Students will be guided to strengthen and deepen their grammatical and linguistic skills. At the end of the course they will be able to move with greater awareness within the rules of Italian; they will have developed the ability to convey them in a didactic perspective; they will be better able to recognize the opportunities that language offers, and to use them in order to understand and produce written texts. The skills gradually acquired will be tested, deepened and discussed through the targeted exercises that form an integral part of the course. Finally, at the end of the lessons, students will be offered a further opportunity to measure the skills they have achieved through the writing of journalistic texts under the guidance of a professional journalist.
Course Prerequisites
Students are expected to master the Italian language and grammar.
Teaching Methods
Face-to-face interactive lectures. In the part of the course specifically dedicated to exercises, students will be guided to practise the public presentation of texts in the discipline; to face case studies; and to produce simulations of situations involving the targeted use of language.
Assessment Methods
Final oral exam covering both the required readings and the lessons contents. Students are NOT allowed to do the oral exam before their written exercises have been assessed. The final assessment, which will be delivered at the end of the oral test, will take into account, in addition to the result of the written exercise, the following factors: completeness of knowledge (partial knowledge of what has to be mastered in full is not accepted); ability to use the acquired notions to construct coherent discourses; effectiveness of exposition and mastery of the vocabulary specific to the discipline. Students non attending the course will be required to download and study the recorded lectures from the 2020-21 academic year available on the KIRO portal, and must demonstrate knowledge of the textbook listed above plus Luca Serianni, Prima lezione di grammatica, Laterza.
Texts
Vittorio Coletti, Grammatica dell’italiano adulto, il Mulino 2017; Mariarosa Bricchi, La lingua è un’orchestra. Piccola grammatica italiana per traduttori (e scriventi), il Saggiatore 2018; Angela Ferrari, Luciano Zampese, Grammatica: parole, frasi, testi dell’italiano, Carocci, 2016 (pp. 317-403).
Contents
The Linguistics Laboratory deals with a number of topics in grammar and textual linguistics, selected among those that can raise doubts even in native speakers, but on the other hand can offer opportunities to enhance individual expressive skills: language varieties and their correct use; the role of the connective elements the valency of verbs; the subjunctive; the use of punctuation; dislocation and cleft sentences. Each topic will be presented from the theoretical-linguistic point of view but also discussed through the close reading of prose examples (mainly essay pages by Italian writers from the 19th century to the present). The hours devoted to exercises will involve the students on topics connected with the theoretical lessons.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Student who are eligible for inclusive teaching are welcome to contact the teacher immediately after the start of the course in order to plan, when needed, meetings of specific activities
