Sumários
"Crash Blossoms". Syntactic ambiguity in headlines.
8 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Syntactic ambiguity in headlines: identifying and explaining the cause of ambiguity in a selection of headlines. Reading and discussion of the article "Crash Blossoms" from the New York Times Magazine.
Text: The New Language of TV news
7 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott
Brief discussion on how technology has introduced new language items and expressions. How somw have become solidified even after the reason for them has disappeared. Explanation that the language of TV news presentation is not the same as it does not enter everyday vocabulary.
Headlinese: deducing the language features of headlines.
6 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Headlinese: deducing the language features of headlines (vocabulary and grammatical constructs). Activity 1: Analysing headlines from British and American sports pages. Activity 2: "Translating" headlines into everyday language. Reading and discussion of the article "Heads you win" by Ian Mayes (The Guardian).
British Press
5 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott
Lesson on the British newspapers. Differences between popular and middle market newspapers, and among the quality publications.
The Front Page continued: reading and discussion of Texts 1 and 2. Writing a comment.
1 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Reading and discussion of two articles from the Huffington Post UK: Text 1 (“Are Newspapers Correct to Use Such shocking Images on Their Front Pages?” by Phil Hall) and Text 2 (“Refugee Crisis Media Coverage Highlights Importance of Words and How They Are Used” by George Bowden). In-class writing activity: writing a comment to post online.