2013/2014

2014/2015

DM270

L-LIN/12 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (22/09/2014 - 22/12/2014)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

FREDDI MARIA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Minimum three years of English in the undergraduate degree course.

This course introduces the fundamentals of English Corpus Linguistics to initiate the novice into this ubiquitous field of language study. It then focuses on five areas of contemporary corpus linguistic work on the English language and its varieties, with the aim of developing in students a kind of corpus proficiency consisting in the ability to perform advanced searches, have a basic understanding of how to interpret concordance data and frequency information and use corpora to answer questions concerning language variation.

This course introduces the fundamentals of English Corpus Linguistics to initiate the novice into this ubiquitous field of language study. It then focuses on five areas of contemporary corpus linguistic work on the English language and its varieties, with the aim of developing in students a kind of corpus proficiency consisting in the ability to perform advanced searches, have a basic understanding of how to interpret concordance data and frequency information and use corpora to answer questions concerning language variation.
The course is organised as a graduate seminar where regular attendance is encouraged and where course participants are expected to read their reading assignments on a regular basis and come to class ready to discuss them.
The first part of the course is based on the set text Linguistica dei Corpora, Carocci (see bibliography). For this part especially, regular readings are assigned after each class. In the second part, students are expected to choose from one of the five following areas and present a case-study to acquire further specialisation: 1) specialised corpora and EAP/ESP; 2) phraseology and theory of collocation; 3) corpora and syntax; 4) corpus stylistics; 5) web as corpus.
Extra classes on oral academic skills are scheduled in the two-terms of each semester run by a Collaboratore ed Esperto Linguistico (dr. Robert Ponzini). Classes will include tasks and activities of the following type: academic orientation, oral presentation, interview. For the timetable, please contact dr. Ponzini directly (through the web page cla.unipv.it).

Seminar discussions, case-studies and CEL's classes

Set text:
Freddi, M. 2014 Linguistica dei Corpora, Roma, Carocci

Further readings and case-studies from:
1) M. Charles, J. Flowerdew, M. Freddi
2) J. Sinclair, P. Baker
3) T. McEnery? and A. Hardie, D. Biber
4) M. Mahlberg, M. Stubbs
5) M. Gatto, A. Kilgarriff
Materials for points 1) to 5) will be available under reserve with the Boezio library - Linguistics section, or accessible online through Kiro.

The exam consists in an oral discussion of the set readings and a proposal for an original research question based on one of options 1) to 5).

The exam consists in an oral discussion of the set readings and a proposal for an original research question based on one of options 1) to 5).