Università Roma Tre

The course aims to outline an overview of Portuguese varieties in a synchronic perspective.
The main contents of the course are as follows:
- Concept of standard language;
- Analysis of dimensions of linguistic variation;
- Outline of the diacronic development of Portuguese;
- Main aspects of the European standard;
- Outline of the historic and cultural development of Brazilian Portuguese;
- Main aspects of the Brazilian standard;
- Outline of Portuguese-speaking African countries ​​(PALOP): Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe;
- Portuguese in Asia: East Timor
- Outline of the main characteristics of Portuguese-based creole languages;
- Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990;
- Analysis and translation into Italian of texts relating to the tourist field;
- Analysis and translation into Italian of texts relating to the cultural traditions of Portuguese-speaking countries.

Mateus, M. H. M– Cardeira, E., Norma e variação, Lisboa, Caminho, 2007;
Lingue policentriche a confronto: quando la periferia diventa centro, a cura di G. L. De Rosa e A. De Laurentiis, Milano, Polimetrica, 2009;
Da Roma all’Oceano. La lingua portoghese nel mondo, a cura di G. de Marchis, Roma, La Nuova Frontiera, 2008;
Lusoglosse, a cura di G. de Marchis, Roma, La Nuova Frontiera, 2011;
Pippa, S., “Le ricette brasiliane fra tradizione e modernità: una riflessione sulla lingua e la traduzione” in Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, a cura di C. Cattarulla, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2017, pp. 239-258.