Prof. Piergiorgio Trevisan

Argomenti del programma: ENGLISH LANGUAGE: DESCRIPTION, VARIATION AND CONTEXT The main goal of the course is to enable students to gain a general knowledge of crucial features of the English language, as well as skills related to the comprehension and critical analysis of some text types.

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Argomenti del programma: PERSUADING PEOPLE. EVALUATION AND ARGUMENT STRATEGIES The main goal of the course is to enable students to understand and analyse how persuasion works in discourse, across political speeches, media and advertising texts, and literature. Adopting a discourse-analytical perspective, the course covers: language, power and solidarity; the functions of language; production and reception roles in communication; evaluation…