- Docente: Tommaso Pellin
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-OR/21
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
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from Feb 12, 2024 to May 17, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student is familiar with the fundamental aspects of the earliest phases of the language, the history of the language and culture of the linguistic area related to Chinese language and literature, and has got the simplest tools necessary for reading and evaluating texts in order to assess their transformations through the centuries.
Course contents
The morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects fundamental for the acquisition of those linguistic skills necessary for the comprehension of classical Chinese text at basic and intermediate level will be illustrated. Elements of the history of Chinese linguistics will also be introduced in order to understand the development of Chinese linguistic thought, on the basis of which the texts will be analysed.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Andreini, G. Baccini, M. Scarpari, Corso di lingua cinese classica e letteraria, Milano, Hoepli, 2022.
M. Scarpari, A. Andreini, Grammatica della lingua cinese classica, Milano, Hoepli, 2020.
G. Casacchia, M. Gianninoto, Storia della linguistica cinese, Venezia, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2012
Other texts and books will be provided by the teacher.
Teaching methods
Conventional
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
10 questions (each valid 3 points).
- assessment criteria:
1. knowledge of the subject matter explained in class
2. ability in grammatical analysis
3. translation skills
Teaching tools
Original texts with translations into Italian, English or modern Chinese online or digitally, digital classical Chinese dictionaries, character recognition programmes
Office hours
See the website of Tommaso Pellin