Unit LINGUISTICS

Course
Foreign languages and cultures
Study-unit Code
GP004906
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Franco Lorenzi
Teachers
  • Franco Lorenzi
Hours
  • 54 ore - Franco Lorenzi
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Base
Area
Linguistica, semiotica e didattica delle lingue
Academic discipline
L-LIN/01
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
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 computational resources useful in the study of foreign modern languages and literatures.
Reference texts
Reference texts for the first module:
RAFFAELE SIMONE, Nuovi fondamenti di linguistica, Milano, MacGraw-Hill, 2013 (chapters 1-8).

Reference texts for the second module:
RAFFAELE SIMONE, Nuovi fondamenti di linguistica, Milano, MacGraw-Hill, 2013 (chapters 9-14).

Reference texts for the third module:
FRANCO LORENZI – DIANA PEPPOLONI (a cura di), Lingue e letterature straniere moderne, Rimini, Apogeo Education Maggioli Editore, 2015, e-book.

The course will provide bibliographic references for further readings

Students with disabilities and/or SLDs, in consultation with the lecturer, may request any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other technological tools to facilitate study. For general information, please consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Contact Person for the Department.
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 of communication and computational resources useful in the study of foreign modern languages and literatures.
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
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, Nuovi fondamenti di linguistica, Milano, McGraw-Hill, 2013.
Other information
For all information on lessons and exams, please visit the Department's website http://www.lettere.unipg.it/didattica.
The attendance at the course is strongly advised.

Students with disabilities and/or SLDs: for all information on the University's services, please visit https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsae and contact the Departmental Contact Person.
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 examinations for the first two modules of the course; such tests will be conducted following the previous criteria.

Students with disabilities and/or SLDs: for the exams, students can make use of the inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensatory measures provided for by the regulations. Technologies, tools and measures must be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the exams. For general information, consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsae and contact the Departmental Contact Person.
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 three modules: the first two are devoted to general issues, while the third examines communication and computational resources for the study of foreign languages.

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 and syntactic levels.

SECOND MODULE

The second module will continue the analysis of linguistic levels; we will deal with complex syntactic and deep cases, discourse, text, semantics and the lexicon. Particular attention will be devoted to linguistic pragmatics and the analysis of communicative functions of language.

THIRD MODULE

The final part of the course is devoted to computer mediated communication and computational resources for the study of foreign modern languages and literatures. The module introduces the fundamental concepts of electronic communication, from hypertexts to linguistic databases, with particular reference to great online textual archive and dictionaries. Then the course presents in detail computational tools for specific languages and literatures (Chinese, French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and German).
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