The teaching programme “Listicles as Cultural & Digital Practices” will be part of the master seminar “Strategie communicative della lingua tedesca” (Professor Dr Alessandra Lombardi). During the first part of the course, the focus will be on (German) linguistic media text analysis. Starting with an exemplary new press text format, the “listicle”, the analysis will include graphical variations, text structures, including coherence/cohesion, as well as text functions. For the joint analysis, we will rely on a topical corpus of listicles about climate change and sustainability. Simultaneously, we will discuss the historical and cultural dimensions of the communicative practice of list-making against the backdrop of German and Italian intercultural communication. For further exercise in various text forms, lists on social media carousel-posts will also be used as a data basis. Here, methodological aspects of multimodality will be explored. To conclude the course, training in text production will foster practices such as reducing complexity, structuring of topics, and audience-oriented choices of relevance.
Erasmus+ at the Facoltà di Scienze linguistiche e letterature straniere, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano/Brescia