LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

- Identify media language devices, with particular reference to journalistic language
- Analyse the linguistic dynamics of journalistic texts through the French discourse analysis (AD) tools.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- know and remember the main notions concerning French discourse analysis;

- know and remember the main notion concerning metaphor studies;

- analyse textual patterns in media discourses using the theoretical framework of French "analyse du discours";

- identify rethorical and argumentative strategies in texts, most notably as far as the persuasive functions of metaphors in texts are concerned.

Students will also have acquired basic skills in corpus analysis.

Practical exercises: at the end of the courses, students will be able to understand and analyse media texts and discourses in French (C1 level of the Common Framework) , most notably as far as linguistic carachteristics of journalistic and audiovisual discourses are concerned.

PREREQUISITES

C1 level in French.

TEACHING METHODS

Plenary lessons (on Teams), seminars and team working activities. Consolidation activities by Aulaweb.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course presents an overview of discourse analysis tools in the framework of media communication. In particular, the course will address journalistic communication in French, and the framing function of metaphor in journalistic discourse. The limit between information and vulgarisation will be further explored through the analysis of textual corpora.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Moirand, Sophie, Les discours de la presse quotidienne. Observer, analyser, comprendre, 2007, Paris, PUF (Linguistique nouvelle), 180 p.

Perelman, Chaïm / Olbrechts-Tyteca, Lucie, Trattato dell’argomentazione. La nuova retorica, Torino, Einaudi, 2001 [1966].

Semino, Elena, Metaphor in discourse, Cambridge, CUP, 2008.

PDF notes will be available through the Aulaweb.