MASS MEDIA SEMIOTICS AND LINGUISTICS

The course aims to provide students with advanced tools to analyze semiotic, pragmalinguistic, sociolinguistic structures of modern Italian, in relation to media textuality. It also offers skills and strategies necessary to code complex and composite texts in the different fields of media communication.

Interactive approach: identifying and analyzing semiotic, linguistic and stylistic structures of various texts (spoken text, audiovisual texts, written texts).

Principles of General Semiotics and Basic Elements of Text Semiotics and Linguistics; Trends of contemporary Italian Language; Diachronic and sociolinguistic variations of the language in relation to media varieties. Mass-media Languages and Texts with regard to both analysis/decodification and construction/codification processes.

A. Principles of Semiotics and Textual linguistics

Text:

• G. Marrone, Prima lezione di semiotica, Roma/Bari, Laterza, 2018, pp. 3-163.

B. Italian language and mass media: linguistic structures and texts

Texts:

- M. Palermo, Italiano scritto 2.0, Roma, Carocci, 2017, pp.15-130.

- R. Gualdo, L’italiano dei giornali, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 11-139.

- F. Rossi, Lingua italiana e cinema, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 7-123.

- G. Alfieri, - I. Bonomi, Lingua italiana e televisione, Roma, Carocci 2012, pp. 9-139.

- R. Sardo, Colorito “locale” e coscienza metalinguistica nei gialli di Santo Piazzese e di Domenico Seminerio, in «Italica Wratislaviensia» 11/2: La letteratura siciliana. Studi letterari, linguistici e traduttologici, a cura di Gabriele La Rosa e Justyna Łukaszewicz, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń, 2020 (open access on line magazine), vol. 11, n. 2, pp. 73-95.

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