ITALIAN DIALECTOLOGY

Carolina STROMBOLI ITALIAN DIALECTOLOGY

0322100065
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES
EQF7
MODERN PHILOLOGY
2019/2020

YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2019
SECONDO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
630LESSONS
Objectives
AIM OF THE COURSE IS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONTEMPORARY ITALO-ROMANCE DIALECTS, BOTH DIACHRONICALLY AND SYNCHRONICALLY, AS FAR AS THE INTERNAL STRUCTURES AND THE SOCIO-LINGUISTIC USES AND CONTEXTS ARE CONCERNED.
KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION:
- TO ACQUIRE THE MAIN PRINCIPLES OF SOCIO-LINGUISTICS (LINGUISTIC VARIETY, DIALECT, VARIATION, NORM, BILINGUALISM, DIGLOSSIA);
- TO LEARN THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE ITALO-ROMANCE LINGUISTIC AREA AND OF ITS VARIETIES;
- TO LEARN THE MAIN PHONOLOGICAL, MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ITALO-ROMANCE DIALECTS, IN PARTICULAR OF THE DIALECTS OF CAMPANIA;
- TO LERN THE METHODOLOGY OF FIELD RESEARCH, DATA GATHERING AND THE PRESENTATION AND USE OF FIELD DATA IN DIALECTOLOGICAL STUDIES.
Prerequisites
GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF ORAL AND WRITTEN ITALIAN; BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF ITALIAN LINGUISTICS.
Contents
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIO-LINGUISTICS AND GEOLINGUISTICS, SUCH AS LANGUAGE, DIALECT, LINGUISTIC VARIETY, REPERTOIRE, CONTINUUM, LINGUISTIC AREA AND ISOGLOSS; CLASSIFICATION AND INTERNAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN ITALO-ROMANCE DIALECTAL TYPES; THODS, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF DIALECTOLOGICAL RESEARCH, WITH APPLICATION TO THE DIALECTS OF CAMPANIA.
Teaching Methods
LECTURES, EXERCISES, LAB.
Verification of learning
THE ORAL EXAM AIMS AT VERIFYING STUDENTS ABILITY TO DISCUSS TOPICS COVERED IN CLASS, EXPRESSING THEMSELVES CLEARLY. IT WILL ALSO VERIFY THEIR ABILITY TO PICK OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAITS OF WRITTEN AND ORAL TEXTS.
Texts
- C. MARCATO, DIALETTO, DIALETTI E ITALIANO, BOLOGNA, IL MULINO, 2002.
- N. DE BLASI, PROFILO LINGUISTICO DELLA CAMPANIA, ROMA-BARI, LATERZA, 2006.
- N. DE BLASI, IL DIALETTO NELL'ITALIA UNITA, ROMA, CAROCCI, 2019.
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