30630 - Russian Language (LM)

Learning outcomes

The student shows a deep knowledge of the oral and written aspects of Russian language, in synchronic and diacronic perspectives, also applied to text analysis and translation. Thanks to linguistic training the student will develop a communicative competence in all active and passive skills, gaining the level C2 of the European language Framework, which allows him/her to understand the different sociolinguistic and cultural codes involved in communication.

Course contents

The course is divided in two parallel parts.

The first part (30 hours) will deal with linguistic and argumentative analysis of different text typologies and include repetition of particularly complex structures (complex sentence syntax, participles and gerunds, negative and indefinite pronouns, numerals, verbal prefixes). It will include also a progression from simple text models to more complex ones, analyzing actuality, politics, economic problems, referring to different sources, but also historical, artistic, social and literary texts. The aim of this course will be the development of analytical skills through writing (analysis and summary) and oral discussion of actual problems or subjects, important for Russian history and culture.

 The second part of the course (30 hours) will focus on translation of mass media texts. Some of the analysed text will be translated, using  bilingual and monolingual dictionaries in the proper way. Some significant translational cases will be discussed.  

 To the theoretical course is combined a practical linguistic training (36 hours), which allows the student to achieve good oral and written skills, referring to the analyzed subjects. The practical course will deal also with phraseology and lexical units, typical of analyzed textual typologies.

Readings/Bibliography

- DERJAGINA S.I., MARTYNENKO E.V., V gazetach pišut…, Russkij jazyk kursy, Моskva 2005.

- FICI GIUSTI F., GEBERT L., SIGNORINI S.,  La lingua russa. Storia, struttura, tipologia , La nuova Italia Scientifica, Firenze 1991.

- PEROTTO M.,  Tipologie del testo scritto economico-finanziario in lingua russa: una proposta di analisi , in  Quale curriculum linguistico per l'azienda? Linguisti ed aziendalisti a confronto. Atti del Convegno Centro Linguistico dell'Università Bocconi ,  ottobre 1999 , a cura di G. Garzone, Milano 2000, pp. 239-259.

- PEROTTO M., KOVALJOVA N.,  I numerali nella lingua russa , Aracne Editore, Roma 2005.

- PESSINA LONGO H., AVERJANOVA G.N., ROGOVA K.,  Principi della comunicazione scientifica in lingua russa , Clueb, Bologna 1995.

- POUTSILEVA L.,  Lessico russo, lessicologia e fraseologia , Clueb, Bologna 2003.

- STAROVOJTOVA I.A.,  Vaše mnenie , Flinta Nauka, Moskva 2006.

- VALGINA N. S.,  Teorija teksta , Мoskva 2003 (online:   http://www.hi-edu.ru/x-books/xbook029/01/index.html?part-001.htm   )

web site: http://www.inopressa.ru/

Some audio or written materials will be available on Alma DL Campus

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson, analytical and communicative method

Assessment methods

The exam will be written and oral. The written exam (4 hours) will deal with summary, analysis and translation of one text about the subjects dealt within the course. The written exam will evaluate the analytical, stylistic and morpho-syntactic competence of the student. Getting through the written exam will give access to the oral exam, included the linguistic assesment. The final mark will be obtained with the average marks of the two exams.

Oral exam will consist in the discussion of a written text (a composition or a translation), prepared by the student in Russian language. Linguistic assesment test will include some works chosen in concordance with the student's course of study and presented by the student during the course. 

Students who have difficulty in attending the classes are requested to contact the teacher during the office hours or by e-mail (monica.perotto@unibo.it).

Teaching tools

Multimedial tools (audio and video materials), web sites about the diffusion of foreign mass media in Russia

Office hours

See the website of Monica Perotto