GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2015/2016
- Teacher
- ELISABETTA FAVA
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/01
Training objectives
- Training objectives of the course are to deepen the knowledge of the students concerning theoretical and methodological aspects of language. Students will acquire knowledge of the methodological distinctions between diachrony and synchrony. At the synchronic level, students will broaden the knowledge of syntactic principles, and theoretical aspects of semantics and pragmatics. This advanced knowledge in linguistics will allow students to develop quite independently a research in Italian, in different languages and in textual analyses with appropriate tools. The aim of this course for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates students is not to present a unified theory of meaning, but to survey a full range of semantic and pragmatic phenomena, in all their richness, variety and complexity. During the course students should acquire a knowledge of the linguistic methodologies useful to the study of texts.
Prerequisites
- fundamentals aspects of linguistic theory are presupposed (a basic linguistic course).
Course programme
- The organization of the course is in two parts. Part I discusses a range of basic notions that underlie virtually all discussions of meaning within linguistics. Part 2 introduces the core areas of pragmatic and highlights the relation between meaning and context. Grammatical analyses concerning speech acts, deixis and information structure are discussed. The grammatical categories relevant to the analyses, such as mood, inflectional properties, etc.
Didactic methods
- Lectures in-class student participation and a final written presentation in Italian or in English (no more than 10.000 characters) on a theme discussed in class. Foreign students are kindly urged to attend the lessons.
Learning assessment procedures
- Final written presentation in Italian or in English (no more than 10.000 characters) on a theme discussed in class. Foreign students are kindly urged to attend the lessons.
Reference texts
- William Croft, D.Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010.
