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ENGLISH LANGUAGE II - MOD. I

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2014/2015

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

English Language and Translation

Is part of:

ENGLISH LANGUAGE II

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Students' oral and written skills should be at the B1+ level of the CEFR

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE II - MOD. I

LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

AF code:

40Y11576

Teaching period

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

All courses are divided into two parts:
a. a linguistics module (30 hours of face-to-face lectures),
b. a language module (75 hours of face-to-face language lessons)

Mediazione Linguistica (indirizzo Studi Interlinguistici e Interculturali)
Linguistics module: students will be made aware of the complex nature of human communication, will learn the basic concepts of pragmatics and discourse analysis, and will develop the knowledge required to analyze an oral or written text from a pragmatic point of view.
Language module: students will develop their oral and written communicative skills at the B2 level of the CEFR.

Mediazione Linguistica (indirizzo Letterature e Filologie della Modernità Europea e indirizzo Lingue e Culture della Contemporaneità)
Linguistics module: students will deal with the most important aspects of human communication, will learn the basic concepts of pragmatics and discourse analysis, and will develop the knowledge required to analyze an oral or written text from a pragmatic point of view with a focus on literary texts.
Language module: students will develop their oral and written communicative skills at the B2 level of the CEFR.

Scienze del Turismo Culturale (Inglese come Lingua X = esame da 12 CFU).
Linguistics module: students will learn the basic concepts of communication in tourist promotion, and will develop the knowledge required to analyze a tourist text.
Language module: students will develop their oral and written communicative skills at the B2 level of the CEFR.

Scienze del Turismo Culturale (Inglese come Lingua Y = esame da 6 CFU).
Language module: students will develop their oral and written communicative skills at the B2 level of the CEFR.

Contents

Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale.
The linguistics module will be dedicated to an introduction to Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. The following concepts will be dealt with: pragmatics and discourse analysis; clause, utterance, proposition; text and discourse; context and co-text; deixis; texture, cohesion, coherence; semantic and pragmatic meaning; under-determination of semantic meaning in irony, metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, simile; speech act and felicity conditions; Grice's cooperative principle; Leech's politeness principle; Brown and Levinson's politeness theory and main strategies. Some verbal exchanges and text types will be analyzed in class.

Scienze del Turismo Culturale
The linguistics module will deal with the properties and characteristics of tourist communication in English; strategies and techniques of tourist promotion. Some texts will be analyzed in detail in class.

The language module is common to all degree courses and aims at developing students' oral and written communicative skills at the B2 level of the CEFR

Recommended Bibliography

Linguistics module
Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale - L12:
1. Cutting, J. (2008) "Pragmatics and Discourse" Second Edition. Routledge, pp. 1-52.
2. Thomas, J. (1995) "Meaning in Interaction". Longman, pp. 28-81.

Scienze del Turismo Culturale - L15:
1. Dann, G. (1996) "The Language of Tourism: A Sociolinguistic Perspective". Wallingford. CAB International. Chapters 2, 3, and 7.

Language module (all degree courses):
1. Eales,F. and Oakes, S., "Speak Out. Upper Intermediate". Students'book with Active book and MyEnglishLab. Pearson Longman.
2. Prodromou, L. "Grammar and Vocabulary for First Certificate – with Key". Pearson Longman.

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