Italian Language and Communication

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.

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.