HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE FROM FIVE TO TWENTIETH CENTURY
cod. 1005904

Academic year 2014/15
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Linguistica italiana (L-FIL-LET/12)
Field
Filologia, linguistica generale e applicata
Type of training activity
Basic
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Learning objectives

The course will focus attention on te linguistic situation in the principal ages of italian lenguage; accordingly, it is meant to deepen student’s skills in writing italian lenguage.

Goals of the course (preferably expressed in terms of learning outcomes and competences): promoting individual or group research models on complex aspects of language in the ancient and contemporary age by mean of specific instruments for linguistic analysis (lexical in particular).
The student should be able to analyze the texts under consideration, at all their linguistic levels, and single out those elements wich are the most innovative, by knowing how to catalogue them.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The course gives some outlines of the history of italian Language, illustrates the periods of his evolution, examines same important texts from origin to Twentith century and explains the aspects more important of them.

Full programme

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Bibliography

C. Marazzini, La lingua italiana. Storia, testi, strumenti, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and exercises (analysis of several important texts fron different ages of Italian literature).

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be by written exam (the re-working of data collected in the course of the research) and by an oral exam on secondary readings.

Other information

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