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Laurea magistrale in Editoria e giornalismo - 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.

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

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Practical training
6
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Final exam
24
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activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Practical training
6
F
-
Final exam
24
E
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Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°

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Teaching code

4S000880

Teacher

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS

Period

First half of Semester 2 , Second half of Semester 2

To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link:  Course organization

Learning outcomes

The cours aims to provide competences about structural and linguistic analysis of journalistic texts of different origin and destination, as a prerequisite for a professional use of journalistic language.

Program

Contents of the course
The course is divided into four main parts:
1) General characters of journalistic language: variabilty due to the type of the newspapers, to cultural or political position, to thematic sections, to diachrony; prevalent linguistic models; communicative functions: news and comment.
2) Italian language of journalism: syntax, lexicon, rhetorc, argumentation.
3) Journalism and new media: consequences on language and textual structure.
4) Text typologies: layout; headlines; linguistic and argumentative features of different article's types; text analysis.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Maurizio Dardano La lingua dei media, in V. Castronovo – N. Tranfaglia (a cura di), La stampa nell’età della TV. Dagli anni Settanta ad oggi, pp. 245-275. Roma-Bari, Laterza 2002
Ilaria Bonomi La lingua dei quotidiani, in La lingua italiana e i mass-media Roma, Carocci 2016
Luca Serianni Leggere, scrivere, argomentare. Prove ragionate di scrittura Laterza 2013
Riccardo Gualdo L’italiano dei giornali. Carocci 2017

Examination Methods

Written examination. Each student has to submit a written essay before the essay that contains a brief analysis of a journalistic text agreed with the teacher.

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