GENERAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS mutuato
LINGUISTICA GENERALE
| A.Y. | Credits |
|---|---|
| 2015/2016 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
|---|---|---|
| Loretta Del Tutto |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide the student
- scientific support - anthropological, biological, cultural - essential to the understanding of the mechanisms that govern the historical languages, with special reference to Italian;
- the theoretical basis of linguistic discipline, and the specific analytical method that enables them to recognize and describe the universal characteristics of human communication, including textual mechanisms
- knowledge of different branches of historical linguistics as the study of cultural and environmental changes through the study of linguistic forms
Program
The program will have the following trends:
1. Linguistics as science (12 hours)
- What
- born when and why
- how it develops and why
- which schools, methods and theories to the '900
2. The structure of human languages (12 hours)
- specific characteristics and differences from animal languages
- Darwinian evolution and homo sapiens
- sounds of language: phonetics and phonology
- the construction of the words: morphology universal structure
- sentence construction: syntax universal structure
- the construction of meaning: the universal structure of the semantics
- mind, brain, language: physiology and pathology linguistic linguistics
- Noam Chomsky and Universal Grammar
- concept maps as a predictive text tool and mental organization
3. History of linguistics (12 hours)
the founders, schools, theories from '900 to today
Bridging Courses
Glottology
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The student must show
- mastery of scientific terminology and its specific use
- knowledge of the stages of linguistic thought
- knowledge of the structures of language and ability to analyze it using the methods of the discipline
- mastery of the basic concepts of the theory of language, also as a result of self-observation reached capacity as speaker / listener
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
optional: Cmap-project
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Course books
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Obligatory: ONE of
- G.BERRUTO-M.CERRUTI, LA LINGUISTICA, UTET 2011
- G.GRAFFI-S.SCALISE, LE LINGUE E IL LINGUAGGIO, IL MULINO 2013
Obligatory:
- L.DEL TUTTO, L'IDEA VIENE PARLANDO, ARAS EDIZIONI, 2015
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
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Obligatory
- G.BERRUTO-M.CERRUTI, LA LINGUISTICA, UTET 2011
- G.GRAFFI-S.SCALISE, LE LINGUE E IL LINGUAGGIO, IL MULINO 2013
Obligatorio:
L.DEL TUTTO, L'IDEA VIENE PARLANDO, ARAS EDIZIONI, 2015
- Assessment
oral examination.
written examination at he student option
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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