OVERVIEW

Title: Pratiques de nomination dans le discours médiatique   

The course is in line with the learning outcomes of the program, in particular with regard to the acquisition of textual analysis skills.

AIMS AND CONTENT

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 theories (most notably concetual metaphor theory and recent developments);

- identify media discourse textual trends, most notably as far as journalistic discourse is concerned;

- analyse textual patterns in journalistic 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 metaphorical concepts 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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:  

- explain the concepts of event, discursive moment, lexical-discursive profile;  

- understand the functioning of a journalistic hypertext;  

- identify the mechanisms of event naming peculiar to media language, with reference to the language of the press;  

- analyse the dynamics of event naming in journalistic texts through the tools of French-style discourse analysis (AD).  

The students will also have enhanced their skills in the areas of critical thinking and team working. 

PREREQUISITES

C1 level of the Common Framework (for French)

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures in the classroom, group work (analysis of cases, preparation of presentations and exposés) and debate in the classroom, consolidation activities via Aulaweb. Students who have duly registered a certification of disability, DSA or other special educational needs are advised to contact both the contact person Prof. Sara Dickinson (sara.dickinson@unige.it) and the lecturer [or teacher] at the beginning of the course, in order to agree on teaching and examination methods that, while respecting the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning methods and provide suitable compensatory tools.  

For non-attending students, in-depth preparation of the text Sophie Moirand, Les Discours de la Presse quotidienne. Observer, analyser, comprendre, Paris, PUF, "Linguistique nouvelle," 2007 and Marie Veniard, La nomination des événements dans la presse : Essai de sémantique discursive, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2013. 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

This course presents an overview of the tools of discourse analysis in the field of media communication. Journalistic communication in the French language will be addressed, with reference to event naming strategies and lexical-discursive profiles in media texts. Discourse analysis will be explored through the tools of corpus linguistics.  

Main topics:  

- fundamentals of French-style discourse analysis;  

- argumentative and rhetorical strategies in media discourse;   

- the notions of event, discursive moment;  

-the lexical-discursive approach and naming processes;  

- linguistic analysis of media discourse and the notion of hyperstructure-elements of hyperstructure analysis.  

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Patrick Charaudeau, La manipulation de la vérité, Paris, Lambert-Lucas, 2020.  

Sophie Moirand, Les Discours de la Presse quotidienne. Observer, analyser, comprendre, Paris, PUF, "Linguistique nouvelle," 2007.  

Marie Veniard, La nomination des événements dans la presse : Essai de sémantique discursive, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2013.   

Additional bibliography will be provided during the course through the teaching Aulaweb instance.  

Lettorato information is available at https://lingue.unige.it/node/1007  

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MICAELA ROSSI (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester 2024-25.  

Class schedule

FRENCH LINGUISTICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam will consist of an oral interview after preparation of a dossier, which will focus on text analysis skills acquired during the course. Skills acquired in media discourse analysis through the analysis of authentic texts and skills in oral expression in French will then be considered. Evaluation in thirtieths.  

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam related to the modulo teorico aims to verify the acquisition of fundamental knowledge regarding the discipline of French-style discourse analysis and the ability to apply it to the concrete analysis of one or more media texts.  

Exam schedule