2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LINGUE PER L'IMPRESA

2°

1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

CHINI MARINA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

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

The course aims at providing concepts, means and methods of analysing the social variation of a language with the purpose of encouraging the students to use a more and more conscious and scientific approach to the social and communicative-interactional dimension of a language.

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).

Lectures

Berruto G. Fondamenti di sociolinguistica. Bari, Laterza, 1995, new ed. 2003 .
Berruto G., Cerruti M., Manuale di sociolinguistica. Novara, UTET-De Agostini, 2015.
Cardona G. R. Introduzione alla sociolinguistica. Torino, Loescher, 1987 (new ed. by G. Sanga, UTET, 2009).
Giannini S., S. Scaglione (eds.). 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, new ed. 1998.
Milroy L./ M. Gordon. Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation. Oxford, Blackwell, 2003.
Other readings:
G. Berruto, Sociolinguistica dell’italiano contemporaneo, Roma, NIS 1987; new ed. Carocci 2012.
G. Berruto, Prima lezione di sociolinguistica, Bari, Laterza, 2004.
G. Berruto (ed.), La variazione: un terreno d’incontro fra sociolinguistica e teoria linguistica. Numero monogr. di “Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata” XL, 2011, 2, 193-346.
G. Berruto, Saggi di sociolinguistica e linguistica (G. Bernini et al. eds.), Alessandria, dell’Orso, 2012.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione alla sociolinguistica, Torino, Loescher, 1987/new ed. UTET, 2009).
J.K. Chambers, Sociolinguistic theory, Oxford UK, Blackwell, 1995.
M. D’Agostino, Sociolinguistica dell’Italia contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007; 2012/2.
W. Downes, Language and society, London, Fontana, 1984.
R. Fasold, The sociolinguistics of society, Oxford, Blackwell, 1984.
R. Fasold, The sociolinguistics of language, Oxford, Blackwell, 1990.
S. Giannini/S.Scaglione (eds.), Introduzione alla sociolinguistica, Roma, Carocci, 2003.
M.A.K. Halliday, Il linguaggio come semiotica sociale. Un’interpretazione sociale del linguaggio e del significato, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1983.

The exam will be prepared on the course notes and on Berruto's manual (1995/2003; or Berruto/Cerruti 2015), or on an equivalent manual, as well as on three papers chosen from a given list of pertinent papers (see above). The student who cannot attend the course will prepare the exam on Berruto's (1995) or Berruto/Cerruto's (2015) handbook, or on Hudson's (1980/1998) and on a further volume chosen from the given list or agreed upon with the professor.
The program of the exam for foreign students can be adapted on demand. In addition readings in English can at least partially substitute readings in Italian.
The exam will be oral.

The exam will be prepared on the course notes and on Berruto's manual (1995/2003; or Berruto/Cerruti 2015), or on an equivalent manual, as well as on three papers chosen from a given list of pertinent papers (see above). The student who cannot attend the course will prepare the exam on Berruto's (1995) or Berruto/Cerruto's (2015) handbook, or on Hudson's (1980/1998) and on a further volume chosen from the given list or agreed upon with the professor.
The program of the exam for foreign students can be adapted on demand. In addition readings in English can at least partially substitute readings in Italian.
The exam will be oral.