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DEGANO CHIARA
(syllabus)
The course offers an introduction to the Language analysis of both written and spoken varieties of English with an applied linguistics approach. The course aims to start a reflection on the mechanisms of language and its use in context, thus setting the basis for further development of intra-and interlanguage awareness during the following two years. Taking the basic levels of language description as a starting point, the course will consider their interaction with the textual and the contextual level, from a pragmatical perspective.
In details, the first part of the course is devoted to English phonetics and intonation (sounds, connected speech, intonation phrases, stress and tones). The course will then introduce morphological, lexical, and semantic aspects (morphemes, lexemes, paradigmatic and syntagmatical relations, idioms, creative and cognitive metaphors); syntactic aspects, with special regard for the phrase and the clause structure; and the notions of cohesion and coherence. The course ends with a brief introduction to pragmatics.
(reference books)
Hancock, Mark 2017. English Pronunciation in Use - Intermediate, second edition (Book with Answers and Downloadable Audio). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ronald Carter, Angela Goddard, Danuta Reah, Keith Sanger, Nikki Swift. 2007. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis. London and New York: Routledge.
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Università Roma Tre