- Docente: Ahmad Addous
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-OR/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
The student should address the challenges and basic strategies of linguistic mediation and is able to use them in informal situations.
Course contents
The course should continue some of the topics discussed in the first module by deepening the skills and basic tools of linguistic mediation needed to manage professionally many interlinguistic and intercultural communication situations: formal and informal dialogues in communicative contexts (museum, airport, hotel, university campus, etc.), translation from Arabic to Italian of topics related to Arabic culture and literature, basic glossary of a variety of text types and simulation exercises.
Readings/Bibliography
1. L. Veccia-Vaglieri, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba, Roma, Ist. Per l'Oriente (ed. varie);
2. J. A. Haywood, A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language, London, Huphries;
3. A. Al- Addous, Arabo Fondamentale: Materiali didattici, Bologna, Libreria Bonomo Editrice, 2008;
4. S. Attar, Modern Arabic: An Introductory Course for Foreign Students, Beirut 1988.
Dictionaries
1. R. Traini, vocabolario Arabo-Italiano, Roma, Ist. Per l'Oriente;
2. Langenscheidt. Arabo-italiano, italiano-arabo, Mondadori, 2014;
3. M. Balabaki, Al-Mawrid: A modern English -Arabic Dictionary, Beirut 2002;
4. The Oxford English- Arabic Dictionary of current usage, ed. da N. S. Doniach, Oxford University Press, 1984;
5. Von Georg Krotkoff, Arabisch-Deutsch/ Deutsch-Arabisch, Berlin [etc.], Langenscheidt, 1976.
History, Literature, Culture and Civilization
Allen, R. (2006) La letteratura araba, Bologna, il Mulino.
Donini, P. G. (2003) Il mondo islamico. breve storia dal Cinquecento a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari.
Hourani, A. (1988) Storia dei popoli arabi, Milano, Mondadori.
Jayyusi, s. Kh. (1991) Modern arabic literature, Columbia University Press, New York.
Pellegrini, G. (1972) Gli arabismi nelle lingue neolatine, Brescia.
Said, E. (1999) Orientalismo, Bollati-Boringhieri (anche ed, economica Feltrinelli).
Soravia, G. (2005) La letteratura araba, Bologna, Clueb.
Teaching methods
Practical exercise, audio and video recording.
Assessment methods
The course will end with a written examination test, followed an oral examination
Teaching tools
A. al-Addous; G. Soravia, Iman: corso di lingua araba in CD-Rom. Bologna: Clueb, 2003;
A. Al-Addous; S. Nanni, Al-Teatro: drammaturgie didattiche per l’apprendimento dell’arabo letterario, voll. I-VII, Libreria Bonomo editrice, Bologna 2015-2020;
A. Al-Addous, Arabo fondamentale: materiali didattici, Libreria Bonomo editrice, Bologna 2008
Office hours
See the website of Ahmad Addous