2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

L-FIL-LET/12 (ITALIAN LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO CLASSICO

2°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

BENZONI PIETRO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic knowledge about the history of the Italian language and historical grammar. Practical use of the various instruments destined for the linguistic research (dictionaries, grammar books, lexical catalogues).
"Italian linguistics B" is obviously meant to be attended after "Italian linguistics A".

This course aims to make students aware of the main turning points in the evolution of the Italian language from 1861 to our own time. It intends to develop the students' capacity for autonomously performing a linguistic and stylistic analysis when faced with literary or non-literary texts.

The Course will examine some important phases of the evolution of spoken Italian and of the literary language from the second half of the 19th century to the present time.
In this respect students are invited to read the texts by themselves while linguistic analyses of exemplary texts will be proposed at every session.

Lectures with use of texts.

Required bibliography:

For the institutional part of the program, the handbooks are:
1. C. Marazzini, “La lingua italiana. Profilo storico”, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002, capp. IX-XII.
2. V. Coletti, “Storia dell’italiano letterario”, Einaudi (PBE), Torino 1993, dal cap. 6 in poi.

For a linguistic profile of some storytellers of the twentieth century:
3. P.V. Mengaldo, “Storia dell’italiano nel Novecento”, il Mulino, Bologna, 2014 (1a edizione 1994), cap. IX with the attendant texts anthologized in the second section of the book.

The bibliographical references will be made available and discussed during the course in due time. The students attending the classes should be capable of analysing and commenting upon the various texts discussed in class, on the other hand they will have to prove to be knowledgeable about at least two works/authors/topics among those analysed throughout the course.

For student non attending the lectures, the bibliography related to the exam will include also the following references:

L. Serianni, “Il secondo Ottocento. Dall'Unità alla prima guerra mondiale”, il Mulino, Bologna, 1990.
P.V. Mengaldo, "Attraverso la prosa. Analisi di testi esemplari", Roma, Carocci, 2008, four texts at choice between capp. 24-41.
M. A. Grignani, “Novecento plurale. Scrittori e lingua”, Napoli, Liguori, 2007, an essay at choice.

Students who will not attend the lectures are invited to agree in advance with the teacher the appropriate reading and bibliography.

Oral examination.
(Written examination on module A only).

Oral examination.
(Written examination on module A only).