Learning objectives
At the end of the course, students must have acquired the tools to reflect critically on the topics, based on the historical evolution and polycentric specificity of the Portuguese language.
Such knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lessons and other supplementarand teaching activities.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
Introduction to the study of the Portuguese language (European Portuguese PE and notions of Brazilian Portuguese PB), in a diachronic and synchronic and diatopic perspective.
Full programme
In the mod. An introduction will be made to the history of the Portuguese language, following the diachronic path of the fundamental phases of their formation, in light of their geographical and cultural space.
• The Portuguese-speaking world: variation over time and space
• From Latin to vernacular: lexical, morphological and phonetic changes
• From “Galician-Portuguese” to “Old Portuguese”
• From "Middle Portuguese" to "Classical Portuguese"
• Grammars and the “norm”
• The Portuguese language between the 19th and 20th centuries
In the mod. B we will address concepts of linguistic variation, norms and linguistic preconceptions, observing them in their theoretical and practical dimensions, with particular attention to the complex and stratified Brazilian sociolinguistic reality.
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Portuguese in Africa
• Portuguese-based creoles
• Contemporary Portuguese: speakers and writers
• The literary language
Bibliography
Monografie di riferimento
- CARDEIRA, Esperança, Breve storia della lingua portoghese, Pisa, Pisa University Press, 2019 (MODULO A e B).
- CARDEIRA, Esperança; MIRA MATEUS, Helena, Norma e variação, Lisboa, Caminho, 2007 (MOD. A: pp. 11-42. ; MOD. B: pp. 43-84).
Other bibliographical references and study materials will be indicated before the start of the course.
Teaching methods
. – Lesson
- Seminar activity (text analysis)
The course will have a frontal character, being dedicated to the presentation of a historical-linguistic reality and the exposition of the main characteristics of "lusophony", and a collaborative one, through the analysis of texts and problems in seminar form.
All the material will be uploaded from lesson to lesson on the Elly page of the course.
The course will be accompanied by language exercises held by collaborators and linguistic experts during both semesters.
Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
The course (Lingua e traduzione I) will take place in the second semester.
