2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

L-FIL-LET/12 (ITALIAN LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION, MULTIMEDIA

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 30/05/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

VOLPI MIRKO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic knowledge of Italian grammar and text analysis notions.

The aim of the course is to give students basic notions to be able to read and correctly analyze a written text – a litterary text, a journalistic text or a text belonging to other different varieties of contemporary Italian language. Texts will be analyzed on their lexical, structural and rhetorical features. At the end of the course, students will be able to write good quality texts and dissertations.

The course would offer an itinerary in contemporary language of communication, analysing different kinds of mass media writings (on paper and internet). After having a historical-grammatical introduction to contemporary italian language, recent journalistic texts, argumentative or bureaucratic texts, political speeches, texts for web, etc. will be analyzed. Texts will be analyzed on their lexical, structural and rhetorical features, offering exemplifications based especially on literary texts.
During the frontal lessons will be given practical notions to write professional e-mail, good quality texts, dissertations and a correct bibliography.

The course would offer frontal lessons during which different exemplar texts will be analyzed, becoming useful examples for a correct linguistic analysis.

Handbooks (for all students):
Paolo D’Achille, L’italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010 [all except the ch. II and IV].

Consulting tools:
Dardano-Trifone, La nuova grammatica della lingua italiana, Milano, Zanichelli, 1997 (or other editions).
Luca Serianni, Italiano, con la collaborazione di Alberto Castelvecchi, con un glossario di Giuseppe Patota, Milano, Garzanti, 1997.
Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso, ideato e diretto da Tullio De Mauro, con la collaborazione di Giulio C. Lepschy e Edoardo Sanguineti, Torino, UTET, 1999.
Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, diretto da Salvatore Battaglia, Torino, UTET, 1960-2003.
Dizionario di linguistica, e di filologia, metrica, retorica, diretto da Gian Luigi Beccaria, Torino, Einaudi, 2004.
Bice Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.

__Bibliography for non attending students (who are requested to contact the teacher):
Giuseppe Antonelli, L’italiano nella società della comunicazione 2.0, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016 [ch. I, II, III, V, IX].
Luca Serianni, Italiani scritti, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012 [ch. I, II, VI, IX, XII]
Gualdo-Raffaelli-Telve, Scrivere all’università, Roma, Carocci, 2014 [ch. 2 e 4].
Fabio Rossi-Fabio Ruggiano, Scrivere in italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2013 [ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Students will have a written exam which will be structured in open answer questions (unstructured questions in which, unlike in a multiple choice questions, possible answers are not suggested) concerning the study on manual and the topics of the course; students will also give a paper, choosing a recent journalistic text (published on a national daily newspaper, on paper or web) to analyze. Before writing this paper, all students, attending and not-attending, have to send an email to the professor, communicating the chosen text. The paper (written in a pdf or a doc file) has to be sent by email to both the professor and the tutor at least a week before having the exam. Students who won’t send their paper, won’t have the written exam.
Not-attending students, after writing the paper, will have a written exam which will be structured in open answer questions concerning the study on manual and on other texts belonging to a specific bibliography for not-attending students.

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