ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND ESP

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.

The module is divided into three sub-modules:

Specialised languages

This sub-module aims at offering the necessary methodological framework to the analysis of work related language use.

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.

Drew, Paul and Heritage, John (eds) 1993 Talk at Work Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapter 1 (Analyzing talk at work: an introduction).

Koester, Almut 2004 The Language of Work, London: Routledge, chapter 1 (Introduction to the language of work).

Machin, D. and Mayr, 2012, A. How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis A Multimodal Introduction, London, SAGE Publications Ltd.

Bednarek, Monika and Caple, Helen 2012 News Discourse, Bloomsbury Publishing.

HartChristopher and Cap, Piotr (eds) 2014 Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies, London: Bloomsbury, chapters 9 (Using Corpus-Assisted Techniques to Carry Out Critical Discourse Analysis), 21 (Immigration Discourses and Critical Discourse Analysis), 26 (Values, Assumptions and Beliefs in British Newspaper Editorial Coverage of Climate Change).

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

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