Schema della sezione

  • 'THE STREET: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS' 

    Thursday 17-19  aula 005 VSR

    Office Hours: Friday 17-19 (by appointment)

    First lesson: Thursday 26th September Please bring a hard copy of the booklet (in pdf below) to the first lesson.

     

     We take as a point of departure the study of various aspects of contemporary urban culture such as graffiti, street art, subvertising, poetry performed or posted on the street and publications by the homeless to investigate the particular forms of language necessary to describe these phenomena.  Bibliography: Cedar Lewisohn, Street Art, (London, Tate Publishing, 2008), Gerard Benson, Judith Chernaik, Cicely Herbert, 100 Poems on the Underground, (London, Cassell Publishers Limited, 1991).

    The aim is to widen the students’ lexis and to refine their written and oral skills and critical abilities in analysing texts and describing visual images. To achieve these objectives, the students do in-class pair and group work, oral presentations, short written assignments, also of a creative nature, and a final oral presentation. The assignments and final presentation are assessed for the final mark.