GENERAL LINGUISTICS I

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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Alphabetic division AK-LZ

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0065

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Divisions:

Cognomi A-L

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS

Is part of:

GENERAL LINGUISTICS I

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

CONSANI Carlo

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

114

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites: the discipline is characterized by technical content that does not have a direct background in the disciplines of secondary schools.

Objectives

The course aims to provide future graduates of the three-year degree course with a precise understanding of what a natural language is and how it works, as well as the communication functions connected with the different linguistic uses.

At the end of the course the students must be able to:
- know the main structural and functional characteristics of natural languages;
- know how to use the symbology of the international phonetic alphabet and know the phonological systems of Italian and English;
- know the principles of morphological and syntactic analysis, with applications to Italian;
- be able to analyze and manipulate the information structure of simple statements.

Contents

The functioning of natural languages according to the different levels of the linguistic articulation (phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax) with the related interconnections; language as a communication system: communication functions; pragmatic information organization.

Extended Syllabus

1) Theoretical and methodological aspects
• Illustration of the general principles of natural languages, such as the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign and the twofold articulation of language;
• exemplification of the different points of view according to which it is possible to examine a natural language (synchrony / diachrony, diastratic variability, diaphasic and diamesic variability);
• finally, the perspective of language as a communication system will be framed.
2) The sounds of language and languages
• We will deal with the treatment of a more strictly technical aspect, represented by the linguistic articulation plan related to the organization of sounds;
• particular attention will be paid to articulatory phonetics, including the international phonetic alphabet conventions and to the classical phonology of Prague School as a descriptive model of the functioning of sounds within a given linguistic system.
• elements of contrastive phonology between Italian and the main European languages.
3) Principles of morphology and syntax, especially in relation to the typological classification of languages and the pragmatic organization of information.

Recommended Bibliography

Students attending classes:
G. Berruto - M. Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, UTET, 2017 (2nd ed.);
- Teaching materials prepared by the teacher and made available to the attending students on the department website as a pdf file.

Students who do not attend classes:
G. Berruto - M. Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, UTET, 2017 (2nd ed.);
G.C. Lepschy, La linguistica del Novecento, Bologna, Il Mulino.

Teaching Methods

Class lessons and exercises.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Final oral exam, preceded, for the students attending, by two tests in itinere. All the tests, both partial and final, focus on the topics covered in that part of the course or in the entire course.
The in itinere tests take place in written form through the proposal of questionnaires with open, closed, multiple choice answers. The questions are 10 for each trial and the time available is 30 '. At the end of each test an evaluation is given (A = excellent, B = good, C = sufficient, D = insufficient).
In case of passing of both tests, the evaluations attributed are translated into / 30.
The student can choose whether to verbalize the proposed grade or integrate it with the oral exam.
Non-attending students are evaluated only through the oral exam.

Contacts/More Information

Given the technical nature of the discipline, attendance at lessons is strongly recommended.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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