According to the Dublin descriptors, the Course intends to pursue the following aims:
1) Knowledge and understanding
Students should be able to read, listen and analyze more or less complex texts written in Media Arabic and Maghrebi dialectal Arabic. They should also be able to argue about complex issues such as the problematic nature of the criteria for classifying Arabic dialects, especially Maghreb dialects, providing concrete examples from the texts they read.
2)Applying knowledge and understanding
Students should be able to recognize and analyze some linguistic phenomena independently and in depth; they also should be able to place them in a broader linguistic context from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
3) Making judgements
Students should be able to formulate hypotheses about the proposed case studies and write a mini-questionnaire that can be used for a hypothetical field interview from a set of goals they would like to achieve.
4) Communication skills
Students are expected to report on the linguistic theories and phenomena studied, and in particular on some case studies from the Arabic texts in the program also making use of other documents of their choice if necessary.
5) Learning skills
Students are expected to show the ability to independently expand their knowledge on the topics contained in the syllabus, displaying in-depth skills and autonomy in researching, reading and reusing what they have learned in new texts and documents.
Benkato, A. (2019), “From Medieval Tribes to Modern Dialects: on the Afterlives of Colonial Knowledge in Arabic Dialectology”, in Philological Encounters, 4: 2-25
Caubet, Dominique. (2000-2001). Questionnaire de dialectologie du Maghreb, EDNA 5, pp. 73-92. Disponibile online https://www.academia.edu/6615349/Questionnaire_de_Dialectologie_du_Maghreb_d_apr%C3%A8s_les_travaux_de_W._Mar%C3%A7ais_M._Cohen_G.S._Colin_J._Cantineau_D._Cohen_Ph._Mar%C3%A7ais_etc._
Gibson, Maik. 2002. Dialect Levelling in Tunisian Arabic: Towards a New Spoken Standard. In Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic. Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme. Edited by Rouchdy Aleya. Oxon and New York: Routledge, pp. 24–40.
Guerrero, Jairo. 2018. Les parlers Jbala-villageois. Étude grammAticale d’une Typologie rurale de l’arabe Dialectal Maghrébin. Dialectologia 20: 85–105. Disponibile online:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02095906.
Holes, Clive. 2018. Arabic Historical Dialectology. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 29-63.
Marçais, Philippe. 1977. Esquisse grammaticale de l’arabe maghrébin. Paris: Maisonneuve, pp. 1-284.
Marçais, William. 1950. Les parlers arabes. In Initiation à la Tunisie. Edited by André Basset. Paris: Maisonneuve, pp. 195–219.
Mion, Giuliano. 2015. Réflexions sur la catégorie des ‘parlers villageois’ en arabe tunisien. Romano-Arabica 15: 269–77.
Mion, Giuliano. 2018. Pré-hilalien, hilalien, zones de transition. Relire quelques classiques aujourd’hui. In Mediterranean Contaminations. Middle East, North Africa, and Europe in Contact. Edited by Giuliano Mion. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, pp. 102–25.
Ritt-Benmimoun, Veronika. 2014. The Tunisian Hilāl and Sulaym Dialects. A Preliminary Comparative Study. In Alf lahǧa wa lahǧa Lit-Verlag Proceedings of the 9th AIDA Conference. Edited by Olivier Durand, Angela Daiana Langone, and Giuliano Mion. Münster and Wien: Lit-Verlag, pp. 351–60.
Taine-Cheikh, C. “La classification des parlers bédouins du Maghreb: revisiter le classement traditionnel,” in Ritt-Benmimoun, V. (ed.), Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends, Recent Developments, Diachronic Aspects, Zaragoza, Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo: 15-42.
Watson, J. (2011), “Arabic Dialects: general article”, in Weninger, S. (ed.), The Semitic Languages. An international handbook, Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 851-896 disponibile qui https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/76443/8/HSKSE2_A050.pdf
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