Italian Language and Communication
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims to give students a solid scientific basis about the forms and structures of the Italian language in its different varieties and in its multiple uses. The lessons concern our linguistic history, the principles of textuality and some concrete examples (mostly contemporary) of Italian language in public and artistic communication. The first two parts of the course (compulsory for those wishing to take the 6 CFU exam) are more general, theoretical and institutional; the third one is more monographic and practical, to concretize and critically reformulate the notions learned in the previous lessons. The main aim of the course is to allow students to acquire greater metalinguistic awareness so that they can, on the one hand, analyze and, on the other hand, use in the most appropriate way all the resources that Italian language gives through its phonetic, morphological, syntactic, lexical and rhetorical features.
Expected learning outcomes
To take the exam, students must be able to know and identify linguistic-grammatical phenomena of the phonetic, morphological, syntactic, lexical and rhetorical levels in a text, with particular attention to historical, sociolinguistic and textual specificities. Through the lessons and through the study of the bibliography for the exam, the students will be able to have a much more solid awareness of the verbal communication code that they use daily and to analyze with scientific procedure a wide variety of written, oral and transmitted texts in the Italian language. Students will become as much addressees as more aware communication producers, able to act, choose and affect society.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The first part of the course presents the history of Italian language from its origins to the present day, and describes its characteristics, evolution and structures. The second teaching unit deals with the sociolinguistic varieties of contemporary Italian and textual and communicative subjects. The third part of the course offers texts' analysis through which show the use of the Italian language in media, institutions and arts.
Prerequisites for admission
Students must have a solid and aware knowledge of grammatical, logical and sentence analysis, as well as a strong propensity for reflection and in-depth analysis.
Teaching methods
Lessons take place mostly in frontal mode, using visual and multimedia materials; the teacher always solicits comments, debates and questions from the students.
Teaching Resources
Part A
Bibliography for attending students
1. Marco Biffi, "Viaggio nei tempi della lingua italiana", Cesati, Firenze, 2017.
2. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 10 e 11.
Part B
Bibliography for attending students
Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Part C (for students who take the 9 CFU exam)
Bibliography for attending students
Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 3, 4, 5, 12.
Part A
Bibliography for non-attending students
1. Marco Biffi, "Viaggio nei tempi della lingua italiana", Cesati, Firenze, 2017.
2. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 10 e 11.
3. Massimo Palermo, "Linguistica italiana", il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (seconda edizione), capitoli 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Part B
Bibliography for non-attending students
1. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9.
2. Massimo Palermo, "Linguistica italiana", il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (seconda edizione), capitoli 6, 7, 8, 9.
Part C (for students who take 9 CFU exam)
Bibliography for non-attending students
1. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 3, 4, 5, 12.
2. Sabina Gola (a cura di), "L'italiano che parliamo e scriviamo", Cesati, Firenze, 2019.
Please note. Foreign students and DSA students who wish to agree on an exam method that best suits their needs are required to contact the teacher as soon as possible and to respect the specific procedures of this University.
Bibliography for attending students
1. Marco Biffi, "Viaggio nei tempi della lingua italiana", Cesati, Firenze, 2017.
2. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 10 e 11.
Part B
Bibliography for attending students
Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Part C (for students who take the 9 CFU exam)
Bibliography for attending students
Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 3, 4, 5, 12.
Part A
Bibliography for non-attending students
1. Marco Biffi, "Viaggio nei tempi della lingua italiana", Cesati, Firenze, 2017.
2. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 10 e 11.
3. Massimo Palermo, "Linguistica italiana", il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (seconda edizione), capitoli 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Part B
Bibliography for non-attending students
1. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9.
2. Massimo Palermo, "Linguistica italiana", il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (seconda edizione), capitoli 6, 7, 8, 9.
Part C (for students who take 9 CFU exam)
Bibliography for non-attending students
1. Chiara De Caprio, Francesco Montuori, Patricia Bianchi e Nicola De Blasi, "L'italiano. Varietà, testi, strumenti", Le Monnier, Firenze, 2021, capitoli 3, 4, 5, 12.
2. Sabina Gola (a cura di), "L'italiano che parliamo e scriviamo", Cesati, Firenze, 2019.
Please note. Foreign students and DSA students who wish to agree on an exam method that best suits their needs are required to contact the teacher as soon as possible and to respect the specific procedures of this University.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Knowledge about the first two parts of the course will be verified by a computer test that will take place on the dates and places provided for the exam sessions; if this test is passed, students will be immediately admitted to take an oral exam concerning the third teaching unit of the course. If possible, before the end of the course, an extraordinary computer test about the first two parts of the course will be organized: if students pass, it could present to the next exam sessions to take only the oral exam on the third part of the course. Students who take the 6 CFU exam (corresponding to the first two teaching units) will only take the computerized written test.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
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