28486 - History of the Italian Language (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Riccardo Tesi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/12
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music Disciplines (cod. 0967)

Course contents

Aims of this course is provide instruments and methods of advanced level in the field of study of italian language in historical and cultural perspective.

Course is articulated in two parts of 30 hours.

Argument of first part:

Analisi linguistica di "Pinocchio".

Edizione commentata di riferimento: C. Collodi, Pinocchio, in Id., Opere, a cura di D. Marcheschi, Milano, Mondadori ("I meridiani"), 1995.

Argument of secondo part:

Semantica dell'attenuazione: eufemismi e disfemismi in testi antichi e moderni.

Programme and bibliography will provide at the beginning of lessons.

Readings/Bibliography

For each part of the course is recommended to read the handbook: R. Tesi, Storia dell'italiano. La formazione della lingua comune dalle fasi iniziali al Rinascimento, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007; Id:, Storia dell'italiano. La lingua moderna e contemporanea, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2005.

Assessment methods

Short paper about one of the argument of course.

Office hours

See the website of Riccardo Tesi