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DOCENTE DOTT.SSA LUISELLA LEONZINI

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TIPOLOGIA ESAME PROVA ORALE / ORAL INTERVIEW

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ABILITA (CEF) READING, SPOKEN PRODUCTION, SPOKE INTERACTION

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

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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

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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)

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PART TWO

THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH : HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER

WWW.GUARDIAN.CO.UK

WWW. TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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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 READER’S ATTENTION, SUMMARIZE THE CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE, INDICATE THE WRITER’S ATTITUDE, INDICATE THE REGISTER OF THE ARTICLE, INDICATE THE FOCUS OF THE ARTICLE

HOW JOURNALISTS DEVELOP THE NEWS: THE INVERTED PYRAMID CONCEPT

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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

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

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