ITALIAN LINGUISTICS 2: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

The course is one of the interdisciplinary activities of the degree course in Language Sciences. Focusing on the Italian language, it promotes theoretical knowledge and methodological competence that can be applied to the analysis of any textual corpus. In particular, the course aims to illustrate the principles and the instruments typical of discourse analysis, a research approach which, though enhancing linguistic awareness in the first place, draws at the same time on related disciplines, in order to disclose the features and the objectives of texts, in their inherent connection with the contexts of communication.

Students will acquire the fundamentals of discourse analysis; they will be able to understand the nature of communication processes, focusing in particular on enunciation and persuasion, both through argumentation and with the exploitation of ethos and pathos.
On the basis of the acquired theoretical and methodological competence, students will be able to analyse examples and small discourse corpora in Italian, focusing on texts belonging to different domains and genres.
The investigation of actual texts will promote a critical attitude, making it possible to single out discursive and persuasive features of different discourses. This, in its turn, will develop communicative competence to be exploited also in text production.

No specific previous knowledge is required.

Discourse and discourse analysis
Types and genres
Enunciation
Reference
Dialogism
Argumentation
Ethos and Pathos

Examples and analysis in the following domains:
Tourist communication;
Specialized and popularized scientific discourse;
Political communication;
Novels.

Antelmi, Donella (2012), Comunicazione e analisi del discorso. Torino: UTET

Further materials will be made available on the Moodle platform of the course.

Oral exam: assessment of knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological principles; application to the analysis of a small corpus of texts chosen by the student, belonging to one of the domains investigated during the lessons.

Conventional lectures; analysis of examples. Students are encouraged to participate to class discussions.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development