STORIA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA A - L

1)  Knowledge and understanding

By adopting principles and methods of Italian linguistics (procedural approach; metalinguistic and diaphasic competence) and stylistics, the course aims to offer the conceptual and methodological tools to understand and then analyse texts on the phonomorphological; morphosyntactic; semantic-lexical; syntactic-discursive levels

2)  Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

Analysis and paraphrasing will be proposed in function of a didactics of language and texts adapted to the new cognitive dynamics and the complexity of the contemporary socio-cultural context.

3)  Autonomy of judgement

The metalinguistic, stylistic and pragmatic-textual knowledge and skills acquired to understand and analyse texts are aimed at enhancing students' capacity for critical and autonomous judgement, and at developing problem solving skills, also in view of their professional future

4)  Communication skills

The training activity of the course involves interactive work in class on the guided analysis of texts in order to transmit relational skills and public speaking abilities

5)  Learning skills Objectives:

-    to develop an advanced competence of the grammatical, lexical and syntactic structures of the Italian language and of the relevant written and oral uses;

-    to provide cultural and methodological coordinates for the study of Italian: historical and ethnocultural framework, sociolinguistic bases, grammatical models and textual dimension;

-          enhancing conscious metalinguistic competence, overcoming automatisms in the study of grammar;

introduce agile but functional grids for the linguistic analysis of texts of various types, in which the literary text retains the fundamental role of raising awareness of the historical-linguistic value of the tradition.

Lectures.

The course will adopt an interactive approach, aimed at making students aware and therefore applying the "rules" of linguistic and textual use of Italian with full mastery.

In the introductory lessons and in the workshop activities, paths of external and internal linguistic history will be built, with exercises aimed at transmitting metalinguistic skills suitable for a conscious active and passive knowledge of the Italian language.

Attendance is not compulsory

External linguistic history: evolution from spoken Latin to the Tuscan dialect and the Italian language at all structural levels and in all varieties of use, focusing on the dynamics of italianization in written and oral communication (literature, religion, politics, bureaucracy, mass media) Internal linguistic history: observation of the principal phonetic, lexical and semantic, morphological changes in the passage from Latin to Italian; Grammar and stylistics: inter-relations among the various linguistic levels and analysis of different kinds of literary and non-literary texts.

A. History of Italian language (5 ECTS) Testi:

-     P. Trifone, E. Picchiorri, G. Zarra, L’italiano nella storia. Lingua d’uso e di cultura, Milano, Mondadori, 2023 pp. 513

 

B. Linguistics of Italian language (4 ECTS)

Testo:

- C. Giovanardi – E. De Roberto, L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi. Seconda edizione, Milano, Pearson, 2022, pp. 400

 

Reference texts for students who believe they have not completed the prerequisites for the discipline, and reference texts for students, for the purposes of the course activities:

-     L. Serianni, Italiano. Grammatica, sintassi, dubbi, Garzanti, Milano, 2000.

-     P. D’Achille, Breve grammatica storica dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 138

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.