German 1 (MA)
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course, which is shared with German Language 2 (Master's Course) as far as the monographic classes are concerned, aims at improving linguistic skills as Schreiben and Sprechen both in oral communication and writing. Students are expected to analyse Sachtexte (essays and press articles) and literary texts.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: improvement and refinement of complex syntactical structures and vocabulary; acquirement of further "Sprachgefühl" in both oral and written language; attainment of strategies for oral presentations (Referat) to consolidate linguistic competences; comprehension and analysis of different textual forms (Sachtexte, above all wissenschaftliche Texte, and literarische Texte)
Applying knowledge and understanding: The course, which is complemented by exercise classes with native speakers, aims at obtaining safety in the language acquisition (sophisticated linguistic structures and vocabulary) at a C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Applying knowledge and understanding: The course, which is complemented by exercise classes with native speakers, aims at obtaining safety in the language acquisition (sophisticated linguistic structures and vocabulary) at a C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Lesson period: year
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
The course (60 hours), which is held in both terms, provides 9 ECTS. It is not possible to acquire only 6 ECTS.
Title of the course: German Language: writing and oral communication
The course consists of the following teaching units:
Unit A (20 hours, 3 ects): Text-Bild-Gemenge im Internet-Diskurs: die Hybridisierung der politischen Online-Kommunikation (Carolina Melanie Gerda Flinz - [email protected])
Unit B (20 hours, 3 ects): Text-Bild-Gemenge im Internet-Diskurs: die Hybridisierung der politischen Online-Kommunikation (Carolina Melanie Gerda Flinz)
Unit C (20 hours, 3 ects): Die Macht der Sprache - politische Texte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Moira Paleari)
Unit A:
With the development of the web and technological evolution in recent decades, a new way of communicating has gained ground. It makes creative use of all the codes made available by the transmission medium and combines the various expressive elements with verbal language. In the digital world, communication has taken a direction that could be defined as hybridization of interaction strategies; in fact, on the diamesic level we are witnessing the overlapping of different iconic systems, in a communicative perspective that is based on dialogicity. The presence of a new communicative reality that is establishing as a norm also requires the revision of the interpretative parameters adopted at the level of linguistic analysis until today, suggesting the choice of approaches that, given the complex nature of the matter, inevitably trespass into theoretical areas of different matrixes. The introductory part of the course (Unit A) will provide an introduction to multimodal linguistics with particular reference to the German research area.
Unit B:
In the second part of the course the analysis of the political discourse elaborated by NGOs and some activist groups of political matrix will be proposed. Their political communication - both in dedicated websites and social networks - seems to be characterized by creative autonomy and media initiative in a horizon of predominance of online communication. This phase of the work foresees the direct contribution of students who, through group presentations, will propose the analysis of the different languages and varieties of language involved in political communication in the digital environment, as well as the different languages and the expressive possibilities linked to the use of visual materials.
The units A and B include lectures which include the support of slides and online resources, individual and group work. Students/students are expected to participate actively by means of classroom presentations in German. These will be presented during the course and must be sent to the teacher in PDF and Word format one week before the presentation. Participation in the work implies the exemption of the bibliography of the final exam.
Unit C:
Unit C consists of lectures and seminar activities, for which the active participation of students/students is foreseen. It will focus on key aspects of political language starting from a linguistic analysis of texts, with particular attention to the following levels of analysis: syntactic, semantic and stylistic, and the rhetorical methods used in speeches, slogans, etc..
The course programme is valid until September 2022.
Title of the course: German Language: writing and oral communication
The course consists of the following teaching units:
Unit A (20 hours, 3 ects): Text-Bild-Gemenge im Internet-Diskurs: die Hybridisierung der politischen Online-Kommunikation (Carolina Melanie Gerda Flinz - [email protected])
Unit B (20 hours, 3 ects): Text-Bild-Gemenge im Internet-Diskurs: die Hybridisierung der politischen Online-Kommunikation (Carolina Melanie Gerda Flinz)
Unit C (20 hours, 3 ects): Die Macht der Sprache - politische Texte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Moira Paleari)
Unit A:
With the development of the web and technological evolution in recent decades, a new way of communicating has gained ground. It makes creative use of all the codes made available by the transmission medium and combines the various expressive elements with verbal language. In the digital world, communication has taken a direction that could be defined as hybridization of interaction strategies; in fact, on the diamesic level we are witnessing the overlapping of different iconic systems, in a communicative perspective that is based on dialogicity. The presence of a new communicative reality that is establishing as a norm also requires the revision of the interpretative parameters adopted at the level of linguistic analysis until today, suggesting the choice of approaches that, given the complex nature of the matter, inevitably trespass into theoretical areas of different matrixes. The introductory part of the course (Unit A) will provide an introduction to multimodal linguistics with particular reference to the German research area.
Unit B:
In the second part of the course the analysis of the political discourse elaborated by NGOs and some activist groups of political matrix will be proposed. Their political communication - both in dedicated websites and social networks - seems to be characterized by creative autonomy and media initiative in a horizon of predominance of online communication. This phase of the work foresees the direct contribution of students who, through group presentations, will propose the analysis of the different languages and varieties of language involved in political communication in the digital environment, as well as the different languages and the expressive possibilities linked to the use of visual materials.
The units A and B include lectures which include the support of slides and online resources, individual and group work. Students/students are expected to participate actively by means of classroom presentations in German. These will be presented during the course and must be sent to the teacher in PDF and Word format one week before the presentation. Participation in the work implies the exemption of the bibliography of the final exam.
Unit C:
Unit C consists of lectures and seminar activities, for which the active participation of students/students is foreseen. It will focus on key aspects of political language starting from a linguistic analysis of texts, with particular attention to the following levels of analysis: syntactic, semantic and stylistic, and the rhetorical methods used in speeches, slogans, etc..
The course programme is valid until September 2022.
Prerequisites for admission
The course, which is held in German, the materials and the examination bibliography presuppose an initial competence of level B2.
Teaching methods
The course adopts the following teaching methods: lectures and lessons which imply the active partecipation of the students (for example with oral presentations), face-to-face activities. In addition, the course is supplemented by practical classes, for which please refer to the Esercitazioni form.
Teaching Resources
Unit A and B:
- K. Marx, G. Weidacher, Internetlinguistik. Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch, narr-Verlag, Tübingen, 2014.
- Diekmannshenke, Hajo / Klemm, Michael / Stöckl, Hartmut (Hrsg.), Bildlinguistik: Theorien - Methoden - Fallbeispiele, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, 2011 (selected parts).
- Siever, Christina Margrit, Multimodale Kommunikation im Social Web: Forschungsansätze und Analysen zu Text-Bild-Relationen, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2015 (selected parts).
- Materials and slides of the course (available on the Website Ariel Lingua tedesca 1 e 2 LM).
Unit C:
- Schirren, Thomas, Herrschaft durch Sprache. Politische Reden, Reclam, Stuttgart 2014;
- materials provided by the lecturer to be found on the Website Ariel Lingua tedesca 1 e 2 LM.
- K. Marx, G. Weidacher, Internetlinguistik. Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch, narr-Verlag, Tübingen, 2014.
- Diekmannshenke, Hajo / Klemm, Michael / Stöckl, Hartmut (Hrsg.), Bildlinguistik: Theorien - Methoden - Fallbeispiele, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, 2011 (selected parts).
- Siever, Christina Margrit, Multimodale Kommunikation im Social Web: Forschungsansätze und Analysen zu Text-Bild-Relationen, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2015 (selected parts).
- Materials and slides of the course (available on the Website Ariel Lingua tedesca 1 e 2 LM).
Unit C:
- Schirren, Thomas, Herrschaft durch Sprache. Politische Reden, Reclam, Stuttgart 2014;
- materials provided by the lecturer to be found on the Website Ariel Lingua tedesca 1 e 2 LM.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The examination consists of a written part (for the classes with the mother toungue teacher) and other parts concerning the teaching units A, B and C, all compulsory. All tests are evaluated in thirtieths and each part must be equal to 18/30 or more. The students can decide which part they take at first, the written examination or the other ones. Written examinations take place three times a year - May/June, September and January - from May/June 2021; during the year there will be no 'partial tests', but simulations of the written parts of the exam aiming at self-control.
The written examination consist of two parts: 1) Textarbeit (90'); 2) a grammar and lexical test C1 (30')
For part for 1) students can use a monolingual German dictionary; for part 2) the students cannot use a dictionary.
The written exam is successful only if all the parts have a grade of 18/30 or more. The grade of the written examination is the average grade of all the parts.
The other parts of the examination are as follows 1) a translation from Italian into German and an interview with the mother tongue teacher; 2) as far as the monographical part is concerned, the students will attend following tests: Unit A and B: presentation (Referat) during the course; for teaching unit C a written test will be held at the end of the course and, on completion of the same, an oral interview on the contents of the lessons.
The students, who cannot attend the course, have to contact the lecturers.
International students or incoming Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher as soon as possible. The examination procedures for students with disabilities and/or with DSA must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent office.
The written examination consist of two parts: 1) Textarbeit (90'); 2) a grammar and lexical test C1 (30')
For part for 1) students can use a monolingual German dictionary; for part 2) the students cannot use a dictionary.
The written exam is successful only if all the parts have a grade of 18/30 or more. The grade of the written examination is the average grade of all the parts.
The other parts of the examination are as follows 1) a translation from Italian into German and an interview with the mother tongue teacher; 2) as far as the monographical part is concerned, the students will attend following tests: Unit A and B: presentation (Referat) during the course; for teaching unit C a written test will be held at the end of the course and, on completion of the same, an oral interview on the contents of the lessons.
The students, who cannot attend the course, have to contact the lecturers.
International students or incoming Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher as soon as possible. The examination procedures for students with disabilities and/or with DSA must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent office.
L-LIN/14 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - GERMAN - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professors:
Flinz Carolina Melanie Gerda, Paleari Moira
Professor(s)
Reception:
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