Sociolinguistics of Italian M - Z
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Giovanna Marina ALFONZETTIExpected Learning Outcomes
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Knowledge and understanding |
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
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Textbook Information
Berruto Gaetano, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica, Bari, Laterza, 2006 (189 pp.)
- D’Agostino Mari, Sociolinguistica dell’Italia contemporanea, Il Mulino 2007:
Chapter I: Storie (pp. 13-22),
Chapter 3: L’Italia contemporanea, pp. 51-66.
Chapter 11: Progettare una ricerca, pp. 215-235.
- Berruto Gaetano, Sociolinguistica dell’italiano contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci, ( 2012 updated reprint (280 pp.) (except chapter 5).
- Alfonzetti, Giovanna, Parlare italiano e dialetto in Sicilia, Palermo, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici siciliani 2017 (100 pp.)
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | 1 Scope and postulates of sociolinguistics. | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
2 | linguistic repertoire and community. | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
3 | communicative compentence and communicative situation. | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
4 | social class, group and social network; age and sex; domain | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
5 | Prestige and attitudes. | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
6 | types of linguistic varieties: regional, written and spoken language, situational, social | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
7 | Labovian variable and variant | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
8 | standard language and dialect. | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
9 | Ddiglossia and dilalia | Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica and slides. |
10 | Methods and Techniques of sociolinguistic research. | D'Agostino eand slides. |
11 | 12 Italian sociolinguistic situations; the Italian repertoire (Berruto). | Berruto Sociolinguistica dell'italiano and slides. |
12 | standard and neostandard Italian. Restandardization. | Berruto Sociolinguistica dell'italiano and slides. |
13 | regional varieties of Italian. | Berruto Sociolinguistica dell'italiano and slides. |
14 | diamesic varieties: written, oral and transmitted varieties of Italian. | Berruto Sociolinguistica dell'italiano and slides. |
15 | situational varieties: styles and special languages | Berruto Sociolinguistica dell'italiano and slides. |
16 | social varieties | Berruto Sociolinguistica dell'italiano and slides. |
17 | contact between Italian language and local dialect | Alfonzetti, Parlare italiano e dialetto in Sicilia |
18 | code switching; differences among generations | Alfonzetti, Parlare italiano e dialetto in Sicilia |
19 | polylanguaging in CMC | Alfonzetti, Parlare italiano e dialetto in Sicilia |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
the first at the end of the lectures relating to module A, the second at the end of the lectures relating to module B.
a) the first test consists of open questions (definitions of concepts or phenomena covered by module A;
b) the second consists of 2 open questions and 10 closed ones based on the analysis of utterances containing features of the different varieties of Italian studied (standard, neo-standard. regional, formal, informal, written, spoken, etc.).
Those who have taken and passed both in-progress tests will only have to answer questions on the module C book, orally, at the time of the final examination. The mark for the in-progress tests is averaged with the mark for the oral examination. Anyone wishing to improve the grade for one or both of the in-session tests already taken may supplement the respective parts (module A and/or module B) in the oral examination. Those who have not taken the in-progress tests must take the final examination for the entire syllabus: one part will be written (like the in-progress tests on modules A and B, one part oral on module C.
XWritten test
XOral test
XPractical examination
For the assessment of the examination, account will be taken of the candidate's command of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical propriety, as well as his or her ability to argue.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Objectives and postulates of sociolinguistics; community and repertoire; language varieties: diatopic, diastratic, diaphasic and diamesic variation; communicative competence and situation; sociodemographic variables: stratum and group; age and sex; dominance and social network; prestige and stigma; Labovian variable and variant; language and dialect; standard language; diglossia and dilalia; methods and techniques of the sociolinguistic investigation; Italian sociolinguistic situation; the repertoire model according to Berruto: standard and neostandard; re-standardisation of Italian; regional varieties; diamesic varieties: written, spoken, graphic speech; diaphasic varieties: registers and subcodes; diastratic varieties: contact phenomena between Italian and dialect: code-switching: generational differences; polylanguaging in computer-mediated communication; etc.