Università Roma Tre

This course is designed as an introduction to the study of pragmatics and discourse analysis in English language as they apply to different genres and in particular to journalistic texts. Topics include: cohesion and coherence, discourse analysis, deixis, speech acts, principle of cooperation, presupposition, pragmatic inference, politeness, and intercultural pragmatics, newspaper language.
The course has both a theoretical and practical approach: the theory will serve as a tool to work hands-on on authentic texts.

1. Cutting, Joan (2008). Pragmatics & Discourse (2nd Edition). Routledge Press.
2. Reah, Danuta (2002). The Language of Newspapers (2nd Edition). Routledge Press.
Further readings will be discussed during the course