Academic Year 2018/2019
- Docente: Fabio Atzori
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students know and are able to use the terms and concepts underpinning the Italian Linguistics appropriately. Students are also able to describe Italian according to the different levels of linguistic analysis, use the dedicated tools of the linguistic research (historical, etymological dictionaries, etc.) also electronic ones.
Course contents
Module 1 focuses primarily on the lexicon, in its quantitative and qualitative aspects. Special attention will be devoted to tools (historical, etymological dictionaries, etc.) also electronic ones (GRADIT, LIZ, Primo Tesoro della Lingua Letteraria Italiana del Novecento, etc.) and databases.
Module 2 presents a general overview of Italian, in its range of varieties, with analysis of specimen texts belonging to different periods and text-typologies.Readings/Bibliography
Readings:
1. L. Serianni, G. Antonelli, Manuale di linguistica italiana. Storia, attualità, grammatica, Milano, Pearson, 2017 (new edition).
2. V. Della Valle, Dizionari italiani: storia, tipi, struttura, Roma, Carocci, 2005.
3. L. Serianni, Italiani scritti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012 (new edition).
4. Teaching material used in class and uploaded on the e-learning platform Moodle.
Non-attending students will read also:
R. Gualdo, L'italiano dei giornali, Roma, Carocci, 2007.
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars and workshops.
Assessment methods
The course only envisages a written exam for both non-attending and exchange students (Erasmus and other types of exchanges). The test will be held in the IT laboratory and consist in two parts: 1) multiple-choice test; 2) open-ended questions and exercises.
Only students who pass part 1 – the result of which will be immediately communicated – can take part 2 that will be held after the first part.
The final evaluation will consist in the sum of the results obtained in the two parts.
The final text aims at assessing:
- the knowledge of the basic concepts of the Italian Linguistics and its terminology;
- the ability to recognise and describe the structure and typology of the lexicographic tools;
- the ability to analyse texts belonging to the different periods, text-typologies and varieties of the Italian language.
Teaching tools
Online IT tools and databases will be used.
Office hours
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