Unit LINGUISTICS
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004906
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Franco Lorenzi
- Teachers
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- Franco Lorenzi
- Hours
- 54 ore - Franco Lorenzi
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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 on metalanguage, communication, computational resources useful in the study of foreign modern languages and literatures and on academic writing.
- 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:
MATTEO LA GRASSA, Scrivere nelle università: testi e attività, Pisa, Pacini, 2020, e-book gratuito (https://www.pacinieditore.it/prodotto/scrivere-universita-testi-attivita-ebook/).
FRANCO LORENZI - ANDREA CAPACCIONI, Strimenti elettronici per la scrittura accademica, video course available on the course page in UNISTUDIUM (https://unistudium.unipg.it/).
Materials for further study will be provided during the course on the course page in UNISTUDIUM.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Educational objectives
- The course has the following learning objectives:
(1) knowledge of fundamental concepts and methods of modern linguistics, with specific references to human sciences and philosophical and historical disciplines;
(2) knowledge of metalinguistic tools useful to describe natural languages;
(3) knowledge of academic communication and writing, with particular reference to useful applications and electronic resources.
The main skills (i.e. the abilities to apply acquired knowledge) will be:
(1) describe the linguistic units at different levels (from the phonetic/phonological to semantic and textual level) with suitable formal tools, particularly mathematical;
(2) use the categories of traditional grammar and rhetoric as tools, with the awareness of their limitations and socio-historical relevance.
(3) acquire skills in academic writing and electronic applications useful for computer-mediated communication. - 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 SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - 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 with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - 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 academic writing. The module aims to provide some fundamental skills for academic and technical-scientific writing in the humanities. It starts with an analysis of documents and the elements that describe and identify them (the so-called metadata), to arrive at word processing procedures that enable the drafting of reports, theses, essays and presentations, using styles appropriate to the various disciplinary needs.