The course aims at leading the students to know in detail:
(1) the history of the English language; attention will also be dedicated to the linguistic analysis of texts belonging to Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English;
(2) the history of journalistic writing in anglophone countries, from its origins to the present day; multimodal/multisemiotic journalism will also be dealt with.
The lessons will focus on the following tocpis
1. 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
- English colonialism
2) LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF EXTRACTS OF OLD ENGLISH, MIDDLE ENGLISH AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS
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 | Lexicographers and Grammarians in the History of English (Edizione 1) | QuiEdit | 2019 | 978-88-6464-551-3 | |
| 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. 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
- English colonialism
2) LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF EXTRACTS OF OLD ENGLISH, MIDDLE ENGLISH AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS
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 study the books that can be found on the webpage of the course.
NB: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, during the 2020 summer session the assessment modality will be modified as follows: online oral exam.
