ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND ESP

According to the Dublin descriptors, the Course intends to pursue the following aims:

1) Knowledge and understanding:

Understanding complex (written and spoken) texts in authentic communicative contexts (news and social media)

Understanding the communicative function of texts in specific, domains.

Knowing the relevant analytical frameworks for the three modules.

2) Applying knowledge and understanding:

Being able to identify, analyse and interpret linguistic and semiotic resources which are relevant to specific contexts and domains (news and social media).

and to use the appropriate tools and statistical measures which better fit with the necessary quantitative analyses.

3)Making judgements:

Being able to identify, analyse and interpret textual data within a complex context, and to use the most appropriate and effective research approach, motivating necessary choices.

4) Communication skills:

Being able to explain and support the various stages of the analysis and its findings in a structured and clear way, making use of an appropriate register and style.

5) Learning skills:

The module is divided into three sub-modules:

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Prof. Halliday): This sub-module offers an introduction to CDA for a critical reading and interpretation of various authentic texts

The Language of Social Media (Prof. Venuti): This sub-module focuses on the language of social media from a variety of perspectives.

Critical Discourse Analysis:

Machin, David and Mayr, Andrea 2012, How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis. A Multimodal Introduction, London, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 236.

Castro Seixas, Eunice, 2021 “War Metaphors in Political Communication on Covid-19”, Frontiers in Sociology, 5,

https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2020.583680.

Törnberg, Anton and Törnberg, Petter, “Muslims in social media discourse: Combining topic modeling and critical discourse analysis”, Discourse, Context & Media,Volume 13, Part B, September 2016, pp. 132-142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2016.04.003.

The Language of News Media:

Bednarek, Monika and Caple, Helen 2012 News Discourse, Bloomsbury Publishing, cap. 1, 2 e 4 (pp. 1-38 and 84-110).

Bednarek, Monika and Caple, Helen 2017 The Discourse of News Values. How News organisations Create Newsworthiness, Oxford University Press, cap. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 e 7 (pp. 1-133 and 171-194).

McLoughlin, Linda “Multimodal constructions of feminism”, in Jo Angouri and Juduth Baxter (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, London: Routledge, pp. 494-508.

Fruttaldo, Antonio e Venuti, Marco 2017 “A cross-cultural discursive approach to news values in the press in the US, the UK and Italy: The case of the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage”. In ESP Across Cultures, 14, pp. 81-97.

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