- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.

- Cecilia Andorno, Che cos'è la pragmatica linguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La lingua disonesta. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019.

The course aims to analyze, within the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar, the relationship between syntax, prosody, semantics and discourse grammar, and to provide skills related to research in the scientific field, through the creation of experiments to be submitted to informants (native speakers of the language chosen for analysis), for the collection of data to be subsequently subjected to analysis (including through statistical analysis tools).
Specifically, the research work may focus on the following areas of investigation (to be defined during the course):
(1) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, exclusive, purposive), taking into account their semantic, syntactic (in situ vs. fronted) and prosodic properties.
(2) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Topic, the creation of topic chains and the interpretation of the null subject in a comparison of pro-drop languages (total, partial to radical) and non-pro-drop languages (such as Germanic languages).
(3) Nominal modification in its various cross-linguistic realizations (adjectives, relative phrases, prepositional phrases).
(4) Verbal modification, with special attention to the category of so-called "adjuncts."

- Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2008). L’analisi Linguistica. Dai dati alla teoria. Roma/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Capitoli scelti).
- Frascarelli, Mara (2007). Subjects, Topics and the Interpretation of Referential pro. An interface approach to the linking of (null) pronouns. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25, 4: 691-734
- Frascarelli, Mara (2017). Dislocations and Framings. In Elisabeth Stark and Andreas Dufter (eds.) Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax, 472-501. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics). Berlin: Mouton.
- Frascarelli, Mara (2018) The interpretation of pro in consistent and partial NS languages: A comparative interface analysis. in Federica Cognola & Jan Casalicchio (eds.), Null-Subjects in Generative Grammar. A synchronic and diachronic perspective, 211-239, Part IIB, Ch. 9. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgio Carella (2019). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic Review, 36 (4): 637-674.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Marco Casentini (2019). The interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language. Topic chains and discourse semantic requirements in Chinese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 40, (1). Online publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0001
Additional material can be defined during the course. Any additions will be reported on the Moodle platform.

The course provides the linguistic tools to interrogate the text from the perspective of discourse analysis. In the first part, the theories of discourse analysis and enunciation will be addressed. The second part of the course will be devoted to the study of the presence of the French language in the former colonies. In the third part, certain discursive structures such as polyphony, intertextuality, point of view and autonomy within the novels of Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Faiza Guène will be examined.
The course takes place during the second semester. Access to the final, oral exam takes place after a linguistic, oral and written test, the preparation of which is ensured by Dr Agathe Rabat.

Parte A : analyse du discours et théories de l’énonciation linguistique

*Benveniste E., « De la subjectivité dans la langage », in Problèmes de linguistique générale I, Gallimard, 1966, pp. 258-266.
*Benveniste E., « L'appareil formel de l'énonciation » in Langages , 5e année, n°17, 1970. pp. 12-18.
*Yaguello M., « La Grammaire », in Le Grand livre de la langue française, Seuil, 2003, p.153-258
*Wilmet M., Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hachette, Duculot, 1997, pp. 532-673

Parte B : discours postcolonial et langue française

*Rey A. et Alii, « L’Outre-mer colonisé et la diffusion du français avant 1848 », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1029- 1030.
*Rey A. et Alii, « L’expansion impérialiste du français », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1086-1091.
*Rey A. et Alii, « Le français colonisateur et décolonisé, in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1168-1175.

Parte C : analyse du discours littéraire

Au choix, deux des trois options suivantes :

Option 1 :
*Algeri V., L’Histoire de soi dans la langue de l’autre. La polyphonie linguistique dans l’œuvre de Assia Djebar, Aracne, coll. Recherches sur toiles, Roma, 2014, pp.1-140.
Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1985), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995

Option 2 :
*Algeri V., “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [En ligne], 9 | 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rief/4512
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014
Albert Camus, L’Etranger, une édition au choix.

Option 3:
*Authier-Revuz, J., « Le Fait autonymique : Langage, langue, discours. Quelques repères » in Parler des mots : Le fait autonymique en discours, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.

Guène F., Un Homme ça ne pleure pas, 2014.




Examination material marked with * is available from the 4Appunti copy centre, Via G. Chiabrera, 174 00145 Rome. This material is also available in attached files in the Supports des cours section. You are required to study on the printed handouts.

Spanish in international communication. Discourse analysis and specialized translation.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish language by developing the skills of linguistic analysis and translation of the discourse characterizing the complex context of international communication.
The theoretical reflection on a variety of issues relating to the international dimension of the spanish language will be accompanied by the linguistic-pragmatic analysis of different types of discourses/texts belonging to concrete contexts of use of Spanish in an international context. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the translation of some specialized languages of international relevance.

San Vicente, F. - Bazzocchi G. (coord.) (2021). LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, Clueb, Bologna (capitoli selezionati).

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be supplied during the course.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

English lexicology and lexicography

Contemporary English for Special/Specific Purposes, including the language of international communication and European institutions: examination of the lexical-semantic, syntactic and textual features of specialized discourse and of language used in multilingual/multicultural contexts; investigation of the channels, situations and pragmatic requirements of specialized/international communication (e.g., communicative intents and the relation between text producers and receivers); in-depth analysis of the semantic relations in the lexicon of English, with specific reference to the areas of overlap and contrast between Anglo-Saxon and Latinate vocabulary items; use of the main lexicological and lexicographic tools for contemporary English; analysis of the lexicon using corpora; creation of (online) lexicographic resources.

Durkin, P. 2016. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. London/New York: Routledge.

Jackson, H. & E. Z. Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An introduction to modern English lexicology. London: Continuum.

L’Homme, M.C. 2020. Lexical Semantics for Terminology. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Scarpa, F. 2020. Research and Professional Practice in Specialised Translation. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Language Policies & planning
Discourse Analysis
European institutions with reference to: textual typologies in the acts of the Parliament, the EU, etc. specialized discourse, translation (v. EURLEX)
Varieties and variations of English: lingua franca English, features and focus on examples from VOICE and examples of speeches and translations

TOOLS
Translation with the help of dictionaries, corpora and EURLEX
Research in simple and applied linguistics
Use of corpora (Sketch Engine, BYU and AntConc) for research, speech analysis and translation
Mediation

Tools and materials will be made available during the course.

Introduction to the contrastive analysis of specialized languages (economic, business, and socio-political) in Russian and Italian.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA
Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course focuses on Arabic computational lexicography.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general corpus building issues;
- linguistic specific features of Arabic lexicography;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language;
- variation management in Arabic lexicography;
- are unified or mixed dictionaries possible?
- systems for the electronic coding of Arabic dictionaries.

Baalbaki, Ramzi. The Arabic lexicographical tradition: from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, volume 107. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Lancioni, Giuliano. «Sull’ordinamento dei dizionari arabi classici». In In memoria di Francesco Gabrieli, suppl. no. 2 to Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71, 113–27. Roma: Bardi, 1997.

Translation Course
Translation Module
Acquisition of theoretical tools and the ability to apply appropriate translation strategies depending on the type of text and the problems involved. Development of linguistic reflection and translation strategies by practising reading, analysing and translating different types of texts.

Bruno Osimo, Propedeutica della traduzione, Hoepli, 2002
-Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
- Reading texts uploaded on Teams

Recommended texts:
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022

Introduction to the contrastive analysis of specialized languages (economic, business, and socio-political) in Russian and Italian.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA
Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course provides the linguistic tools to interrogate the text from the perspective of discourse analysis. In the first part, the theories of discourse analysis and enunciation will be addressed. The second part of the course will be devoted to the study of the presence of the French language in the former colonies. In the third part, certain discursive structures such as polyphony, intertextuality, point of view and autonomy within the novels of Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Faiza Guène will be examined.
The course takes place during the second semester. Access to the final, oral exam takes place after a linguistic, oral and written test, the preparation of which is ensured by Dr Agathe Rabat.

Parte A : analyse du discours et théories de l’énonciation linguistique

*Benveniste E., « De la subjectivité dans la langage », in Problèmes de linguistique générale I, Gallimard, 1966, pp. 258-266.
*Benveniste E., « L'appareil formel de l'énonciation » in Langages , 5e année, n°17, 1970. pp. 12-18.
*Yaguello M., « La Grammaire », in Le Grand livre de la langue française, Seuil, 2003, p.153-258
*Wilmet M., Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hachette, Duculot, 1997, pp. 532-673

Parte B : discours postcolonial et langue française

*Rey A. et Alii, « L’Outre-mer colonisé et la diffusion du français avant 1848 », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1029- 1030.
*Rey A. et Alii, « L’expansion impérialiste du français », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1086-1091.
*Rey A. et Alii, « Le français colonisateur et décolonisé, in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1168-1175.

Parte C : analyse du discours littéraire

Au choix, deux des trois options suivantes :

Option 1 :
*Algeri V., L’Histoire de soi dans la langue de l’autre. La polyphonie linguistique dans l’œuvre de Assia Djebar, Aracne, coll. Recherches sur toiles, Roma, 2014, pp.1-140.
Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1985), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995

Option 2 :
*Algeri V., “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [En ligne], 9 | 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rief/4512
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014
Albert Camus, L’Etranger, une édition au choix.

Option 3:
*Authier-Revuz, J., « Le Fait autonymique : Langage, langue, discours. Quelques repères » in Parler des mots : Le fait autonymique en discours, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.

Guène F., Un Homme ça ne pleure pas, 2014.




Examination material marked with * is available from the 4Appunti copy centre, Via G. Chiabrera, 174 00145 Rome. This material is also available in attached files in the Supports des cours section. You are required to study on the printed handouts.

Spanish in international communication. Discourse analysis and specialized translation.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish language by developing the skills of linguistic analysis and translation of the discourse characterizing the complex context of international communication.
The theoretical reflection on a variety of issues relating to the international dimension of the spanish language will be accompanied by the linguistic-pragmatic analysis of different types of discourses/texts belonging to concrete contexts of use of Spanish in an international context. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the translation of some specialized languages of international relevance.

San Vicente, F. - Bazzocchi G. (coord.) (2021). LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, Clueb, Bologna (capitoli selezionati).

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be supplied during the course.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

English lexicology and lexicography

Contemporary English for Special/Specific Purposes, including the language of international communication and European institutions: examination of the lexical-semantic, syntactic and textual features of specialized discourse and of language used in multilingual/multicultural contexts; investigation of the channels, situations and pragmatic requirements of specialized/international communication (e.g., communicative intents and the relation between text producers and receivers); in-depth analysis of the semantic relations in the lexicon of English, with specific reference to the areas of overlap and contrast between Anglo-Saxon and Latinate vocabulary items; use of the main lexicological and lexicographic tools for contemporary English; analysis of the lexicon using corpora; creation of (online) lexicographic resources.

Durkin, P. 2016. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. London/New York: Routledge.

Jackson, H. & E. Z. Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An introduction to modern English lexicology. London: Continuum.

L’Homme, M.C. 2020. Lexical Semantics for Terminology. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Scarpa, F. 2020. Research and Professional Practice in Specialised Translation. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Language Policies & planning
Discourse Analysis
European institutions with reference to: textual typologies in the acts of the Parliament, the EU, etc. specialized discourse, translation (v. EURLEX)
Varieties and variations of English: lingua franca English, features and focus on examples from VOICE and examples of speeches and translations

TOOLS
Translation with the help of dictionaries, corpora and EURLEX
Research in simple and applied linguistics
Use of corpora (Sketch Engine, BYU and AntConc) for research, speech analysis and translation
Mediation

Tools and materials will be made available during the course.

The representation of exile in medieval English literature.

During the lessons we will analyze the different ways in which Old English Poetry dealt with the theme of exile, producing different representations adapting the recurrent elements of a rich and articulate shared heritage of formulas to the specific narrative context. The space of exclusion from society – defined in the representation of the contrast between a “here” and an “elsewhere”– will be identified through the reading of passages from various poems – such as Maxims, Beowulf, Wife’s Lament, Seafarer, Wanderer, Riming Poem, Ruin, Genesis, Christ III, Christ and Satan, Andreas. References will also be made to other works from the Germanic tradition.
The philological-literary analysis of the texts will be accompanied by the study of the main lexical, morphological and syntactical changes that have occurred in the English language over the centuries.

Students (who will be guided in their choice of topics and bibliographic material) will be required to submit a paper, individually or in groups, on literary-historical, linguistic and textual topics related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.

The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/)

Additional bibliographical material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays etc.) will be provided during the course

The course aims to analyze, within the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar, the relationship between syntax, prosody, semantics and discourse grammar, and to provide skills related to research in the scientific field, through the creation of experiments to be submitted to informants (native speakers of the language chosen for analysis), for the collection of data to be subsequently subjected to analysis (including through statistical analysis tools).
Specifically, the research work may focus on the following areas of investigation (to be defined during the course):
(1) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, exclusive, purposive), taking into account their semantic, syntactic (in situ vs. fronted) and prosodic properties.
(2) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Topic, the creation of topic chains and the interpretation of the null subject in a comparison of pro-drop languages (total, partial to radical) and non-pro-drop languages (such as Germanic languages).
(3) Nominal modification in its various cross-linguistic realizations (adjectives, relative phrases, prepositional phrases).
(4) Verbal modification, with special attention to the category of so-called "adjuncts."

- Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2008). L’analisi Linguistica. Dai dati alla teoria. Roma/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Capitoli scelti).
- Frascarelli, Mara (2007). Subjects, Topics and the Interpretation of Referential pro. An interface approach to the linking of (null) pronouns. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25, 4: 691-734
- Frascarelli, Mara (2017). Dislocations and Framings. In Elisabeth Stark and Andreas Dufter (eds.) Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax, 472-501. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics). Berlin: Mouton.
- Frascarelli, Mara (2018) The interpretation of pro in consistent and partial NS languages: A comparative interface analysis. in Federica Cognola & Jan Casalicchio (eds.), Null-Subjects in Generative Grammar. A synchronic and diachronic perspective, 211-239, Part IIB, Ch. 9. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgio Carella (2019). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic Review, 36 (4): 637-674.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Marco Casentini (2019). The interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language. Topic chains and discourse semantic requirements in Chinese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 40, (1). Online publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0001
Additional material can be defined during the course. Any additions will be reported on the Moodle platform.

The course will analyze the evolution of relations between the United States and Europe from the end of the Second World War to the crisis of US global hegemony and the return of great power competition. More specifically, the course will debate key moments in the origins and evolution of the transatlantic relationship during the Cold War, such as the Atlantic Charter, the Marshall plan, the formation and evolution of NATO, détente and the Vietnam conflict, Germany's unification and the end of the East-West division. The evolution of relations between the United States and Europe after the end of the Cold War and the new surge in tension between Russia and the West until the 2022 Ukraine war will also be presented and debated together with a specific analysis of the role of Italy within the transatlantic community.

Core Textbook:

G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Together with the core textbook students are also required to study one one the following books:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (YUP, 2021) M. de Leonardis (ed.), NATO in the Post-Cold War era (Routledge, 2022)

Additional Bibliograhy: Seth A. Johnston, How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance Since 1950 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016) NATO 2030, United for a new Era, Reflection Group Final Report, https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2020/12/pdf/201201-Reflection-Group-Final-Report-Uni.pdf Riviste di riferimento: NATO Review, International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Foreign Affairs, International Spectator, Jane’s Intelligence Review, International Organization, Survival, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Journal of Common Market Studies, Baltic Security and Defense Review, The RUSI Journal

Mandatory Textbook: G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

One additional book from the following list:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (YUP, 2021)

M. de Leonardis (ed.), NATO in the Post-Cold War era (Routledge, 2022)

An overview of some key issues in second language learning and teaching research, with particular reference to the way in which teaching can facilitate and speed up the natural process of language acquisition.
Focus. The characteristics of Task-based language teaching, aimed to harmonise teaching programme and learners' internal syllabus, will be discussed in detail.

1) Van Patten B., Smith M., Benati A., Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press, 2020. [book]
2) East, M., Foundational Principles of Task-Based Language Teaching (1st ed.). Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003039709 [Parts I and II]

The course has been designed for those students with no previous instruction in this field, thus, it aims at introducing the student to the fundamentals of the subject matter. During the course we will analyze the concepts of second language and interlanguage, the process of second language acquisition, and the factors that determine this process. With these topics as a starting point, we will focus on the development of language skills for spoken and written communication and also on the concepts of plurilingualism, plural approaches and intercomprehension.

ELisabetta Bonvino, Diego Cortés Velasquez, Anna De Meo e Elisa Fiorenza (2023) "Agire in L2. Processi e strumenti nella linguistica educativa". Milano: Hoepli.
Elisabetta Bonvino e Sandra Garbarino (2022) "Intercomprensione" . Bolgna/Cesena: Caissa.
Course packets

Literature and Forms
This course will focus on the study of authors and works of the modernist movement and its aesthetic tendency towards formalism.
A comprehensive overview of the epistemic crisis developing between the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century will provide the cultural context and value system in light of which modernism formulates its theories and practices. This will lead to the exploration of narrative and poetic texts by Conrad, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf. The parallel reading of essays and theoretical reflections by these authors, by other modernist writers/artists and by critics will deepen critical understanding of both the modernist climate and individual poetics, while also pointing out shared features such as experimentalism, relationship with tradition, intertextuality and interartes exchanges which invite vivid comparison between different but always conversing media.

PRIMARY SOURCES
All the primary and secondary sources indicated below are compulsory readings (in English) and will be discussed during both lessons and the final exam.
1. Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Oscar Mondadori; It. transl. only: Einaudi).
2. James Joyce, selected episodes from “Ulysses” (English editions: Cambridge UP, Penguin Classics, Oxford World’s Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Bompiani; It. transl. only: Oscar Mondadori).
3. T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Signet Classics; It.-En. parallel text: BUR or il Saggiatore).
4. Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” (English editions: A Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It. transl. only: “Gita al Faro”, Einaudi, translated by A. Nadotti; “Al faro”, Feltrinelli, translated by N. Fusini).

Memory and Post-memory: remembering and forgetting in postcolonial literature

In this course we will examine novels by postcolonial authors, namely Nigerian, with a view to analysing how they deal with history, with individual and collective past and with remembering and forgetting in their works.
Further details will be given when we get closer to the beginning of the course.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, I ed. 1958 (any unabridged edition).
Ben Okri, Dangerous Love, I ed. 1996 (any unabridged edition).
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, I ed. 2006 (any unabridged edition)

The module proposes an analysis of the key features of epic and postdramatic theatre, starting with the works of Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, Dea Loher and Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Bertolt Brecht, Ausgewählte Werke in Sechs Bänden (vol. 1, 2, 6), Suhrkamp.
Heiner Müller, Werke (vol. 3, 4, 5) Suhrkamp.
Elfriede Jelinek, Ein Sportstück (Rororo)
Dea Loher, Sechs Stücke (Wallstein)
Roland Schimmelpfennig, Die Frau von Früher (Fischer).

Introduction to Social and Intercultural Education: Origins, Developments, Theories and Methods.
Intercultural Education in School and Society. Educational policies in an intercultural perspective. Multilingualism, Interculturalism and Citizenship.
From multicultural society to intercultural society: the role of education. Models and types of integration: assimilation, coexistence, partner coexistence. The notion of integration of immigrants
Culture, culture and identity
School and the Difference of Cultures.
Educational strategies for social inclusion.

1. CATARCI M., Le forme sociali dell’educazione. Servizi, Territori, Società, Franco Angeli, Milano
2013.
2. GIANTURCO G., L’intervista qualitativa. Dal discorso al testo scritto, Guerini, Milano 2005.
3. CATARCI M., La pedagogia della liberazione di Paulo Freire. Educazione, intercultura e
cambiamento sociale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2016.
4. SAYAD A., La doppia assenza. Dalle illusioni dell'emigrato alle sofferenze dell'immigrato,
Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2001;
5. STILLO L., Periferie dell’esclusione. Contesti, soggettività, riflessioni in prospettiva pedagogico-sociale, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce, 2023;
6. RICCARDI V., L’educazione per tutti e per tutta la vita. Il contributo pedagogico di Ettore Gelpi,
ETS, Pisa 2014.

This course examines the status of women in modern and contemporary China and Taiwan, and the development of identity consciousness in its various conjugations, by reading and critically analysing representative works by well-known modern and contemporary writers.

Rosa Lombardi, Voci da Taiwan, Orientalia, 2022
-Joshua Mostow, Kirk Denton, The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, Columbia Un. Press, 2007 (parti trattate a lezione)
- Essays uploaded onTeams
- Chinese texts and short stories Teams uploaded on

The course will focus on the study of environmental movements during the latter half of the 20th century. It will examine how these movements perceived and addressed major environmental issues, transformed into political parties, and interacted with the concept of modernity.
The course will provide an overview of the emergence of conservationist and protectionist movements in 19th century Europe and the first half of the 20th century. Then the main emphasis will be on the movements that arose between the 1960s and 1990s, with a comprehensive exploration of their organizational and cultural aspects.
Specific topics that will be covered include the rise of environmental conservation associations, the emergence of ecological protests, environmental movements, and animal rights activism. The course will also analyze the development of green cultures and parties in Italy, Britain, France, and Germany within the context of their respective political systems. Furthermore, the scientific and political debates surrounding climate change will be examined.
To facilitate a deeper understanding of the subject matter, the course will involve reading and discussing relevant documents from the studied period. These documents will shed light on the political cultures, ideas, and sensitivities that gave birth to these movements and fueled internal political debates.

G. Della Valentina, Storia dell’ambientalismo in Italia. Lo sviluppo insostenibile, Bruno Mondadori, 2011.
G. Guazzaloca, Primo: non maltrattare. Storia della protezione degli animali in Italia, Laterza 2018.
Readings given during classes and available on Moodle.

- Basics of cognitive linguistics
- Neurolinguistics: birth of the discipline and models of neurological investigation of language
- Investigation techniques (offline and online) on language processing
- Neurophysiological components of language processing: N400 and P600
- Language processing description models: good enough, shallow processing, etc.
- Neuropragmatics and neurolinguistic studies on assumptions, figurative language, implicatures and information structure

1. Cacciari, Cristina & Canal, Paolo. 2023. The Psychology of Language. Il Mulino, Bologna.
2. Handouts provided in class by the professor.

The course provides the linguistic tools to interrogate the text from the perspective of discourse analysis. In the first part, the theories of discourse analysis and enunciation will be addressed. The second part of the course will be devoted to the study of the presence of the French language in the former colonies. In the third part, certain discursive structures such as polyphony, intertextuality, point of view and autonomy within the novels of Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Faiza Guène will be examined.
The course takes place during the second semester. Access to the final, oral exam takes place after a linguistic, oral and written test, the preparation of which is ensured by Dr Agathe Rabat.

Parte A : analyse du discours et théories de l’énonciation linguistique

*Benveniste E., « De la subjectivité dans la langage », in Problèmes de linguistique générale I, Gallimard, 1966, pp. 258-266.
*Benveniste E., « L'appareil formel de l'énonciation » in Langages , 5e année, n°17, 1970. pp. 12-18.
*Yaguello M., « La Grammaire », in Le Grand livre de la langue française, Seuil, 2003, p.153-258
*Wilmet M., Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hachette, Duculot, 1997, pp. 532-673

Parte B : discours postcolonial et langue française

*Rey A. et Alii, « L’Outre-mer colonisé et la diffusion du français avant 1848 », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1029- 1030.
*Rey A. et Alii, « L’expansion impérialiste du français », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1086-1091.
*Rey A. et Alii, « Le français colonisateur et décolonisé, in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1168-1175.

Parte C : analyse du discours littéraire

Au choix, deux des trois options suivantes :

Option 1 :
*Algeri V., L’Histoire de soi dans la langue de l’autre. La polyphonie linguistique dans l’œuvre de Assia Djebar, Aracne, coll. Recherches sur toiles, Roma, 2014, pp.1-140.
Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1985), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995

Option 2 :
*Algeri V., “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [En ligne], 9 | 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rief/4512
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014
Albert Camus, L’Etranger, une édition au choix.

Option 3:
*Authier-Revuz, J., « Le Fait autonymique : Langage, langue, discours. Quelques repères » in Parler des mots : Le fait autonymique en discours, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.

Guène F., Un Homme ça ne pleure pas, 2014.




Examination material marked with * is available from the 4Appunti copy centre, Via G. Chiabrera, 174 00145 Rome. This material is also available in attached files in the Supports des cours section. You are required to study on the printed handouts.

Spanish in international communication. Discourse analysis and specialized translation.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish language by developing the skills of linguistic analysis and translation of the discourse characterizing the complex context of international communication.
The theoretical reflection on a variety of issues relating to the international dimension of the spanish language will be accompanied by the linguistic-pragmatic analysis of different types of discourses/texts belonging to concrete contexts of use of Spanish in an international context. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the translation of some specialized languages of international relevance.

San Vicente, F. - Bazzocchi G. (coord.) (2021). LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, Clueb, Bologna (capitoli selezionati).

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be supplied during the course.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

English lexicology and lexicography

Contemporary English for Special/Specific Purposes, including the language of international communication and European institutions: examination of the lexical-semantic, syntactic and textual features of specialized discourse and of language used in multilingual/multicultural contexts; investigation of the channels, situations and pragmatic requirements of specialized/international communication (e.g., communicative intents and the relation between text producers and receivers); in-depth analysis of the semantic relations in the lexicon of English, with specific reference to the areas of overlap and contrast between Anglo-Saxon and Latinate vocabulary items; use of the main lexicological and lexicographic tools for contemporary English; analysis of the lexicon using corpora; creation of (online) lexicographic resources.

Durkin, P. 2016. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. London/New York: Routledge.

Jackson, H. & E. Z. Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An introduction to modern English lexicology. London: Continuum.

L’Homme, M.C. 2020. Lexical Semantics for Terminology. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Scarpa, F. 2020. Research and Professional Practice in Specialised Translation. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Language Policies & planning
Discourse Analysis
European institutions with reference to: textual typologies in the acts of the Parliament, the EU, etc. specialized discourse, translation (v. EURLEX)
Varieties and variations of English: lingua franca English, features and focus on examples from VOICE and examples of speeches and translations

TOOLS
Translation with the help of dictionaries, corpora and EURLEX
Research in simple and applied linguistics
Use of corpora (Sketch Engine, BYU and AntConc) for research, speech analysis and translation
Mediation

Tools and materials will be made available during the course.

Introduction to the contrastive analysis of specialized languages (economic, business, and socio-political) in Russian and Italian.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA
Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course focuses on Arabic computational lexicography.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general corpus building issues;
- linguistic specific features of Arabic lexicography;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language;
- variation management in Arabic lexicography;
- are unified or mixed dictionaries possible?
- systems for the electronic coding of Arabic dictionaries.

Baalbaki, Ramzi. The Arabic lexicographical tradition: from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, volume 107. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Lancioni, Giuliano. «Sull’ordinamento dei dizionari arabi classici». In In memoria di Francesco Gabrieli, suppl. no. 2 to Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71, 113–27. Roma: Bardi, 1997.

Translation Course
Translation Module
Acquisition of theoretical tools and the ability to apply appropriate translation strategies depending on the type of text and the problems involved. Development of linguistic reflection and translation strategies by practising reading, analysing and translating different types of texts.

Bruno Osimo, Propedeutica della traduzione, Hoepli, 2002
-Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
- Reading texts uploaded on Teams

Recommended texts:
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022

Introduction to the contrastive analysis of specialized languages (economic, business, and socio-political) in Russian and Italian.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA
Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course provides the linguistic tools to interrogate the text from the perspective of discourse analysis. In the first part, the theories of discourse analysis and enunciation will be addressed. The second part of the course will be devoted to the study of the presence of the French language in the former colonies. In the third part, certain discursive structures such as polyphony, intertextuality, point of view and autonomy within the novels of Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Faiza Guène will be examined.
The course takes place during the second semester. Access to the final, oral exam takes place after a linguistic, oral and written test, the preparation of which is ensured by Dr Agathe Rabat.

Parte A : analyse du discours et théories de l’énonciation linguistique

*Benveniste E., « De la subjectivité dans la langage », in Problèmes de linguistique générale I, Gallimard, 1966, pp. 258-266.
*Benveniste E., « L'appareil formel de l'énonciation » in Langages , 5e année, n°17, 1970. pp. 12-18.
*Yaguello M., « La Grammaire », in Le Grand livre de la langue française, Seuil, 2003, p.153-258
*Wilmet M., Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hachette, Duculot, 1997, pp. 532-673

Parte B : discours postcolonial et langue française

*Rey A. et Alii, « L’Outre-mer colonisé et la diffusion du français avant 1848 », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1029- 1030.
*Rey A. et Alii, « L’expansion impérialiste du français », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1086-1091.
*Rey A. et Alii, « Le français colonisateur et décolonisé, in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1168-1175.

Parte C : analyse du discours littéraire

Au choix, deux des trois options suivantes :

Option 1 :
*Algeri V., L’Histoire de soi dans la langue de l’autre. La polyphonie linguistique dans l’œuvre de Assia Djebar, Aracne, coll. Recherches sur toiles, Roma, 2014, pp.1-140.
Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1985), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995

Option 2 :
*Algeri V., “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [En ligne], 9 | 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rief/4512
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014
Albert Camus, L’Etranger, une édition au choix.

Option 3:
*Authier-Revuz, J., « Le Fait autonymique : Langage, langue, discours. Quelques repères » in Parler des mots : Le fait autonymique en discours, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.

Guène F., Un Homme ça ne pleure pas, 2014.




Examination material marked with * is available from the 4Appunti copy centre, Via G. Chiabrera, 174 00145 Rome. This material is also available in attached files in the Supports des cours section. You are required to study on the printed handouts.

Spanish in international communication. Discourse analysis and specialized translation.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish language by developing the skills of linguistic analysis and translation of the discourse characterizing the complex context of international communication.
The theoretical reflection on a variety of issues relating to the international dimension of the spanish language will be accompanied by the linguistic-pragmatic analysis of different types of discourses/texts belonging to concrete contexts of use of Spanish in an international context. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the translation of some specialized languages of international relevance.

San Vicente, F. - Bazzocchi G. (coord.) (2021). LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, Clueb, Bologna (capitoli selezionati).

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be supplied during the course.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

English lexicology and lexicography

Contemporary English for Special/Specific Purposes, including the language of international communication and European institutions: examination of the lexical-semantic, syntactic and textual features of specialized discourse and of language used in multilingual/multicultural contexts; investigation of the channels, situations and pragmatic requirements of specialized/international communication (e.g., communicative intents and the relation between text producers and receivers); in-depth analysis of the semantic relations in the lexicon of English, with specific reference to the areas of overlap and contrast between Anglo-Saxon and Latinate vocabulary items; use of the main lexicological and lexicographic tools for contemporary English; analysis of the lexicon using corpora; creation of (online) lexicographic resources.

Durkin, P. 2016. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. London/New York: Routledge.

Jackson, H. & E. Z. Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An introduction to modern English lexicology. London: Continuum.

L’Homme, M.C. 2020. Lexical Semantics for Terminology. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Scarpa, F. 2020. Research and Professional Practice in Specialised Translation. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Language Policies & planning
Discourse Analysis
European institutions with reference to: textual typologies in the acts of the Parliament, the EU, etc. specialized discourse, translation (v. EURLEX)
Varieties and variations of English: lingua franca English, features and focus on examples from VOICE and examples of speeches and translations

TOOLS
Translation with the help of dictionaries, corpora and EURLEX
Research in simple and applied linguistics
Use of corpora (Sketch Engine, BYU and AntConc) for research, speech analysis and translation
Mediation

Tools and materials will be made available during the course.

The course aims to introduce graduate language students to the main dynamics of contemporary global politics through an analysis of the main theoretical approaches in the discipline of international relations, such as realism, liberalism, constructivism, and Marxist-theories, as well as by introducing them to the main critical approaches to the mainstream theories and world politics.

Course Textbook:

Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds), International Relations Theories. Discipline and Diversity (OUP 2020)

Additional Reading:

Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jack Donnelly, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, Theories of International Relations, 3rd edition, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Downloadable at: http://lib.jnu.ac.in/sites/default/files/RefrenceFile/Theories-of-IR.pdf

Stephen McGlinchey (ed.), Foundations of International Relations (Bloomsbury 2022)

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social transformation and contributing to the creation of new cultural meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the collective and public memories of controversial events, arenas where gender identities, ethnicity and social classes are socially constructed.
The first part of the course will aim at studying artistic production and politics of cultural consumption. It will focus on the following topics: theories of the "author's death", theories of reception, art as social practice, the institutional definitions of artistic value, cases of " non-recognition " and plagiarism, politics of genius, canonization and practices of social exclusion, theories of cultural capital, relationship between art and advertising, the role of social media in the production of artistic reputations and in relation to the "arts worlds", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: activism, art and the public sphere, cancel culture, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the arts in shaping the public memory of very contested pasts, sociology of museums and politics of museum exhibition, representation of ethnic identities in museums, museums as technology of gender, multimedia arts.

1) Vera L. Zolberg, (2011) Constructing a Sociology of the Arts, Cambridge University Press, New York.
2) Anna Lisa Tota, and Trever Hagen (2016), Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, (eds.), Routledge, London chapters n. 1, 2, 6, 19, 30, and 31.

The course is divided in two parts: the first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia;
- Il potere nella società in rete
- La comunicazione nell'età digitale
- Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

Re-worked versions, re-writings and translation strategies in medieval English and German texts

The course aims to present the different ways and purposes in which various authors of the English and German Middle Ages translated, reworked and rewrote literary, philosophical or theological texts from Latin into vernacular. The works in verse and prose (e.g. Old English biblical and hagiographic poems, Old English translations of Alfred's works, Old Saxon Heliand, Old High German Otfrid von Weißenburg’s Liber Evangelorium, Tatian and Notker III's translations) and the related paratexts (prefaces, epilogues, dedicatory letters) will be analyzed from a literary, philological and linguistic perspective, with particular attention to codicological transmission and text typology, as well as to the historical and cultural context in which they were produced. The analysis of the texts will enable students to gain insight into some features of the linguistic evolution of English and German.

The students, who will be guided by the teacher in the choice of themes and in the use of the main bibliographic tools, will have to present an individual or group report, which will be discussed in class in the final part of the course, and which will focus on historical-literary, linguistic and textual topics related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.

A selection of chapters from the following texts:

M. Battaglia (ed.), Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, Carocci, Roma 2017 (pp. 55-136; 137-276; 277-309).
B. Murdoch - M. Read (eds.), Early Germanic Literature and Culture, Camden House, Rochester-New York 2004 (pp. 205-233; 235-261; 263-284).
R.D. Fulk – C. Cain, A History of Old English Literature, Wynley Blackwell, Oxford 2013.
Rolf Bergmann (Hg.), Althochdeutsche und altsächsische Literatur, De Gruyter, Berlin–Boston, 2013.

A. M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parte II e III)

Textbook: E. Jezek, “Il lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.

Chapter 1 - Nozioni di base (Basic concepts of lexicology)
Except table 1.2, "Profili sintagmatici assimilabili alla parola", and table 1.3, "Tipologia della parola".
Chapter 2 - L'informazione lessicale (Lexical information).
Chapter 3 - Il significato delle parole (The meaning of words).
Chapter 4 - La struttura globale del lessico (The global structure of lexicon).
Chapter 5 - Strutture paradigmatiche del lessico (Paradigmatic structures of lexicon).
Except paragraph 7, "Configurazioni lessicali".
Chapter 6 - Strutture sintagmatiche del lessico (Syntagmatic structures of lexicon).

E. Jezek, “Il lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.

In addition, there is a PDF file of lecture notes on Moodle.

Textbook: Edith A. Moravcsik, “Introducing Language Typology”, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Chapter 1 - What is language typology? Goals, Tools (Statement types, Language samples, Data Sources).
Chapter 2 – Lexical typology (Introduction, Words for body parts, Kinship terms, Personal pronouns, Words for numbers, Antonymic adjectives, Words for colors).
Chapter 3 – Syntactic typology (Introduction, The choice of words and word forms, The order of words, Syntactic categories).
Chapter 4 – Morphological typology (Introduction, The choice of morphemes and morpheme forms, The order of morphemes, Morphological categories).
Chapter 6 – Historical change (The Genesis of articles, Word order change).

Edith A. Moravcsik, “Introducing Language Typology”, Cambridge University Press, 2013. The paperback edition is cheaper. Chapters 5 and 7 are excluded; chapter 6 must be studied only until page 209.

In addition, there is a PDF file of lecture notes in Italian on Moodle.

- Basics of cognitive linguistics
- Neurolinguistics: birth of the discipline and models of neurological investigation of language
- Investigation techniques (offline and online) on language processing
- Neurophysiological components of language processing: N400 and P600
- Language processing description models: good enough, shallow processing, etc.
- Neuropragmatics and neurolinguistic studies on assumptions, figurative language, implicatures and information structure

1. Cacciari, Cristina & Canal, Paolo. 2023. The Psychology of Language. Il Mulino, Bologna.
2. Handouts provided in class by the professor.

The course aims to introduce graduate language students to the main dynamics of contemporary global politics through an analysis of the main theoretical approaches in the discipline of international relations, such as realism, liberalism, constructivism, and Marxist-theories, as well as by introducing them to the main critical approaches to the mainstream theories and world politics.

Course Textbook:

Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds), International Relations Theories. Discipline and Diversity (OUP 2020)

Additional Reading:

Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jack Donnelly, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, Theories of International Relations, 3rd edition, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Downloadable at: http://lib.jnu.ac.in/sites/default/files/RefrenceFile/Theories-of-IR.pdf

Stephen McGlinchey (ed.), Foundations of International Relations (Bloomsbury 2022)

The course aims at deepening the knowledge related to the teaching of L2 Italian, with a special focus on language assessment.

In the second language learning and use, assessment is a crucial process as it allows to account for the skills and competencies developed by the learner. In this course, through activities of analysis of teaching materials and case studies, we will explore the main aspects of this process, comparing Italian L2 and other foreign languages.

Course packets provided by the instructor.

The course focuses on the relationship between language and narrative from a cognitive and evolutionary point of view. In contrast to the theories considering the sentence as the essence of language, the course suggests an interpretative hypothesis based on the priority of discourse over sentence; specifically, it is suggested that the ability to tell stories is the distinctive trait both of language and human nature.
The course includes experimental activities aimed at supporting the theoretical model proposed.

programma da 12 cfu

- Corballis M. (2020), La verità sul linguaggio, Carocci, Roma.
- Scott-Phillips (2017) Dì quello che hai in mente. Le origini della comunicazione umana, Carocci, Roma
- Ferretti F. (2022), L'istinto persuasivo. Carocci, Roma

The functions of language: cognitive vs. communicative function
The (classical) cognitive science of language
Modularity of mind

Levels of language processing
Microanalysis deficits: aphasias
Broca's aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia

The pragmatics of language
Pragmatic disorders: autism spectrum disorder

Pragmatics of discourse
Schizophrenia
Traumatic brain injury

!! Syllabus valid from June 2025 exam session unique for all students (no difference between attending and non-attending students) !!!

[-- Those taking the exam in the January-February 2025 session should refer to syllabus 2023-24]


1 book + 2 articles:

(Book 1) Adornetti I. (2018) Pathologies of language and communication. Carocci, Rome.

(Article 1) will be communicated at the beginning of the course

(Article 2) will be communicated at the beginning of the course

Introduction: from Kievan Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First Modernisation of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of a Great Power; The long Russian 19th century from the Napoleonic wars to the reforms of Alexander II; The Russia of Nicholas II: The contradictions of an impetuous and disorderly development; The First World War and the end of a world; The Bolshevik revolution, its origins and affirmation; The Russian civil wars and the origins of the Soviet state; The NEP, the rise of Stalin, Collectivisation, industrialisation and the birth of Stalin's USSR; The Great Terror; The Comintern, Communist parties and traditional foreign policy; The Second World War; Victory and the birth of a superpower; The Cold War: The USSR and the West; Chhrushchev and the 20th Congress of the PCUS; The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; The impossible reform of the system: Gorbachev between perestroika and glasnost'; The end of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the age of turbulence; A new strongman? Putin the new Russia and its wars: ambitions and contradictions of a regime.

1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino

3) F. Benvenuti, Russia oggi, dalla caduta dell'Unione sovietica ai nostri giorni, Roma, Carocci.

for non-attending students: P. Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi

This course focuses on the global mediascape, the main domains of popular culture and the many interactions between the two from a historical perspective, touching at the same time upon the major theories elaborated within disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, economics, cultural and media studies. After introducing key notions such as “mass media” and “popular culture” within their historical and geopolitical contexts, we will outline their developments from the 19th century up to date, matched by the ideologies and paradigms that they have generated. The main core of the course will be devoted to exploring single media/technologies such as the printed media (newspapers, magazines, books), photography, telephony, cinema, radio, television and digital media, followed by relevant areas of popular culture such as tourism, gastronomy, counter and subcultures, advertising, fashion, sports and music. All these fields relate to themes that are central to the contemporary debate on society, technology and markets, such as globalization, identity (individual, collective), glamour and soft power, to mention just a few viewpoints allowing us to make sense of the deep societal transformations occurred in the last decades: changes that have been either welcomed with enthusiasm or fiercely opposed, keeping alive a longtime diatribe involving public opinion, industries, governments and academics.

In addition to lecturing and discussions, classes will include slides, pictures and audiovisual examples. The course provides an international gaze at the mediascape, but a few significant case studies will refer to Italy. There is not a textbook, but a choice of readings will be assigned during the course. Students who cannot attend in person must read these two books:

Winston, Brian. Media, Technology and Society: A History: from the Telegraph to the Internet, Taylor & Francis Group, 1998 - PART I, II and IV (chapters 13, 14 and 18)
Betts, Raymond F., and Lyz Bly. A History of Popular Culture: More of Everything, Faster and Brighter, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

At the end of the course students are required to write a paper of 1,500 to 2,000 words, whose topic must be agreed with the professor. Details about this and the grading policy will be made available during the course.

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. P. Caridi, Hamas. Dalla resistenza al regime. Nuova edizione, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2023.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

Through a critical-thinking approach, the course analyzes the emergence of capitalism in the medieval age up to contemporary society by covering the main forms of capitalism (merchant, industrial and financial) and the thought of Smith, Marx, Weber, Schumpeter, Keynes and Hayek.

Attending students:

Michel Beaud, A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000, Monthly Review Press, New York 2002.

plus a further book:

Fernand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins Univiversity Press, Baltimora 1979.

The course aims to explore the notion of style through theoretical and textual analyzes on texts from French literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Attending students will work on texts and bibliography provided in class; non-attending students will instead follow the program indicated here.

L. Spitzer, Saggi di critica stilistica. Maria di Francia, Racine, Saint-Simon, Firenze, Sansoni, 2004.
E. Bordas, “Style”. Un mot et des discours, Paris, Kimé, 2008.
M. Macé, Styles, Critique de nos formes de vie, Paris, Gallimard, 2016.

Intertextuality and Intermediality: Critical Perspectives and Educational Applications.
The course aims to provide the tools and methodologies for the intertextual and/or intermedial analysis of literary works. The course also aims to deepen reflections on the didactics of literature, with special regard to the use of audiovisuals and the dynamics of intertextuality aimed at the design of learning paths for literary skills.

Opere letterarie di riferimento
Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes, edición de Francisco Rico, Madrid, Cátedra oppure edizione di A. Gargano, Venezia, Marsilio
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, parti scelte, edición del Instituto Cervantes a cargo de Francisco Rico, https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/clasicos/quijote/
José Sanchis Sinisterra, El lector por horas, edizione bilingue a cura di Renata Londero, Pisa, ETS

Film (estratti significativi dei seguenti film saranno proiettati e commentati in aula)
Lazarillo de Tormes (1959), dir. César Fernández Ardavín
Lázaro de Tormes (2000), dir. y guion Fernando Fernán Gómez
El Pícaro (1974), dir. y guion Fernando Fernán Gómez
I Picari (1987), dir. Mario Monicelli, guion Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Mario Monicelli
Don Chisciotte (1984), dir. Maurizio Scaparro, guion Rafael Azcona, Maurizio Scaparro, Tullio Kezich
Don Kikhot (1957), dir. Grigorij Kozintsev, guion Eugenij Shvarts.
Don Quichotte (1933), dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst, guion Paul Morand, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992), dir. Orson Welles, guion Orson Welles, Jesús Franco
The man who killed Don Quixote (2018), dir. y guion Terry Gilliam
Lost in La Mancha (2001), dir. y guion Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe

By reviewing the main moments and works of the artistic-literary re-elaboration of political violence in Argentina during the years of the military dictatorship (1976-1983), in a perspective that places Argentine authoritarianism within a broader Latin American framework, the course aims to present students artistic and literary products, to be analyzed through tools and methodologies connected to the most recent studies on post-memory and post-testimony. At first, the main concepts that shape the theoretical apparatus will be presented, then the works in the program will be analyzed and discussed. The concluding lectures will be devoted to a reflection on literature as an archive of political and social violence and its didactics in the context of recent studies on the "pedagogy of memory".

- Lola Arias, Mi vida después y otros textos, Buenos Aires, Reservoir Books, 2016
- Graciela Bialet, I rospi della memoria, Roma, Rapsodia Edizioni, 2021
- Daniele Cini, La sirena, Italia, 2008 (cortometraggio)
- Damián Olivito, El cielo sobre Riace, Argentina, 2020 (documentario)
- Malena Scunio, Il sale del ricordo, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2023
- Josefina Giglio, Io l'ho amata, Le comari edizioni, 2024

The course will analyse the interpretations of Brazil proposed by Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Júnior.

Gilberto Freyre, Casa Grande e Sanzala, São Paulo, Editora Global, 2006;
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Raízes do Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2013;
Caio Prado Júnior, Formação do Brasil contemporâneo, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2011;

Ricardo Benzaquen de Araújo, Chuvas de verão. “Antagonismos em equilíbrio” em Casa-Grande & senzala de Gilberto Freyre, in A. Botelho – L. Moritz Schwarcz, Um enigma chamado Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2009, pp. 198-211.
Antonio Candido, O Significado de Raízes do Brasil, in Raízes do Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2011, pp. 9-24;
Mario Helio Gomes de Lima, Gilberto Freyre, in L. Bernardo Pericás – L. Secco, Intérpretes do Brasil. Clássicos, rebeldes e renegados, São Paulo, Boitempo Editorial, 2014, pp. 153-168;
Thiago Lima Nicodemo, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, in L. Bernardo Pericás – L. Secco, Intérpretes do Brasil. Clássicos, rebeldes e renegados, São Paulo, Boitempo Editorial, 2014, pp.139-152;
Luiz Bernardo Pericás – Maria Clélia Wider, Caio Prado Júnior, in L. Bernardo Pericás – L. Secco, Intérpretes do Brasil. Clássicos, rebeldes e renegados, São Paulo, Boitempo Editorial, 2014, pp.193-214;
Bernardo Ricupero, Caio Prado Júnior e o lugar do Brasil no mundo, in A. Botelho – L. Moritz Schwarcz, Um enigma chamado Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2009, pp. 226-239.

Literature and Forms
This course will focus on the study of authors and works of the modernist movement and its aesthetic tendency towards formalism.
A comprehensive overview of the epistemic crisis developing between the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century will provide the cultural context and value system in light of which modernism formulates its theories and practices. This will lead to the exploration of narrative and poetic texts by Conrad, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf. The parallel reading of essays and theoretical reflections by these authors, by other modernist writers/artists and by critics will deepen critical understanding of both the modernist climate and individual poetics, while also pointing out shared features such as experimentalism, relationship with tradition, intertextuality and interartes exchanges which invite vivid comparison between different but always conversing media.

PRIMARY SOURCES
All the primary and secondary sources indicated below are compulsory readings (in English) and will be discussed during both lessons and the final exam.
1. Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Oscar Mondadori; It. transl. only: Einaudi).
2. James Joyce, selected episodes from “Ulysses” (English editions: Cambridge UP, Penguin Classics, Oxford World’s Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Bompiani; It. transl. only: Oscar Mondadori).
3. T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Signet Classics; It.-En. parallel text: BUR or il Saggiatore).
4. Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” (English editions: A Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It. transl. only: “Gita al Faro”, Einaudi, translated by A. Nadotti; “Al faro”, Feltrinelli, translated by N. Fusini).

Memory and Post-memory: remembering and forgetting in postcolonial literature

In this course we will examine novels by postcolonial authors, namely Nigerian, with a view to analysing how they deal with history, with individual and collective past and with remembering and forgetting in their works.
Further details will be given when we get closer to the beginning of the course.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, I ed. 1958 (any unabridged edition).
Ben Okri, Dangerous Love, I ed. 1996 (any unabridged edition).
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, I ed. 2006 (any unabridged edition)

Through the rewritings of visual, narrative, and poetic texts (adaptations for the stage and the screen, parodies), published in a period ranging from the beginning of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st, the course investigates the specificities of different genres, languages, and media, as well as the processes of adaptation and transcodification that are at the heart of such texts. Class discussion will also focus on issues related to democracy and citizenship in the United States; racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination; civil rights; transculturalism.

L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (W.W. Norton Annotated Edition);
The Wizard of Oz (film), dir. Victor Fleming;
The Wiz (film), dir. Sidney Lumet.
William Carlos Williams, Paterson (New Directions), selected books/parts;
Paterson (film), dir. Jim Jarmusch.
Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo;
The Rose Tattoo (film), dir. Daniel Mann.
Hillary Jordan, Mudbound (Windmill Books)
Mudbound (film), dir. Dee Rees.

Moscow (1924-2024): Utopias, Transformations and Nostalgia

M. Bulgakov Master i Margarita (ru)
V. Aksenov Zvezdnyi bilet
V. Erofeev Moskva-Petushki
Ju. Trifonov Dom на naberezhnoi
V. Pelevin Omon Ra
Vl. Sorokin Moskva (ru)

The course includes: a) the study of the grammar of Old Slavonic - the first literary language of the Slavs - and the reading of texts in Old Slavonic; b) an introduction to the history of the development and specific features of the writing culture of Rus', the history of the formation of the Russian language through Ecclesiastical Slavonic and Old Russian.
Old Slavonic: History and Main Concepts

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Nicoletta Marcialis. Introduzione alla lingua paleoslava. FUP 2005
Lilia Skomorochova Venturini, Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica. Edizioni ETS 2005
Horace G. Lunt, Old Church Slavonic Grammar. Seventh Revised Edition. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Horace G. Lunt, On the Relationship of Old Church Slavonic to the Written Language of Early Rus'. Russian Linguistics , 1987, Vol. 11, No. 2/3 (1987), pp. 133-162
Kasatkin L., Krysin L., Zhivov V. Il russo. Firenze, 1999
Ulteriori materiali e nozioni bibliografiche vengono fornite a lezione.

Introduction to Social and Intercultural Education: Origins, Developments, Theories and Methods.
Intercultural Education in School and Society. Educational policies in an intercultural perspective. Multilingualism, Interculturalism and Citizenship.
From multicultural society to intercultural society: the role of education. Models and types of integration: assimilation, coexistence, partner coexistence. The notion of integration of immigrants
Culture, culture and identity
School and the Difference of Cultures.
Educational strategies for social inclusion.

1. CATARCI M., Le forme sociali dell’educazione. Servizi, Territori, Società, Franco Angeli, Milano
2013.
2. GIANTURCO G., L’intervista qualitativa. Dal discorso al testo scritto, Guerini, Milano 2005.
3. CATARCI M., La pedagogia della liberazione di Paulo Freire. Educazione, intercultura e
cambiamento sociale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2016.
4. SAYAD A., La doppia assenza. Dalle illusioni dell'emigrato alle sofferenze dell'immigrato,
Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2001;
5. STILLO L., Periferie dell’esclusione. Contesti, soggettività, riflessioni in prospettiva pedagogico-sociale, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce, 2023;
6. RICCARDI V., L’educazione per tutti e per tutta la vita. Il contributo pedagogico di Ettore Gelpi,
ETS, Pisa 2014.

Study of groups in social psychology
Roles, norms, status and group functions
Phenomena in group dynamics
Power and leadership
Intra-groups and inter-groups interactions
Inter-groups relationships and social categorization
Inter-groups conflicts
Stereotype decostruction and prejudice reduction
Communication and social influence in group

- Donelson R. Forsyth. Psicologia dei gruppi (a cura di Livi, Maricchiolo, Mosso) EDRA. 2022
- Monografia:
Bonaiuto, M. & Maricchiolo, F. (2009). La comunicazione non verbale (seconda edizione). Carocci, Roma.

Never before in recent years has the idea of Europe been at the center of public debate: for some, it is the only lifeline against nationalism and war; for others, it is the ultimate cause of all our problems and woes, especially economic ones. The invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's Russia in February 2022 has not only revived the classic themes of war and peace in public discourse but also brought back into focus the issue of the eastern expansion of the concept of Europe, a question with extraordinary historical depth.
Only a profound understanding of the long-term history of European civilization and its interactions with other civilizations around the globe can allow us to decode issues that only superficially appear to be purely contemporary. In the first part of the course, we will focus on the evolution of the notion of Europe, the various thoughts about Europe, and the long-term development of European consciousness. In the second part, we will delve into the phenomenon of exodus and internal migrations within the continent for religious reasons: whether voluntary or forced, they are the dramatic outcome of the process of confessionalization and the construction of modern statehood, characterized by the pursuit of purity through the expulsion and marginalization of religious diversity

First section: 'History of Europe: ideas, perspectives, reflections' (6 ECTS)

Reference books:

Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Additional book for students who will not attend the lessons: Egidio Ivetic, Studiare la storia del Mediterraneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024


Second section: "The Europe of exoduses and migrations 'religionis causa'".

Reference books:

Nicholas Terpstra, Purezza e fede. Esuli religiosi nell’Europa moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Those who only need to take 6 ECTS are required to study the first teaching unit.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY STARTING FROM JUNE-JULY 2025, EXCLUSIVELY.

The course intends to focus on the phenomenon of irony in the Spanish language and those that lead from it to the field of humour. Starting with the analysis of the indicators that can reveal the presence of irony (as a pragmatic-communicative strategy) in written and oral texts of different kinds, the course aims to increase the student's linguistic/communicative skills. Furthermore, on the translanguaging front, it aims to confront the student with the resolution of complex cases, in which interlinguistic reflection becomes decisive for the transposition and (re)creation of verbal humour.

Lecture notes by the professor.
ALVARADO ORTEGA, M.B. (2006), «Las marcas de la ironía», Interlingüística, 16.
BOSELLI, S. (2006), «La traduzione teatrale», in F. Buffoni (a cura di), Traduttologia: La teoria della traduzione letteraria, Roma, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, pp. 625-642.
GONZÁLEZ VERA, P. (2017), «Cuando humor y cultura chocan: el subtitulado en Ocho apellidos vascos», in Martínez Sierra, Juan José e Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terran (a cura di), The Translation of Humour / La traducción del humor, MonTI 9, pp. 249-277.
RUIZ GURILLO, L. (2012), La lingüística del humor en español, Madrid, Arco Libros.
SIMARRO VÁZQUEZ, M. (2017), «Humor verbal basado en la ambigüedad léxica y competencia léxico-semántica» Pragmalingüística, 25, pp. 618-636.
VILLARRUBIA ZÚÑIGA, M. (2010), «La ironía y el humor a través de la literatura. Una dimensión de la pragmática cognitiva en la enseñanza del ELE», marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera 2010 (10)
ZABALBEASCOA, P. (2001), «La traducción del humor en textos audiovisuales», in Duro Miguel (a cura di), La traducción para el doblaje y la subtitulación, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 251-263.

Audiovisual translation as linguistic and cultural mediation; the multimodal dimension of audiovisual texts; spontaneous spoken language vs film dialogue; pragmatic aspects of spoken interpersonal interaction (politeness, speech acts, language variation and register); methods for the analysis of audiovisual dialogue; introduction to the translation of audiovisual texts. Subtitling workshop – interlingual subtitling.

- J. Diaz Cíntaz - Aline Remael, Subtitling: Concepts and Practices, London and New York: Routledge 2020.
- Luis Pérez-González (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, New York and London: Routledge, 2019 (Ch. 2).
- Luis Pérez-González, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, New York and London: Routledge, 2014 (Ch. 2, 6).
- Łukasz Bogucki, Mikołaj Deckert (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Palgrave (Ch. 4, 12, 27)

Writing & listening in German
Writing & listening in German
In this course, we will try out various techniques to achieve a fluent and correct writing style in German (first semester). These include free creative writing techniques, didactically guided writing activities and creative translation techniques - also with the help of artificial intelligence. The aim of the course is to improve students' own writing skills (not only grammatically and orthographically, but also stylistically), also with regard to language examinations, and to explore creative writing activities within a didactic framework. In this context, students will be involved in several research projects.
In the second half of the course (second semester) we will also look at listening and comprehension techniques in GFL lessons, progressing from simpler listening comprehension exercises to more difficult ones and ending with experiments on learning German with the help of podcasts.

The course focuses on Arabic AI methods applied to the Arabic language.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general AI issues;
- specific in machine treatment of the Arabic language;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language and its consequences;
- variation management in AI applied to Arabic texts;
- are unified or mixed tools suitable?
- cultural and ethical issues in applying AI to the Arabic culture.

Habash, Nizar. «Arabic Computational Linguistics». In The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, a cura di Karin Ryding e David Wilmsen, 1ª ed., 427–45. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Kamal Eddine, Moussa, Nadi Tomeh, Nizar Habash, Joseph Le Roux and Michalis Vazirgiannis. "AraBART: a Pretrained Arabic Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Abstractive Summarization." In Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2022.

Obeid, Ossama, Go Inoue and Nizar Habash. "Camelira: An Arabic Multi-Dialect Morphological Disambiguator." In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Demo. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2022.

The course intends to focus on the phenomenon of irony in the Spanish language and those that lead from it to the field of humour. Starting with the analysis of the indicators that can reveal the presence of irony (as a pragmatic-communicative strategy) in written and oral texts of different kinds, the course aims to increase the student's linguistic/communicative skills. Furthermore, on the translanguaging front, it aims to confront the student with the resolution of complex cases, in which interlinguistic reflection becomes decisive for the transposition and (re)creation of verbal humour.

Lecture notes by the professor.
ALVARADO ORTEGA, M.B. (2006), «Las marcas de la ironía», Interlingüística, 16.
BOSELLI, S. (2006), «La traduzione teatrale», in F. Buffoni (a cura di), Traduttologia: La teoria della traduzione letteraria, Roma, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, pp. 625-642.
GONZÁLEZ VERA, P. (2017), «Cuando humor y cultura chocan: el subtitulado en Ocho apellidos vascos», in Martínez Sierra, Juan José e Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terran (a cura di), The Translation of Humour / La traducción del humor, MonTI 9, pp. 249-277.
RUIZ GURILLO, L. (2012), La lingüística del humor en español, Madrid, Arco Libros.
SIMARRO VÁZQUEZ, M. (2017), «Humor verbal basado en la ambigüedad léxica y competencia léxico-semántica» Pragmalingüística, 25, pp. 618-636.
VILLARRUBIA ZÚÑIGA, M. (2010), «La ironía y el humor a través de la literatura. Una dimensión de la pragmática cognitiva en la enseñanza del ELE», marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera 2010 (10)
ZABALBEASCOA, P. (2001), «La traducción del humor en textos audiovisuales», in Duro Miguel (a cura di), La traducción para el doblaje y la subtitulación, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 251-263.

Audiovisual translation as linguistic and cultural mediation; the multimodal dimension of audiovisual texts; spontaneous spoken language vs film dialogue; pragmatic aspects of spoken interpersonal interaction (politeness, speech acts, language variation and register); methods for the analysis of audiovisual dialogue; introduction to the translation of audiovisual texts. Subtitling workshop – interlingual subtitling.

- J. Diaz Cíntaz - Aline Remael, Subtitling: Concepts and Practices, London and New York: Routledge 2020.
- Luis Pérez-González (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, New York and London: Routledge, 2019 (Ch. 2).
- Luis Pérez-González, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, New York and London: Routledge, 2014 (Ch. 2, 6).
- Łukasz Bogucki, Mikołaj Deckert (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Palgrave (Ch. 4, 12, 27)

Writing & listening in German
Writing & listening in German
In this course, we will try out various techniques to achieve a fluent and correct writing style in German (first semester). These include free creative writing techniques, didactically guided writing activities and creative translation techniques - also with the help of artificial intelligence. The aim of the course is to improve students' own writing skills (not only grammatically and orthographically, but also stylistically), also with regard to language examinations, and to explore creative writing activities within a didactic framework. In this context, students will be involved in several research projects.
In the second half of the course (second semester) we will also look at listening and comprehension techniques in GFL lessons, progressing from simpler listening comprehension exercises to more difficult ones and ending with experiments on learning German with the help of podcasts.

The representation of exile in medieval English literature.

During the lessons we will analyze the different ways in which Old English Poetry dealt with the theme of exile, producing different representations adapting the recurrent elements of a rich and articulate shared heritage of formulas to the specific narrative context. The space of exclusion from society – defined in the representation of the contrast between a “here” and an “elsewhere”– will be identified through the reading of passages from various poems – such as Maxims, Beowulf, Wife’s Lament, Seafarer, Wanderer, Riming Poem, Ruin, Genesis, Christ III, Christ and Satan, Andreas. References will also be made to other works from the Germanic tradition.
The philological-literary analysis of the texts will be accompanied by the study of the main lexical, morphological and syntactical changes that have occurred in the English language over the centuries.

Students (who will be guided in their choice of topics and bibliographic material) will be required to submit a paper, individually or in groups, on literary-historical, linguistic and textual topics related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.

The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/)

Additional bibliographical material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays etc.) will be provided during the course

The course aims to analyze, within the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar, the relationship between syntax, prosody, semantics and discourse grammar, and to provide skills related to research in the scientific field, through the creation of experiments to be submitted to informants (native speakers of the language chosen for analysis), for the collection of data to be subsequently subjected to analysis (including through statistical analysis tools).
Specifically, the research work may focus on the following areas of investigation (to be defined during the course):
(1) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, exclusive, purposive), taking into account their semantic, syntactic (in situ vs. fronted) and prosodic properties.
(2) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Topic, the creation of topic chains and the interpretation of the null subject in a comparison of pro-drop languages (total, partial to radical) and non-pro-drop languages (such as Germanic languages).
(3) Nominal modification in its various cross-linguistic realizations (adjectives, relative phrases, prepositional phrases).
(4) Verbal modification, with special attention to the category of so-called "adjuncts."

- Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2008). L’analisi Linguistica. Dai dati alla teoria. Roma/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Capitoli scelti).
- Frascarelli, Mara (2007). Subjects, Topics and the Interpretation of Referential pro. An interface approach to the linking of (null) pronouns. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25, 4: 691-734
- Frascarelli, Mara (2017). Dislocations and Framings. In Elisabeth Stark and Andreas Dufter (eds.) Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax, 472-501. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics). Berlin: Mouton.
- Frascarelli, Mara (2018) The interpretation of pro in consistent and partial NS languages: A comparative interface analysis. in Federica Cognola & Jan Casalicchio (eds.), Null-Subjects in Generative Grammar. A synchronic and diachronic perspective, 211-239, Part IIB, Ch. 9. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgio Carella (2019). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic Review, 36 (4): 637-674.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Marco Casentini (2019). The interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language. Topic chains and discourse semantic requirements in Chinese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 40, (1). Online publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0001
Additional material can be defined during the course. Any additions will be reported on the Moodle platform.

The course will analyze the evolution of relations between the United States and Europe from the end of the Second World War to the crisis of US global hegemony and the return of great power competition. More specifically, the course will debate key moments in the origins and evolution of the transatlantic relationship during the Cold War, such as the Atlantic Charter, the Marshall plan, the formation and evolution of NATO, détente and the Vietnam conflict, Germany's unification and the end of the East-West division. The evolution of relations between the United States and Europe after the end of the Cold War and the new surge in tension between Russia and the West until the 2022 Ukraine war will also be presented and debated together with a specific analysis of the role of Italy within the transatlantic community.

Core Textbook:

G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Together with the core textbook students are also required to study one one the following books:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (YUP, 2021) M. de Leonardis (ed.), NATO in the Post-Cold War era (Routledge, 2022)

Additional Bibliograhy: Seth A. Johnston, How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance Since 1950 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016) NATO 2030, United for a new Era, Reflection Group Final Report, https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2020/12/pdf/201201-Reflection-Group-Final-Report-Uni.pdf Riviste di riferimento: NATO Review, International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Foreign Affairs, International Spectator, Jane’s Intelligence Review, International Organization, Survival, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Journal of Common Market Studies, Baltic Security and Defense Review, The RUSI Journal

Mandatory Textbook: G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

One additional book from the following list:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (YUP, 2021)

M. de Leonardis (ed.), NATO in the Post-Cold War era (Routledge, 2022)

An overview of some key issues in second language learning and teaching research, with particular reference to the way in which teaching can facilitate and speed up the natural process of language acquisition.
Focus. The characteristics of Task-based language teaching, aimed to harmonise teaching programme and learners' internal syllabus, will be discussed in detail.

1) Van Patten B., Smith M., Benati A., Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press, 2020. [book]
2) East, M., Foundational Principles of Task-Based Language Teaching (1st ed.). Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003039709 [Parts I and II]

The course has been designed for those students with no previous instruction in this field, thus, it aims at introducing the student to the fundamentals of the subject matter. During the course we will analyze the concepts of second language and interlanguage, the process of second language acquisition, and the factors that determine this process. With these topics as a starting point, we will focus on the development of language skills for spoken and written communication and also on the concepts of plurilingualism, plural approaches and intercomprehension.

ELisabetta Bonvino, Diego Cortés Velasquez, Anna De Meo e Elisa Fiorenza (2023) "Agire in L2. Processi e strumenti nella linguistica educativa". Milano: Hoepli.
Elisabetta Bonvino e Sandra Garbarino (2022) "Intercomprensione" . Bolgna/Cesena: Caissa.
Course packets

Literature and Forms
This course will focus on the study of authors and works of the modernist movement and its aesthetic tendency towards formalism.
A comprehensive overview of the epistemic crisis developing between the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century will provide the cultural context and value system in light of which modernism formulates its theories and practices. This will lead to the exploration of narrative and poetic texts by Conrad, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf. The parallel reading of essays and theoretical reflections by these authors, by other modernist writers/artists and by critics will deepen critical understanding of both the modernist climate and individual poetics, while also pointing out shared features such as experimentalism, relationship with tradition, intertextuality and interartes exchanges which invite vivid comparison between different but always conversing media.

PRIMARY SOURCES
All the primary and secondary sources indicated below are compulsory readings (in English) and will be discussed during both lessons and the final exam.
1. Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Oscar Mondadori; It. transl. only: Einaudi).
2. James Joyce, selected episodes from “Ulysses” (English editions: Cambridge UP, Penguin Classics, Oxford World’s Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Bompiani; It. transl. only: Oscar Mondadori).
3. T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Signet Classics; It.-En. parallel text: BUR or il Saggiatore).
4. Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” (English editions: A Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It. transl. only: “Gita al Faro”, Einaudi, translated by A. Nadotti; “Al faro”, Feltrinelli, translated by N. Fusini).

Memory and Post-memory: remembering and forgetting in postcolonial literature

In this course we will examine novels by postcolonial authors, namely Nigerian, with a view to analysing how they deal with history, with individual and collective past and with remembering and forgetting in their works.
Further details will be given when we get closer to the beginning of the course.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, I ed. 1958 (any unabridged edition).
Ben Okri, Dangerous Love, I ed. 1996 (any unabridged edition).
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, I ed. 2006 (any unabridged edition)

The module proposes an analysis of the key features of epic and postdramatic theatre, starting with the works of Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, Dea Loher and Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Bertolt Brecht, Ausgewählte Werke in Sechs Bänden (vol. 1, 2, 6), Suhrkamp.
Heiner Müller, Werke (vol. 3, 4, 5) Suhrkamp.
Elfriede Jelinek, Ein Sportstück (Rororo)
Dea Loher, Sechs Stücke (Wallstein)
Roland Schimmelpfennig, Die Frau von Früher (Fischer).

This course examines the status of women in modern and contemporary China and Taiwan, and the development of identity consciousness in its various conjugations, by reading and critically analysing representative works by well-known modern and contemporary writers.

Rosa Lombardi, Voci da Taiwan, Orientalia, 2022
-Joshua Mostow, Kirk Denton, The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, Columbia Un. Press, 2007 (parti trattate a lezione)
- Essays uploaded onTeams
- Chinese texts and short stories Teams uploaded on

The course will focus on the study of environmental movements during the latter half of the 20th century. It will examine how these movements perceived and addressed major environmental issues, transformed into political parties, and interacted with the concept of modernity.
The course will provide an overview of the emergence of conservationist and protectionist movements in 19th century Europe and the first half of the 20th century. Then the main emphasis will be on the movements that arose between the 1960s and 1990s, with a comprehensive exploration of their organizational and cultural aspects.
Specific topics that will be covered include the rise of environmental conservation associations, the emergence of ecological protests, environmental movements, and animal rights activism. The course will also analyze the development of green cultures and parties in Italy, Britain, France, and Germany within the context of their respective political systems. Furthermore, the scientific and political debates surrounding climate change will be examined.
To facilitate a deeper understanding of the subject matter, the course will involve reading and discussing relevant documents from the studied period. These documents will shed light on the political cultures, ideas, and sensitivities that gave birth to these movements and fueled internal political debates.

G. Della Valentina, Storia dell’ambientalismo in Italia. Lo sviluppo insostenibile, Bruno Mondadori, 2011.
G. Guazzaloca, Primo: non maltrattare. Storia della protezione degli animali in Italia, Laterza 2018.
Readings given during classes and available on Moodle.

The course intends to focus on the phenomenon of irony in the Spanish language and those that lead from it to the field of humour. Starting with the analysis of the indicators that can reveal the presence of irony (as a pragmatic-communicative strategy) in written and oral texts of different kinds, the course aims to increase the student's linguistic/communicative skills. Furthermore, on the translanguaging front, it aims to confront the student with the resolution of complex cases, in which interlinguistic reflection becomes decisive for the transposition and (re)creation of verbal humour.

Lecture notes by the professor.
ALVARADO ORTEGA, M.B. (2006), «Las marcas de la ironía», Interlingüística, 16.
BOSELLI, S. (2006), «La traduzione teatrale», in F. Buffoni (a cura di), Traduttologia: La teoria della traduzione letteraria, Roma, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, pp. 625-642.
GONZÁLEZ VERA, P. (2017), «Cuando humor y cultura chocan: el subtitulado en Ocho apellidos vascos», in Martínez Sierra, Juan José e Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terran (a cura di), The Translation of Humour / La traducción del humor, MonTI 9, pp. 249-277.
RUIZ GURILLO, L. (2012), La lingüística del humor en español, Madrid, Arco Libros.
SIMARRO VÁZQUEZ, M. (2017), «Humor verbal basado en la ambigüedad léxica y competencia léxico-semántica» Pragmalingüística, 25, pp. 618-636.
VILLARRUBIA ZÚÑIGA, M. (2010), «La ironía y el humor a través de la literatura. Una dimensión de la pragmática cognitiva en la enseñanza del ELE», marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera 2010 (10)
ZABALBEASCOA, P. (2001), «La traducción del humor en textos audiovisuales», in Duro Miguel (a cura di), La traducción para el doblaje y la subtitulación, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 251-263.

Audiovisual translation as linguistic and cultural mediation; the multimodal dimension of audiovisual texts; spontaneous spoken language vs film dialogue; pragmatic aspects of spoken interpersonal interaction (politeness, speech acts, language variation and register); methods for the analysis of audiovisual dialogue; introduction to the translation of audiovisual texts. Subtitling workshop – interlingual subtitling.

- J. Diaz Cíntaz - Aline Remael, Subtitling: Concepts and Practices, London and New York: Routledge 2020.
- Luis Pérez-González (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, New York and London: Routledge, 2019 (Ch. 2).
- Luis Pérez-González, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, New York and London: Routledge, 2014 (Ch. 2, 6).
- Łukasz Bogucki, Mikołaj Deckert (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Palgrave (Ch. 4, 12, 27)

Writing & listening in German
Writing & listening in German
In this course, we will try out various techniques to achieve a fluent and correct writing style in German (first semester). These include free creative writing techniques, didactically guided writing activities and creative translation techniques - also with the help of artificial intelligence. The aim of the course is to improve students' own writing skills (not only grammatically and orthographically, but also stylistically), also with regard to language examinations, and to explore creative writing activities within a didactic framework. In this context, students will be involved in several research projects.
In the second half of the course (second semester) we will also look at listening and comprehension techniques in GFL lessons, progressing from simpler listening comprehension exercises to more difficult ones and ending with experiments on learning German with the help of podcasts.

The course focuses on Arabic AI methods applied to the Arabic language.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general AI issues;
- specific in machine treatment of the Arabic language;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language and its consequences;
- variation management in AI applied to Arabic texts;
- are unified or mixed tools suitable?
- cultural and ethical issues in applying AI to the Arabic culture.

Habash, Nizar. «Arabic Computational Linguistics». In The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, a cura di Karin Ryding e David Wilmsen, 1ª ed., 427–45. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Kamal Eddine, Moussa, Nadi Tomeh, Nizar Habash, Joseph Le Roux and Michalis Vazirgiannis. "AraBART: a Pretrained Arabic Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Abstractive Summarization." In Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2022.

Obeid, Ossama, Go Inoue and Nizar Habash. "Camelira: An Arabic Multi-Dialect Morphological Disambiguator." In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Demo. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2022.

The course intends to focus on the phenomenon of irony in the Spanish language and those that lead from it to the field of humour. Starting with the analysis of the indicators that can reveal the presence of irony (as a pragmatic-communicative strategy) in written and oral texts of different kinds, the course aims to increase the student's linguistic/communicative skills. Furthermore, on the translanguaging front, it aims to confront the student with the resolution of complex cases, in which interlinguistic reflection becomes decisive for the transposition and (re)creation of verbal humour.

Lecture notes by the professor.
ALVARADO ORTEGA, M.B. (2006), «Las marcas de la ironía», Interlingüística, 16.
BOSELLI, S. (2006), «La traduzione teatrale», in F. Buffoni (a cura di), Traduttologia: La teoria della traduzione letteraria, Roma, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, pp. 625-642.
GONZÁLEZ VERA, P. (2017), «Cuando humor y cultura chocan: el subtitulado en Ocho apellidos vascos», in Martínez Sierra, Juan José e Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terran (a cura di), The Translation of Humour / La traducción del humor, MonTI 9, pp. 249-277.
RUIZ GURILLO, L. (2012), La lingüística del humor en español, Madrid, Arco Libros.
SIMARRO VÁZQUEZ, M. (2017), «Humor verbal basado en la ambigüedad léxica y competencia léxico-semántica» Pragmalingüística, 25, pp. 618-636.
VILLARRUBIA ZÚÑIGA, M. (2010), «La ironía y el humor a través de la literatura. Una dimensión de la pragmática cognitiva en la enseñanza del ELE», marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera 2010 (10)
ZABALBEASCOA, P. (2001), «La traducción del humor en textos audiovisuales», in Duro Miguel (a cura di), La traducción para el doblaje y la subtitulación, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 251-263.

Audiovisual translation as linguistic and cultural mediation; the multimodal dimension of audiovisual texts; spontaneous spoken language vs film dialogue; pragmatic aspects of spoken interpersonal interaction (politeness, speech acts, language variation and register); methods for the analysis of audiovisual dialogue; introduction to the translation of audiovisual texts. Subtitling workshop – interlingual subtitling.

- J. Diaz Cíntaz - Aline Remael, Subtitling: Concepts and Practices, London and New York: Routledge 2020.
- Luis Pérez-González (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, New York and London: Routledge, 2019 (Ch. 2).
- Luis Pérez-González, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, New York and London: Routledge, 2014 (Ch. 2, 6).
- Łukasz Bogucki, Mikołaj Deckert (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Palgrave (Ch. 4, 12, 27)

Writing & listening in German
Writing & listening in German
In this course, we will try out various techniques to achieve a fluent and correct writing style in German (first semester). These include free creative writing techniques, didactically guided writing activities and creative translation techniques - also with the help of artificial intelligence. The aim of the course is to improve students' own writing skills (not only grammatically and orthographically, but also stylistically), also with regard to language examinations, and to explore creative writing activities within a didactic framework. In this context, students will be involved in several research projects.
In the second half of the course (second semester) we will also look at listening and comprehension techniques in GFL lessons, progressing from simpler listening comprehension exercises to more difficult ones and ending with experiments on learning German with the help of podcasts.

Re-worked versions, re-writings and translation strategies in medieval English and German texts

The course aims to present the different ways and purposes in which various authors of the English and German Middle Ages translated, reworked and rewrote literary, philosophical or theological texts from Latin into vernacular. The works in verse and prose (e.g. Old English biblical and hagiographic poems, Old English translations of Alfred's works, Old Saxon Heliand, Old High German Otfrid von Weißenburg’s Liber Evangelorium, Tatian and Notker III's translations) and the related paratexts (prefaces, epilogues, dedicatory letters) will be analyzed from a literary, philological and linguistic perspective, with particular attention to codicological transmission and text typology, as well as to the historical and cultural context in which they were produced. The analysis of the texts will enable students to gain insight into some features of the linguistic evolution of English and German.

The students, who will be guided by the teacher in the choice of themes and in the use of the main bibliographic tools, will have to present an individual or group report, which will be discussed in class in the final part of the course, and which will focus on historical-literary, linguistic and textual topics related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.

A selection of chapters from the following texts:

M. Battaglia (ed.), Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, Carocci, Roma 2017 (pp. 55-136; 137-276; 277-309).
B. Murdoch - M. Read (eds.), Early Germanic Literature and Culture, Camden House, Rochester-New York 2004 (pp. 205-233; 235-261; 263-284).
R.D. Fulk – C. Cain, A History of Old English Literature, Wynley Blackwell, Oxford 2013.
Rolf Bergmann (Hg.), Althochdeutsche und altsächsische Literatur, De Gruyter, Berlin–Boston, 2013.

A. M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parte II e III)

Textbook: E. Jezek, “Il lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.

Chapter 1 - Nozioni di base (Basic concepts of lexicology)
Except table 1.2, "Profili sintagmatici assimilabili alla parola", and table 1.3, "Tipologia della parola".
Chapter 2 - L'informazione lessicale (Lexical information).
Chapter 3 - Il significato delle parole (The meaning of words).
Chapter 4 - La struttura globale del lessico (The global structure of lexicon).
Chapter 5 - Strutture paradigmatiche del lessico (Paradigmatic structures of lexicon).
Except paragraph 7, "Configurazioni lessicali".
Chapter 6 - Strutture sintagmatiche del lessico (Syntagmatic structures of lexicon).

E. Jezek, “Il lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.

In addition, there is a PDF file of lecture notes on Moodle.

Textbook: Edith A. Moravcsik, “Introducing Language Typology”, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Chapter 1 - What is language typology? Goals, Tools (Statement types, Language samples, Data Sources).
Chapter 2 – Lexical typology (Introduction, Words for body parts, Kinship terms, Personal pronouns, Words for numbers, Antonymic adjectives, Words for colors).
Chapter 3 – Syntactic typology (Introduction, The choice of words and word forms, The order of words, Syntactic categories).
Chapter 4 – Morphological typology (Introduction, The choice of morphemes and morpheme forms, The order of morphemes, Morphological categories).
Chapter 6 – Historical change (The Genesis of articles, Word order change).

Edith A. Moravcsik, “Introducing Language Typology”, Cambridge University Press, 2013. The paperback edition is cheaper. Chapters 5 and 7 are excluded; chapter 6 must be studied only until page 209.

In addition, there is a PDF file of lecture notes in Italian on Moodle.

The course aims to introduce graduate language students to the main dynamics of contemporary global politics through an analysis of the main theoretical approaches in the discipline of international relations, such as realism, liberalism, constructivism, and Marxist-theories, as well as by introducing them to the main critical approaches to the mainstream theories and world politics.

Course Textbook:

Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds), International Relations Theories. Discipline and Diversity (OUP 2020)

Additional Reading:

Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jack Donnelly, Matthew Paterson, Christian Reus-Smit and Jacqui True, Theories of International Relations, 3rd edition, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Downloadable at: http://lib.jnu.ac.in/sites/default/files/RefrenceFile/Theories-of-IR.pdf

Stephen McGlinchey (ed.), Foundations of International Relations (Bloomsbury 2022)

The course aims at deepening the knowledge related to the teaching of L2 Italian, with a special focus on language assessment.

In the second language learning and use, assessment is a crucial process as it allows to account for the skills and competencies developed by the learner. In this course, through activities of analysis of teaching materials and case studies, we will explore the main aspects of this process, comparing Italian L2 and other foreign languages.

Course packets provided by the instructor.

The functions of language: cognitive vs. communicative function
The (classical) cognitive science of language
Modularity of mind

Levels of language processing
Microanalysis deficits: aphasias
Broca's aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia

The pragmatics of language
Pragmatic disorders: autism spectrum disorder

Pragmatics of discourse
Schizophrenia
Traumatic brain injury

!! Syllabus valid from June 2025 exam session unique for all students (no difference between attending and non-attending students) !!!

[-- Those taking the exam in the January-February 2025 session should refer to syllabus 2023-24]


1 book + 2 articles:

(Book 1) Adornetti I. (2018) Pathologies of language and communication. Carocci, Rome.

(Article 1) will be communicated at the beginning of the course

(Article 2) will be communicated at the beginning of the course

Introduction: from Kievan Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First Modernisation of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of a Great Power; The long Russian 19th century from the Napoleonic wars to the reforms of Alexander II; The Russia of Nicholas II: The contradictions of an impetuous and disorderly development; The First World War and the end of a world; The Bolshevik revolution, its origins and affirmation; The Russian civil wars and the origins of the Soviet state; The NEP, the rise of Stalin, Collectivisation, industrialisation and the birth of Stalin's USSR; The Great Terror; The Comintern, Communist parties and traditional foreign policy; The Second World War; Victory and the birth of a superpower; The Cold War: The USSR and the West; Chhrushchev and the 20th Congress of the PCUS; The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; The impossible reform of the system: Gorbachev between perestroika and glasnost'; The end of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the age of turbulence; A new strongman? Putin the new Russia and its wars: ambitions and contradictions of a regime.

1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino

3) F. Benvenuti, Russia oggi, dalla caduta dell'Unione sovietica ai nostri giorni, Roma, Carocci.

for non-attending students: P. Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi

This course focuses on the global mediascape, the main domains of popular culture and the many interactions between the two from a historical perspective, touching at the same time upon the major theories elaborated within disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, economics, cultural and media studies. After introducing key notions such as “mass media” and “popular culture” within their historical and geopolitical contexts, we will outline their developments from the 19th century up to date, matched by the ideologies and paradigms that they have generated. The main core of the course will be devoted to exploring single media/technologies such as the printed media (newspapers, magazines, books), photography, telephony, cinema, radio, television and digital media, followed by relevant areas of popular culture such as tourism, gastronomy, counter and subcultures, advertising, fashion, sports and music. All these fields relate to themes that are central to the contemporary debate on society, technology and markets, such as globalization, identity (individual, collective), glamour and soft power, to mention just a few viewpoints allowing us to make sense of the deep societal transformations occurred in the last decades: changes that have been either welcomed with enthusiasm or fiercely opposed, keeping alive a longtime diatribe involving public opinion, industries, governments and academics.

In addition to lecturing and discussions, classes will include slides, pictures and audiovisual examples. The course provides an international gaze at the mediascape, but a few significant case studies will refer to Italy. There is not a textbook, but a choice of readings will be assigned during the course. Students who cannot attend in person must read these two books:

Winston, Brian. Media, Technology and Society: A History: from the Telegraph to the Internet, Taylor & Francis Group, 1998 - PART I, II and IV (chapters 13, 14 and 18)
Betts, Raymond F., and Lyz Bly. A History of Popular Culture: More of Everything, Faster and Brighter, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

At the end of the course students are required to write a paper of 1,500 to 2,000 words, whose topic must be agreed with the professor. Details about this and the grading policy will be made available during the course.

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. P. Caridi, Hamas. Dalla resistenza al regime. Nuova edizione, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2023.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

Through a critical-thinking approach, the course analyzes the emergence of capitalism in the medieval age up to contemporary society by covering the main forms of capitalism (merchant, industrial and financial) and the thought of Smith, Marx, Weber, Schumpeter, Keynes and Hayek.

Attending students:

Michel Beaud, A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000, Monthly Review Press, New York 2002.

plus a further book:

Fernand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins Univiversity Press, Baltimora 1979.

The course aims to explore the notion of style through theoretical and textual analyzes on texts from French literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Attending students will work on texts and bibliography provided in class; non-attending students will instead follow the program indicated here.

L. Spitzer, Saggi di critica stilistica. Maria di Francia, Racine, Saint-Simon, Firenze, Sansoni, 2004.
E. Bordas, “Style”. Un mot et des discours, Paris, Kimé, 2008.
M. Macé, Styles, Critique de nos formes de vie, Paris, Gallimard, 2016.

Intertextuality and Intermediality: Critical Perspectives and Educational Applications.
The course aims to provide the tools and methodologies for the intertextual and/or intermedial analysis of literary works. The course also aims to deepen reflections on the didactics of literature, with special regard to the use of audiovisuals and the dynamics of intertextuality aimed at the design of learning paths for literary skills.

Opere letterarie di riferimento
Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes, edición de Francisco Rico, Madrid, Cátedra oppure edizione di A. Gargano, Venezia, Marsilio
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, parti scelte, edición del Instituto Cervantes a cargo de Francisco Rico, https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/clasicos/quijote/
José Sanchis Sinisterra, El lector por horas, edizione bilingue a cura di Renata Londero, Pisa, ETS

Film (estratti significativi dei seguenti film saranno proiettati e commentati in aula)
Lazarillo de Tormes (1959), dir. César Fernández Ardavín
Lázaro de Tormes (2000), dir. y guion Fernando Fernán Gómez
El Pícaro (1974), dir. y guion Fernando Fernán Gómez
I Picari (1987), dir. Mario Monicelli, guion Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Mario Monicelli
Don Chisciotte (1984), dir. Maurizio Scaparro, guion Rafael Azcona, Maurizio Scaparro, Tullio Kezich
Don Kikhot (1957), dir. Grigorij Kozintsev, guion Eugenij Shvarts.
Don Quichotte (1933), dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst, guion Paul Morand, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992), dir. Orson Welles, guion Orson Welles, Jesús Franco
The man who killed Don Quixote (2018), dir. y guion Terry Gilliam
Lost in La Mancha (2001), dir. y guion Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe

By reviewing the main moments and works of the artistic-literary re-elaboration of political violence in Argentina during the years of the military dictatorship (1976-1983), in a perspective that places Argentine authoritarianism within a broader Latin American framework, the course aims to present students artistic and literary products, to be analyzed through tools and methodologies connected to the most recent studies on post-memory and post-testimony. At first, the main concepts that shape the theoretical apparatus will be presented, then the works in the program will be analyzed and discussed. The concluding lectures will be devoted to a reflection on literature as an archive of political and social violence and its didactics in the context of recent studies on the "pedagogy of memory".

- Lola Arias, Mi vida después y otros textos, Buenos Aires, Reservoir Books, 2016
- Graciela Bialet, I rospi della memoria, Roma, Rapsodia Edizioni, 2021
- Daniele Cini, La sirena, Italia, 2008 (cortometraggio)
- Damián Olivito, El cielo sobre Riace, Argentina, 2020 (documentario)
- Malena Scunio, Il sale del ricordo, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2023
- Josefina Giglio, Io l'ho amata, Le comari edizioni, 2024

The course will analyse the interpretations of Brazil proposed by Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Júnior.

Gilberto Freyre, Casa Grande e Sanzala, São Paulo, Editora Global, 2006;
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Raízes do Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2013;
Caio Prado Júnior, Formação do Brasil contemporâneo, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2011;

Ricardo Benzaquen de Araújo, Chuvas de verão. “Antagonismos em equilíbrio” em Casa-Grande & senzala de Gilberto Freyre, in A. Botelho – L. Moritz Schwarcz, Um enigma chamado Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2009, pp. 198-211.
Antonio Candido, O Significado de Raízes do Brasil, in Raízes do Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2011, pp. 9-24;
Mario Helio Gomes de Lima, Gilberto Freyre, in L. Bernardo Pericás – L. Secco, Intérpretes do Brasil. Clássicos, rebeldes e renegados, São Paulo, Boitempo Editorial, 2014, pp. 153-168;
Thiago Lima Nicodemo, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, in L. Bernardo Pericás – L. Secco, Intérpretes do Brasil. Clássicos, rebeldes e renegados, São Paulo, Boitempo Editorial, 2014, pp.139-152;
Luiz Bernardo Pericás – Maria Clélia Wider, Caio Prado Júnior, in L. Bernardo Pericás – L. Secco, Intérpretes do Brasil. Clássicos, rebeldes e renegados, São Paulo, Boitempo Editorial, 2014, pp.193-214;
Bernardo Ricupero, Caio Prado Júnior e o lugar do Brasil no mundo, in A. Botelho – L. Moritz Schwarcz, Um enigma chamado Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2009, pp. 226-239.

Literature and Forms
This course will focus on the study of authors and works of the modernist movement and its aesthetic tendency towards formalism.
A comprehensive overview of the epistemic crisis developing between the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century will provide the cultural context and value system in light of which modernism formulates its theories and practices. This will lead to the exploration of narrative and poetic texts by Conrad, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf. The parallel reading of essays and theoretical reflections by these authors, by other modernist writers/artists and by critics will deepen critical understanding of both the modernist climate and individual poetics, while also pointing out shared features such as experimentalism, relationship with tradition, intertextuality and interartes exchanges which invite vivid comparison between different but always conversing media.

PRIMARY SOURCES
All the primary and secondary sources indicated below are compulsory readings (in English) and will be discussed during both lessons and the final exam.
1. Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Oscar Mondadori; It. transl. only: Einaudi).
2. James Joyce, selected episodes from “Ulysses” (English editions: Cambridge UP, Penguin Classics, Oxford World’s Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Bompiani; It. transl. only: Oscar Mondadori).
3. T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Signet Classics; It.-En. parallel text: BUR or il Saggiatore).
4. Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” (English editions: A Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It. transl. only: “Gita al Faro”, Einaudi, translated by A. Nadotti; “Al faro”, Feltrinelli, translated by N. Fusini).

Memory and Post-memory: remembering and forgetting in postcolonial literature

In this course we will examine novels by postcolonial authors, namely Nigerian, with a view to analysing how they deal with history, with individual and collective past and with remembering and forgetting in their works.
Further details will be given when we get closer to the beginning of the course.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, I ed. 1958 (any unabridged edition).
Ben Okri, Dangerous Love, I ed. 1996 (any unabridged edition).
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, I ed. 2006 (any unabridged edition)

Through the rewritings of visual, narrative, and poetic texts (adaptations for the stage and the screen, parodies), published in a period ranging from the beginning of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st, the course investigates the specificities of different genres, languages, and media, as well as the processes of adaptation and transcodification that are at the heart of such texts. Class discussion will also focus on issues related to democracy and citizenship in the United States; racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination; civil rights; transculturalism.

L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (W.W. Norton Annotated Edition);
The Wizard of Oz (film), dir. Victor Fleming;
The Wiz (film), dir. Sidney Lumet.
William Carlos Williams, Paterson (New Directions), selected books/parts;
Paterson (film), dir. Jim Jarmusch.
Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo;
The Rose Tattoo (film), dir. Daniel Mann.
Hillary Jordan, Mudbound (Windmill Books)
Mudbound (film), dir. Dee Rees.

Moscow (1924-2024): Utopias, Transformations and Nostalgia

M. Bulgakov Master i Margarita (ru)
V. Aksenov Zvezdnyi bilet
V. Erofeev Moskva-Petushki
Ju. Trifonov Dom на naberezhnoi
V. Pelevin Omon Ra
Vl. Sorokin Moskva (ru)

The course includes: a) the study of the grammar of Old Slavonic - the first literary language of the Slavs - and the reading of texts in Old Slavonic; b) an introduction to the history of the development and specific features of the writing culture of Rus', the history of the formation of the Russian language through Ecclesiastical Slavonic and Old Russian.
Old Slavonic: History and Main Concepts

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Nicoletta Marcialis. Introduzione alla lingua paleoslava. FUP 2005
Lilia Skomorochova Venturini, Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica. Edizioni ETS 2005
Horace G. Lunt, Old Church Slavonic Grammar. Seventh Revised Edition. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Horace G. Lunt, On the Relationship of Old Church Slavonic to the Written Language of Early Rus'. Russian Linguistics , 1987, Vol. 11, No. 2/3 (1987), pp. 133-162
Kasatkin L., Krysin L., Zhivov V. Il russo. Firenze, 1999
Ulteriori materiali e nozioni bibliografiche vengono fornite a lezione.

Study of groups in social psychology
Roles, norms, status and group functions
Phenomena in group dynamics
Power and leadership
Intra-groups and inter-groups interactions
Inter-groups relationships and social categorization
Inter-groups conflicts
Stereotype decostruction and prejudice reduction
Communication and social influence in group

- Donelson R. Forsyth. Psicologia dei gruppi (a cura di Livi, Maricchiolo, Mosso) EDRA. 2022
- Monografia:
Bonaiuto, M. & Maricchiolo, F. (2009). La comunicazione non verbale (seconda edizione). Carocci, Roma.

Never before in recent years has the idea of Europe been at the center of public debate: for some, it is the only lifeline against nationalism and war; for others, it is the ultimate cause of all our problems and woes, especially economic ones. The invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's Russia in February 2022 has not only revived the classic themes of war and peace in public discourse but also brought back into focus the issue of the eastern expansion of the concept of Europe, a question with extraordinary historical depth.
Only a profound understanding of the long-term history of European civilization and its interactions with other civilizations around the globe can allow us to decode issues that only superficially appear to be purely contemporary. In the first part of the course, we will focus on the evolution of the notion of Europe, the various thoughts about Europe, and the long-term development of European consciousness. In the second part, we will delve into the phenomenon of exodus and internal migrations within the continent for religious reasons: whether voluntary or forced, they are the dramatic outcome of the process of confessionalization and the construction of modern statehood, characterized by the pursuit of purity through the expulsion and marginalization of religious diversity

First section: 'History of Europe: ideas, perspectives, reflections' (6 ECTS)

Reference books:

Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Additional book for students who will not attend the lessons: Egidio Ivetic, Studiare la storia del Mediterraneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024


Second section: "The Europe of exoduses and migrations 'religionis causa'".

Reference books:

Nicholas Terpstra, Purezza e fede. Esuli religiosi nell’Europa moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Those who only need to take 6 ECTS are required to study the first teaching unit.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY STARTING FROM JUNE-JULY 2025, EXCLUSIVELY.

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.

- Cecilia Andorno, Che cos'è la pragmatica linguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La lingua disonesta. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019.

The course aims to analyze, within the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar, the relationship between syntax, prosody, semantics and discourse grammar, and to provide skills related to research in the scientific field, through the creation of experiments to be submitted to informants (native speakers of the language chosen for analysis), for the collection of data to be subsequently subjected to analysis (including through statistical analysis tools).
Specifically, the research work may focus on the following areas of investigation (to be defined during the course):
(1) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, exclusive, purposive), taking into account their semantic, syntactic (in situ vs. fronted) and prosodic properties.
(2) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Topic, the creation of topic chains and the interpretation of the null subject in a comparison of pro-drop languages (total, partial to radical) and non-pro-drop languages (such as Germanic languages).
(3) Nominal modification in its various cross-linguistic realizations (adjectives, relative phrases, prepositional phrases).
(4) Verbal modification, with special attention to the category of so-called "adjuncts."

- Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2008). L’analisi Linguistica. Dai dati alla teoria. Roma/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Capitoli scelti).
- Frascarelli, Mara (2007). Subjects, Topics and the Interpretation of Referential pro. An interface approach to the linking of (null) pronouns. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25, 4: 691-734
- Frascarelli, Mara (2017). Dislocations and Framings. In Elisabeth Stark and Andreas Dufter (eds.) Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax, 472-501. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics). Berlin: Mouton.
- Frascarelli, Mara (2018) The interpretation of pro in consistent and partial NS languages: A comparative interface analysis. in Federica Cognola & Jan Casalicchio (eds.), Null-Subjects in Generative Grammar. A synchronic and diachronic perspective, 211-239, Part IIB, Ch. 9. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgio Carella (2019). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic Review, 36 (4): 637-674.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Marco Casentini (2019). The interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language. Topic chains and discourse semantic requirements in Chinese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 40, (1). Online publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0001
Additional material can be defined during the course. Any additions will be reported on the Moodle platform.

The course provides the linguistic tools to interrogate the text from the perspective of discourse analysis. In the first part, the theories of discourse analysis and enunciation will be addressed. The second part of the course will be devoted to the study of the presence of the French language in the former colonies. In the third part, certain discursive structures such as polyphony, intertextuality, point of view and autonomy within the novels of Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Faiza Guène will be examined.
The course takes place during the second semester. Access to the final, oral exam takes place after a linguistic, oral and written test, the preparation of which is ensured by Dr Agathe Rabat.

Parte A : analyse du discours et théories de l’énonciation linguistique

*Benveniste E., « De la subjectivité dans la langage », in Problèmes de linguistique générale I, Gallimard, 1966, pp. 258-266.
*Benveniste E., « L'appareil formel de l'énonciation » in Langages , 5e année, n°17, 1970. pp. 12-18.
*Yaguello M., « La Grammaire », in Le Grand livre de la langue française, Seuil, 2003, p.153-258
*Wilmet M., Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hachette, Duculot, 1997, pp. 532-673

Parte B : discours postcolonial et langue française

*Rey A. et Alii, « L’Outre-mer colonisé et la diffusion du français avant 1848 », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1029- 1030.
*Rey A. et Alii, « L’expansion impérialiste du français », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1086-1091.
*Rey A. et Alii, « Le français colonisateur et décolonisé, in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1168-1175.

Parte C : analyse du discours littéraire

Au choix, deux des trois options suivantes :

Option 1 :
*Algeri V., L’Histoire de soi dans la langue de l’autre. La polyphonie linguistique dans l’œuvre de Assia Djebar, Aracne, coll. Recherches sur toiles, Roma, 2014, pp.1-140.
Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1985), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995

Option 2 :
*Algeri V., “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [En ligne], 9 | 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rief/4512
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014
Albert Camus, L’Etranger, une édition au choix.

Option 3:
*Authier-Revuz, J., « Le Fait autonymique : Langage, langue, discours. Quelques repères » in Parler des mots : Le fait autonymique en discours, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.

Guène F., Un Homme ça ne pleure pas, 2014.




Examination material marked with * is available from the 4Appunti copy centre, Via G. Chiabrera, 174 00145 Rome. This material is also available in attached files in the Supports des cours section. You are required to study on the printed handouts.

Spanish in international communication. Discourse analysis and specialized translation.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish language by developing the skills of linguistic analysis and translation of the discourse characterizing the complex context of international communication.
The theoretical reflection on a variety of issues relating to the international dimension of the spanish language will be accompanied by the linguistic-pragmatic analysis of different types of discourses/texts belonging to concrete contexts of use of Spanish in an international context. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the translation of some specialized languages of international relevance.

San Vicente, F. - Bazzocchi G. (coord.) (2021). LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, Clueb, Bologna (capitoli selezionati).

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be supplied during the course.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

English lexicology and lexicography

Contemporary English for Special/Specific Purposes, including the language of international communication and European institutions: examination of the lexical-semantic, syntactic and textual features of specialized discourse and of language used in multilingual/multicultural contexts; investigation of the channels, situations and pragmatic requirements of specialized/international communication (e.g., communicative intents and the relation between text producers and receivers); in-depth analysis of the semantic relations in the lexicon of English, with specific reference to the areas of overlap and contrast between Anglo-Saxon and Latinate vocabulary items; use of the main lexicological and lexicographic tools for contemporary English; analysis of the lexicon using corpora; creation of (online) lexicographic resources.

Durkin, P. 2016. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. London/New York: Routledge.

Jackson, H. & E. Z. Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An introduction to modern English lexicology. London: Continuum.

L’Homme, M.C. 2020. Lexical Semantics for Terminology. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Scarpa, F. 2020. Research and Professional Practice in Specialised Translation. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Language Policies & planning
Discourse Analysis
European institutions with reference to: textual typologies in the acts of the Parliament, the EU, etc. specialized discourse, translation (v. EURLEX)
Varieties and variations of English: lingua franca English, features and focus on examples from VOICE and examples of speeches and translations

TOOLS
Translation with the help of dictionaries, corpora and EURLEX
Research in simple and applied linguistics
Use of corpora (Sketch Engine, BYU and AntConc) for research, speech analysis and translation
Mediation

Tools and materials will be made available during the course.

Introduction to the contrastive analysis of specialized languages (economic, business, and socio-political) in Russian and Italian.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA
Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course focuses on Arabic computational lexicography.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general corpus building issues;
- linguistic specific features of Arabic lexicography;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language;
- variation management in Arabic lexicography;
- are unified or mixed dictionaries possible?
- systems for the electronic coding of Arabic dictionaries.

Baalbaki, Ramzi. The Arabic lexicographical tradition: from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, volume 107. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Lancioni, Giuliano. «Sull’ordinamento dei dizionari arabi classici». In In memoria di Francesco Gabrieli, suppl. no. 2 to Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71, 113–27. Roma: Bardi, 1997.

Translation Course
Translation Module
Acquisition of theoretical tools and the ability to apply appropriate translation strategies depending on the type of text and the problems involved. Development of linguistic reflection and translation strategies by practising reading, analysing and translating different types of texts.

Bruno Osimo, Propedeutica della traduzione, Hoepli, 2002
-Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
- Reading texts uploaded on Teams

Recommended texts:
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022

Introduction to the contrastive analysis of specialized languages (economic, business, and socio-political) in Russian and Italian.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA
Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course provides the linguistic tools to interrogate the text from the perspective of discourse analysis. In the first part, the theories of discourse analysis and enunciation will be addressed. The second part of the course will be devoted to the study of the presence of the French language in the former colonies. In the third part, certain discursive structures such as polyphony, intertextuality, point of view and autonomy within the novels of Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Faiza Guène will be examined.
The course takes place during the second semester. Access to the final, oral exam takes place after a linguistic, oral and written test, the preparation of which is ensured by Dr Agathe Rabat.

Parte A : analyse du discours et théories de l’énonciation linguistique

*Benveniste E., « De la subjectivité dans la langage », in Problèmes de linguistique générale I, Gallimard, 1966, pp. 258-266.
*Benveniste E., « L'appareil formel de l'énonciation » in Langages , 5e année, n°17, 1970. pp. 12-18.
*Yaguello M., « La Grammaire », in Le Grand livre de la langue française, Seuil, 2003, p.153-258
*Wilmet M., Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hachette, Duculot, 1997, pp. 532-673

Parte B : discours postcolonial et langue française

*Rey A. et Alii, « L’Outre-mer colonisé et la diffusion du français avant 1848 », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1029- 1030.
*Rey A. et Alii, « L’expansion impérialiste du français », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1086-1091.
*Rey A. et Alii, « Le français colonisateur et décolonisé, in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1168-1175.

Parte C : analyse du discours littéraire

Au choix, deux des trois options suivantes :

Option 1 :
*Algeri V., L’Histoire de soi dans la langue de l’autre. La polyphonie linguistique dans l’œuvre de Assia Djebar, Aracne, coll. Recherches sur toiles, Roma, 2014, pp.1-140.
Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1985), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995

Option 2 :
*Algeri V., “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [En ligne], 9 | 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rief/4512
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014
Albert Camus, L’Etranger, une édition au choix.

Option 3:
*Authier-Revuz, J., « Le Fait autonymique : Langage, langue, discours. Quelques repères » in Parler des mots : Le fait autonymique en discours, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.

Guène F., Un Homme ça ne pleure pas, 2014.




Examination material marked with * is available from the 4Appunti copy centre, Via G. Chiabrera, 174 00145 Rome. This material is also available in attached files in the Supports des cours section. You are required to study on the printed handouts.

Spanish in international communication. Discourse analysis and specialized translation.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish language by developing the skills of linguistic analysis and translation of the discourse characterizing the complex context of international communication.
The theoretical reflection on a variety of issues relating to the international dimension of the spanish language will be accompanied by the linguistic-pragmatic analysis of different types of discourses/texts belonging to concrete contexts of use of Spanish in an international context. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the translation of some specialized languages of international relevance.

San Vicente, F. - Bazzocchi G. (coord.) (2021). LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, Clueb, Bologna (capitoli selezionati).

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be supplied during the course.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

English lexicology and lexicography

Contemporary English for Special/Specific Purposes, including the language of international communication and European institutions: examination of the lexical-semantic, syntactic and textual features of specialized discourse and of language used in multilingual/multicultural contexts; investigation of the channels, situations and pragmatic requirements of specialized/international communication (e.g., communicative intents and the relation between text producers and receivers); in-depth analysis of the semantic relations in the lexicon of English, with specific reference to the areas of overlap and contrast between Anglo-Saxon and Latinate vocabulary items; use of the main lexicological and lexicographic tools for contemporary English; analysis of the lexicon using corpora; creation of (online) lexicographic resources.

Durkin, P. 2016. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. London/New York: Routledge.

Jackson, H. & E. Z. Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An introduction to modern English lexicology. London: Continuum.

L’Homme, M.C. 2020. Lexical Semantics for Terminology. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Scarpa, F. 2020. Research and Professional Practice in Specialised Translation. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Language Policies & planning
Discourse Analysis
European institutions with reference to: textual typologies in the acts of the Parliament, the EU, etc. specialized discourse, translation (v. EURLEX)
Varieties and variations of English: lingua franca English, features and focus on examples from VOICE and examples of speeches and translations

TOOLS
Translation with the help of dictionaries, corpora and EURLEX
Research in simple and applied linguistics
Use of corpora (Sketch Engine, BYU and AntConc) for research, speech analysis and translation
Mediation

Tools and materials will be made available during the course.

The representation of exile in medieval English literature.

During the lessons we will analyze the different ways in which Old English Poetry dealt with the theme of exile, producing different representations adapting the recurrent elements of a rich and articulate shared heritage of formulas to the specific narrative context. The space of exclusion from society – defined in the representation of the contrast between a “here” and an “elsewhere”– will be identified through the reading of passages from various poems – such as Maxims, Beowulf, Wife’s Lament, Seafarer, Wanderer, Riming Poem, Ruin, Genesis, Christ III, Christ and Satan, Andreas. References will also be made to other works from the Germanic tradition.
The philological-literary analysis of the texts will be accompanied by the study of the main lexical, morphological and syntactical changes that have occurred in the English language over the centuries.

Students (who will be guided in their choice of topics and bibliographic material) will be required to submit a paper, individually or in groups, on literary-historical, linguistic and textual topics related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.

The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/)

Additional bibliographical material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays etc.) will be provided during the course

The course aims to analyze, within the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar, the relationship between syntax, prosody, semantics and discourse grammar, and to provide skills related to research in the scientific field, through the creation of experiments to be submitted to informants (native speakers of the language chosen for analysis), for the collection of data to be subsequently subjected to analysis (including through statistical analysis tools).
Specifically, the research work may focus on the following areas of investigation (to be defined during the course):
(1) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, exclusive, purposive), taking into account their semantic, syntactic (in situ vs. fronted) and prosodic properties.
(2) The interpretation and implementation of different types of Topic, the creation of topic chains and the interpretation of the null subject in a comparison of pro-drop languages (total, partial to radical) and non-pro-drop languages (such as Germanic languages).
(3) Nominal modification in its various cross-linguistic realizations (adjectives, relative phrases, prepositional phrases).
(4) Verbal modification, with special attention to the category of so-called "adjuncts."

- Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2008). L’analisi Linguistica. Dai dati alla teoria. Roma/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Capitoli scelti).
- Frascarelli, Mara (2007). Subjects, Topics and the Interpretation of Referential pro. An interface approach to the linking of (null) pronouns. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25, 4: 691-734
- Frascarelli, Mara (2017). Dislocations and Framings. In Elisabeth Stark and Andreas Dufter (eds.) Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax, 472-501. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics). Berlin: Mouton.
- Frascarelli, Mara (2018) The interpretation of pro in consistent and partial NS languages: A comparative interface analysis. in Federica Cognola & Jan Casalicchio (eds.), Null-Subjects in Generative Grammar. A synchronic and diachronic perspective, 211-239, Part IIB, Ch. 9. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgio Carella (2019). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic Review, 36 (4): 637-674.
- Frascarelli, Mara & Marco Casentini (2019). The interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language. Topic chains and discourse semantic requirements in Chinese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 40, (1). Online publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0001
Additional material can be defined during the course. Any additions will be reported on the Moodle platform.

The course will analyze the evolution of relations between the United States and Europe from the end of the Second World War to the crisis of US global hegemony and the return of great power competition. More specifically, the course will debate key moments in the origins and evolution of the transatlantic relationship during the Cold War, such as the Atlantic Charter, the Marshall plan, the formation and evolution of NATO, détente and the Vietnam conflict, Germany's unification and the end of the East-West division. The evolution of relations between the United States and Europe after the end of the Cold War and the new surge in tension between Russia and the West until the 2022 Ukraine war will also be presented and debated together with a specific analysis of the role of Italy within the transatlantic community.

Core Textbook:

G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Together with the core textbook students are also required to study one one the following books:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (YUP, 2021) M. de Leonardis (ed.), NATO in the Post-Cold War era (Routledge, 2022)

Additional Bibliograhy: Seth A. Johnston, How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance Since 1950 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016) NATO 2030, United for a new Era, Reflection Group Final Report, https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2020/12/pdf/201201-Reflection-Group-Final-Report-Uni.pdf Riviste di riferimento: NATO Review, International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Foreign Affairs, International Spectator, Jane’s Intelligence Review, International Organization, Survival, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Journal of Common Market Studies, Baltic Security and Defense Review, The RUSI Journal

Mandatory Textbook: G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

One additional book from the following list:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (YUP, 2021)

M. de Leonardis (ed.), NATO in the Post-Cold War era (Routledge, 2022)

An overview of some key issues in second language learning and teaching research, with particular reference to the way in which teaching can facilitate and speed up the natural process of language acquisition.
Focus. The characteristics of Task-based language teaching, aimed to harmonise teaching programme and learners' internal syllabus, will be discussed in detail.

1) Van Patten B., Smith M., Benati A., Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press, 2020. [book]
2) East, M., Foundational Principles of Task-Based Language Teaching (1st ed.). Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003039709 [Parts I and II]

The course has been designed for those students with no previous instruction in this field, thus, it aims at introducing the student to the fundamentals of the subject matter. During the course we will analyze the concepts of second language and interlanguage, the process of second language acquisition, and the factors that determine this process. With these topics as a starting point, we will focus on the development of language skills for spoken and written communication and also on the concepts of plurilingualism, plural approaches and intercomprehension.

ELisabetta Bonvino, Diego Cortés Velasquez, Anna De Meo e Elisa Fiorenza (2023) "Agire in L2. Processi e strumenti nella linguistica educativa". Milano: Hoepli.
Elisabetta Bonvino e Sandra Garbarino (2022) "Intercomprensione" . Bolgna/Cesena: Caissa.
Course packets

Literature and Forms
This course will focus on the study of authors and works of the modernist movement and its aesthetic tendency towards formalism.
A comprehensive overview of the epistemic crisis developing between the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century will provide the cultural context and value system in light of which modernism formulates its theories and practices. This will lead to the exploration of narrative and poetic texts by Conrad, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf. The parallel reading of essays and theoretical reflections by these authors, by other modernist writers/artists and by critics will deepen critical understanding of both the modernist climate and individual poetics, while also pointing out shared features such as experimentalism, relationship with tradition, intertextuality and interartes exchanges which invite vivid comparison between different but always conversing media.

PRIMARY SOURCES
All the primary and secondary sources indicated below are compulsory readings (in English) and will be discussed during both lessons and the final exam.
1. Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Oscar Mondadori; It. transl. only: Einaudi).
2. James Joyce, selected episodes from “Ulysses” (English editions: Cambridge UP, Penguin Classics, Oxford World’s Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It.-En. parallel text: Bompiani; It. transl. only: Oscar Mondadori).
3. T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (English editions: Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Signet Classics; It.-En. parallel text: BUR or il Saggiatore).
4. Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” (English editions: A Norton Critical Edition, Penguin Classics, Wordsworth Classics; It. transl. only: “Gita al Faro”, Einaudi, translated by A. Nadotti; “Al faro”, Feltrinelli, translated by N. Fusini).

Memory and Post-memory: remembering and forgetting in postcolonial literature

In this course we will examine novels by postcolonial authors, namely Nigerian, with a view to analysing how they deal with history, with individual and collective past and with remembering and forgetting in their works.
Further details will be given when we get closer to the beginning of the course.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, I ed. 1958 (any unabridged edition).
Ben Okri, Dangerous Love, I ed. 1996 (any unabridged edition).
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, I ed. 2006 (any unabridged edition)

The module proposes an analysis of the key features of epic and postdramatic theatre, starting with the works of Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, Dea Loher and Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Bertolt Brecht, Ausgewählte Werke in Sechs Bänden (vol. 1, 2, 6), Suhrkamp.
Heiner Müller, Werke (vol. 3, 4, 5) Suhrkamp.
Elfriede Jelinek, Ein Sportstück (Rororo)
Dea Loher, Sechs Stücke (Wallstein)
Roland Schimmelpfennig, Die Frau von Früher (Fischer).

Introduction to Social and Intercultural Education: Origins, Developments, Theories and Methods.
Intercultural Education in School and Society. Educational policies in an intercultural perspective. Multilingualism, Interculturalism and Citizenship.
From multicultural society to intercultural society: the role of education. Models and types of integration: assimilation, coexistence, partner coexistence. The notion of integration of immigrants
Culture, culture and identity
School and the Difference of Cultures.
Educational strategies for social inclusion.

1. CATARCI M., Le forme sociali dell’educazione. Servizi, Territori, Società, Franco Angeli, Milano
2013.
2. GIANTURCO G., L’intervista qualitativa. Dal discorso al testo scritto, Guerini, Milano 2005.
3. CATARCI M., La pedagogia della liberazione di Paulo Freire. Educazione, intercultura e
cambiamento sociale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2016.
4. SAYAD A., La doppia assenza. Dalle illusioni dell'emigrato alle sofferenze dell'immigrato,
Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2001;
5. STILLO L., Periferie dell’esclusione. Contesti, soggettività, riflessioni in prospettiva pedagogico-sociale, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce, 2023;
6. RICCARDI V., L’educazione per tutti e per tutta la vita. Il contributo pedagogico di Ettore Gelpi,
ETS, Pisa 2014.

This course examines the status of women in modern and contemporary China and Taiwan, and the development of identity consciousness in its various conjugations, by reading and critically analysing representative works by well-known modern and contemporary writers.

Rosa Lombardi, Voci da Taiwan, Orientalia, 2022
-Joshua Mostow, Kirk Denton, The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, Columbia Un. Press, 2007 (parti trattate a lezione)
- Essays uploaded onTeams
- Chinese texts and short stories Teams uploaded on

The course will focus on the study of environmental movements during the latter half of the 20th century. It will examine how these movements perceived and addressed major environmental issues, transformed into political parties, and interacted with the concept of modernity.
The course will provide an overview of the emergence of conservationist and protectionist movements in 19th century Europe and the first half of the 20th century. Then the main emphasis will be on the movements that arose between the 1960s and 1990s, with a comprehensive exploration of their organizational and cultural aspects.
Specific topics that will be covered include the rise of environmental conservation associations, the emergence of ecological protests, environmental movements, and animal rights activism. The course will also analyze the development of green cultures and parties in Italy, Britain, France, and Germany within the context of their respective political systems. Furthermore, the scientific and political debates surrounding climate change will be examined.
To facilitate a deeper understanding of the subject matter, the course will involve reading and discussing relevant documents from the studied period. These documents will shed light on the political cultures, ideas, and sensitivities that gave birth to these movements and fueled internal political debates.

G. Della Valentina, Storia dell’ambientalismo in Italia. Lo sviluppo insostenibile, Bruno Mondadori, 2011.
G. Guazzaloca, Primo: non maltrattare. Storia della protezione degli animali in Italia, Laterza 2018.
Readings given during classes and available on Moodle.

- Basics of cognitive linguistics
- Neurolinguistics: birth of the discipline and models of neurological investigation of language
- Investigation techniques (offline and online) on language processing
- Neurophysiological components of language processing: N400 and P600
- Language processing description models: good enough, shallow processing, etc.
- Neuropragmatics and neurolinguistic studies on assumptions, figurative language, implicatures and information structure

1. Cacciari, Cristina & Canal, Paolo. 2023. The Psychology of Language. Il Mulino, Bologna.
2. Handouts provided in class by the professor.

The course provides the linguistic tools to interrogate the text from the perspective of discourse analysis. In the first part, the theories of discourse analysis and enunciation will be addressed. The second part of the course will be devoted to the study of the presence of the French language in the former colonies. In the third part, certain discursive structures such as polyphony, intertextuality, point of view and autonomy within the novels of Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Faiza Guène will be examined.
The course takes place during the second semester. Access to the final, oral exam takes place after a linguistic, oral and written test, the preparation of which is ensured by Dr Agathe Rabat.

Parte A : analyse du discours et théories de l’énonciation linguistique

*Benveniste E., « De la subjectivité dans la langage », in Problèmes de linguistique générale I, Gallimard, 1966, pp. 258-266.
*Benveniste E., « L'appareil formel de l'énonciation » in Langages , 5e année, n°17, 1970. pp. 12-18.
*Yaguello M., « La Grammaire », in Le Grand livre de la langue française, Seuil, 2003, p.153-258
*Wilmet M., Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hachette, Duculot, 1997, pp. 532-673

Parte B : discours postcolonial et langue française

*Rey A. et Alii, « L’Outre-mer colonisé et la diffusion du français avant 1848 », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1029- 1030.
*Rey A. et Alii, « L’expansion impérialiste du français », in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1086-1091.
*Rey A. et Alii, « Le français colonisateur et décolonisé, in Alain Rey et Alii, Mille ans de langue française, Perrin, Paris, 2007, pp. 1168-1175.

Parte C : analyse du discours littéraire

Au choix, deux des trois options suivantes :

Option 1 :
*Algeri V., L’Histoire de soi dans la langue de l’autre. La polyphonie linguistique dans l’œuvre de Assia Djebar, Aracne, coll. Recherches sur toiles, Roma, 2014, pp.1-140.
Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1985), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995

Option 2 :
*Algeri V., “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête”, Revue italienne d’études françaises [En ligne], 9 | 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rief/4512
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014
Albert Camus, L’Etranger, une édition au choix.

Option 3:
*Authier-Revuz, J., « Le Fait autonymique : Langage, langue, discours. Quelques repères » in Parler des mots : Le fait autonymique en discours, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004.

Guène F., Un Homme ça ne pleure pas, 2014.




Examination material marked with * is available from the 4Appunti copy centre, Via G. Chiabrera, 174 00145 Rome. This material is also available in attached files in the Supports des cours section. You are required to study on the printed handouts.

Spanish in international communication. Discourse analysis and specialized translation.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the Spanish language by developing the skills of linguistic analysis and translation of the discourse characterizing the complex context of international communication.
The theoretical reflection on a variety of issues relating to the international dimension of the spanish language will be accompanied by the linguistic-pragmatic analysis of different types of discourses/texts belonging to concrete contexts of use of Spanish in an international context. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the translation of some specialized languages of international relevance.

San Vicente, F. - Bazzocchi G. (coord.) (2021). LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, Clueb, Bologna (capitoli selezionati).

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be supplied during the course.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

English lexicology and lexicography

Contemporary English for Special/Specific Purposes, including the language of international communication and European institutions: examination of the lexical-semantic, syntactic and textual features of specialized discourse and of language used in multilingual/multicultural contexts; investigation of the channels, situations and pragmatic requirements of specialized/international communication (e.g., communicative intents and the relation between text producers and receivers); in-depth analysis of the semantic relations in the lexicon of English, with specific reference to the areas of overlap and contrast between Anglo-Saxon and Latinate vocabulary items; use of the main lexicological and lexicographic tools for contemporary English; analysis of the lexicon using corpora; creation of (online) lexicographic resources.

Durkin, P. 2016. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. London/New York: Routledge.

Jackson, H. & E. Z. Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An introduction to modern English lexicology. London: Continuum.

L’Homme, M.C. 2020. Lexical Semantics for Terminology. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Scarpa, F. 2020. Research and Professional Practice in Specialised Translation. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Language Policies & planning
Discourse Analysis
European institutions with reference to: textual typologies in the acts of the Parliament, the EU, etc. specialized discourse, translation (v. EURLEX)
Varieties and variations of English: lingua franca English, features and focus on examples from VOICE and examples of speeches and translations

TOOLS
Translation with the help of dictionaries, corpora and EURLEX
Research in simple and applied linguistics
Use of corpora (Sketch Engine, BYU and AntConc) for research, speech analysis and translation
Mediation

Tools and materials will be made available during the course.

Introduction to the contrastive analysis of specialized languages (economic, business, and socio-political) in Russian and Italian.

A. Bogomolov, Novosti iz Rossii. Russkij jazyk v sredstvax massovoj informacii, Moskva, 2006, RJA
Additional reading materials and bibliographic suggestions will be given in class.

The course focuses on Arabic computational lexicography.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general corpus building issues;
- linguistic specific features of Arabic lexicography;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language;
- variation management in Arabic lexicography;
- are unified or mixed dictionaries possible?
- systems for the electronic coding of Arabic dictionaries.

Baalbaki, Ramzi. The Arabic lexicographical tradition: from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, volume 107. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Lancioni, Giuliano. «Sull’ordinamento dei dizionari arabi classici». In In memoria di Francesco Gabrieli, suppl. no. 2 to Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71, 113–27. Roma: Bardi, 1997.