Lingua Inglese 2 2011/2012

LINGUA INGLESE  II – LINFO

SSD - L-LIN/12 (Lingue e traduzione-lingua inglese)

a.a. 2011-2012

Prof.  DIANE PONTEROTTO

Topics in English Semantics and Pragmatics

 (CFU  6crediti)

I semestre (Modulo A): Topics in English Semantics

Programma

After a presentation of basic premises in the language sciences, the course focuses on  some basic  topics in English semantics and pragmatics. In the first semester, the course is dedicated to semantics. It pays specific attention to the question of figurative language, with particular emphasis on problems concerning conceptual metaphor theory and the cross-cultural/cross-linguistic differences between English and Italian. In the second semester, the course discusses meaning in text and context, introducing problems related to specialized discourse.The course also aims at an advanced level of comunicative competence and especially in-depth knowledge and appropriate use of vocabulary. Assignments include reading of novels and contemprary texts (novels, newspapers, internet texts etc.)

Modalità dell’esame:

L’esame consiste in una prova orale che si svolge in lingua inglese. L’esame include anche una valutazione della qualità generale della competenza comunicativa a in llingua inglese: lettura ad alta voce, pronuncia, correttezza morfosintattica, e sopratutto ricchezza e appropriatezza del lessico.

Testi per l’esame

Parte  generale

1. Yule, George. 2010.  The Study of Language . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parte monografica

2. Kövesces, Zoltán. 1990. Metaphor: a practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.(Chapters:  1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14)

3. Lorenzetti Maria Ivana., " 'That girl is hot, her dress is so cool, and I'm just chilling out now': Emergent metaphorical usages of temperature terms in English and Italian"  in Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language. A Corpus Linguistics 2009 Colloquium. Colloquium Companion  (eds. J. Barnden; M. Lee; J. Littlemore; R. Moon; G. Philip; A. Wallington) School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham , Proceedings of  "Corpus Linguistics 2009"  Liverpool, UK , 20-23 July 2009, pp. 103-113 .

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Communicative competence

4. Uno a scelta fra i seguenti romanzi

F. Scott  Fitzgerald  2007 [1925] The Great Gatsby  (Penguin Popular Classics)(Paperback)

Shreve, Anita. 1995. Resistance. London: Abacus.

5. 10 articoli  a scelta tratti  dal giornale britannico The Times.