ITALIAN LANGUAGE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

BASA021

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART

Disciplinary Sector:

ITALIAN LINGUISTICS

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ORTOLANO PIERLUIGI

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

No prerequisite.

Objectives

The course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to understand the importance of the Italian language as an heritage of our culture. The structures, uses, and varieties of the language will be studied in depth. In the second part of the course, we will propose a reflection on the relationship between language and literature, with particular focus on the role of the character in the Italian literature.

Contents

The Italian language: structures, uses, and variety between language and literature.

Extended Syllabus

Topics that will be treated in class. First module of 24 hours of lesson: history of the Italian language; how to get to today’s Italian; the phonetics and the Italian phonetic system; morphology and syntax; the text; the lexicon; the many varieties used by Italians. Second module of 24 hours of lessons: language and characters in Italian literature.

Recommended Bibliography

Attending students:

1) L'italiano: strutture, usi, varietà, a cura di Rita Librandi, Roma, Carocci, 2019.
2) Il personaggio nella letteratura italiana, a cura di Antonio Sorella e Pierluigi Ortolano, Firenze, Cesati, 2019.

Non-attending students:

Teaching Methods

48 hours of lessons divided into classroom lectures, exercises, and seminars.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students’ skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Contacts/More Information

For any information you can contact the professor at the email address: pierluigi.ortolano@unich.it.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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