Università Roma Tre

Competences and skills within the Degree in Communication Studies. An introduction to Linguistics. Linguistics and morphology exercises. Varieties of the English language and an approach to Sociolinguistics.Functional English and the use of language in advertising, magazines, journalism, realia. Discourse Analysis. Functional vocabulary, register, verb patterns, phrasal verbs, linkers, collocations, word formation/word blending, prefixes, suffixes, compounds, roots, polisemy, abstract nouns. Formal Writing and argumentative writing.
At the end of the course the student will be able to produce a text in formal / academic English, a presentation, a formal letter, a text or Discourse analysis. The student will also be able to understand and analyse the use of language in different contexts.

Gramley, Stephan, Vivian Gramley, and Kurt-Michael Pätzold. "A survey of modern English". Routledge.
McLoughlin, Linda. "The language of magazines". London: Routledge.
additional texts and materials provided by the teacher during the course.