The course will deal with the study of some genres of the journalistic style: the information note, the report, the interview, the article, the letter-article and the essay. It aims to provide some basic theoretical notions necessary for the study of the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities of Russian journalism. After having reviewed the specificities of some informative, analytical and publicistic-literary genres, some contributions in the publicistic field of L.N. Tolstoy and A.I. Solzhenitsyn, highlighting the characteristics of the language and communication strategies adopted by the two great writers.

I Functional styles of the Russian language.

II The advertising style.

1. Grammatical specificities.

2. Syntactic specificities

3. Lexical specificities

III. Some genres of the publicistic style:

1. The information note

2. Reporting

3. The interview

4. The article

5. The essay

IV The transliteration systems used by the press and scientific journals

Knowledge and understanding: The student demonstrates the ability to read, understand and recognize the following text types: the information note, the interview, the report, the article and the essay.

Applied knowledge and understanding: Specifically, the student is able to analyze some contributions by L.N. from a linguistic, lexical and stylistic point of view. Tolstoy and A.I. Solzhenitsyn and to describe the purposes, the linguistic and rhetorical expedients of the communication strategies adopted by these great Russian writers.

Making judgements: at the end of the course, the student shows that he/she has the critical ability to recognize and evaluate, both linguistically and stylistically, some text types: the information note, the interview, the report, the article and the esssay. This objective will be pursued through textual analysis, discussion and commentary on the readings proposed in class.

Communication skills: at the end of the course, the student will be able to analyze some text types, also making use of the scientific-professional microlanguage used in the journalism field in Russian; can deal with the problems that arise in reading and understanding some textual typologies representative of contemporary Russian literary journalism, on the basis of some examples taken from interventions by L.N. Tolstoy and A.I. Solzhenitsyn in the Russian press.

Learning skills: students acquire the basic theoretical and practical tools to undertake studies and research on Russian journalism.

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

Teaching

Interactive lectures

Innovative teaching methods

Use of online resources useful for memorizing lessons, such as, for example, the "Google keep" application for creating a shared logbook and formulating a series of questions on the program carried out for the self-evaluation of the student/teacher student.

The face-to-face teaching method will be enriched with individual and group exercises and insights that students will carry out using the University Moodle platform. Some topics of the course will be treated following the practice of the "flipped lesson".

Course books

Kasatkin, L.L., Russkij jazyk, Akademija, Moskva, 2004, 4-ed., pp. 666-728.

Pečurova, E.A., Lingvopoetičeskie osobennosti publicistiki L.N. Tolstogo (na primere otdel'nych statej 1893-1906 gg.), in Universitet XXI veka: naučnoe izmerenie, TGPU im. L.N. Tolstogo, Tula, 2018, pp. 174-179.

Sopova, A.S., Otobraženie avtorskoj individual'nosti A.S. Solženicyna v medijnoj publicistike 2000-2008 gg., in "Istoričeskaja i social'no-obrazovatel'naja mysl'", 2015, t. 7, N. 5, čast' 1, pp. 58-61.

Tertyčnyj, A.A., Žanry periodičeskoj pečati, Aspent press, Moskva, 2019, 6-oe izd.

Assessment

Oral exam, written exam and language test.

The final exam will assess metalinguistic knowledge and language skills in Russian at the requisite  level. In particular, assessment will concern the following skills: written (33% of all marks), oral (33%), and metalinguistic knowledge (33%)

The exam on metalinguistics (“monographic course”) is a written test. It consists of 30 multiple choice questions in Italian, principally to assess the knowledge acquired and also applied comprehension skills. The use of dictionaries is not pernitted during this test. Criteria for the assessment of this test are:

- pertinence and correctness of answers in relation to contents of program

- ability to apply knowledge to specific cases

- ability to reflect critically on concepts and processes

- knowledge of the metalanguage

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.

Course books

Kasatkin, L.L., Russkij jazyk, Akademija, Moskva, 2004, 4-ed., pp. 666-728.

Pečurova, E.A., Lingvopoetičeskie osobennosti publicistiki L.N. Tolstogo (na primere otdel'nych statej 1893-1906 gg.), in Universitet XXI veka: naučnoe izmerenie, TGPU im. L.N. Tolstogo, Tula, 2018, pp. 174-179.

Sopova, A.S., Otobraženie avtorskoj individual'nosti A.S. Solženicyna v medijnoj publicistike 2000-2008 gg., in "Istoričeskaja i social'no-obrazovatel'naja mysl'", 2015, t. 7, N. 5, čast' 1, pp. 58-61.

Tertyčnyj, A.A., Žanry periodičeskoj pečati, Aspent press, Moskva, 2019, 6-oe izd.

Assessment

Oral exam, written exam and language test.

The final exam will assess metalinguistic knowledge and language skills in Russian at the requisite  level. In particular, assessment will concern the following skills: written (33% of all marks), oral (33%), and metalinguistic knowledge (33%)

The exam on metalinguistics (“monographic course”) is a written test. It consists of 30 multiple choice questions in Italian, principally to assess the knowledge acquired and also applied comprehension skills. The use of dictionaries is not pernitted during this test. Criteria for the assessment of this test are:

- pertinence and correctness of answers in relation to contents of program

- ability to apply knowledge to specific cases

- ability to reflect critically on concepts and processes

- knowledge of the metalanguage

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.

Students unable to attend lectures are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning or end of the course.