ENGLISH LANGUAGE I
LINGUA INGLESE I
(First semester)
(Primo semestre)
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| 2017/2018 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Massimiliano Morini |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is providing the students with metalinguistic knowledge and analytic techniques for the stylistic understanding and close reading of and multimodal texts in English.
Program
The course, held as a seminar, is about multimodal stylistics. A general overview of the tools and methodologies of stylistics will be followed by the application of those tools and methodologies in the analysis of multimodal texts.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The students must eventually be able to apply their stylistic knowledge and competence to any kind of multimodal text.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Teaching material provided on the blended learning platform.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
The course is held as a seminar
- Attendance
"Frequentanti" must have a 70% attendance ratio to be defined as such.
- Course books
M. Morini, ‘Towards a musical stylistics: Movement in Kate Bush’s ‘Running up that Hill’, 2013, Language and Literature 22(4), pp. 283-97.
M. Morini, ‘Multimodal thought presentation in Chris Ware’s Building Stories’ 2015, Multimodal Communication 4:1, 31-41.
- Assessment
Oral presentation in class.
Alternatively, see "non frequentanti" assessment methods.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
See course books.
- Attendance
"Frequentanti" must have a 70% attendance ratio to be defined as such
- Course books
M. Morini, ‘Towards a musical stylistics: Movement in Kate Bush’s ‘Running up that Hill’, 2013, Language and Literature 22(4), pp. 283-97.
M. Morini, ‘Multimodal thought presentation in Chris Ware’s Building Stories’ 2015, Multimodal Communication 4:1, 31-41.
G.N. Leech, M.H. Short, Style in Fiction. A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose, London/New York, Longman, 1981, pp. 121-66, 206-30, 255-81.
D. Wilson and D. Sperber, ‘Irony and the Use-Mention Distinction’, 1981, in P. Cole, ed., Radical Pragmatics, OUP, pp. 550-63.
M. Morini, ‘Translation, Stylistics, and To the Lighthouse: A Deictic Shift Theory Analysis’, 2014, Target 26:1, pp. 128-45.
- Assessment
Written test (multimodal analysis)
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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