Riassunto esame lingua inglese, Prof. Ferrarotti, Ayers, libro consigliato Views in the News

UNIT 1

So it is as important to look at what is not reported as to look what is reported. Timely,

because events happened in short time are more interesting, so a story must ideally

happened over the past 24 hours because it must to be recent. Negative, because an

event such as war or crime is more newsworthy/interesting than happy story. Novel,

because is more interesting an unexpected and unusual event instead of a routine

and predictable one. Celebrated becuse vips make better news than unknown people.

Geographically and culturally close because are more interesting news of a nearby

place with same cultural values. Attributable, factual more interesting than

conjecture. Numerical because bigger numbers make bigger news. Personal and

relevant. The terms hard and soft news include the concepts of seriousness and

timeliness. The concept of seriousness encompasses topics such as politics economy

war, disaster and so on; on the other hand, the concept of timeliness refers to the

immediacy of the story. Hard news includes both of these elements and it is usually an

account of what happened why and how the reader will be affected. Soft news are

aimed informing or satifying the reader (for example human interest and novelty). It

is important for the editor’s newspaper to mantain their readership by producing what

they believe reader wants.

UNIT 3

The opening sentence, or lead, of the story overlaps the headline to some extent. The

lead may be preceded by a by-line which names the reporter or the sourch of the

story. The omission of words attracts the reader’s attention in the same way as

sensational word by making the headline stronger. The nominalization is the

frequent use of complex noun phrases in the subject position. Gimmicks or puns

have a double sense as the writer implies a second meaning which is linked to the

article. Plays on words are often based on wellknokwn quotations includes:

homophones (where the spoken have the same pronunciation), homonyms /words

with more than one meaning) and intertextuality. Some linguistic distinctive

features are adopted which makes the headlines particularly: the omission of words,

the use of loaded lenguage, nominalizaiton and the use of gimmicks.

UNIT 5

The partecipants are the people who are involved in a story as the subject or object of

the process. The partecipant is a doer of an action and the experiencer of a state or

feeling, or the sayer of something. Processes are actions, states and event, normally

recognised as verbs.Material are process of doing, relational of being and having, and

mental are process of sensing and feeling. Verbal are process of saying, behavioural of

human behaviour, and existential are process which are signalled by there, such as

there is/there are. It i salso important to note whether processes involve only one

partecipant (actor) or an anctor and a receiver: transactive processes (there is an

actor as well as someone) and non-transactive (apart from the actor there is nobod, or

nothing involved in the action)

UNIT 6