500060 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE - A

In order to improve the students’ skills of analysis, understanding and production of the syntactic structures and the specialized vocabulary typically used in English for the humanities, the modulo docente will illustrate the main morphological, lexical, syntactic, pragmatic and rhetoric features of the English language, specifically focusing on such aspects as: order of the elements in a sentence, word-formation processes, morphological and lexical structures, collocations, fixed and idiomatic expressions, elements relevant to register and style, also referring to varieties of the English language such as British English and American English. The course will also deal with the main processes of semantic and lexical change of the English language from its origins to today.
The various linguistic phenomena will be illustrated through a wide range of texts such as non-fiction books, newspaper articles, guidebooks, audiovisual material, whose belonging to different genres will identify the main linguistic functions relevant to them and whose contents will also provide a linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical and cultural framework of the origins and development of the United Kingdom through the centuries.