| Unit | Credits | Academic sector | Period | Academic staff |
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| PART I | 6 | L-LIN/12-LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH | Semestrino IIA, Semestrino IIB |
Silvia Bigliazzi
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| PART II | 3 | L-LIN/12-LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - ENGLISH | Semestrino IIB |
Lisanna Calvi
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Module: PART I
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The module aims at providing students with Critical Discourse Analysis tools and to introduce them to Critical Stylistics.
Module: PART II
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The module aims at introducing the students to the diacronic development of the English language.
Module: PART I
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Programme: The module concentrates on the relation between text, discourse, intertextuality and interdiscursiveness by introducing students to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and critical stylistics, with a special focus on ‘discourse representation’, ‘presupposition’, ‘negation’, ‘metadiscourse’ and ‘irony’, and, more generally, on ideological construction in various discursive and textual typologies.
Bibliography:
1) Norman Fairclough, Discourse and Social Change, Cambridge – Malden, Polity, (1992) 2013
2) Leslie Jeffries, Dan McIntyre, Stylistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010
3) Leslie Jeffries, Critical Stylistics: The Power of English, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Teaching method: Lectures will be held in English.
Module: PART II
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Starting from an overview of the main periods of English and its major structural developments through the centuries, the module will move to the exploration of the so-called rise of prescriptivism, with special regard to late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century concerns with ascertaining, refining, and fixing the English language as well as with the alleged influence of eighteenth-century normative works on language usage.
Bibliography:
Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable, A History of the English Language, London and New York, Routledge, 2012, sixth edition.
Required supplementary readings for non-attending students:
Ingrid Tiecken-Boon van Ostade (ed.), Grammars, grammarians and grammar-writing in eighteenth-century England, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
Module: PART I
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The exam will consist in an oral discussion in English of the module’s topics.
Module: PART II
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The exam will consist in an oral discussion in English of the module’s topics.
