LINGUA FRANCESE: LINGUAGGI SETTORIALI
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: LAURA GIURDANELLAExpected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding:
The aim of this course is the acquisition of linguistic, communicative, and metalinguistic knowledge and competencies according to B2+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Students will be able to understand authentic and specialized texts, and to catch their cultural (implicit) aspects. Furthermore, they will refine their analysis skills and their translation practices knowledge by discovering and exploring a domain linked to the langues de spécialité (ESP): tourism, diplomacy, and science.
2) applying knowledge and understanding:
Students will acquire some deep knowledge about French vocabulary and terminology, syntax and textuality in order to communicate in an appropriate, coherent, and efficient way. Furthermore, students will be able to use and combine knowledge in a particular context of Corpus linguistics about langues de spécialité.
3) making judgements:
Students will be able to formulate independent judgements, to approach and to explore, in a flexible and critical way, texts related to touristic, diplomatic, and scientific fields. They will be confident with the contexts wich will be proposed.
4) communication skills:
The course will allow students to acquire the main tools to communicate and interact in an appropriate, complex, and articulated way in a specialized context.
5) learning skills:
Students will be able to implement useful cognitive strategies to improve and handle their learning and study method and to use their skills in French for specific purposes.
Required Prerequisites
Detailed Course Content
Textbook Information
For a coherent progression of the topics, it is recommended to study manuals and essays in the order in which they are presented in the bibliography.
1. Sociolinguistique et langues spécialisées
- Henri Boyer, La variation comme fondement de l’exercice d’une langue, in Introduction à la sociolinguistique, Malakof, Dunod, 2017, cap. 2, pp. 33-48.
- Historique du français pour publics spécifiques. Une terminologie variée liée à des contextes historiques différents, « Le FOS: Mémento - Numéri FOS », Institut Français, pp. 1-4.
- Federica Scarpa, La traduction spécialisée. Une approche professionnelle à l’enseignement de la traduction, traduit et adapté par Marco A. Fiola, Ottawa, University of Ottawa, 2010, capp. I e II, pp. 1-84.
2. Les langues spécialisées et la linguistique de corpus
- Sandrine Zufferey, Introduction à la linguistique de corpus, Londres, ISTE Editions, 2020, capp. I, V, VI, pp. 3-22, 101-122, 129-148.
- Maria Giovanna Nigro, Linguaggio del turismo e corpus linguistics, in Ead., Il linguaggio specialistico del turismo, Roma, Aracne, 2006, capp. II e III, pp. 41-97.
3. Analyse des textes spécialisés
- Course handouts about français du tourisme, français des relations internationales et de la diplomatie, and français des sciences et techniques will be provided by the teacher on Studium.
4. Préparation à la traduction spécialisée
- Federica Scarpa, La traduction spécialisée. Une approche professionnelle à l’enseignement de la traduction, traduit et adapté par Marco A. Fiola, Ottawa, University of Ottawa, 2010, cap. III, pp. 85-162, only selected parts uploaded on Studium, cap. IV, pp. 163-228.
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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.