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Medialinguistics

ВК. 3.01

Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП

First

2023/2024

3 Semester

6

PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 6. Use information and communication technologies to solve complex specialized tasks and issues of professional activity. PLO 11. Know the principles, technologies and techniques of oral and written texts of different genres and styles creation in Ukrainian, English and two other Western European languages. PLO 22.3. Know the peculiarities of the use of language expressive means to influence the audience and be able to use them in the production of own written or oral text.

Full-time form

A student has to master Practical course of English (Part 1 & 2), Regional Studies, Linguistics, to know the main linguistic notions, to be able to plan and evaluate his/her own work, to use interactive and multimedia means, to have elementary skills of critical perception of phenomena analysed, usage of professional information sources in foreign languages, production of oral and written messages in English, interaction and cooperation while studying within the situations of search and creation.

The course aims at teaching the students of the University medialinguistics as a promising direction of research in modern linguistics. The purpose of the course is to form an idea about peculiarities of creation and functioning of modern communicative environment of traditional and new media in English speaking countries, about specific features of development and functioning of various types of Mass Media in the 21st century, about the role of modern Mass Media in development of modern culture, values, about the specific use of the English language, about fragmenting of audience due to a number of sociocultural factors, about the role of social media in modern world, about the use of modern technologies of journalism, and to develop skills to conduct a linguistic analysis of mediatexts and media-communication, to create content for modern Mass Media and Social Media.

1. Сeramella, N. & Lee, E. Cambridge English for the Media. Cambridge University Press. 2008. 2. Danesi, Marcel. Dictionary of Media and Communications. M. E. Sharpe, 2009. 349p. 3. Grazia Busa, M. Introducing the language of the news. A student’s guide. Routledge, 2013. 4. Jones, R., Jaworska, S., Aslan, E. Language and Media. A resource book for students. Routledge, 2020. 5. New Media, Old News. Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age. Еd. by Natalie Fenton, SAGE, 2010. 233p. 6. O’Keefe, Anne. Investigating Media Discourse. Routledge, 2006 7. Макарук Л. Л. Мультимодальність сучасної англомовної масмедійної писемної комунікації. Луцьк : Вежа-Друк, 2018. 424 с. 8. Медіалінгвістика: словник термінів і понять / Л.І. Шевченко, Д.В. Дергач, Д.Ю. Сизонов / за ред. Л.І. Шевченко. Київ: Видавничо-поліграфічний центр "Київський університет", 2014. 326 с.

The course is delivered with the help of such activities as oral reports and written tests. The teaching methods are lectures, practical classes (seminars), creative and research projects, students’ individual work.

The course ends with an exam. Students’ performance during the term is the sum of the grades accumulated for their work in classroom (oral reports, tests, creative activities) and individual work. The minimum score for the term is 36 grades, while the maximum score equals 60. The minimum score for the exam is 24 and the maximum score is 40.

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