OVERVIEW

The course broadens the institutional knowledge acquired during the three-year degree course with a monograph approach.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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. 

PREREQUISITES

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. 

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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. 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

See Italian section

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ENRICO TESTA (President)

PAOLO ZUBLENA

MANUELA MANFREDINI (Substitute)

ELISA TONANI (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

First semester: Tuesday 19th September 2023 at nine (Aula 9 Balbi 2). 

Class schedule

HISTORY OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Acquired knowledge about course's themes and argumentation skills will be evaluated in the oral exam.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

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.