Linguistica inglese (SF) (2006/2007)

Obiettivi formativi

Il corso intende offrire una panoramica dei corpora linguistici di carattere giornalistico e delle loro applicazioni in riferimento allo studio diacronico e sincronico della lingua inglese.

1. a taxonomy of corpora;
2. newspaper corpora: basic issues;
3. available newspaper corpora;
4. newspaper corpora and diachronic studies;
5. newspaper corpora and synchronic studies.


Bibliografia

Brownlees, Nicholas (1999) Corantos and Newsbooks: Language and Discourse in the First English Newspapers (1620-1641). Pisa: Edizioni ETS.
Facchinetti, Roberta and Matti Rissanen (eds.) (2006) Corpus Linguistics Studies of Diachronic English. Bern: Peter Lang.
Fischer, Andreas, Gunnel Tottie and Hans Martin Lehmann (eds.) (2002) Text Types and Corpora. Studies in Honour of Udo Fries. Tubinger: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Ljung, Maguns (1998) “It is believed that he is dead. Unspecified source attribution in news texts”. In Antoinette Renouf (ed.) Explorations in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 113-122.
Meyer, Charles F. (2002) English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reah, Danuta (22002) The Language of Newspapers. London: Routledge.
Van Dijk, Teun (1988) News as Discourse. Hove and London / Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

L’esame consiste in una prova orale.