Spanish Ii

The course aims to deepen the study of legal, corporate and political communication in Hispanic through the analysis of written and oral discursive genres. It aims to develop critical reading skills and metalinguistic reflection. In particular, we will analyze the pragmalinguistic strategies of certain discursive genres of the political sphere, such as parliamentary debate, press conference, interview, political propaganda, or the legal sphere, such as the sentence, blogs, interrogation. We will focus on the discursive strategies of corporate communication and digital marketing through the analysis of different genres such as press release, internal report, newsletters, web pages, social media). A special focus will be dedicated to the promotion through the social media, also through simulation of the launch of a product on the market.
At the same time, the acquisition of advanced grammatical and syntactic structures of the Spanish language will be promoted until the achievement of the C2 level of the European Framework, which includes the domain of oral and written communication in a wide range of specialist topics.

The aim of the course is to ensure that students acquire the ability to express themselves orally and in writing in specialized fields, as well as the skills of critical analysis of the textual genres treated. At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate a good oral and written command of the language in complex situations (level C2). In particular, it will be able to recognize and analyze the syntactic and lexical structures of a political, legal and corporate text and to effectively present its arguments on the topics under study.