Università Roma Tre

The course intends to introduce students to the study of hispanic linguistics and to linguistic and cultural mediation between sister languages (spanish/italian). The course is structured into three thematic sections:
1. Overview of the hispanic world: the diffusion of Spanish; varieties and variation; fundamentals of the history of the spanish language.
2. Main characteristics of the spanish linguistic system: typological introduction; focus on the description of the phonetic-phonological level and on word formation processes; lexicon and semantics; introduction to the use of dictionary.
3. Introduction to the concept of linguistic and cultural mediation and to the fundamental theoretical and methodological problems involved in translation processes; interlinguistic and intercultural communication; mediation and translation activities based on simple texts belonging to different contexts of use.

Manuali e saggi
Una selezione di saggi di linguistica ispanica (rivolgersi alla docente).
Manuel CARRERA DÍAZ, Grammatica spagnola, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997 (capitoli selezionati);
Raffaella BERTAZZOLI, La traduzione: teorie e metodi, Carocci, 2015.
Marina ROMERO FRÍAS y Alessandra ESPA, “Problemas lingüísticos y extralingüísticos en la traducción de lenguas afines”, Espéculo (Revista de estudios literarios), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005, (accessibile online: http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero29/l_afines.html)

Libri di lettura e materiale audiovisivo
Horacio QUIROGA, Anaconda.
Gustavo Adolfo BECQUER, Leyendas. (parti selezionate)
Film: Alex de la Iglesia, La comunidad, 2000.
Guillermo del Toro, El laberinto del Fauno, 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 date.