B019190 - LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MASS MEDIA

Italian Language

Language, culture and media: language education and intercultural media. These contents aim to provide an adeguate cognoscitive and methodological base addressed to students of Communications studies. The target is to make the students aible to be sufficientely autonomous in a critical approach to relevant scientific framework according to the theoretical perspectives.

Bibliographic indications will be communicated at the beginning of the lessons.

non-attending students

Baldi B. 2007, Mondobarocco.com, diversità culturale e linguistica nei media, Bulzoni, Roma

Un testo a scelta tra :

Caon F. (a cura di) 2008, Tra lingue e culture. Per un'educazione linguistica interculturale, Mondadori campus, Milano

Dal Lago A. 2005, Non-persone. L'esclusione dei migranti in una società globale, Feltrinelli, Milano

Sayad A.2002, La doppia assenza. Dalle illusioni dell'emigrato alle sofferenze dell'immigrato, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano

Un testo a scelta tra :

Baldi B. 2007, Mondobarocco.com, diversità culturale e linguistica nei media, Bulzoni, Roma

Caon F. (a cura di) 2008, Tra lingue e culture. Per un'educazione linguistica interculturale, Mondadori campus, Milano

Dal Lago A. 2005, Non-persone. L'esclusione dei migranti in una società globale, Feltrinelli, Milano

Sayad A.2002, La doppia assenza. Dalle illusioni dell'emigrato alle sofferenze dell'immigrato, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano

The course aims to provide a basic formation concerning the relation between language and culture from an identitary point of view and in the perspective of the mass media; specifically, it aims to provide the foundamental knowledges about the main categories of the intercultural communication (perception, stereotypes, prejudices, ethnocentrism) and about the semantico-cognitive implications associated to the mass media. Moreover, the course intends to stimulate the intellectual participation in the university and the capacity of applying these knowledges in the ordinary life.

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Lectures and seminars

The attendance is obligatory in at least 2/3 of the course.

Oral mode (possibly completed by a written paper - optional - for attending students). The exam concerns the fundamental points of the program, specifically the relation between language and thought, language and culture, communication and language and finally the role of mass media; the aim is to verify the knowledge acquired in the different contents of the lectures by the students and their ability of using these notions in critical and autonomous manner. In this perspective, the expressive capacities and the ability in appropriately combining theoretical models and real phenomena are considered.

Language and culture in multilingual societies and in multilingual classes. The today's Italian school as the institutional context within which the migration is the most noticeable character and where the contact between different languages and cultures is electively made.
The migratory phenomenon from the media perspective