ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND ESP

L-LIN/12 - 9 CFU - Annual Tuition

Teaching Staff

MARCO VENUTI


Learning Objectives

This course aims at consolidating the acquisition of structures and skills at the C1+ level of CEFRL.

The module aims at analysing language within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis to stimulate the students’ critical awareness with reference to linguistic choices enacted by media. It also aims at providing means for the analysis of ESP texts with particular reference to News Discourse and the Language of Politics.


Course Structure

Lectures, seminars.



Detailed Course Content

The module is divided into three sub-modules:

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

News Discourse: This sub-module focuses on news discourse and specifically on journalism practices.

The Language of Politics: This sub-module focuses on Political discourse and specifically on the analysis of the language of persuasion.



Textbook Information

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

Bednarek, Monika and Caple, Helen 2017 The Discourse of News Values. How News organisations Create Newsworthiness, Oxford University Press, pp. 302.

Partington, Alan and Taylor, Charlotte 2018 The Language of Persuasion in Politics. An Introduction, London, Routledge, pp. 246.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.




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