Unit ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR

LABORATORY OF BED/WRITING

Code	A000593
CFU	1
Teacher	Alberto Calderini
Teachers	Alberto Calderini
Hours	15 ore - Alberto Calderini
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Linguistica
Academic discipline	L-FIL-LET/12
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	Theories on learning how to read and write; methods of teaching how to read and write (child-focused); lab activities.
Reference texts	Antonio Calvani, Luciana Ventriglia, Insegnare a leggere ai bambini, Roma, Carocci Faber, 2020.
Educational objectives	This class aims at describing the theories on how children learn to read and write and on related teaching methods. Main knowledge acquired by students will concern: - the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms activated by learning how to read and write in children; - The features of possible learning difficulties; Main skills acquired by students will be: - the most suitable teaching methods; - the lab and gaming activities to use during teaching.
Prerequisites	none
Teaching methods	The class is organized as follows: - Lectures hold in presence or online and lab activities (alone as well as in group).
Other information	Office hours by appointment. alberto.calderini@unipg.it riccardo.massarelli@unipg.it
Learning verification modality	The exam is the discussion of a lab activity that student must process on their own. The exam aims at assessing the level of knowledge of topics addressed as well as competence of expression, synthesis and reasoning achieved by the student. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test.
Extended program	Foundations on history of writing. Teaching methods compared: synthetic method and analytic (global) method. Reading phases according to Frith (1985). Metaphonological competence (sounds and syllables). Levels of awareness in writing (Ferreiro &Teberosky 1985). Description of main learning difficulties (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysorthographia). Assessment of support tools. Good practices for teaching. Lab activities.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR I MODULE

Code	A000591
CFU	6
Teacher	Riccardo Massarelli
Teachers	Riccardo Massarelli
Hours	36 ore - Riccardo Massarelli
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Linguistica
Academic discipline	L-FIL-LET/12
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	Foundations of semiotics; verbal and non-verbal language; key elements of pragmatics; sociolinguistics and in-depth analyses of sociocultural and linguistic parameters of variation, above all concerning Italian. Outline of history of Italian language.
Reference texts	Cecilia Andorno, Che cos’è la pragmatica linguistica, Roma, Carocci, 2005. Michele Prandi, Cristiana De Santis, Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana, Torino, UTET, 2019.
Educational objectives	This class aims at describing the main aspects of the science of language, particularly relating to Italian. Main knowledge acquired by students will concern: - the various components of communicative exchange and their functions; - context as a fundamental dimension for the definition of communicative exchange; - the parameters of variation of linguistic codes and the ways of variation. Main skills acquired by students will be: - being able to recognise different codes and different communicative contexts and being able to apply their own skills to the needs of communicative exchange.
Prerequisites	None.
Teaching methods	The class is organized as follows: - Lectures on all subjects of the class, hold online or blended (in presence and online).
Other information	Office hours by appointment. riccardo.massarelli@unipg.it
Learning verification modality	The exam is an oral test consisting of a discussion on the topics addressed during lectures and examined in depth by students through recommended texts. The exam aims at assessing the level of knowledge of topics addressed as well as competence of expression, synthesis and reasoning achieved by the student. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test.
Extended program	Foundations of semiotics: what is language; human language and other languages; features of human language. Semiotic triangle; index, icon and symbol. What is a sign; what is a code. Theory of communication; comparing communicative patterns: Shannon & Weaver; Bühler; Jakobson. Functions of language: Jakobson, Hallyday and others. Foundations of semantics: intension and extension; denotation and connotation. Theories on meaning: referentialist, structuralist, conceptualist. Theory of prototypes. Other fundamental concepts: competence and performance; double articolation; syncrony and diacrony; sinthagmatic and paradigmatic. Pragmatics: Morris; Levinson. The context. Limits of verbal language: homonymy, polisemy, ambiguity, vaugeness, indeterminacy. Deixis. Utterance. Triple organization of utterance. Austin: performative and constative utterances, truth conditions and happiness conditions, theory of speech act. Grice: principle of cooperation, maxims, conversational implicatures. Hymes: linguistic competence and communicative competence, the S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G communicative model. Non-verbal communication: paralanguage; kinesics; proxemics; haptics. Sociolinguistics: macro- and micro-sociolinguistic dimension. Variables, variants and varieties. Parameters of variation: diatopic, diaphasic, diastratic, diamesic. Concepts of linguistic community, repertory, bilingualism, diglossia, dilalia, code switching; varieties of Italian; Italian and dialects. Linguistic minorities: language politics; language planning. Pidgins and creoles. Labov and variationist sociolinguistics: linguistic surveys in Martha’s Vineyard (1963) and New York City (1966). Sociolinguistics and education: theory of language codes by Bernstein and critique by Labov. Conversation analysis: principles of conversation; the turn; turn-taking and turn sequences; selection of speaker: adjacent pairs e and complementary sequences; the concept of “preference”; repair; opening and closing a conversation; conversational transcription. Outline of the history of Italian language: from Latin to Italian; first witnesses; Dante and the vulgar language: the De vulgari eloquentia; Petrarca; Bocaccio; the XV century: Alberti; the XVI century: Galilei; the XVII century: opposite trends; the XVIII century: Manzoni, Ascoli and the issue of the language; the XIX century: Croce, Gramsci and Pasolini.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR II MODULE

Code	A000592
CFU	6
Teacher	Riccardo Massarelli
Teachers	Riccardo Massarelli
Hours	36 ore - Riccardo Massarelli
Learning activities	Caratterizzante
Area	Linguistica
Academic discipline	L-FIL-LET/12
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	Linguistic study of Italian through different levels of analysis: phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexicon, semantics, text linguistics.
Reference texts	Michele Prandi, Cristiana De Santis, Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana, Torino, UTET, 2019.
Educational objectives	This class aims at describing the Italian language and its features according to specific levels of analysis. Main knowledge acquired by students will concern: - the nature of sounds in Italian e the difference between phonetic and phonological levels, as well as the dimension of writing as a secondary code; - word in Italian, morphosyntactic features conveyed and patterns of enrichment of lexicon; - syntax of Italian, concerning order of constituents and structure dependency; - the structure of text as a complex unit, characterized by cohesion and coherence; Main skills acquired by students will be: - being able to recognise different levels of linguistic analysis of Italian and being able to apply their own skills in the scope of a possibile future teaching activity. This class aims at describing the Italian language and its features according to specific levels of analysis. Main knowledge acquired by students will concern: - the nature of sounds in Italian e the difference between phonetic and phonological levels, as well as the dimension of writing as a secondary code; - word in Italian, morphosyntactic features conveyed and patterns of enrichment of lexicon; - syntax of Italian, concerning order of constituents and structure dependency; - the structure of text as a complex unit, characterized by cohesion and coherence; Main skills acquired by students will be: - being able to recognise different levels of linguistic analysis of Italian and being able to apply their own skills in the scope of a possibile future teaching activity.
Prerequisites	Students must have attended the first module of Italian linguistics and grammar.
Teaching methods	The class is organized as follows: - Lectures on all subjects of the class, hold in presence or online. - lab activities concerning teaching tecniques on reading and writing (hold by other teacher).
Other information	Office hours by appointment. riccardo.massarelli@unipg.it
Learning verification modality	The exam is an oral test consisting of a discussion on the topics addressed during lectures (both from first and from second module) and examined in depth by students through recommended texts. Before the final oral text students must have undergone a text on the lab activities which consists in the presentation of a lab work (individual or group work). The exam aims at assessing the level of knowledge of topics addressed as well as competence of expression, synthesis and reasoning achieved by the student. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test.
Extended program	Phonetics: acoustic, articulatory and auditory phonetics; IPA alphabet; vocal tract; pulmonic and non-pulmonic sounds; vowels and classifying parameters: frontness/backness, height, roundedness, nasalization. Diphthongs, triphthongs and hiatus. Consonants and classifying parameters: manner and place of articulation and phonation. Syllable. Phonology: phonemes, allophones and free variants; minimal pairs. Prosodic or suprasegmental traits: length, stress, tone, intonation. Alphabet. Notes on historical linguistics: from Latin to Italian. Morphology: definition of word. Types of morphemes: lexical, derivational, grammatical. Morphemes and allomorphs. Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, prepositions, conjunctions. Grammatical categories: number; gender; animacy; case; person; tense; aspect; mode; voice. Lexicon and vocabulary. Rules of formation of lexems: composition, derivations, other tools for increasing lexicon. Motion. Lexical semantics: paradigmatic and syntagmatic semantic relations. Syntax. Sentence: order of constituents; structure dependency. Head and modifier; marked and non-marked; argumental structure of sentence. Types of syntagmatic structures; types of expansions. Syntax of complex sentence; completive clauses: objective and subjective clauses; restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses. Relations among clauses and sentences. Thematic roles; triple organization of utterance; alignment; accusativity and ergativity; transitivity as a clause-level, multifactorial and graduated feature; transitivity and narration. Texts as a linguistic unit. Constitutive principles of text: cohesion. Cohesive elements: substitute expressions (anaphora and cataphora); discourse markers (text connectors and connectors with pragmatic value). Constitutive principles of text: coherence. Thematic coherence; logic coherence; semantic coherence. Pragmatic principles of text: intentionality, acceptability; informativity, situationality, intertextuality. Regulative principles of text: efficiency, effectiveness, appropriateness. Verbal tenses and textual value.