The course broadens the institutional knowledge acquired during the three-year degree course with a monograph approach.
Analysing knowledge of the history of the Italian language with particular attention to the ancient language, non-standard variations of Italian, literary Italian and issues of style and metrics.
At the end of the course, students should be able to a) recognize the topics discussed during the lectures: onomatopoeic terms, interjections, forms of deixis and unsaid, discourse markers in Italian; b) analyze, in oral and written texts, the linguistic and stylistic features of the phenomena listed above.
The student must possess the following basic skills: notions of history of Italian language and historical grammar and knowledge of the essential bibliography of the discipline. In short: the basic knowledge acquired in each three-year history of the Italian language course.
Lectures
The course is divided into two parts.
6 CFU: Onomatopoeic terms, interjections, forms of deixis, discourse markers and unsaid in Italian.
3 CFU: Autobiographies written by non-literate authors.
See Italian section
Ricevimento: Wednesday fron 11 to 12, after the lessons. At Balbi 2, third floor.
ENRICO TESTA (President)
PAOLO ZUBLENA
MANUELA MANFREDINI (Substitute)
ELISA TONANI (Substitute)
First semester: Tuesday 19th September 2023 at nine (Aula 9 Balbi 2).
HISTORY OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE
Oral exam.
Acquired knowledge about course's themes and argumentation skills will be evaluated in the oral exam.
Students who have not taken a three-year course exam in History of the Italian Language or another course from the L-FIL-LET/12 sector must agree on an alternative programme with teaching staff.
