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.

Principles of General Semiotics and Basic Elements of Text Semiotics and Linguistics; Trends of contemporary Italian Language between norm and use;
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; Scientific spread as an example of content delivered by media systems.

A. Principles of General Semiotics and Basic Elements of Text Semiotics and Linguistics.

Text:

U. Volli, Manuale di semiotica, Roma/Bari, Laterza, 2001.

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

Texts:

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

M. Tavosanis, L’italiano del web, Roma, Carocci, 2011. pp. 17-223

M. Giuliano, La lingua del «Romanzo popolare italiano»: dalla scrittura romanzesca al parlato sceneggiato, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2016.