- Docente: Adriana Iezzi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/21
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Economics and Business (cod. 8851)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
First cycle degree programme (L) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8048)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Sociology (cod. 8495)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Criminology for Investigation and Security (cod. 8491)
Course contents
PHONETICS:
• pinyin and tones
• modulations of tones
WRITING:
• basic strokes of Chinese characters
• stroke order
• components of Chinese characters
• 214 radicals
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX:
- The word order in Chinese sentences
The verb 是 shi "to be" - Enumeration
- Interrogation
- The negative form with bu 不
- Adverbials
- Basic conjunctions
- The attribute and the structural particle de 的
- The prepositions and the position of prepositional constructions
- The sentence with a verb as its predicate
- The sentence with a verb as its predicate
- The sentence with a nominal predicate
- The verb 有 you “to have" and its negation mei 没
- The verb zai 在 "to be at, in or on” (a place)
- Location words
- Numeral-quantifier compounds
- Temporal words
- The sentence with two objects
- The reduplication of verbs
- Modal verbs
GLOSSARY AND CONTEXT OF USE:
Vocabulary related to the following areas: personal information, nationality, age, family, house, work / school, daily life, people's character and personality, hobby, road information and directions.
FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNICATION:
Basic language functions:
- Asking questions
- Expressing likes and dislikes
- Agreeing/disagreeing
- Greeting people/introductions
- people and place descriptions
- giving instructions and directions
Basic information on Chinese culture.
Readings/Bibliography
Federico Masini, Zhang Tongbing, Bai Hua, Anna Di Toro, Liang Dongmei, Il cinese per gli italiani - Corso base, Vol.1 - seconda edizione, Milano: Hoepli, 2010.
For the "10cfu" course, students have to add one the following texts:
- A. Lavagnino, S. Pozzi, Cultura cinese. Segno, scrittura e civiltà, Carocci editore, 2013;
- M. Castorina, La cultura cinese, Hoepli, 2011;
- A. Lavagnino, B. Mottura, Cina e modernità. Cultura e istituzioni dalle Guerre dell'oppio a oggi, Carrocci editore, 2016.
For Chinese students, the exam will be a discussion on one of the following texts:
- M. Abbiati, "La scrittura cinese nei secoli. Dal pennello alla tastiera", Carrocci editore, 2012;
- Li Wendan, "Chinese Writing and Calligraphy", University of Hawai'i Press, 2009.
Teaching methods
Frontal lecturing.
Assessment methods
Final written and oral exam.
Teaching tools
Ppt documents will be available on Moodle (the e-learning virtual class).
Office hours
See the website of Adriana Iezzi