Università Roma Tre

The course is divided into two parts.
The first part has the aim to illustrate how the historical perspective, the sociolinguistics, the cognitive grammar, the pragmatics and the semiotics can analyze the language of newspapers highlighting the lexical, syntactic and morphological features and the intercultural aspects of different texts. A part of course will focus on the formats and specialized languages.

The goal of the second part (prof. Simone) is to illustrate the main semantic phenomena, with special emphasis on lexical structure and the crucial lexical processes. The conceptual content will be applied to written texts, and particular from journals, periodicals and media broadcastings. Some rhetorical phenomena (in particular metaphor and metonymy will be taken into account mainly as regards their role in lexical expansion...