploaded on the Moodle platform before the end of the course.

The final grade of the exam will be the average of the grade of the written exam and the grade obtained in the CLA computer test. The latter will be converted into /30 according to the CLA conversion table. Students who have obtained external language certificates should obtain and equivalence certificate from the CLA before the date of the exam.

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