The course aims to 1) introduce the students to the
basic knowledge of Romance languages and cultures (French, Provençal,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian), their historical evolution, their
diffusion in the modern and contemporary world and to 2) teach transfer this
"knowledge" to the "skills" of cultural mediation.
At the end of the course, the student will have a
basic knowledge of the diffusion of Romance cultures in the world, for example,
he/she willk now that Louisiana is an American federal state bearing the name
of Louis XIV of France and that numerous cities of that state have taken French
toponyms (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, etc.); that the city of Buenos
Aires has a neighborhood called "Palermo"; that in the phonology of
Spanish spoken in Latin America there is a phenomenon called yeism; that a
citizen of Senegalese origin can be easily addressed in French; that the name
of the Philippines was intended by the explorer Ruy López de Villalobos in
honor of the then Prince Philip, later King Philip II of Spain; that France
administered until 1946 the so-called Indochina, from whose division four new
independent states were born: North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos;
that Italian migratory waves turned towards Argentina and the United States in
the last century; that various film directors of Italian origins have
represented the life of these communities, etc.
On
this "knowledge" the student build "skills", from this
"knowledge" he develop a "know-how". As an example, simply
indicative, the student will have to know how to transfer the learned
"knowledge" to new situations, for example, identifying on a map of
Louisiana others and different toponyms of French origin that have not been the
object of explicit instructions; will have to know how to transfer these
"knowledge" to similar situations, for example that of the presence
of Spanish toponyms in New Mexico; he will have to be able to explain why
surnames of Spanish origin such as Aquino, Aquinaldo or Fernando are very
common in the Philippines; must be able to use what he has learned to design
effective interventions of cultural mediation; es. use knowledge on
Francophonie or on yeism to determine a situation of communicative empathy with
a speaker from equatorial Africa or Latin America; he must be able to
understand and explain the reasons why a neighborhood in Buenos Aires bears the
name of "Palermo" and must be able to relate it to Italian emigration
to Argentina; must be able to connect the cinematography of Martin Scorsese or
Francis Ford Coppola with the themes and lifestyles of the Italian emigrant
communities in Americans, identifying the representation of a specific
"anthropology"; in general, he must know how to establish connections
with what he has studied and the world in which he lives.Quadro generale dell’evoluzione delle
lingue romanze
1. A.
VARVARO, Il latino e la formazione delle
lingue romanze, Il Mulino, Bologna, ultima edizione 2014 ISBN 978-8815251794 (1
CFU)
Storia delle lingue della penisola
iberica
2) S. RAPISARDA, La lingua spagnola nel mondo. Una storia globale,
Carocci, Roma 2021 – ISBN 978-8829011926 (2 CFU)
3) S.
RAPISARDA, La lingua portoghese nel mondo.
Una storia globale, Carocci, Roma 2023 ISBN 9788829020959
(2 CFU)
Romance-speaking communities, two
ARTICLES chosen by the studenT (1 CFU)
Italian emigration:
Edmondo De Amicis, Sull’Oceano,
ed. a scelta dello studente
Italian
communities in the Levant: Edmondo De Amicis, Costantinopoli, ed. a scelta
dello studente
Italians in Africa: Evelyn Waugh, In Abissinia,
Adelphi, Milano 2015
French cultural policy in the world: Charle Christophe. Des sciences
pour un empire culturel. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol.
133, juin 2000, <https://www.persee.fr/doc/arss_0335-5322_2000_num_133_1_2683>
French community in Algeria Amy Hubbell, The wounds of Algeria in Pied-Noir autobiography,
<https://www.academia.edu/1113495/The_wounds_of_Algeria_in_Pied-Noir_autobiography>
French communities in Asia: Paul Doumer, L'Indo-Chine
française,, Souvenirs, Paris 1905 in <gallica.bnf.fr>
