TEXTUAL LINGUISTICS AND DIDACTICS

AIMS: To introduce specific methods, main theories and results in Text Linguistics (The seven standards of textuality; the procedural approach) and Stylistics; to provide conceptual and methodological instruments for the linguistic analysis of prose and poetry (with a competence of rhetoric and metrics) and to awake awareness of the historical, stylistic and rhetorical value of the literary tradition; to provide historical, cultural and methodological coordinates for teaching Italian as first and second language.

OBJECTIVES: To develop professional skills such as to reach an advanced competence concerning grammar and lexical structures of Italian as well as its written and oral uses

METHODS: To adopt grid functional to analyze texts of different nature and genre, giving preeminence to literary texts in order to keep the awareness of its historical value, and to convey metrical and rhetoric skills

Lectures

Historical grammar and history of the language as a teaching aid to give the sense of structural and cultural continuity between Latin and Italian, and Italian and other cultural languages. Textual linguistics and rhetoric as verbal art and technique: models for text’s analysis, linguistics and texts typology, metrics, rhetorics, stylistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, philology. Teaching Italian as first and second language: historical, sociolinguistic grammatical and textual perspectives.

1. Textual Linguistics and Rethorics (2 ECTS).

Texts:

- O. Reboul, Introduzione alla retorica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002, pp. 200

- A. Ferrari, L. Zampese, Il testo, in Grammatica: parole, frasi, testi dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2016, pp. 317-403.

1. Linguistic analysis of texts (2 ECTS).

Texts: Fictional texts by Italian writers

- L. Serianni, Introduzione alla lingua poetica italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2001, pp. 11-41 e 221-238.

1. Teaching Italian language (2 ECTS).

Texts:

- R. Calò, Educazione linguistica e plurilinguismo, Roma, Aracne ed., 2015, pp. 260.

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