The course aims at illustrating
(1) the main steps of the history of the English language,
(2) the history of news-writing in Anglophone countries – from its early beginning to the present time, focussing both on mainstream and on unmediated journalism. Multimodal/multisemiotic journalism will also be illustrated.
The lessons will focus on the following tocpis
1) early studies on language
2) history of English
- Mediterraneans, Celts and Romans
- Anglo-Saxons and Old English
- Vikings and Normans
- Middle English
- Standardization of written English
- Standardization of spoken English
3) History and development of newspaper language
- the early steps of journalistic writing in the 17th century
- Newswriting in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century in Anglophone countries
- Present-day newswriting in English (online and offline journalism)
- multimodal/multisemiotic journalism
Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
Facchinetti, Roberta | Dizionario Giornalistico Italiano-Inglese (Edizione 1) | Giappichelli | 2015 | 9788834858844 | |
Facchinetti Roberta, Nicholas Brownlees, Birte Bös, Udo Fries | News as Changing Texts: Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis (Edizione 2) | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | 2015 | 978-1-4438-8036-7 | |
Mugglestone, Lynda (ed.) | The Oxford History of English (Edizione 2) | Oxford University Press | 2012 | 9780199660162 |
Oral exam on the following topics:
1) early studies on language
2) history of English
- Mediterraneans, Celts and Romans
- Anglo-Saxons and Old English
- Vikings and Normans
- Middle English
- Standardization of written English
- Standardization of spoken English
3) History and development of newspaper language
- the early steps of journalistic writing in the 17th century
- Newswriting in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century in Anglophone countries
- Present-day newswriting in English (online and offline journalism)
- multimodal/multisemiotic journalism.
FOR NON-ATTENDERS: Students who cannot attend the lessons are required to contat the teacher in order to agree on the exam programme.
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