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Lingua inglese II - 102897

Lingua inglese II - 102897. The discourse of Broadcast news. Aims. Lettorato : Acquisition of communicative competence in English beyond B2 level as part of a learning path leading to advanced competence (C1) . Aims con’ td.

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Lingua inglese II - 102897

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  1. Lingua inglese II - 102897 The discourseof Broadcast news

  2. Aims • Lettorato: • Acquisition of communicative competence in English beyond B2 level as part of a learning path leading to advanced competence (C1)

  3. Aims con’td • The development and refinement of the ability to apply grammatical, lexical and orthographic skills to transcription. • The development of independent study skills and interactive participation, group work and independence of judgement in the analysis of a discourse type.

  4. Aimscont’d • Knowledge of the discourse structure of news programmes; ability to apply the knowledge and understanding to the description and analysis of television news

  5. Coursecontent • News as a Form of Discourse The Discourse Structure of News ProgrammesNews Presentation • Features of Studio Presentation of the News News Reports The Live Two-Way as News Update News Interviews Transcription conventions.

  6. organisation • Interactive lessons for the communicative competence element in groups (lettorato). • Groups have been organised – see self-access labLectures and exercises in transcription and description for the broadcast news element

  7. Courseevaluation • Finalexamfor lettorato • Finalexamfor modulo: Transcription and descriptionof a news programme and comparisonwithoneotherfor the course. Thisiscompletedindividually and presentedas a finalassignment. • An averageismadeof the examresult and the assignmentresult

  8. Courseassignment • Eachstudentisassigned a news programme and works on the transcription and descriptionduring the year. • Anotherprogramme (differentchannel) isusedforcomparisonbutnottranscribed. • The studentpresentstheirtranscription and ispreparedtodiscuss the descition and comparisonusing appropriate metalanguage

  9. Reading • Martin Montgomery The discourseof Broadcast News A linguisticApproach • Monica BednarekNews Discourse • DiscoursesofEuropeanIdentity in TV news • Thornborrowet al in EuropeanIdentity: what the media sayBayley and Williams (eds)

  10. Discourse • Many and varieddefinitions: a termused in linguisticstodescribe the rules and conventionsunderlying the useoflanguage in extendedstretchesof text, spoken and written. • Language in action and the patternswhichcharacteriseparticulartypesoflanguage in action; e.g. the discourseof advertising

  11. Discourse(s) • ‘a group of statements which provide a language for talking about - a way of representing the knowledge about - a particular topic at a particular historical moment. [...] Discourse is about the production of knowledge through language’ (Hall, 1992: 291). • ‘It is the continuous reinforcement, through massive repetition and consistency in discourse, which is required to construct and maintain • reality’ (Stubbs 1996: 92). • the incremental effect of discourse (Baker 2006)

  12. Montgomery • Discourseis a patterningoflanguagebeyond and betweensentences or utterances. • A discrete leveloflinguisticorganisation. • Principlesoflinguisticorganisation do not stop with the sentencebutshape the way we combine sentencestogetherintodiscourse • Cohesion and coherence

  13. Discourselies at the interface of the linguistic and the social. Discourseanalysisinvolveselaborating the principlesoforganisationthatunderpin the coherenceofdiscourse. • Languageis a formofaction. The performance ofanactionthroughlinguisticmeansisdependent on featuresofcontext in which the utterancetakesplace.

  14. Ideational and interpersonal • Discourseasactionrepresents the world, isconstitutiveof social relationships, itis interpersonal aswellasideational in itsfunction. • Characteristicfunctionsof broadcast news: announcing, reporting, greeting, challenging.

  15. Discoursepractice • Discourseacts are part ofchainsofaction • Individualacts are shaped in the light ofpreceeding or succeedingacts • Headlines introduce bulletins;News reporters ‘sign off’ • Discoursepractices: the regular sequentialarrangementofrecognisablysimilardiscourseactsto serve institutionalisedcommunicativepurposes.

  16. Discoursestructure • The discourseof broadcast news can beseenas a structured set ofdiscourseunits in whichsmallerunitssuchasdiscourseactscohereintolargerunitssuchascompleted news items or interactionalexchangeswithin a news interview. • Structuresbuildfromsmallertolargerunits

  17. AN example • Watch the Italian, French and UK broadcastsfor the 50° anniversaryof the TreatyofRome and read the transcripts. Preparetocomment on the differentapproaches in termsofvisual and verbal text.

  18. Copiesof the transcripts on Prof Blog • Copiesof the broadcasts in the self accesslab. • Come to the nextlessonpreparedtocomment

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