OVERVIEW

This course aims to develop awareness on the part of the students with regard to:

• structure of communication; interaction between linguistic expressions and indexical structures;
• grammatical structures of simple sentence and its meaning; lexical structures and contents;
• from natural lexicon to special purposes terminologies.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Aim of the course is to enhance the students' awareness about the structure and functions of linguistic expressions and meanings in both L1 and L2.

TEACHING METHODS

Oral lessons

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Introduction: Language, indexicality and communication.

1. A grammar of rules

The sounds of languages: phonetics and phonology.

Syntax and semantics of the core of the sentence

2. A grammar of options

Expanding the core of the sentence

Communicative perspective

3. Natural lexicon and terminology
 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

General linguistics section:

M. Prandi, C. De Santis, Le regole e le scelte. Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana, UTET, Torino, 2011: Premessa, Parti I, II, III, VII

M. Prandi, Il significato delle espressioni e l'interpretazione dei messaggi, in F. Frasnedi, L. Salmon (a cura di), Il lettore e il senso, Clueb, Bologna, 1999: 56-69.
Disponibile su Aulaweb

M. Prandi, Sulla frontiera tra frase e testo: prospettive di analisi, in H. Jansen, P. Polito, L. Schosler, E. Strudsholm (a cura di), L'infinito e oltre. Omaggio a Gunver Skytte, Odense University Press, Odense 2002: 391-407.
Available on Aulaweb.

Lexicon and terminology section:

«Lessico naturale e lessici di specialità», in C. Navarro (a cura di), Terminología, traducción y comunicación especializada. Homenaje a Amelia de Irazazábal, Actas del Congreso Internacional, 11 – 12 de octubre 2007 – Verona, Fiorini, Verona, 2008: 359-386.
Available on Aulaweb.

Phonetics and Phonology section:

Federico Albano Leoni; Pietro Maturi, Manuale di fonetica. Nuova edizione (Università / 375 Linguistica), Roma, Carocci, terza edizione 2002 (172 p. + CD, ISBN 88-430-2127-3, 19,50), segnatamente le pp. 31-83 (= chapter 2: Fonetica articolatoria e trascrizione fonetica).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GUIDO GIOVANNI BORGHI (President)

MICHELE PRANDI (President)

LESSONS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral exam with the aim of assessing the student's ability to expose subjects of grammar and semantics in a coherent form. One subject will be chosen by the student, the others will be proposed by the Professor

Exam schedule