HISTORY OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE

L-LIN/14 - 6 CFU - Annual Tuition

Teaching Staff

RENATA GIUSEPPA GAMBINO


Course Structure

The course will be divided into a series of lessons hld by the teacher and of group works. The practical exercise of the German language will be provided also by the mother tongue expert. All the lessons will be held in German and all the communications with the teacher and the expert will be in German.



Detailed Course Content

The course will particularly focus on the peculiarities of contemporary German and academic writing. Stylistic, rhetoric and syntactic peculiarities will also be examined as focus of interest academic and professional writing (section A).

Part of the course will be dedicated to the analysis of texts and to academic writing. The analysis will take different research perspectives into account trying to unfold different layers and peculiarities (section B).

An anthology of different texts (section C) will provide the start-up discussion, and written exercises, to develop individual skills and a final research project (presentation and written papers) that will be evaluated during the exam.

The project and the research will be guided and followed by the teacher during the course and by the linguistic expert during the hours of laboratory.



Textbook Information

A Academic writing and translation

- H.Gruber, B. Huemer, M. Rheindorf, Wissenschaftliches Schreiben: Ein Praxisbuch für Studierende der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, UTB, 2009, pp. 240.

 

B Genre, style, methaphorik

Karl-Heinz Göttert, Deutsch: Biographie einer Sprache, Ullstein, Berlin, 2010, pp. 400.

C Reading texts:

Viktor Klemperer, LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen, Reclam, Leipzig, 2007, S.385

 

A reader of texts in German will be available on the web-page of STUDIUM and will be the starting point for the group works.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).




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