Communication, Cognition and Media

5 ECTS / Semestre / Português
  • Promote the interdisciplinary study of the cognitive, emotional and socio-cultural bases of the Media;
  • Identify mechanisms and strategies of media cognition;
  • Know and apply models of Cognitive Science in general and Cognitive Linguistics in particular in the analysis of discourses and ideologies of journalism and media;
  • Critically analyze the media and journalistic languages and discourses
  • Understand the flexibility and social dynamics of meaning and interpret semantic conflicts based on prototype theory and socio-semantic norm theory
  • Analyze conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and conceptual merging in political and economic discourses;
  • Analyze cognitive mechanisms of conceptual perspective and intersubjectivity in the construction of journalistic texts.

Faculty

Professor Catedrático
He is a Full Professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University (Braga Regional Centre). His…