- Docente: Carla Comellini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Cooperation, Protection of Human Rights and Cultural Heritage in Mediterranean Sea and Eurasia (cod. 8516)
Course contents
Prof. Carla Comellini
English Language Program a.y. 2011-2012
"Varieties of the English Language or the Many Englishes”.
The course deals with the varieties of the English language, with examples not only from fiction (literary works by D.H. Lawrence and G. Greene) and films, but also with the varieties of English around the world. The students have to translate three chapters of the listed essays on the varieties, and to read and translate one of the listed stories: either Sun or The Fox by D.H. Lawrence; The Tenth Man or The Third Man, or The Fallen Idol by G.Greene. Plus, they have to study one of the essays listed in b) and a methodological one, listed in c). The students are also requested to answer simple grammar questions from the texts in program.
Readings/Bibliography
a) Texts (a choice):
- Chapters (three):”English Around the World”; “Canada”; “The United States of America” ; “India”, “Australia”; “Sierra Leone”; David Lodge: “American English” (in Write on, 1986, pp.152-156).
(one):
- D.H.Lawrence: Novellas with recorded passages
- Sun (Ceramella/Preston, Na, Loffredo, 2004)
- The Fox (Preston/Ceramella, Ge, Cideb, 1993)
- Graham Greene:
- screeneplay: The Tenth Man, (Napoli, Loffredo, 2003) with recorded passages and its television adaptation, The Third Man (and the film) or The Fallen Idol (and the film).
b) Criticism (one):
- C. Comellini (a cura di), I tanti Inglesi: studio sulle varianti nella lingua Inglese (Varieties of English), Bologna, Clueb, 2009
- C.Comellini, Invito alla lettura di Greene, Milano, Mursia, 1996.
- C.Comellini, D.H.Lawrence, A Study on Mutual and Cross References and Interferences, Bologna, Clueb, 2009.
c) Methodology (one):
- C.Comellini, Strategie di scrittura nell'inglese: il linguaggio in codice, della narrativa e del cinema, i sottesi e il concetto di traduzione (Strategies of the Writing in English), Aracne, 2009.
- P. Reynolds, Novel Images, London, Routledge, 1993: either "Introduction" or "Adapting Nice Works for Television".
-C. Comellini, "Introduction" to The Tenth Man, Na, Loffredo, 2003.
- Grammar: Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Office hours
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