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Laurea magistrale in Linguistics - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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English linguistics LM with an introduction to Corpus Linguistics - PART II (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S004044
Teacher
Credits
3
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/12 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH
Period
Sem 2B dal Apr 6, 2020 al May 30, 2020.
Learning outcomes
The course module aims at providing students with a practical analytical tool for the close reading of journalistic pieces and political speeches drawing on critical discourse analysis (CDA) as an analytical framework.
Program
The fundamental theoretical and methodological orientations of CDA will be presented and discussed. A focus will be made on the analysis of those linguistic and rhetorical strategies of journalistic discourse and political discourse that best reveal the relationship between text, power, political and socio-cultural context.
Specifically, the following topics will be covered:
- definition of ‘discourse’
- CDA and persuasive discourse: journalistic discourse and political discourse
- modes of persuasion (ethos, logos, pathos)
- deliberative, forensic, epideictic rhetoric and rhetorical figures
- examples of critical analysis of linguistic and rhetorical strategies of journalistic pieces and political speeches (e.g. lexical choices, transitivity, modality, hedging, use of rethorical figures, representational strategies)
Details concerning the specifi parts of the volumes listed in the bibliography will be provided during the course and published on Moodle.
Module contents and final exam are the same for both attendees and non-attendees.
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Richardson, J.E. | Analysing Newspapers. An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis | Palgrave Macmillan | 2007 | ||
Charteris-Black, J. | Analysing Political Speeches. Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor | Palgrave Macmillan | 2014 | ||
Machin, D. and Mayr, A. | How to do Critical Discourse Analysis | SAGE | 2012 | ||
Bednarek, M. and Caple, H. | The Discourse of News Values. How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness | Oxford University Press | 2017 | 978-0-19-065394-1 |
Examination Methods
Oral exam on the topics covered during the module. Students can prepare the analysis of a freely-selected journalistic text or political speech and present it during the exam.
The final mark will be the average between this Module and the Module ‘History of the English Language’ - Master’s degree in Comparative European and Non-European Languages and Literatures (Prof. Roberta Facchinetti) according to the number of credits attributed to each module.
Module content and final exam are the same for both attendees and non-attendees.