GENERAL LINGUISTICS

L-LIN/01 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

IRIDE VALENTI


Learning Objectives

The course of Linguistics and Communication aims to provide the students:

1) elements and methods of analysis necessary to grasp the basic principles of the complex functioning and change of their own language, both oral and written, i.e. in a synchronic, diachronic and typological perspective;

2) the skills necessary to consciously use the latest tools of Italian lexicography, in order to achieve an effective use of the terminology of the language in its various occasions;

3) methods of discernment on interlinguistics and on the effects deriving from the contact between different languages, with examples particularly relating to the linguistic and cultural situation of the Sicily and the Sicilian dialect.

The program also takes into account the ministerial guidelines for teaching in the state secondary school; since the National Curriculum attributes a significant number of credits to this course, students are strongly advised to take it.



Detailed Course Content

Basic principles of linguistics (5 CFU)

Texts:



Textbook Information

Basic principles of linguistics (5 CFU)

  1. G. Graffi, S. Scalise , Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica, Il Mulino, 2013, pp. 344.

  2. R.A. DEBEAUGRANDE, W. U. DRESSLER, Introduzione alla linguistica testuale, Il Mulino, 1994 [19811], pp. 1-28.

  3. S. Gensini, Fare comunicazione, Carocci, 2008, pp. 17-98.

Non-attending students may also refer to:

Vocaboulary and dictionaries (2 CFU)

Non- attending students may also refer to the slides of the lectures (STUDIUM).

  1. M. Aprile, Dalle parole ai dizionari, Il Mulino, 2009, pp. 1-231.

5a. Introduzione al Grande Dizionario della Lingua italiana (GraDIt), di T. De Mauro, Utet, Torino, 1999, vol. I, pp. VII-XLII (da integrare con le Introduzione al Vol. VII [2004, pp. VII-XVI] e al vol. VIII [2007, pp. VII-XIII]).

5b. Postfazione al Grande Dizionario della Lingua italiana (GraDIt), di T. De Mauro, Utet, Torino, 2000, vol. VI, pp. 1163-1183.

6. Presentazione - La trama del dizionario di F. Sabatini - V. Coletti, Dizionario della lingua italiana, Sansoni, Varese 2012, pp. 7-16.

Languages and culture in sicily (2 CFU)

7. Salvatore Carmelo Trovato, Iride Valenti, Lingua e storia [in Sicily], in G. Ruffino (ed.), Lingue e culture in Sicilia, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, Palermo, 2013, pp. 1-89.

8. Iride Valenti, Fatti di interferenza linguistica e culturale in Sicilia, Euno Edizioni, 2014, pp. 1-90.




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