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; 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 General Semiotics and Basic Elements of Text
Testo:
- Pozzato, Maria Pia, Semiotica del testo. Metodi, autori, esempi, Roma, Carocci, 2011 (pp. 15-296).
B. Italian language and mass media: structures and texts
Testi:
- Gualdo, Riccardo, L’italiano dei giornali, Roma, Carocci, 2007, (pp. 11-139).
- Rossi, Fabio, Lingua italiana e cinema, Roma, Carocci, 2007, (pp. 7-123).
- Alfieri, Gabriella- Bonomi, Ilaria, Lingua italiana e televisione, Roma, Carocci;
- Lubello, Sergio (a c. di), L’e-taliano Scriventi e scritture nell’era digitale., Firenze, Cesati, 2016.
- Giuliano, Maria, La lingua del «Romanzo popolare italiano»: dalla scrittura romanzesca al parlato sceneggiato, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2017 (pp. 14-168).
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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.