A.A. 2023-2024

MA COURSES (SLLT, EAAS, LINGUISTICS)

History of the English Language (6CFU)

Introducing LATE MODERN ENGLISH 

• I. Tieken-Boon van Ostade, An Introduction to Late Modern English, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2009.

• R. Watts, Language Myths and the History of English, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.  (chapters 5 and 7; the whole book on GC -March 12 2024))

• C. McIntosh, The Evolution of the English Prose (1700-1800). Style, Politeness, and Print Culture, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998 (ch. 1,2, 6,8) attached on GC)

• Jonathan Swift," Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue”

(1712), https://jacklynch.net/Texts/proposal.html (attached on GC - March, 9, 2024)

• From Letter Writing in Early Modern Culture, 1500-1750, edited by Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti and Donatella Pallotti JEMS (Journal of English Modern Studies) 3 (2014):

-M.  Gotti, Scientific Interaction Within Henry Oldenburg’s Letter Network, pp.151-171

-D. Montini, “Language and Letters in Samuel Richardson’s Correspondence” pp.173-198

-E. Chiavetta,Angles of Refraction: The Letters of Mary Delany”, pp. 199-216 (on GC as an attachment) 

TRIENNIO

LINGUA INGLESE 1 (12cfu) 

The Study of Style in XXI Century 

• Laura Pinnavaia, Introduzione alla linguistica inglese, Roma, Carocci 2009

• Roman Jakobson, "Closing Statements: Linguistics and Poetics", in Thomas A. Sebeok, Style in Language, Cambridge Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1960, pp. 350–377 ["Linguistica e poetica" in Saggi di linguistica generale, Milano, Feltrinelli,1977.  On line:https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2350615/component/file_2350614/content

•  P. Simpson, Stylistics, London, Routledge, 2004 A/B/C 1-2-3-5-7-8-9

• D. Montini, “Stylistics Reloaded: Tradition and Prospects of an Impure Discipline”, Fictions 2017, pp. 9-19. ( on GC).

• D. Montini, «Stilistica del testo narrativo» in La stilistica inglese contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 91-122

• Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, London, Vintage, 2004 

LINGUA INGLESE 3 (6CFU) 

Linguistics and Political Communication

• C. Andorno, Che cos’è la pragmatica linguistica? Roma, Carocci, 2012

• P. Simpson, A. Mayr, S. Statham, Language and Power, London, Routledge, 2019. [Ch. A 1-2-3-9-10-11-12; B 1-2-3-9-10-11-12; C 1-2-3-9-10-11-12; D 1-2-3-9-10-11-12]

• D. Montini " Hockey Moms and Pitbulls.  Populist discourse and female leaders" , in Costellazioni (8) 2019, pp. 89-108. (Allegato in Google Classroom)

• M. Demata, “Keeping the Threat Out Trump’s Discourse, the Wall and the “Other” AltreModernità, N. 25 – 05/2021 (Allegato in Google Classroom)

• J. Charteris-Black, Politicians and Rhetoric. The Persuasive Power of Metaphor, London, Palgrave, 2011 [Ch. 1-2-12 + Tony Blair, Barack Obama]

• F. Santulli, «La prima persona plurale: interpretazioni semantiche e pragmatiche», Milano, Franco Angeli, 2004, pp.246-265

OPTIONAL: E. Semino, "Politics is football: Metaphor in the discourse of  Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, Discourse and Society , pp. 243-269, 1996. (allegato in GC)