HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LT302

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

ITALIAN LINGUISTICS

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ORTOLANO PIERLUIGI

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

Knowledge acquired in the three-year courses of the L-FILLET / 12 (Italian Linguistics) sector.

Objectives

The course aims to deepen the relationship between printing and grammatical codification in the sixteenth century. In recent years, scholars realized that the standardization of Italian of the sixteenth century was achieved also, and above all, thanks to typographies. Grammars, revisers, correctors, and composers were the protagonists of a wave of adherence to a model that was, at the same time, chosen and imposed. This model was not certainly imposed by a state authority, as it happened in other European countries, but by the very needs of printing industry, the first real capitalist industry, which, as such, required uniformity of the product and the unification of the market.

Contents

History of italian Language, printing and grammatical codification in the sixteenth century.

Extended Syllabus

First module (3 ECTS credits, 21 hours of lectures): the question of language in the 16th century, the main grammars, and the role of printers in the standardization of language.

Second module (3 ECTS, 21 hours of lectures): Celso Cittadini, Trattato della vera origine, and the philology of printed texts.

Attending students:

1) Maurizio Vitale, La questione della lingua, Palermo, Palumbo, 1960 (studio delle pp. 5-63).

2) Antonio Sorella, Comporre il volgare in tipografia, in Scrivere il volgare fra Medioevo e Rinascimento, a cura di Nadia Cannata e Maria Antonietta Grignani,Atti del convegno di Studi «Scrivere il volgare fra Medioevo e Rinascimento», (Siena, 14-15 Maggio 2008), Pisa, Pacini, 2009, pp. 81-95.

3) Pierluigi Ortolano, Il Trattato della vera origine, e del processo, e nome della nostra lingua di Celso Cittadini (Venezia, Ciotti, 1601), in «Tipofilologia: rivista internazionale di studi filologici e linguistici sui testi a stampa», VII 2014, pp. 29-65.

4) Emiliano Picchiorri, Nome e aggettivo, in Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche, a cura di Giuseppe Antonelli, Matteo Motolese, Lorenzo Tomasin, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 233-259.

Non attending students:

1) Maurizio Vitale, La questione della lingua, Palermo, Palumbo, 1960 (studio delle pp. 5-63).

4) Emiliano Picchiorri, Nome e aggettivo, in Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche, a cura di Giuseppe Antonelli, Matteo Motolese, Lorenzo Tomasin, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 233-259.

5) Claudio Marazzini, Breve storia della questione della lingua, Roma, Carocci, 2018.

Recommended Bibliography

Attending students:

1) Maurizio Vitale, La questione della lingua, Palermo, Palumbo, 1960 (studio delle pp. 5-63).

4) Emiliano Picchiorri, Nome e aggettivo, in Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche, a cura di Giuseppe Antonelli, Matteo Motolese, Lorenzo Tomasin, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 233-259.

Non attending students:

1) Maurizio Vitale, La questione della lingua, Palermo, Palumbo, 1960 (studio delle pp. 5-63).

4) Emiliano Picchiorri, Nome e aggettivo, in Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche, a cura di Giuseppe Antonelli, Matteo Motolese, Lorenzo Tomasin, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 233-259.

5) Claudio Marazzini, Breve storia della questione della lingua, Roma, Carocci, 2018.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, Power points, seminars.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam, evaluated in thirtieths, which aims at verifying the ability to expose the topics covered with clarity and autonomy of judgment during the course.

Contacts/More Information

For any information you can contact the teacher at the email address:

pierluigi.ortolano@unich.it

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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