68013 - Exercises in Analysis of Modern and Contemporary Literature

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the students will know the main concepts and methodologies for the linguistics analysis applied to modern and contemporary literary texts. They should also be able to analyze the structure and functions of different types of texts, in connection with the function and context in which texts were produced, both in a multimedia and interdisciplinary perspective.  

The aim of the course is to select texts and plan teaching units suitable to pupils from 3 to 10 years.

Course contents

Two aspects of text analisys will be focused: on the one hand the selection of readings to be proposed, according to specific linguistic characters (lexical and syntax historical stratifications, rhetorical and metric structures, gender stereothypes), keeping into account the editorial offer (textbooks and teacher's guides). Both literary (fiction and poetry) and non-literary texts will be analysed.

On the other hand, the construction of grammatical reflection based on "new" models, such as dependency grammar.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Please see the italian version.

Teaching methods

Traditional lectures and practicing

Assessment methods

Attending students will take a final written test. Criteria for assessing the grade (in a 30-point scale, from 18 to 30L) include both correctness of the answers and formal accuracy.

Non-attending students will write a dissertation and take an oral exam.

The final evaluation of the course will be the average of all the marks obtained in the individual parts (prof. Chiantera and prof. De Santis) and in laboratories.

The positive outcome of all the parts of the exam is an indispensable condition for recording the final grade.

Teaching tools

Lessons' slides and other materials are available at AMS Campus (http://campus.unibo.it/ )

Office hours

See the website of Cristiana De Santis