Università Roma Tre

The aim of the course is to enlarge the competences already acquired on the spanish language, by dealing with a selection of relevant themes in hispanic linguistics, in a synchronic and contrastive perspective, and by introducing to the activity of translation as a form of linguistic and cultural mediation.
The description of the main structures of the linguistic system, focused on lexicon and phraseology and on syntax, will be accompanied by the analysis of real examples of linguistic use in spanish, with special attention to the various dimensions of variation (diatopic, diamesic, diaphasic, diastratic). The linguistic and textual analysis will aim to familiarize students with texts of different genre and typology, and will serve as a basis to carry out various kinds of activity of translation and oral and written mediation. Another part of the module will be dedicated to the illustration of the main instruments used by translators.

Manuali e saggi
Saggi selezionati di linguistica ispanica sugli argomenti in programma (rivolgersi alla docente);
Manuel CARRERA DÍAZ, Grammatica spagnola, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997 (capitoli scelti).

Libri di lettura e testi audiovisivi
Jordi GALCERÁN, El metodo Grönholm (per tutti);
Antonio SKÁRMETA, Ardiente paciencia (Prima lingua LLE e OCI);
Luis SEPÚLVEDA, Historia de la gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar (Seconda lingua LLE).

Film:
Montxo Armendáriz, Historias del Kronen, 1995.
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel, 2006.


Reference grammars and dictionaries, additional readings, listenings or exercise texts together with all relevant information regarding the course are available on the personal website (http://lingueletteratureculturestraniere.uniroma3.it/bacheca/mpalmerini/).

Students are requested to contact the professor (by email or during office hours) to confirm the detailed course programme and to receive the necessary instructions regarding the individual works due (also by email) within 10 days before the exam.