– Develop the ability to recognize and analyze the different text types, identified in their functions and linguistic features. – Provide useful tools for the drafting of texts that reach an adequate argumentative articulation and cohesion.
Course Prerequisites
Elements of Italian grammar; reading skills and linguistic analysis of the text. Erasmus students should already have at least a B2 level in Italian.
Teaching Methods
Lectures and tutorials. Power Point presentations, made available to students in the teaching section on the KIRO platform, are used to conduct the lectures. Students who, for justified and documented reasons, cannot attend classes regularly (see link https://portale.unipv.it/it/didattica/servizi-lo-studente/modalita-didattiche-inclusive) are welcome to contact the lecturer in order to agree on appropriate teaching methods and materials for independent preparation of the final test.
Assessment Methods
The oral examination will include pointed and open-ended questions (designed to ascertain preparation, language property and ability to organize discourse). The final paper will be an argumentative text on a historical-literary topic assigned during the course (more precise directions will be given in class and made available on Kiro). This personal work should be emailed to the professor at least one week before the oral exam.
Contents
Architecture and varieties of contemporary Italian. Written and spoken. Textual typologies: some classifications. Notions of textual linguistics: cohesion and coherence. Discussion and analysis of different exemplary texts: bureaucratic, literary, essay, editorial, advertising, journalistic and educational. Argumentative writing, theses and term papers.
