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

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 magistrale in Linguistics - 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.

1° Year

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
9
B
L-LIN/02
9
B
L-LIN/01
6
B
L-LIN/01
One course to be chosen among the following
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
One course to be chosen among the following
6
B
INF/01
6
B
M-PSI/01
6
B
M-FIL/02
6
B
M-FIL/01
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-FIL-LET/15
6
C
L-FIL-LET/12
6
C
L-FIL-LET/09
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-FIL-LET/13
6
C
L-FIL-LET/05
Further linguistic competences
6
F
-

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
9
B
L-LIN/01
6
C
M-FIL/05
A course chosen by the student, other than the one taken in year 1
9
C
L-LIN/12
9
C
L-LIN/04
9
C
L-LIN/14
9
C
L-LIN/21
9
C
L-LIN/07
Prova finale
30
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
9
B
L-LIN/02
9
B
L-LIN/01
6
B
L-LIN/01
One course to be chosen among the following
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
One course to be chosen among the following
6
B
INF/01
6
B
M-PSI/01
6
B
M-FIL/02
6
B
M-FIL/01
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-FIL-LET/15
6
C
L-FIL-LET/12
6
C
L-FIL-LET/09
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-FIL-LET/13
6
C
L-FIL-LET/05
Further linguistic competences
6
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
9
B
L-LIN/01
6
C
M-FIL/05
A course chosen by the student, other than the one taken in year 1
9
C
L-LIN/12
9
C
L-LIN/04
9
C
L-LIN/14
9
C
L-LIN/21
9
C
L-LIN/07
Prova finale
30
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
15
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
iIntroductory
padvanced
mMasterful

English linguistics LM with an introduction to Corpus Linguistics (2015/2016)

Teaching code

4S004044

Credits

9

Coordinator

Silvia Bigliazzi

Language

English en

Also offered in courses:

Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

PART I en

Credits

6

Period

Semestrino IIA, Semestrino IIB

Academic staff

Silvia Bigliazzi

PART II en

Credits

3

Period

Semestrino IIB

Academic staff

Lisanna Calvi

Learning outcomes

Module: PART I
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The module aims at providing students with Critical Discourse Analysis tools and to introduce them to Critical Stylistics.


Module: PART II
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The module aims at introducing the students to the diacronic development of the English language.

Program

Module: PART I
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Programme: The module concentrates on the relation between text, discourse, intertextuality and interdiscursiveness by introducing students to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and critical stylistics, with a special focus on ‘discourse representation’, ‘presupposition’, ‘negation’, ‘metadiscourse’ and ‘irony’, and, more generally, on ideological construction in various discursive and textual typologies.

Bibliography:
1) Norman Fairclough, Discourse and Social Change, Cambridge – Malden, Polity, (1992) 2013
2) Leslie Jeffries, Dan McIntyre, Stylistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010
3) Leslie Jeffries, Critical Stylistics: The Power of English, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Teaching method: Lectures will be held in English.


Module: PART II
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Starting from an overview of the main periods of English and its major structural developments through the centuries, the module will move to the exploration of the so-called rise of prescriptivism, with special regard to late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century concerns with ascertaining, refining, and fixing the English language as well as with the alleged influence of eighteenth-century normative works on language usage.

Bibliography:
Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable, A History of the English Language, London and New York, Routledge, 2012, sixth edition.

Required supplementary readings for non-attending students:
Ingrid Tiecken-Boon van Ostade (ed.), Grammars, grammarians and grammar-writing in eighteenth-century England, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.

Examination Methods

Module: PART I
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The exam will consist in an oral discussion in English of the module’s topics.


Module: PART II
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The exam will consist in an oral discussion in English of the module’s topics.

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