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HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Teaching Staff

VALERIA DI CLEMENTE - Module ANTICO - L-LIN/12 - 3 CFU
MASSIMO STURIALE - Module MEDIOTARDO - L-LIN/12 - 6 CFU

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Detailed Course Content

• ANTICO
  

  Description and analysis of the development stages of the English language through the texts

• MEDIOTARDO
  

  Early and Late Modern English

  "From the Early to the Late Modern Period: Shaping the language”

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Textbook Information

• ANTICO
  

  1) N. Francovich Onesti, L'inglese dalle origini a oggi. Le vicende di una lingua, Roma 1988 (e seguenti)

  2) Materiale didattico fornito dal docente

• MEDIOTARDO
  

  Module 1

  1. D. Freeborn, From Old English to Standard English. A Course Book in Language Variation across Time, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2006.

  Selected texts

  2) G. Chaucer, “The General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales (1385);

  3) W. Caxton, Prologue to Eneydos (1490);

  4) T. Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1553);

  5) J. Cheke, Letter to Hoby (1557);

  6) G. Pettie, The Civile Conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo (1586)

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