LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the student will have acquired knowledge and competences for metalinguistic analysis and textual and discursive anlaysis, including language for specific purposes. Knowledge and practical linguistic competences in written and oral mediation between French (level C1) and Italian will also be acquired through practical exercises with native speakers and mediation professionals.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning outcomes: 
- to acquire knowledge about variation phenomena;
- to identify and interpret such phenomena in French and Italian;
- to be able to manipulate and translate texts with variations.

PREREQUISITES

Students will have to posess language competences in French of level B2.

They will be able to sit for the third year exam only if they have passed the second year one. For further information, see the exams regulations on the French section page (http://www.lingue.unige.it/?op=sections&sub=view&section=4).

TEACHING METHODS

The theoretical module is divided into 30 presential hours + 6 workshop hours on Aulaweb for the translation of a section of the novel Libecciu. Calvi in the wind, by Petr'Antò Scolca.

Practical exercises will include interpreting, specialized translation and literary translation.

Presential lessons with Aulaweb support.

During presential lessons, and according to the number of students that regularly attend lessons, active participation will be encouraged and groupwork aiming at discovering variation phenomena and anlyzing them will be encouraged. The attendance of students who speak other languages is encouraged as it will be an enrichment for the course.

In the absence of restrictions due to Covid-19, the course will be taught in presential mode.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The programme will include reading, analysis and translation of different texts, that may belong to different genres and media: literature, comics, theatre, etc.

Detailed programme:

- diatopic variation : France and French-speaking world, French in Africa (Maghreb and Subsaharian Africa ), in America (Québec, Acadie, Louisiana), in DROM (Antilles, Réunion);

- diamesic variation : written and spoken French;

- diaphasic and diastratic variation : informal French, vernaculaire urbain contemporain.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

BERRUTO Gaetano (2012), Sociolinguistica dell’italiano contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci (nuova edizione).
DETEY Sylvain, DURAND Jacques, LAKS Bernard, LYCHE Chantal (dir., 2010), Les variétés de français parlé dans l’espace francophone, Paris, Ophrys.
GADET Françoise (2003), “La variation : le français dans l’espace social, régional et international”. In Yaguello, Marina (dir.), Le grand livre de la langue française, Paris, Editions du Seuil. pp. 91-152.
GADET Françoise (2007), La variation sociale en français, Paris, Ophrys.
PODEUR Josiane (2008), Jeux de traduction/Giochi di traduzione, Napoli, Liguori.
SOBRERO Alberto (dir., 1996 o edizione successiva), Introduzione all’italiano contemporaneo, vol. 2, “La variazione e gli usi”, Milano, Laterza.
SCOLCA Petr’Antò (2009), Pulitichella et autres histoires qu’il ne faut pas dire, Ajaccio, Albiana.
SCOLCA Petr’Antò (2014), Pulitichella e altre storie da non raccontare, traduzione di Anna Giaufret, Roma, Aracne.
Further information will be given during the course.