Unit LINGUISTICS
- Course
- Communication studies
- Study-unit Code
- GP003617
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Franco Lorenzi
- Teachers
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- Franco Lorenzi
- Hours
- 42 ore - Franco Lorenzi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline semiotiche, linguistiche e informatiche
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course presents the fundamental concepts and methods of linguistics, along with a detailed analysis of different linguistic levels. Linguistic researches are seen in close relationship with human sciences and philosophical and historical disciplines. The course offers reflections upon metalanguage, communication and the analysis of text and discourse in social contexts.
- Reference texts
- Reference texts for the first module:
RAFFAELE SIMONE, Nuovi fondamenti di linguistica, Milano, MacGraw-Hill, 2013 (chapters 1,2,3,5,7,9,11).
Reference texts for the second module:
RAFFAELE SIMONE, Nuovi fondamenti di linguistica, Milano, MacGraw-Hill, 2013 (chapters 12,14)
MIRKO TAVOSANIS – MARCO GASPERETTI, Comunicare, Milano, Apogeo, 2004, e-book.
The course will provide bibliographic references for further readings, available in the course page in Unistudium (https://unistudium.unipg.it/).
Working or non-attending students should contact the lecturer.
Students with disabilities and SLD:
https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and
https://scipol.unipg.it/studenti/disabilita-dsa - Educational objectives
- The course has the following learning objectives:
(a) knowledge of fundamental concepts and methods of modern linguistics, with specific references to human sciences and philosophical and historical disciplines;
(b) knowledge of metalinguistic tools useful to describe natural languages;
(c) knowledge about communication and discourse analysis, in relation to the study of social and linguistic variability.
The main skills (i.e. the abilities to apply acquired knowledge) will be:
(a) describe the linguistic units at different levels (from the phonetic/phonological to semantic and textual level) with suitable formal tools, particularly mathematical;
(b) use the categories of traditional grammar and rhetoric as tools, with the awareness of their limitations and socio-historical relevance. - Prerequisites
- No specific prerequisites are required to follow the topics covered in the course. It should be useful
the recovery of "traditional grammar" and of mathematical concepts used in years of schooling, because they will be relevant in linguistic analysis. - Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- Lectures on all topics of the course
- Exercises and tutorials on issues contained in the book by R. Simone, Fondamenti di linguistica, Milano, McGraw-Hill, 2013.
- Exercises and tutorials on text typologies contained in the book by M. Tavosanis – M. Gasperetti, Comunicare, Milano, Apogeo, 2004. - Other information
- For all information on lessons and exams, please visit http://www.scicom.unipg.it/ and the course page in Unistudium (https://unistudium.unipg.it/).
The attendance at the course is strongly advised.
Working or non-attending students should contact the lecturer for tutorials in preparation for the exam.
Students with disabilities and SLD:
https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and
https://scipol.unipg.it/studenti/disabilita-dsa - Learning verification modality
- The exam includes a final oral examination consisting of a discussion lasting about half an hour. It is designed to understand the student's knowledge on the theoretical and methodological issues of the course, focusing on the description of natural languages. Furthermore, the oral examination will allow to check the ability of argumentation and synthesis of the student, especially with regard to the presentation and understanding of the linguistic analysis.
Students can take partial examination for the first module of the course; such test will be conducted following the previous criteria.
Students with disabilities and SLD:
https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and
https://scipol.unipg.it/studenti/disabilita-dsa - Extended program
- The course presents in a systematic manner the concepts, methods and results of linguistics. Researches on natural language and verbal languages are treated in relationship to human sciences (anthropology, psychology, sociology, pedagogy) and to philosophical and historical disciplines. A particular attention is given to grammatical, rhetorical, and stylistic tradition which represents an area of knowledge very important, but often poorly known. The course consists of two modules: the first one is devoted to general issues, while the second examines communication and textual genres.
FIRST MODULE
The first part of the course introduces the basic concepts of the discipline, and the methods of analysis of linguistic data. The module starts from the theory of signs and semiotics, and then presents the study of linguistic universals and the analysis of a specific competence for a natural languages. The module describes the phonetic-phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic levels.
SECOND MODULE
The second module is devoted to text linguistics, semantics and pragmatics. Particular attention will be devoted to the analysis of communicative functions of language and linguistic variability, in a social and psychological perspective. The final part of the course deepens the study of textual genres in the contexts of social use and the analysis of hypertexts and multimedia communication.