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Scienze linguistiche per l'intercultura e la formazione

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Intercultural Pragmatics

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: SABINA FONTANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

The Course aims at attaining a mastery of the field of pragmatics and at developing skills in critical thinking, in communication and in the use of research methodologies. Communication will be approached at a linguistic and cognitive level in different languages. The Course intends to focus not only on the basics of Intercultural Pragmatics and its theoretical developments, but also to provide a methodological toolbox to analyse utterances.

Course Structure

Frontal lessons

Seminars

Detailed Course Content

The Course allows students to master the basics of the discipline, such as the process of mind reading and understanding and the concept of  literal and non literal meaning. Different theories will be analysed with the aim of attaining a good level of linguistic and pragmatic awareness that can be applied not only to single languages but also to teaching, to inclusion and translation processes.

Textbook Information

Fontana S., Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci, Roma, 2025 (pp.117)

Giaccardi C. La comunicazione interculturale nell’era digitale, Il Mulino, Bologna,  2025 (pp.336)

Lombardi Vallauri E., Le guerre per la lingua. Piegare l’italiano per darsi ragione, Einaudi, Torino, 2024 (pp.144)

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

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