2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

12

Italian

The course presupposes the knowledge of notions and categories of general linguistics.

The first part of the course aims at giving the essential concepts and methodological instruments for analysing the social variation of a language, in order to promote the awareness of the social and communicative dimension of the language as well as to ground a scientific approach to it.
The second part of the course aims at framing second language acquisition in its external social factors and at discussing its main internal principles and factors in order to help students understand the phenomenon of second language acquisition.

The first part of the course aims at giving the essential concepts and methodological instruments for analysing the social variation of a language, in order to promote the awareness of the social and communicative dimension of the language as well as to ground a scientific approach to it.
This part of the course consists of four thematic areas:
1. Definition and research area of sociolinguistic, its relationship with other related disciplines; its main research branches
2. Basic notions in sociolinguistics
3. Variation in language: its dimensions and the methods for analysing linguistic variation
4. Typology of linguistic repertoires (with examples from Italian and European contexts).

The second part of the course develops one aspect or topic of the first part, dealing with the structure and the dynamics of linguistic repertoires or with single sociolinguistic aspects of modern societies (multilingualism and language contact, social and stylistic language variation, language acquisition and death, language minorities, etc.).
During the year 2017/2018 the second part of the course will deal with language acquisition in its external social factors and its internal principles and factors.

Classroom-taught lecture with group discussions about authentic linguistic data, including L2 data in different European languages.

I part:
Berruto G. Fondamenti di sociolinguistica. Bari, Laterza, 1995, nuova ed. 2003 (e altre successive).
Berruto G./M. Cerruti, Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino, UTET, 2015 (Primi 5 capitoli)
Cardona G. R. Introduzione alla sociolinguistica. Torino, Loescher, 1987 (nuova ed. a cura di G. Sanga, UTET, 2009).
Giannini S., S. Scaglione (a cura di). Introduzione alla sociolinguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2003.
Giglioli, P.P./G. Fele (a cura di). Linguaggio e contesto sociale. Bologna,Il Mulino, 2000.
Hudson R. A., Sociolinguistica. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1980, nuova ed. 1998.
Milroy L./ M. Gordon. Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation. Oxford, Blackwell, 2003.
Romaine R. Language in Society. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Second Ed. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
II part:
Banfi E. (a cura di) L’altra Europa linguistica. Varietà di apprendimento e interlingue nell'Europa contemporanea. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1993.
Bettoni C. Imparare un’altra lingua. Bari, Laterza, 2001.
Chini M. Che cos’è la linguistica acquisizionale. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Consani C. et al. (a c. di) Alloglossie e comunità alloglotte nell’Italia contemporanea. Roma, Bulzoni, 2009.
Giacalone Ramat A. (a c. di) L’apprendimento spontaneo di una seconda lingua. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1986.
Dulay H./Burt M./Krashen S. La seconda lingua. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1985 [ed. orig. 1982].
Klein W. Second language acquisition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Valentini A. Lingue e interlingue dell'immigrazione in Italia, Linguistica e Filologia 21, 2005, 195-208.

The exam will verify the student’s knowledge of the course content and his/her ability to spot and analyse the sociolinguistic and communicative dimensions of language uses and to identify principles and factors of second language acquisition.
The exam will be oral.
Its first part will be prepared on the course notes and on Berruto’s manual (1995/2003) (or on Berruto/Cerruti 2015, chap. 1-5 or an equivalent manual) as well as on three papers chosen from a given list of pertinent papers (see box).
A student who cannot attend the course will have to prepare the first part of the exam on Berruto (1995) or on Berruto/Cerruti (2015, chap. 1-5) or on Hudson (1980/1998) and on a further volume chosen from the given list (see below) or agreed upon with the professor.

For the exam of the second part of the course, the students (besides their course notes) have to study:
- "Introduzione" of Giacalone Ramat (1986),
- Chini (2005),
- one chap. in Banfi (1993) concerning the language studied (Italian, German, French, English as an L2),
- Valentini (2005),
- one paper in Giacalone Ramat (1986) or in the "parte III" of Consani et al. (2009) or one chap. of Bettoni (2001), of Klein (1986) or of Dulay et al. (1982/1985).
The students who cannot attend the course must also read an additional paper chosen from a given list.
The programme of the exam for foreign students can be at least partially adapted and some readings in other languages can substitute readings in Italian, with the teacher's agreement.

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