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84879 - General Linguistics L (CL1)

Academic Year 2020/2021

                
                        Docente:
                        Maja Milicevic Petrovic
                    
                        Credits:
                        5
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Forli
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the students will acquire an exhaustive knowledge of theoretical and methodological foundations of language sciences. The course will provide the students with the basic notions and procedures for linguistic analysis, as well as with the appropriate terminology. At the end of the course, the students will be able to analyze the structure and functions of different types of texts.

Course contents

The course introduces students to linguistics, providing them with the knowledge and the competencies needed for studying human language in general, as well as its specific realisations.

Language will firstly be approached as a unique human capacity, focusing on properties such as arbitrariness of the linguistic sign and productivity. Attention will then move towards the main levels of linguistic structure and analysis: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, jointly with their respective research methods. Both the shared properties of individual languages and sources of inter- and intralinguistic variation will be discussed. Finally, the relevance of linguistic analysis for translation and interpreting will be highlighted.

Readings/Bibliography

All materials made available on the Moodle platform are to be considered as teaching/learning materials.

Students are advised to read:
Berruto, Gaetano & Cerruti, Massimo (2011). La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo. Torino: UTET. (or the second, 2017 edition)

Teaching methods

Frontal instruction

Assessment methods

Students are reminded that attendance is compulsory (a minimum of 70% of the lectures).
The assessment will consist in a written exam.
General Linguistics (5 ECST) is a component of the integrated course in Linguistics I (10 ECTS), which also comprises Italian Language (5 ECTS).
The registration of the mark will be possible once the exams in both components have been passed. The final mark will be obtained by averaging the two marks obtaind for Italian Language and General Linguistics.

Teaching tools

All teaching materials (slides, audio/video materials) will be available on Moodle.

Office hours

See the website of Maja Milicevic Petrovic