1. LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI CORSO DI LINGUA INGLESE 2 30 ORE DI LEZIONE FRONTALE DOCENTE DOTT.SSA LUISELLA LEONZINI E-Mail Addressluisella.leonzini@scfor.units.itluisella.leonzini@scfor.units.it TIPOLOGIA ESAME PROVA ORALE / ORAL INTERVIEW FINALITA (CEF, B1) SPOKEN PRODUCTION, SPOKEN INTERACTION ABILITA (CEF) READING, SPOKEN PRODUCTION, SPOKE INTERACTION

2. ANNO ACCADEMICO 2007-2008 THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEWS TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS IN THE LANGUAGE OF NEWSPAPERS: TWO BRITISH QUALITY PAPERS, THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO TEXT ANALYSIS LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI

3. THE PROGRAMME INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS THE QUALITY AND THE POPULAR PRESS: THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AS QUALITY PAPERS HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPERS A SELECTION OF ARTICLES: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS COMPARING ARTICLES WITH SAME TOPICS LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI

4. BIBLIOGRAPHY PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL LINGUISITICS N. FAIRCLOUGH, Analysing discourse: textual analysis for social research, Routledge, London, 2003 K. BALLARD, The Frameworks of English, Palgrave, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2001 (solo cap. 2, 3, 4) LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI

5. PART TWO THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH : HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER WWW.GUARDIAN.CO.UK WWW. TELEGRAPH.CO.UK LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI

6. PART THREE THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEWS : TEXT ANALYSIS A. BELL, The Language of News Media, Blackwell, Oxford, 1991 (solo cap 9) D. REAH, The Language of Newspapers, Routledge, London, 2000 (solo cap 2, 3, 6) G. Kress & T. Van Leeuwen, Reading Images. The Grammar of Visual Design, Routledge, London, 1996 (solo cap. 2 e 3) J. MORLEY, Truth to tell, Clueb, Bologna, 1998 LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI

7. THE LANGUAGE AND ITS FUNCTIONS WHAT IS LANGUAGE ? LANGUAGE AS A RESOURCE FOR EXPERIENCING ANY SOCIAL ACT OF SPEECH/ DISCOURSE LANGUAGE IN A SOCIAL – SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS EXPERIMENTAL INTERPERSONAL LOGICAL TEXTUAL

8. LINGUISITICS AS A TOOL TO DEAL WITH LANGUAGE A LINGUISITC APPROACH TO TEXT ANALYSIS TEXT AS A SEMANTIC UNIT: AN ACT OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE TEXT AS A PROCESS AND AS A PRODUCT THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE TEXT AND ITS CONTEXT OF SITUATION THE CONTEXT OF SITUATION AND ITS FEATURES

9. THE STRUCTURE AND THE TEXTURE OF A TEXT STRUCTURE: HOW A TEXT IS LOGICALLY ORGANIZED TEXTURE: HOW THE ELEMENTS IN A TEXT ARE LINGUISTICALLY AND SEMANTICALLY LINKED COHERENCE AND COHESION IN A TEXT

10. THE CONCEPT OF COHESION THE CONCEPT OF COHESION: COHESIVE TIES AND COHESIVE DEVICES COHESIVE DEVICES: ENDOPHORIC AND EXOPHORIC ENDOPHORIC COHESIVE DEVICES : ANAPHORIC AND CATAPHORIC COHESIVE DEVICES: GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL COHESION AND COHESIVE CHAINS: IDENTITY AND SIMILARITY CHAINS CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE E PUBBLICITA

11. A TEXT AS A GROUP OF CLAUSES WHAT A CLAUSE/SENTENCE/PHRASE IS CLAUSE AS A MESSAGE AND AS AN EXCHANGE BELOW THE CLAUSE : NOMINAL AND VERBAL GROUPS ABOVE THE CLAUSE : CLAUSES RELATION TYPES OF INTERDEPENDENCY : PARATAXIS AND HYPOTAXIS LOGICO-SEMANTIC CLAUSES RELATION : ELABORATION, EXTENSION AND ENHANCEMENT CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE E PUBBLICITA

12. THE LANGUAGE OF JOURNALISM THE RULES OF COMMUNICATION: QUALITY, QUANTITY, RELEVANCE AND MANNER QUALITY AND POPULAR PAPERS THE IMPORTANCE OF HEADLINES IN COMMUNICATING NEWS THE HEADLINES SHOULD: ATTRACT THE READERS ATTENTION, SUMMARIZE THE CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE, INDICATE THE WRITERS ATTITUDE, INDICATE THE REGISTER OF THE ARTICLE, INDICATE THE FOCUS OF THE ARTICLE HOW JOURNALISTS DEVELOP THE NEWS: THE INVERTED PYRAMID CONCEPT CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE E PUBBLICITA

13. THE HISTORY AND THE ARTICLES OF THE PAPERS THE PAPERS HISTORY. WHO, WHEN, WHY, HOW? AN OVERIVIEW OF THE PAPER WHICH HAS DEVELOPED AND ACQUIRED A WORLDWIDE REPUTATION AMONG BOTH THE BUSINESS AND CULTURED READING PUBLIC. WHAT ARE ITS ARTICLES ABOUT? ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY, LANGUAGE, ADVERTISING, CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE ETC. THE LEADING ARTICLES: ARTICLES OF COMMENT. THE LEADING ARTICLES THE REPORTS: REPORTING FACTS THE ARTICLE STRUCTURE: TOPIC, PRE-HEADLINE, HEADLINE, SUB- HEADLINE AND ARTICLE. COHERENCE AND COHESION IN THE ARTICLES COHESIVE DEVICES AND CHAINS IN THE ARTICLES

14. DEVIANCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PAPERS COLOURFULNESS : THE USE OF FIGURES OF SPEECH BOTH IN THE HEADLINES AND IN THE ARTICLES SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY: HIGH LEXICAL DENSITY, GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY TECHNICAL WORDS/EXPRESSIONS: LANGUAGE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE RESTRICTED TO MEMBERS OF A DISCOURSE COMMUNITY JOKEY STYLE: THE HEADLINES ARE REMARKABLE INDICATORS OF LINGUISITC STYLE: METAPHORS AND PUNS

15. DEVIANCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PAPERS NOMINALIZATION AND/OR VERBALIZATION IN THE HEADLINES NOMINALIZING PROCESSES, ACTIONS: A MARK OF DEVIANCE ALTERNATING FORMAL, TECHNICAL AND INFORMAL EXPRESSIONS / WORDS: CAPTIVATING THE READERS ATTENTION THE USE OF VERBS: MODAL VERBS OF NECESSITY AND POSSIBILITY, INFINITIVES, PREDICTIVE AND SUASIVE VERBS, THE CONDITIONAL AND HYPOTAXIS, SPLIT AUXILIARIES VERBS THE USE OF TENSES: THE PRESENT AND THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS, THE PAST SIMPLE AND THE PRESENT PERFECT, THE -ING FORMS, THE INFINITIVE, THE CONDITIONAL