IOLANDA ALFANO | APPLIED LINGUISTICS
IOLANDA ALFANO APPLIED LINGUISTICS
cod. 0322100079
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
| 0322100079 | |
| DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES | |
| EQF7 | |
| MODERN PHILOLOGY | |
| 2022/2023 |
| YEAR OF COURSE 1 | |
| YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2019 | |
| AUTUMN SEMESTER |
| SSD | CFU | HOURS | ACTIVITY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-LIN/01 | 6 | 30 | LESSONS |
| Objectives | |
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| THE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAIN FIELDS OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, AN ORIENTATION ON THE WIDE VARIETY OF CORPORA, THE QUANTITATIVE METHODS OF THE DISCIPLINE, AND THE ANNOTATION PRACTICES ACCORDING TO THE STANDARDS OF LINGUISTIC RESEARCH, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE PRAGMATIC DIMENSION OF SPOKEN TEXTS. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: -ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAIN FIELDS OF APPLIED LINGUISTIC STUDIES (TECHNOLOGICAL, MEDICAL, FORENSIC); -UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE ANALYSIS OF SPOKEN TEXTS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT; -RECOGNIZING THE MAIN VARIABLES TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE VARIOUS STEPS OF CORPUS CONSTRUCTION (DESIGN, COLLECTION, REPRESENTATION, CODING AND MANAGEMENT); -IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CORPORA ACCORDING TO VARIOUS CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA AND THEIR MAIN APPLICATIONS IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH; -ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE AND TOOLS TO ENABLE RIGOROUS TEXTUAL ANALYSIS, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO SPOKEN TEXTS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: -ORIENTATE THEMSELVES IN THE PANORAMA OF THE MAIN METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE DISCIPLINE; -MASTER SOME COMPUTER TOOLS FOR CONSULTING, ANNOTATING AND QUERYING CORPORA; -CRITICALLY ANALYZE AN ANNOTATION TAG-SET AND ASSESS ITS INTERNAL COHERENCE; -SEARCH AND CONSULT THE MAIN CORPORA IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES ACCORDING TO THE AIMS OF THEIR RESEARCH; -PRODUCE A SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION FOLLOWING GUIDELINES; -PRODUCE AN ANNOTATION OF CERTAIN PRAGMATIC ELEMENTS; -READ AND INTERPRET ANNOTATED TEXTS OF VARIOUS KINDS. MAKING JUDGEMENTS STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: -EVALUATE THE MAIN SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIABLES TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE METHODOLOGICAL CHOICES OF COLLECTION, SELECTION AND ANALYSIS OF TEXTS; -ANALYZING ANNOTATED TEXTS OF VARIOUS TYPES, IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS CONTEXTS OF USE AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES; -IDENTIFY AND CRITICALLY EVALUATE VARIOUS TEXTUAL PHENOMENA; -FORMULATING AUTONOMOUS JUDGEMENTS AND THEIR OWN POINTS OF VIEW ON ISSUES RELATED TO LINGUISTIC ANNOTATION PRACTICES. COMMUNICATION SKILLS STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: -USE THE METALANGUAGE OF THE DISCIPLINE APPROPRIATELY; -COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY AND WITH APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE THE CONTENTS LEARNED TO INTERLOCUTORS OF DIFFERENT TYPES; -TO ADEQUATELY PRESENT THE CONTENTS OF THE DISCIPLINE THROUGH THE USE OF ADEQUATE TERMINOLOGY AND REGISTERS APPROPRIATE TO THE VARIOUS COMMUNICATIVE SITUATIONS; -ELABORATE CRITICAL AND RELEVANT ANALYSES OF THE TOPICS ADDRESSED. LEARNING SKILLS STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: -IDENTIFY AND USE THE TOOLS OF ANALYSIS, IN-DEPTH STUDY AND SCIENTIFIC UPDATING OF LINGUISTIC RESEARCH; -ACCESSING DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE IN ENGLISH; -TO BE ABLE TO CRITICALLY ELABORATE THE CONTENTS; -TO CONTINUOUSLY UPDATE THEIR KNOWLEDGE, USING TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. |
| Prerequisites | |
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| IT IS NECESSARY TO HAVE A GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF THE BASICS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS. |
| Contents | |
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| - INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE DISCIPLINE AND NEIGHBOURING DISCIPLINES (2H LESSON) - CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND DEFINITION OF CORPUS (2H LESSON) - CORPORA: CLASSIFICATION OF TYPES AND PURPOSES (2H LESSON) - CORPUS CONSTRUCTION PHASES: DESIGN, COLLECTION, REPRESENTATION, CODING, ARCHIVING, MANAGEMENT (12 H LESSON + 4 H PRACTICE) - PRAGMATIC DIMENSION AND ANNOTATION OF DISCOURSE MARKERS (4H LESSON + 4H PRACTICE) |
| Teaching Methods | |
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| THE COURSE CONSISTS OF LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES. PARTICIPANTS WILL CARRY OUT ANALYSES ON SPEECH DATA FOCUSING ON ELICITATION TECHNIQUES, TRANSCRIPTION AND LABELLING OF CORPUS SAMPLES. THE LECTURES WILL BE CONDUCTED IN A HIGHLY INTERACTIVE MODE, WITH STUDENTS READING SOME ASSIGNED ESSAYS AND CARRYING OUT ONLINE RESEARCH, WHICH WILL BE SHARED AND DISCUSSED IN THE CLASSROOM. |
| Verification of learning | |
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| WRITTEN EXAM IN THE ASSESSMENT OF THE EXAMINATION WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION: KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TOPICS OF THE DISCIPLINE; THE ABILITY TO CONNECT THE VARIOUS AREAS OF THE DISCIPLINE AND TO APPLY THEORETICAL CONCEPTS TO PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF LINGUISTIC DATA ANALYSIS; THE CORRECTNESS AND CLARITY OF WRITTEN EXPOSITION; THE ABILITY TO FOCUS, STRUCTURE AND ELABORATE ON THE SPECIFIC CONCEPTS OF THE WORK; THE CORRECTNESS OF THE SOLUTIONS TO THE ANALYTICAL PROBLEMS PROPOSED. THE EXAMINATION CONSISTS OF A WRITTEN TEST FOR BOTH ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS CONSISTING OF: A) OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS ON THE RESPECTIVE SYLLABUSES [BRIEF ABSTRACTS, DEFINITIONS OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE DISCIPLINE, ILLUSTRATIONS OF APPLICATIVE ASPECTS, SEMIOTIC PECULIARITIES OF SPEECH, ELEMENTS OF LINGUISTIC PRAGMATICS]); B) TRANSCRIPTION AND/OR PRAGMATIC ANNOTATION EXERCISES OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE SAMPLES. IN ADDITION, THE ATTENDING STUDENTS MAY, OPTIONALLY, SUBMIT A WRITTEN PAPER ON A SPECIFIC TOPIC AGREED WITH THE LECTURER, AS PART OF AN APPLIED WORK (TRANSCRIPTION AND LABELLING OF LINGUISTIC DATA), PREPARED AT THE END OF THE COURSE. THIS APPLICATION WORK MUST BE SENT BY E-MAIL AT LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE THE CALL TO WHICH ONE INTENDS TO ENROL. A STUDENT WHO ATTENDS AT LEAST 70% OF THE LECTURES WILL BE CONSIDERED TO BE AN "ATTENDING STUDENT". NO MORE THAN 4 ABSENCES ARE ALLOWED. IN PARTICULAR, FOR THOSE WHO INTEND TO SIT THE EXAM AS AN ATTENDING STUDENT, PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES IS ESSENTIAL. THE FINAL ASSESSMENT WILL BE GIVEN ON THE BASIS OF THE WRITTEN TEST AND THE FINAL PAPER (OPTIONAL), WHICH WILL BE WORTH BETWEEN 1 AND 5 ADDITIONAL POINTS. |
| Texts | |
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| ATTENDING STUDENTS - FREDDI, M. (2014). LINGUISTICA DEI CORPORA. ROMA, CAROCCI. - CHIARI I., (2007). INTRODUZIONE ALLA LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE. BARI, LATERZA. (CAP. 1 -2). - PIERAZZO E., (2005). LA CODIFICA DEI TESTI. ROMA, CAROCCI. (CAP. 1) - EDWARDS J.A., (1993). ‘PRINCIPLES AND CONTRASTING SYSTEMS OF DISCOURCE TRANSCRIPTION’, IN EDWARDS J.A., LAMPERT M.D., (EDS), TALKING DATA: TRANSCRIPTION AND CODING IN DISCOURSE RESEARCH, HILLSDALE, NEW JERSEY, LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, PP: 3-31. - SANSÒ, A. (2020). I SEGNALI DISCORSIVI. ROMA, CAROCCI. (CAP. 1) ADDITIONAL LITERATURE AND PRACTICE MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE COURSE. NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS - FREDDI, M. (2014). LINGUISTICA DEI CORPORA. ROMA, CAROCCI. - CHIARI I., (2007). INTRODUZIONE ALLA LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE. BARI, LATERZA. (CAP. 1 -2). - SANSÒ, A. (2020). I SEGNALI DISCORSIVI. ROMA, CAROCCI. (CAP. 1) - CAFFI C. (2009). PRAGMATICA: 6 LEZIONI. ROMA, CAROCCI. |
| More Information | |
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| NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO CONTACT PROFESSOR ALFANO VIA EMAIL (IALFANO@UNISA.IT). |
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