OVERVIEW

The course aims at developing the student's awareness with regard to:

• figurative language as a chapter of general linguistic analysis;
• figures of the plane of expression, of the plane of content, of communicative interaction.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To enhance the student's competence about figurative language, both conventional and creative, as components of complex expressions.

TEACHING METHODS

Oral lessons and workshops

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

a) Figures as forms of valorisation of linguistic means

b) Figures of the plane of expression: sounds, rhythms, constituent order

c) figures of the plane of content

Conceptual conflict as a form of valorisation of coding means

Figures of contraddiction: oxymoron

Figures of inconsistency: metaphor, metonymy and syneddoche

d) figures of communicative interaction: allegory, hyperbole, irony and litotes
 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Prandi, Le regole e le scelte. Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana, UTET, Torino, 206: Parte VIII.

About 50 pages among the following papers:

M. Black (1954). Metaphor, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 55. Ristampato in M. Black, Models and Metaphors. Studies in Language and Philosophy, Ithaca-Londra, 1962. Trad. it.: Metafora, in Black (1983), pp. 41-66.
- (1977): More about Metaphor, Dialectica 31. Tr. It.: Ancora sulla metafora, in Black (1983), pp. 97-135.
- (1983): Modelli, archetipi e metafore, Pratiche, Parma.
H. Weinrich (1958): Münze und Wort. Untersuchungen an einem Bildfeld, Romanica, Festschrift Rohlfs, Niemeyer, Halle: 508-521. Tr. it. Moneta e parola. Ricerche su di un campo metaforico, in Weinrich 1976: 31-48.
- (1963): Semantik der kühnen Metapher, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 37: 325-344. Tr. It. Semantica delle metafore audaci, in Weinrich 1976: 55-83.
- (1964): Typen der Gedächtnismetaphorik, Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte IX: 23-26. Tr. it. Metaphora memoriae, in Weinrich 1976: 49-53.
- (1967a): Linguistik des Widerspruchs, in To honor Roman Jakobson, Vol. III, Mouton, L'Aia, 1967. Tr. it.: Metafora e contraddizione, in Weinrich 1976: 105-114.
- (1967b): Semantik der Metapher, Folia Linguistica 1. Tr. it. Semantica della metafora, in Weinrich 1976: xx-xx.
- (1976): Metafora e menzogna, Il Mulino, Bologna.
M. Prandi: (2008) La metafora tra conflitto e coerenza: interazione, sostituzione, proiezione�, in C. Casadio (a cura di), Vie della metafora: linguistica, filosofia, psicologia, Prime Vie, Sulmona, 9-52.
- (2008): La métaphore: la pensée cohérente à l'épreuve du conflit conceptuel, in D. Jamet (a cura di), Dérives de la métaphore, L'Harmattan, Parigi: 31-41.
- (2010): Dalla sostituzione al conflitto: le metafore vive, in E. Gagliasso, G. Frezza (a cura di), Le metafore del vivente, Franco Angeli, Milano: 61-70.
- (2010): Il verso, il ritmo, e il genio della lingua, in M. A. Terzoli, A. Asor Rosa, G. Inglese (a cura di), Letteratura e filologia fra Svizzera e Italia. Studi in onore di Guglielmo Gorni, Vol. III : Dall'ottocento al novecento : letteratura e linguistica, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma, 2010: 273-287.
- (2010): L'interaction métaphorique: une grandeur algébrique, Prothée 18, 1: Le Groupe entre rhétorique et sémiotique, 2010: 75-84.

Texts will be available on Aulaweb.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MICHELE PRANDI (President)

GUIDO GIOVANNI BORGHI

CHIARA FEDRIANI

LESSONS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam aims to assess the student's ability to organise and expose relevant topics in a coherent way.

The first topic will be proposed by the student, the second by the Professor.

Exam schedule