ARABIC LANGUAGE 3 AND DIALECTS

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: CRISTINA LA ROSA

Expected Learning Outcomes

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

 

Knowledge and comprehension

By the end of the course, students will be able to know the main morphosyntactic and lexical structures of Modern Standard Arabic indicated in the syllabus, to interact in Modern Standard Arabic with a certain degree of autonomy within the communicative situations indicated in the syllabus and in any case on topics related to the personal sphere and current affairs. They should also be able to read, summarise and comment on moderately complex journalistic and literary texts in Arabic and communicate in Moroccan Arabic at an elementary level.

Students should also be able to recognise and describe the main characteristics of Maghrebi dialects and know the salient features of their history and evolution.

 

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

Students should be able to adequately apply the learned morpho-syntactic structures and vocabulary both in correct communicative situations and for the comprehension and production of medium-length and complex written texts. They will also be able to autonomously translate texts from Arabic into Italian and vice versa.

 

Autonomy of judgement

Students will be able to use the tools they have learnt autonomously in order to eventually continue studying Arabic at the master's level.

 

Communicative skills

At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the main points of clear messages in standard language on familiar topics (at work, school, leisure, etc.). They will be able to produce simple and coherent texts on topics that are familiar or of interest to them, describing experiences and events, dreams, hopes, ambitions, and will be able to briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

 

Learning skills

Students will acquire the skills necessary to make judgements about their own learning and will be able to relate what they have learned in different study contexts in order to put their knowledge and skills into practice in further study or in the professional field.

Course Structure

Lectures

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

Arabic Language III:

complementary notions about the name and the verb; doubly weak verbs; derived forms of quadriliteral verbs; derived forms of the passive verbs); specific uses of some prepositions; the syntax; the conditional sentences; the numerals: hundreds, thousands, dates; idiomatic sentences in Arabic.

 

Dialectology: Arabic & Dialects, the diglossia, the middle Arabic & the

Triglossia, the origin of Neo-Arabic dialects; the spread of the Arabic.

Main features of Maghribi Neo-Arabic and elements of historic dialectologu: Siculo-Arabic and Andalusi Arabic.

Elements of the Arabic language spoken in Morocco.

Textbook Information

L. Veccia Vaglieri, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba vol. 1 (pp. 271) - 2 (exercises, pp. 572), Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino, Istituto per l’Oriente, Roma (II Ed.);

 

Luc-Willy Deheuvels (Ed. Italiana a cura di A. Ghersetti), Grammatica araba. Manuale di arabo moderno, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2010, vol. II (pp. 77-246).

 

Olivier Durand, Dialettologia Araba, Carocci editore, Roma, 2009 e rist. (pp. 27-103; 111-212, except paragraphs 14.3.7 and 14.3.9).

 

Jérôme, Lentin, “Middle Arabic”, in Lutz Edzard & Rudolf de Jong (eds.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill, Leiden 2006-2009, vol. 3, pp. 215-224.

 

Sabir al-Mashrafi, Su‘ad al-Khawli, Abu Uways Mahmud, at-Takallum. A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course, Maktabat al-Buruj, al-Qahirah 2014, B.2, intermediate (وصف الناس  10-31 

مضحك جدا da pagina 54-75 

الطبيعة  pp. 77 a 97

ثقافات مختلفة  pp. 130-143).

 

A selection of  Neo-Arabic and Middle Arabic texts and some entries taken from Lutz Edzard & Rudolf de Jong (eds.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill, Leiden 2006-2009 will be given by the teacher during the classes and will be available at studium.unict.it together with some newspapers articles.

 

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

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