STORIA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA M - Z

To convey a knowledge of Italian linguistic history as a history of communicative uses in relation to linguistic, socio-political and literary history, in a European perspective;

To structure the metalinguistic reflection on changes in the phonomorphological, lexical and syntactic system in the transition from Latin to Italian;

To develop basic skills for understanding and linguistic reading of texts.

The course will adopt an interactive approach, aimed at making students aware and therefore applying the "rules" of linguistic and textual use of Italian with full mastery.

In the introductory lessons and in the workshop activities, paths of external and internal linguistic history will be built, with exercises aimed at transmitting metalinguistic skills suitable for a conscious active and passive knowledge of the Italian language.

External linguistic history: evolution from spoken Latin to the Tuscan dialect and the Italian language at all structural levels and in all varieties of use, focusing on the dynamics of italianization in written and oral communication (literature, religion, politics, bureaucracy, mass media) Internal linguistic history: observation of the principal phonetic, lexical and semantic, morphological changes in the passage from Latin to Italian; Grammar and stylistics: inter-relations among the various linguistic levels and analysis of different kinds of literary and non-literary texts.

A. History of Italian language (5 CFU)

Texts:

- C. Marazzini, La lingua italiana. Storia, testi, strumenti, Bologna, Il Mulino 2015, pp. 358

- P. D’Achille, Breve grammatica storica dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 138

B. Linguistics of Italian language (3 CFU)

Text:

- P. D’Achille, L’italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019, pp. 200

C. Language and culture (1 CFU)

Text:

- Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli, Antropologia e linguistica, Roma, Carocci, 2009, pp. 116

Reference texts for students who believe they have not completed the prerequisites for the discipline, and reference texts for students, for the purposes of the course activities:

• L. Serianni, La forza delle parole, Milano, Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori, 2019.
• M. Prandi, C. De Santis, Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana, Utet 2019, pp. 576.

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