LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION

The course aims to provide students with a general knowledge of the concepts and methods of the discipline, to deal with the description and analysis of the linguistic levels (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and textual) according to the scientific approach of modern Linguistics.

The course aims to offer the students also the skills necessary to consciously use the latest / most recent tools of Italian lexicography, for effective use of the vocabulary of the language in its various occasions.

Through laboratory activities, students will:

• acquire the necessary phonetic transcription skills (useful for example in consulting any dictionary, Italian or foreign);

• learn to represent the morphological structure of Italian words according to some theoretical models;

• understand and represent the syntactic structure of Italian sentences, comparing Italian with other languages.

I will combine the frontal lesson with other operational methods (interactive lesson) to rise interest and participation, also with the support of multimedia. If students will require it, I will use recovery and enhancement techniques, with clarifications and additions as well.

The slides used during the lessons and other useful material will be available in on Studium.

The course is divided in two modules.

A. Fundamentals of Linguistics: levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics); linguistic typology; textual linguistics.

B. Vocabulary and dictionaries: linguistic research and multimedia technologies, lexicon, usage dictionaries.

A. Fundamentals of Linguistics (7 CFU)

Testi:

1) G. Graffi, S. Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica, Terza edizione, Il Mulino, 2013 (pp. 337).

2) G. Gobber, M. Morani, Linguistica generale, McGrawHill Education, 2014, cap. 8 “Elementi di linguistica del testo”, pp. 133-146.

Lecture notes and slide (available on STUDIUM).

B. Lexicon and dictionaries (2 CFU)

Testi:

3) M. Aprile, Dalle parole ai dizionari, Il Mulino, 2015 [terza edizione], pp. 231.

4) Introduzione al Grande Dizionario della Lingua italiana (GraDIt), di T. De Mauro, Utet, Torino, 1999, vol. I, pp. VII-XLII.

Lecture notes and slide (available on STUDIUM).

Non-attending students and those who want to learn more about the topics of this module can also refer to:

• slide (available on STUDIUM).
• Mioni, Fonematica contrastiva, Patron, 1973.
• M. Nespor, Fonologia, Il Mulino, 1993.
• S. Scalise - A. Bisetto, La struttura delle parole, Il Mulino, 2008.
• Donati, La sintassi. Regole e strutture, Il Mulino, 2008.
• R.A. De Beaugrande - W.U. Dressler, Introduzione alla linguistica testuale, Il Mulino, 1994 [1981¹], pp. 1-28.
• E. Ježek, Lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni, Il Mulino, 2011 (second ed.).
• F. Casadei, Breve dizionario di linguistica, Roma, Carocci, 2001.

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.