Enrollment year
2019/2020
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/12 (ITALIAN LINGUISTICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
MODERN PHILOLOGY. SCIENCE OF LITERATURE THEATRE CINEMA
Curriculum
Filologico-letterario
Period
2nd semester (24/02/2020 - 27/05/2020)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Acquisition of at least 6 ECTS of Italian Linguistics in the previous three-year degree.
Learning outcomes
Deepen the knowledge of some linguistic traits of the Italian of past centuries, with particular attention to textual aspects.
At the end of the course, students will be able to analyze the textual structures in their diachronic variation and to distinguish and properly evaluate the typical features of the epistolary textual tradition.
Course contents
The epistolary grammar through the centuries.
The course will be divided into two parts:
1. The epistolary grammar (12 hours)
2. Linguistic analysis of a diachronic epistolary corpus (24 hours)
Teaching methods
Lectures (with the aid of multimedia materials) complemented by seminars.
Reccomended or required readings
1. Giuseppe Antonelli, Tipologia linguistica del genere epistolare nel primo Ottocento. Sondaggi sulle lettere familiari di mittenti cólti, Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2003
2. Luigi Matt, Teoria e prassi dell'epistolografia italiana tra Cinquecento e primo Seicento, Roma, Bonacci, 2005.
3. All the materials and texts commented during the lessons.
For non-attending students, point 3 is replaced by the essay Fabio Magro, Lettere familiari, in Giuseppe Antonelli, Matteo Motolese e Lorenzo Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell’italiano scritto, 3 voll., vol. III: Italiano dell'uso, Roma, Carocci, 2014, pp. 101-57.
Assessment methods
Oral examination supplemented by discussion of a thesis previously agreed with the teacher.
Further information
Student reception is held by appointment via e-mail: giuseppe.antonelli@unipv.it.
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