AMERICAN STUDIES AND LANGUAGES

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SALVATORE MARANO - Modulo CULTURAL STUDIES - L-LIN/11 - 6 CFU
FLORIANA PUGLISI - Modulo AMERICAN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES - L-LIN/11 - 6 CFU


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CULTURAL STUDIES
 *ArgomentiRiferimenti testi
1*What are Cultural StudiesThe Cultural Studies Reader 
2*Cultural Studies in UK and the USThe Cultural Studies Reader 
3*W. BenjaminThe Cultural Studies Reader 
4*Th. Adorno, M. HorkheimerThe Cultural Studies Reader 
5*R. WilliamsThe Cultural Studies Reader 
6*S. HallThe Cultural Studies Reader 
7*B. LatourThe Cultural Studies Reader 
8*J. ButlerThe Cultural Studies Reader 
9*J. DeanThe Cultural Studies Reader 
10*Television and Media StudiesGrey, Lotz/Miller/Calvert 
11*Case Study: Fox TV and The SimpsonsLeaving Springfield 
AMERICAN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
 *ArgomentiRiferimenti testi
1*The standardization of American English (ideological implications and social issues)Bonfiglio, T.P., Race and the Rise of Standard American, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002 (pp. 1-73).  
2*The US multilingual context and the need for Cultural LinguisticsJohnson, J.F., Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000 (preface + chap. 1, pp. xi-xv, pp. 3-23) 
3*Speech communities and language variationJohnson, J.F., Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000 (chap. 2, pp. 24-44) 
4*Cultural dimensions of discourseJohnson, J.F., Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000 (chap. 3, pp. 45-68) 
5*African American discourse and cultureJohnson, J.F., Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000 (chap. 5, pp. 113-159) 
6*Hispanic Americans: culture and language phenomena Johnson, J.F., Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000 (chap. 6, pp. 160-196) 
7*The language and cultural identity of Asian AmericansJohnson, J.F., Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000 (chap. 7, pp. 197-242) 
8*Political Discourse and Pollitical Discourse Analysis (definition, domains, discursive strategies, the relavance of CDA)van Dijk, T.A., “What is Political Discourse Analysis?”, in J. Blommaert, C. Bulcaen, eds., Political Linguistics, Amsterdam: Benjamins,1997, pp. 11-52 
9*Analysis of Political Discourse (language-politics connection, cooperative communication, political action as language action, strategic use of language, unexplicit meanings, theoretical framework)Chilton, P.A., Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice, London and New York: Routledge, 2004 (pp. ix-xii, pp. 3-65, pp. 198-205).  
10*Political Discourse as "mediated discourse": an analytical frameworkFairclough, N., “Political Discourse in the Media: An Analytical Framework”, in A. Bell, P. Garrett, eds., Approaches to Media Discourse, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1998, pp. 142-162.  
11*Study of political terminology: from semantic to cognitive and pragmatic approaches• Chilton, P.A., “Political Terminology”, in R. Wodak and V. Koller, eds., Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008, pp. 225-242 
12*Genres of Political CommunicationCap., P., Okulska, U., eds., Analyzing Genres in Political Communication, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2013 ( pp. 1-11, pp. 73-99, pp. 297-319, pp. 321-343); Reisigl, M., in Wodak and Koller, eds., Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, pp. 243-269 
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