CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH

The course aims to reinforce students’ linguistic and communicative competences in English, with the hope of accompanying them to level C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course also intends to provide students with diachronic awareness in order to improve their usage and knowledge of oral and written contemporary English and their translating skills.

The 36 hours in the teaching room (the total of the two modules, each of 18 hours) will take place over 18 classes of two hours' duration according to the timetable established at the beginning of the first semester. The first module will be devoted to diachronic linguistic analysis and the second one will deal with translation theory and practice.

The first module will be devoted to the evolution of the English language from Old English to Contemporary English including recent issues related to metrolingualism and Urban English. The second module will investigate theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of translation, also in a diachronic perspective.

McIntyre, D., History of English: A Resource Book for Students, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020, pages 1-288

AOtsuji , E. & Pennycook, A., “Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux”, pages 240-254, https://doi.org/10.1080/14790710903414331

Bassnett, S. Translation, Routledge, 2014, pages 1-201

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).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.