- 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.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).

the origins and the open questions of Artificial intelligence
The course is dedicated to the birth of Artificial intelligence which happened more or less together witht the birth of the first electronic computers. The term was invented in 1956, but the discussion around the possibilities and consequences of what was called mechanical or machine intelligence started during the early Fifties and even earlier.
The Famous Turing Test created a huge interest since it was invented and proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing. Many years and many different methods were considered since AI origins, now many perspectives and technologies changed since then, in order to solve problems that required intelligence and problem solving capabilities to be solved.
At present there are many soft bots, many robot and many artificial devices that with the help of algorithms seem to espress intelligence and oblige us to change the concept of intelligence itself, both if applied to humans or to machines.
the most interesting phenomenon is the tendence to attribute to machine intelligent capabilities, mainly when we don't know precisely how the machine works.
This social dimention in attributing intelligence to machines was underlined by Turing too at the very beginning of machine intelligence reflection.
However this characteristic risks to produce unintendend and undesired consequences for human beings. we know that not many ara capable of understanding how to program a deep learning algorithm, and that more and more even programmers ignore how the machine produced the output results, because the layers of calculations are too difficult to follow in details also by those who programmed them. We know that only a small group of programmers and experts know the details. they tend to be trained by the same universities and to be hired by the same few multinational companies.
There are political and social problems that need a solution when we introduce a new AI tool. Innovation is not enough we need to build tools that are fair and useful to promote the development and wellbeing of all humans and not only of a small minority.
the course proposes some methods and histories to understand the political and social dimensions of the technological choices around us, with special regard to AI.

Somenzi V. Cordeschi R. (1994) La filosofia degli automi, Bollati boringhieri, Torino, pp. 19-203
O'Neil C. (2017) Weapons of math destruction, Penguin, London, New York
Tegmark M. (2017) Life 3.0 being human in the age of artificial intelligence, Alfred Knopf Inc.

The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.

Mandatory book:

- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma

One book among the following:

- Adornetti I., a cura di, 2015, Pragmatica del discorso e della conversazione, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

This course will provide students with an introduction to some of the main topics in philosophy of mind. The course will be broken down into two parts. In the first part, we will look mostly at recent versions of “functionalist” theories of mind. On the basis of that introduction and overview, we shall then discuss a series of very recent debates in the philosophy of mind that centre around the view that the mind is a physical and naturally evolved computational device.

M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa e A. Tomasetta, Introduzione alla filosofia della mente, Carocci, Roma 2017.

The course will focus on the specific problems of translating from/to French with particular attention to the tranlsation strategies in advertisements.

M. Guidère, Introduction à la traductologie. Penser la traduction: hier, aujourd'hui, demain, Bruxelles, de Boeck, 2008
M. Guidère, Publicité et traduction, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000

Spanish linguistics for international communication 1. Spanish and the new technologies: theoretical and applied perspectives

The course intends to give students theoretical and applied linguistics knowledge on spanish language in the context of international communication. In particular, the module will deal with aspects related to Spanish and the new technologies, in a double perspective. While contributing to the reflection on the role of language in nowadays society and fostering advanced competences in the linguistic analysis of Spanish, it aims at developing higher level translation competences, by working on texts produced in a variety of international specialized discourse contexts.

- Javier MÚÑOZ-BASOLS, Nina MORENO, Inma TABOADA, Manel LACORTE (eds.), Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica, Taylor and Francis, 2017.
- Manel LACORTE (coord.), Lingüística aplicada del español, Arco/Libros, 2007.
- LÓPEZ ALONSO, C. Análisis del discurso, Madrid, Síntesis, 2014.
- Manuel ALCÁNTARA PLÁ, Palabras invasoras. El español de las nuevas tecnologías, Catarata, 2018.

Additional references and materials will be provided during the lessons. The detailed programme, texts and other didactic materials will be published on the course's Moodle. All students are asked to register in the Moodle platform.

The course includes the study of the general features of the specialized languages and of various types of written texts. The horizontal dimension, i.e. the subject based stratification of these languages and texts , and the vertical dimension, i.e. the communicative situation and specific use related stratification, will be both considered.
The second part of the course will include the translation problems of specialized languages on the basis of these reflections, with practical experiences in the translation of authentic texts of various types.

For more info on the course outline and for the learning material the non-attending students are welcome to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

Texts:

Scarpa F., La traduzione specializzata. Un approccio didattico professionale, Milano, Hoepli, 2008.
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.

Other teaching materials and bibliographical references will be provided to the students during the lessons.

Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

Lexis and collocations. Use of bilingual dictionaries and of collocations dictionaries in productive activities.
The course will focus on the role of collocations and on their use; it will also analyse the (macro and micro) structure of set dictionaries and on their potential and practical use in written production activities
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; dictionary evaluation and use.

For EMLex and Erasmus Mundus students:
One Bilingual dictionary to be chosen
One collocations dictionary among the following: (in alphabetical order)
-THE BBI COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH, 2009
-LONGMAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS, 2013
-MACMILLAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2010. Introduction: http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/features/how-dictionaries-are-written/macmillan-collocations-dictionary/
-OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2009

Other dictionaries can be consulted in the library

-Introductions to Dictionaries used
-Sinclair J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, chapter 8, Collocation, OUP, pp.109-121 and Glossary
-Moon R. (2005) Dictionaries and Collocations, in Granger S., F. Meunier (eds.) Phraseology, Benjamin, pp. 313-336

1A and 1B (1st and 2nd language) courses are unified since the required entry level (B2+) is the same. 12 credits ETS
Development of: a) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes, intentions and to solve foreign language-specific communicative problems especially in written texts; b) knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological translation issues; c) analytic skills in a range of texts produced in selected domains.
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; use of language laboratory; text analysis and translation workshop.

Module: The course will focus on the theoretical issues of translation of specialized and audiovisual texts, the use of dictionaries and corpora and with reference to current approaches and the use of different tools
Language classes for the reinforcement of language competence: writing and speaking activities at B2+ level.

The manual and the accompanying materials - mostly reference texts from the European Union and the Council of Europe - will be indicated before the beginning of the course.
One bilingual dictionary and one collocations dictionary among the following:
Bilingual dictionaries (in alphabetical order)
- GRANDE DIZIONARIO HAZON DI INGLESE, GARZANTI ultima edizione
- IL RAGAZZINI DIZIONARIO INGLESE – ITALIANO ITALIANO – INGLESE, ZANICHELLI edizione 2014 oppure 2015
- OXFORD - PARAVIA DIZIONARIO INGLESE - ITALIANO E ITALIANO INGLESE, PARAVIA ultima edizione
- PICCHI FERDINANDO, GRANDE DIZIONARIO HOEPLI INGLESE CON CD-ROM, HOEPLI ultima edizione

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

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 will discuss subject matters about understanding variation in the Arabic linguistic system and will address issues about diglossia, multiglossia and "Arabic as one" models

Al-Batal, M. (Ed.), 2018. Arabic as one language: integrating dialect in the Arabic language curriculum. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC.

Ferguson, C.A., 1959. Diglossia. Word 15, 325–340.

Hary. “The Importance of the Language Continuum in Arabic Multiglossia,” Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El‐Said Badawi, A. Elgibali [ed.], Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996. 69–90.

Lancioni, G., 2014. VS/SV Order in Spoken Arabic: A Categorial Grammar Account, in: Durand, O., Langone, A.D., Mion, G. (Eds.), Alf Lahǧa Wa Lahǧa: Proceedings of the 9th Aida Conference, Neue Beihefte Zur Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes. Lit, Wien, pp. 225–236.

Lancioni, G., Solimando, C., 2018. Didattica dell’arabo e certificazione linguistica: riflessioni e iniziative. RomaTre Press, Roma.

The course aims to provide insights into the issues of translation through the translation of essays and texts of various kinds. It also aims to provide the basic skills of translation of texts from Chinese to Italian and from Italian to Chinese, requested in various areas.

B. Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004 (capp. 1-4); Leo Tak-hung Chan, Twentieth Century Chinese Translation Theory- Modes, issues and debates, John Benjamins publishing Company, 2004 (pagg. 1-60); Kang-I Sun Chang, Stephen Owen, Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, vol. II From 1375, Cambridge University Press 2010, pp. 440-542; 565-612.
E.Pollard, Creation and Translation, John Benjamins, 1998, pp.24-76;127-208.
Shu-mei Shih, Sinophone Studies, Columbia University Press 2013, pp. 1-56
Shu-mei Shih, “The Concept of Sinophone”, the changing profession 126.3, pp.709-718



Chinese texts will be given in class

Readings: Umberto Eco, Dire quasi la stessa cosa, 2013.
Vocabularies: R.Lombardi (a cura di), Cinese, Garzanti linguistica, 2015; (monolingue) Xiandai Hanyu cidian, (diwuban), Beijing, Shangwu yinshuguan, 2009; The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Chinese English Edition), Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2002 e segg.

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 will focus on the specific problems of translating from/to French with particular attention to the tranlsation strategies in advertisements.

M. Guidère, Introduction à la traductologie. Penser la traduction: hier, aujourd'hui, demain, Bruxelles, de Boeck, 2008
M. Guidère, Publicité et traduction, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000

Spanish linguistics for international communication 1. Spanish and the new technologies: theoretical and applied perspectives

The course intends to give students theoretical and applied linguistics knowledge on spanish language in the context of international communication. In particular, the module will deal with aspects related to Spanish and the new technologies, in a double perspective. While contributing to the reflection on the role of language in nowadays society and fostering advanced competences in the linguistic analysis of Spanish, it aims at developing higher level translation competences, by working on texts produced in a variety of international specialized discourse contexts.

- Javier MÚÑOZ-BASOLS, Nina MORENO, Inma TABOADA, Manel LACORTE (eds.), Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica, Taylor and Francis, 2017.
- Manel LACORTE (coord.), Lingüística aplicada del español, Arco/Libros, 2007.
- LÓPEZ ALONSO, C. Análisis del discurso, Madrid, Síntesis, 2014.
- Manuel ALCÁNTARA PLÁ, Palabras invasoras. El español de las nuevas tecnologías, Catarata, 2018.

Additional references and materials will be provided during the lessons. The detailed programme, texts and other didactic materials will be published on the course's Moodle. All students are asked to register in the Moodle platform.

The course includes the study of the general features of the specialized languages and of various types of written texts. The horizontal dimension, i.e. the subject based stratification of these languages and texts , and the vertical dimension, i.e. the communicative situation and specific use related stratification, will be both considered.
The second part of the course will include the translation problems of specialized languages on the basis of these reflections, with practical experiences in the translation of authentic texts of various types.

For more info on the course outline and for the learning material the non-attending students are welcome to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

Texts:

Scarpa F., La traduzione specializzata. Un approccio didattico professionale, Milano, Hoepli, 2008.
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.

Other teaching materials and bibliographical references will be provided to the students during the lessons.

Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

Lexis and collocations. Use of bilingual dictionaries and of collocations dictionaries in productive activities.
The course will focus on the role of collocations and on their use; it will also analyse the (macro and micro) structure of set dictionaries and on their potential and practical use in written production activities
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; dictionary evaluation and use.

For EMLex and Erasmus Mundus students:
One Bilingual dictionary to be chosen
One collocations dictionary among the following: (in alphabetical order)
-THE BBI COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH, 2009
-LONGMAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS, 2013
-MACMILLAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2010. Introduction: http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/features/how-dictionaries-are-written/macmillan-collocations-dictionary/
-OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2009

Other dictionaries can be consulted in the library

-Introductions to Dictionaries used
-Sinclair J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, chapter 8, Collocation, OUP, pp.109-121 and Glossary
-Moon R. (2005) Dictionaries and Collocations, in Granger S., F. Meunier (eds.) Phraseology, Benjamin, pp. 313-336

1A and 1B (1st and 2nd language) courses are unified since the required entry level (B2+) is the same. 12 credits ETS
Development of: a) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes, intentions and to solve foreign language-specific communicative problems especially in written texts; b) knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological translation issues; c) analytic skills in a range of texts produced in selected domains.
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; use of language laboratory; text analysis and translation workshop.

Module: The course will focus on the theoretical issues of translation of specialized and audiovisual texts, the use of dictionaries and corpora and with reference to current approaches and the use of different tools
Language classes for the reinforcement of language competence: writing and speaking activities at B2+ level.

The manual and the accompanying materials - mostly reference texts from the European Union and the Council of Europe - will be indicated before the beginning of the course.
One bilingual dictionary and one collocations dictionary among the following:
Bilingual dictionaries (in alphabetical order)
- GRANDE DIZIONARIO HAZON DI INGLESE, GARZANTI ultima edizione
- IL RAGAZZINI DIZIONARIO INGLESE – ITALIANO ITALIANO – INGLESE, ZANICHELLI edizione 2014 oppure 2015
- OXFORD - PARAVIA DIZIONARIO INGLESE - ITALIANO E ITALIANO INGLESE, PARAVIA ultima edizione
- PICCHI FERDINANDO, GRANDE DIZIONARIO HOEPLI INGLESE CON CD-ROM, HOEPLI ultima edizione

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

Di seguito, alcuni punti affrontati nel corso delle lezioni:

- libri, lettori, editori nell’Italia di oggi: qualche numero;
- le tendenze del mercato: best seller, “supereconomici”, ebook;
- le dimensioni del libro: il libro come testo, il libro come artefatto, il libro come merce;
- il libro prima della stampa e la stampa prima dell’industria libraria: la “storicità” del libro;
- intermezzo platonico: il Fedro e la critica della scrittura;
- il passaggio dal rotolo al codice, la vicenda del libro manoscritto, dalla tipografia
all’industria;
- nascita e sviluppo dell’industria del libro: innovazioni tecniche, pubblici e “generi”
editoriali;
- la grande dicotomia: “libri strumento” e “libri di varia” (e il “libro di cultura”?);
- orientarsi nell’offerta editoriale: classifiche, tipologie, “generi editoriali”,
- la fisionomia dell’editore e l’organizzazione del catalogo: le collane (ambiti tematici, scelte
grafiche, formati, allestimenti);
- il libro, il testo, il paratesto;
- a partire da Genette: la forma materiale come paratesto primario;
- il “libro” digitale è ancora un libro?;
- le scelte editoriali 1: cercare idee da trasformare in libri; temi, autori, stili editoriali,
destinatari, tra letture e conversazioni;
- le scelte editoriali 2.: le ragioni del testo, i costi del libro, le possibilità commerciali;
- la cura del catalogo: budget di spesa e piani editoriali tra novità, ristampe, nuove edizioni,
passaggi di collana; long seller e “slow seller”;
- il tascabile/paperback/economico: valorizzazione del catalogo e ampliamento del mercato;
- il contratto editoriale e il diritto d’autore;
- il lavoro redazionale tra standard di collana e specificità testuali;
- le fasi del lavoro redazionale dall’ editing al “visto si stampi”;
- la comunicazione dl libro: non solo recensioni;
- l’ ufficio commerciale e la promozione : “sell in”, “sell out”, “rese”, analisi delle vendite;
- il libro in libreria e i “canali di vendita”: iper produzione, “ciclo di vita del prodotto”.

- Enrico Mistretta; L' editoria. Un'industria dell'artigianato; Il Mulino Bologna, 2006, pagg.192;
- Alberto Cadioli, Giuliano Vigini; Storia dell'editoria italiana dall'Unità ad oggi. Un profilo introduttivo;Editrice Bibliografica, 2012, pagg.164;
- Lodovica Braida; Stampa e cultura in Europa; Laterza Roma-Bari, 2000, pagg. 166;
- Gian Arturo Ferrari; Libro; Bollati Boringhieri Torino, 2014; dal capitolo 13 "L'editoria industriale" fino alla fine;
- Guglielmo Cavallo; " Del rotolo, del codice e di altri aspetti della cultura antica e medievale", pagg. 9-11. (Download from professor's website)

Being a journalist today requires preparation, commitment, sacrifice, desire to deepen every day and constant updating: it is a fascinating daily challenge with oneself, before that with colleagues and between newspapers. This job has profoundly changed since the birth of the Internet in 1991 to the present, due to the new tools and technologies we have, but principles (honesty and fairness), strategies, sensitivity and courage always are the same and they are the keys to do a good work. Objectivity and the search for truth (when there are no more than one truth and therefore all must be told) must lead the information professional in a forest full of traps, pitfalls and large and small obstacles.
Among the topics that are deepened:
The principles of journalism and the work of telling facts and events today: have the rules changed compared to 50 years ago?
The rights and duties of the journalist. The rules on which the journalist's work is based: the Italian Constitution, the Code of Deontology and the Privacy law. Threats to the right to information.
How to write an article and the five "w" (but someone says they are six). How to use adjectives and verbs.
How to write an article. The different kinds of articles: white and judicial news. Verification of sources.
How to write an article in Economics. How to make a title. The path from the collection of information to the final draft of the article.
How a correspondent works, an expert on foreign affairs and a war correspondent.
Journalism on the web. Cross media and the relationship between old and new media, between competition and integration.
The interview: how to prepare, the meeting, the drafting of the text. Photojournalism and videos: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Political information: language. All-news TV and breaking news.
The newspaper and the online newspaper. How to compose a paper publication. And how you work on a newspaper website.
How to communicate on social networks
Information and publicity. Online information: quality is expensive. The journalist facing the future information scenarios.

• Exam texts: "The profession of the journalist" by Stefano Natoli - Published by the Journalistic Documentation Center

n the first part of the course, origins and history of advertising will be illustrated, along with the organization of advertising industry and its main professional figures; drawing on many case studies, different advertising techniques and strategies will be presented, showing how these change according to different media (printed ads, TV commercials, web ads, etc. will be taken into consideration). Finally, theoretical frameworks will be discussed and applied to specific advertisements.
The second part of the course focuses on what is probably to be considered advertising’s main ‘resource’ and most longstanding weakness at the same time: the use of stereotypes. After addressing stereotypes in theoretical terms and explaining the reasons for their widespread use and ‘efficacy’, we will focus on three categories of stereotypes commonly found in advertisements: 1) gender and ‘heteronormativity’ (how are female and male subjects and bodies depicted in ads? What are the reasons for and the effects of privileging heterosexual couples?); 2) age (which products/services/goods is the use of elderly in advertising limited to? Are old women and old men ‘used’ in the same way?); 3) race (in which roles non-Caucasian people feature in in advertising images and discourse?). Several forms of communication will be deconstructed and re-constructed in order to challenge common places and to analyze how (hetero)sexism, racism, and ageism work in advertising.
In the final part of the course, we will analyze how advertising normalizes, legitimizes, even celebrates the use of violence.

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (ATTENDING STUDENTS)
I testi di esame sono i seguenti:
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (only the chapters that will be indicated in classes).
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (to the exception of chapters 4 and 5).
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012 (only the chapters 2,3,4, and 5).
N:B: The PPTs from the lessons will be uploaded on the Comunicazione website, download area

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS)
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012.

GENDER E MEDIA TEXTBOOKS
- E. Giomi, Gender e Media, Pigreco Edizioni, Roma, 2015.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.

The intertwining between individual and collective life. The action of individuals and their symbolic importance. The use of procedural interpretation in order to read the complexity of everyday life. The limits of globalization.

The texts for not-attending students:

1. A textbook for the general part:
Matthew Engelke, Pensare come un antropologo, trad. it. di Luigi Giacone, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.

2. The monographic part includes:
Stefano de Matteis, La false libertà. Verso la post globalizzazione, Milano, Meltemi, 2017.

DESCRIPTION:

The Course is developed into two main sections, debating on the theoretical concept of the right to development as a human right and analyzing the international development cooperation within the United Nations system as well as the international Organizations – IOs - working in the economic, financial and trade fields. Also the regional and national systems (e.g. the European Union and the Italian framework) and the non institutional actors (e.g. NGOs and private business companies) will be investigated.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES:

Students will be able to:

• To comprehensively examine the most significant views regarding the legal framework of the international development law in the past and current international debate as well as in the international practice, in particular concerning IOs.

• To be updated on lessons learned and good practices in terms of international development cooperation frameworks and related challenges, in particular in relation to the new 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda scenario.

• To have an in depth understanding of the crucial role played by institutional and non institutional actors in the international development law framework.

• To get focused on contemporary political, economic, social and cultural issues through the awareness of the pivotal role, played particularly by BRICs and Developing Countries, thanks to the study of ad hoc policy documents.

• The students will develop an inquiring thinking, thanks to a variety of learning activities in class, such as essay questions, oral presentations, writing assignments, reports, case studies, guest speakers, so to have a real and tangible understanding of how international development cooperation theories at large are put into practice by States, International Organizations (IOs), non institutional actors, such as NGO’s, and other key players.

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the Course; the UN framework: past vs. future international development cooperation
Topic: Preliminary basics of the International development cooperation
Conceptual framework of the International development cooperation
Operational mechanisms and procedures
The right to development and international cooperation

Topic: Key-elements of the right to development
Economic, sustainable and social factors at the core of the human development concept: theoretical and practical approach
International actors: donors and partners; IOs; the role of the United Nations within the international cooperative framework
From MDGs to SDGs
Approaching to the 2015 time limit and beyond: the new era of the post-2015/2030 Development Agenda

PART II – The financial/trade development cooperation
Topic: The International financial and trade development cooperation
The role and action of the World Bank Group and related development cooperation mechanisms and models
The financial cooperation of the International Monetary Fund

Topic: Trade Law and development cooperation principles
The basics of WTO: principles and rules to create and perform International development cooperation practices
Comprehensive overview about international financial and trade development cooperation actors and models

PART III – The regional dimension, the non institutional approach of the international development cooperation
Topic: The regional dimension of the development cooperation
Historical, legal and practical features of the development partnership between EEC/EU and the African and Mediterranean Countries
The European development model cycle: analysis and implementation in a comparative perspective

Topic: The non institutional actors of the international development cooperation
NGOs: private profile, global action
The business and the International development cooperation: rethinking the way for best actions
Corporate Social Responsibility and human rights protection in the view of development cooperation

PART IV – Case studies: Italy
Topic: The Italian development cooperation framework; case studies
Lessons from the past for a new legal and institutional framework of the Italian development cooperation

This course in taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) UNDP, Human Development Annual Report 2010/2011/2013/2014/2015/Global Sustainable Development Report 2016 (free choice of one UNDP Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en; https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport)

2) Books:
2010, Rumu Sarkar, International Development Law. Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance, Oxford University Press, chapters 2 and 4, http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398281.001.0001/acprof-9780195398281

3) Articles listed by Journal/Review (one choice) free access to Journals/Reviews on www. sba.uniroma3.it, please refer to the Syllabus.

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

For the students following the course:
- L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.
A book to be chosen between:
- H. Van der Wee, L'economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
or
- G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CEDAM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

The students that will not follow the course must add:
- M. Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017, pp. 154-200.

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the ones listed here below:


Marie Sandell, The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism, I.B. Tauris, London 2015

Susan R. Grayzel and Tammy M. Proctor eds., Gender and the Great War, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’eta’ della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Georges Duby e Michelle Perrot eds., Storia delle donne in Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992: 8 chapters chosen by students in the two volumes “L’Ottocento” e “Il Novecento” (English version available)

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

and also the following essay:

Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol 1 N.1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30, (or: J.W. Scott, “Il genere. Un’utile categoria di analisi storica”, in Altre storie. La critica femminista della storia, a cura di P. Di Cori, Clueb, Bologna 1996, pp. 307-347).

This course will provide an overview of the cultural and literary context of 17th - 18th century French literature highlighting some of the main features of the period. It will then focus on the reading and analysis of three texts: La Princesse de Clèves, Candide and Les Liasons dangereuses, with the aim of tracing the evolution of the novel with regard to narrative strategies, stylistic and genre changes.

M. Bertini (a cura di), Beaubourg. Auteurs, textes, genres de la littérature française. Le XVII et XVIIIe siècle (the passages to be read and analysed will be said in class). J. Rousset, Forme et signification, Paris, Corti, 1962 (Chapters I-IV).
Texts: Three novels to be chosen among the following : Diderot, Jacques le fataliste o La Religieuse; Laclos, Les Liaisons dangeureuses; Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves; Rousseau, La Nouvelle Héloïse (selection of 80 letters from all the 6 parts of the novel); Voltaire, Candide.

- 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.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).

Basic concepts of lexicology and semantics.
The lexical information.
The meaning of words.
The global structure of lexicon.
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures in lexicon.

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

the origins and the open questions of Artificial intelligence
The course is dedicated to the birth of Artificial intelligence which happened more or less together witht the birth of the first electronic computers. The term was invented in 1956, but the discussion around the possibilities and consequences of what was called mechanical or machine intelligence started during the early Fifties and even earlier.
The Famous Turing Test created a huge interest since it was invented and proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing. Many years and many different methods were considered since AI origins, now many perspectives and technologies changed since then, in order to solve problems that required intelligence and problem solving capabilities to be solved.
At present there are many soft bots, many robot and many artificial devices that with the help of algorithms seem to espress intelligence and oblige us to change the concept of intelligence itself, both if applied to humans or to machines.
the most interesting phenomenon is the tendence to attribute to machine intelligent capabilities, mainly when we don't know precisely how the machine works.
This social dimention in attributing intelligence to machines was underlined by Turing too at the very beginning of machine intelligence reflection.
However this characteristic risks to produce unintendend and undesired consequences for human beings. we know that not many ara capable of understanding how to program a deep learning algorithm, and that more and more even programmers ignore how the machine produced the output results, because the layers of calculations are too difficult to follow in details also by those who programmed them. We know that only a small group of programmers and experts know the details. they tend to be trained by the same universities and to be hired by the same few multinational companies.
There are political and social problems that need a solution when we introduce a new AI tool. Innovation is not enough we need to build tools that are fair and useful to promote the development and wellbeing of all humans and not only of a small minority.
the course proposes some methods and histories to understand the political and social dimensions of the technological choices around us, with special regard to AI.

Somenzi V. Cordeschi R. (1994) La filosofia degli automi, Bollati boringhieri, Torino, pp. 19-203
O'Neil C. (2017) Weapons of math destruction, Penguin, London, New York
Tegmark M. (2017) Life 3.0 being human in the age of artificial intelligence, Alfred Knopf Inc.

The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.

Mandatory book:

- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma

One book among the following:

- Adornetti I., a cura di, 2015, Pragmatica del discorso e della conversazione, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

This course will provide students with an introduction to some of the main topics in philosophy of mind. The course will be broken down into two parts. In the first part, we will look mostly at recent versions of “functionalist” theories of mind. On the basis of that introduction and overview, we shall then discuss a series of very recent debates in the philosophy of mind that centre around the view that the mind is a physical and naturally evolved computational device.

M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa e A. Tomasetta, Introduzione alla filosofia della mente, Carocci, Roma 2017.

The course will focus on the specific problems of translating from/to French with particular attention to the tranlsation strategies in advertisements.

M. Guidère, Introduction à la traductologie. Penser la traduction: hier, aujourd'hui, demain, Bruxelles, de Boeck, 2008
M. Guidère, Publicité et traduction, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000

Spanish linguistics for international communication 1. Spanish and the new technologies: theoretical and applied perspectives

The course intends to give students theoretical and applied linguistics knowledge on spanish language in the context of international communication. In particular, the module will deal with aspects related to Spanish and the new technologies, in a double perspective. While contributing to the reflection on the role of language in nowadays society and fostering advanced competences in the linguistic analysis of Spanish, it aims at developing higher level translation competences, by working on texts produced in a variety of international specialized discourse contexts.

- Javier MÚÑOZ-BASOLS, Nina MORENO, Inma TABOADA, Manel LACORTE (eds.), Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica, Taylor and Francis, 2017.
- Manel LACORTE (coord.), Lingüística aplicada del español, Arco/Libros, 2007.
- LÓPEZ ALONSO, C. Análisis del discurso, Madrid, Síntesis, 2014.
- Manuel ALCÁNTARA PLÁ, Palabras invasoras. El español de las nuevas tecnologías, Catarata, 2018.

Additional references and materials will be provided during the lessons. The detailed programme, texts and other didactic materials will be published on the course's Moodle. All students are asked to register in the Moodle platform.

The course includes the study of the general features of the specialized languages and of various types of written texts. The horizontal dimension, i.e. the subject based stratification of these languages and texts , and the vertical dimension, i.e. the communicative situation and specific use related stratification, will be both considered.
The second part of the course will include the translation problems of specialized languages on the basis of these reflections, with practical experiences in the translation of authentic texts of various types.

For more info on the course outline and for the learning material the non-attending students are welcome to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

Texts:

Scarpa F., La traduzione specializzata. Un approccio didattico professionale, Milano, Hoepli, 2008.
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.

Other teaching materials and bibliographical references will be provided to the students during the lessons.

Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

Lexis and collocations. Use of bilingual dictionaries and of collocations dictionaries in productive activities.
The course will focus on the role of collocations and on their use; it will also analyse the (macro and micro) structure of set dictionaries and on their potential and practical use in written production activities
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; dictionary evaluation and use.

For EMLex and Erasmus Mundus students:
One Bilingual dictionary to be chosen
One collocations dictionary among the following: (in alphabetical order)
-THE BBI COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH, 2009
-LONGMAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS, 2013
-MACMILLAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2010. Introduction: http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/features/how-dictionaries-are-written/macmillan-collocations-dictionary/
-OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2009

Other dictionaries can be consulted in the library

-Introductions to Dictionaries used
-Sinclair J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, chapter 8, Collocation, OUP, pp.109-121 and Glossary
-Moon R. (2005) Dictionaries and Collocations, in Granger S., F. Meunier (eds.) Phraseology, Benjamin, pp. 313-336

1A and 1B (1st and 2nd language) courses are unified since the required entry level (B2+) is the same. 12 credits ETS
Development of: a) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes, intentions and to solve foreign language-specific communicative problems especially in written texts; b) knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological translation issues; c) analytic skills in a range of texts produced in selected domains.
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; use of language laboratory; text analysis and translation workshop.

Module: The course will focus on the theoretical issues of translation of specialized and audiovisual texts, the use of dictionaries and corpora and with reference to current approaches and the use of different tools
Language classes for the reinforcement of language competence: writing and speaking activities at B2+ level.

The manual and the accompanying materials - mostly reference texts from the European Union and the Council of Europe - will be indicated before the beginning of the course.
One bilingual dictionary and one collocations dictionary among the following:
Bilingual dictionaries (in alphabetical order)
- GRANDE DIZIONARIO HAZON DI INGLESE, GARZANTI ultima edizione
- IL RAGAZZINI DIZIONARIO INGLESE – ITALIANO ITALIANO – INGLESE, ZANICHELLI edizione 2014 oppure 2015
- OXFORD - PARAVIA DIZIONARIO INGLESE - ITALIANO E ITALIANO INGLESE, PARAVIA ultima edizione
- PICCHI FERDINANDO, GRANDE DIZIONARIO HOEPLI INGLESE CON CD-ROM, HOEPLI ultima edizione

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

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 will discuss subject matters about understanding variation in the Arabic linguistic system and will address issues about diglossia, multiglossia and "Arabic as one" models

Al-Batal, M. (Ed.), 2018. Arabic as one language: integrating dialect in the Arabic language curriculum. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC.

Ferguson, C.A., 1959. Diglossia. Word 15, 325–340.

Hary. “The Importance of the Language Continuum in Arabic Multiglossia,” Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El‐Said Badawi, A. Elgibali [ed.], Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996. 69–90.

Lancioni, G., 2014. VS/SV Order in Spoken Arabic: A Categorial Grammar Account, in: Durand, O., Langone, A.D., Mion, G. (Eds.), Alf Lahǧa Wa Lahǧa: Proceedings of the 9th Aida Conference, Neue Beihefte Zur Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes. Lit, Wien, pp. 225–236.

Lancioni, G., Solimando, C., 2018. Didattica dell’arabo e certificazione linguistica: riflessioni e iniziative. RomaTre Press, Roma.

The course aims to provide insights into the issues of translation through the translation of essays and texts of various kinds. It also aims to provide the basic skills of translation of texts from Chinese to Italian and from Italian to Chinese, requested in various areas.

B. Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004 (capp. 1-4); Leo Tak-hung Chan, Twentieth Century Chinese Translation Theory- Modes, issues and debates, John Benjamins publishing Company, 2004 (pagg. 1-60); Kang-I Sun Chang, Stephen Owen, Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, vol. II From 1375, Cambridge University Press 2010, pp. 440-542; 565-612.
E.Pollard, Creation and Translation, John Benjamins, 1998, pp.24-76;127-208.
Shu-mei Shih, Sinophone Studies, Columbia University Press 2013, pp. 1-56
Shu-mei Shih, “The Concept of Sinophone”, the changing profession 126.3, pp.709-718



Chinese texts will be given in class

Readings: Umberto Eco, Dire quasi la stessa cosa, 2013.
Vocabularies: R.Lombardi (a cura di), Cinese, Garzanti linguistica, 2015; (monolingue) Xiandai Hanyu cidian, (diwuban), Beijing, Shangwu yinshuguan, 2009; The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Chinese English Edition), Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2002 e segg.

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 will focus on the specific problems of translating from/to French with particular attention to the tranlsation strategies in advertisements.

M. Guidère, Introduction à la traductologie. Penser la traduction: hier, aujourd'hui, demain, Bruxelles, de Boeck, 2008
M. Guidère, Publicité et traduction, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000

Spanish linguistics for international communication 1. Spanish and the new technologies: theoretical and applied perspectives

The course intends to give students theoretical and applied linguistics knowledge on spanish language in the context of international communication. In particular, the module will deal with aspects related to Spanish and the new technologies, in a double perspective. While contributing to the reflection on the role of language in nowadays society and fostering advanced competences in the linguistic analysis of Spanish, it aims at developing higher level translation competences, by working on texts produced in a variety of international specialized discourse contexts.

- Javier MÚÑOZ-BASOLS, Nina MORENO, Inma TABOADA, Manel LACORTE (eds.), Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica, Taylor and Francis, 2017.
- Manel LACORTE (coord.), Lingüística aplicada del español, Arco/Libros, 2007.
- LÓPEZ ALONSO, C. Análisis del discurso, Madrid, Síntesis, 2014.
- Manuel ALCÁNTARA PLÁ, Palabras invasoras. El español de las nuevas tecnologías, Catarata, 2018.

Additional references and materials will be provided during the lessons. The detailed programme, texts and other didactic materials will be published on the course's Moodle. All students are asked to register in the Moodle platform.

The course includes the study of the general features of the specialized languages and of various types of written texts. The horizontal dimension, i.e. the subject based stratification of these languages and texts , and the vertical dimension, i.e. the communicative situation and specific use related stratification, will be both considered.
The second part of the course will include the translation problems of specialized languages on the basis of these reflections, with practical experiences in the translation of authentic texts of various types.

For more info on the course outline and for the learning material the non-attending students are welcome to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

Texts:

Scarpa F., La traduzione specializzata. Un approccio didattico professionale, Milano, Hoepli, 2008.
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.

Other teaching materials and bibliographical references will be provided to the students during the lessons.

Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

Lexis and collocations. Use of bilingual dictionaries and of collocations dictionaries in productive activities.
The course will focus on the role of collocations and on their use; it will also analyse the (macro and micro) structure of set dictionaries and on their potential and practical use in written production activities
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; dictionary evaluation and use.

For EMLex and Erasmus Mundus students:
One Bilingual dictionary to be chosen
One collocations dictionary among the following: (in alphabetical order)
-THE BBI COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH, 2009
-LONGMAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS, 2013
-MACMILLAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2010. Introduction: http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/features/how-dictionaries-are-written/macmillan-collocations-dictionary/
-OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2009

Other dictionaries can be consulted in the library

-Introductions to Dictionaries used
-Sinclair J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, chapter 8, Collocation, OUP, pp.109-121 and Glossary
-Moon R. (2005) Dictionaries and Collocations, in Granger S., F. Meunier (eds.) Phraseology, Benjamin, pp. 313-336

1A and 1B (1st and 2nd language) courses are unified since the required entry level (B2+) is the same. 12 credits ETS
Development of: a) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes, intentions and to solve foreign language-specific communicative problems especially in written texts; b) knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological translation issues; c) analytic skills in a range of texts produced in selected domains.
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; use of language laboratory; text analysis and translation workshop.

Module: The course will focus on the theoretical issues of translation of specialized and audiovisual texts, the use of dictionaries and corpora and with reference to current approaches and the use of different tools
Language classes for the reinforcement of language competence: writing and speaking activities at B2+ level.

The manual and the accompanying materials - mostly reference texts from the European Union and the Council of Europe - will be indicated before the beginning of the course.
One bilingual dictionary and one collocations dictionary among the following:
Bilingual dictionaries (in alphabetical order)
- GRANDE DIZIONARIO HAZON DI INGLESE, GARZANTI ultima edizione
- IL RAGAZZINI DIZIONARIO INGLESE – ITALIANO ITALIANO – INGLESE, ZANICHELLI edizione 2014 oppure 2015
- OXFORD - PARAVIA DIZIONARIO INGLESE - ITALIANO E ITALIANO INGLESE, PARAVIA ultima edizione
- PICCHI FERDINANDO, GRANDE DIZIONARIO HOEPLI INGLESE CON CD-ROM, HOEPLI ultima edizione

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

"The multilingual mental lexicon"

This seminar addresses psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. In a first part it will be illustrated how different languages are interconnected in the brain and how second and third language acquisition can be explained from a psycholinguistic perspective. In the main part the seminar focuses on the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon: In a first step, models will be presented that had been developed to explain the monolingual mental lexicon. It will be discussed what aspects of these models can be transferred to model the bilingual mental lexicon. In a second step, different aspects of bilingual models will be focused on such as types of language acquisition (including studies from brain research), role of phonetic similarity, culture-specific orientation of mental concepts etc. Finally, we will discuss the way the mental lexicon is accessed.
In this seminar students will also conduct some little psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. loud-thinking protocols, association experiments in various languages). In doing so they will become familiar with empirical research methods on the one hand, and will get insights into the organization of the multilingual mental lexicon on the other.

(The seminar will be held together with Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. Teaching language: German.)

The bibliography will be presented at the first lesson.

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

Di seguito, alcuni punti affrontati nel corso delle lezioni:

- libri, lettori, editori nell’Italia di oggi: qualche numero;
- le tendenze del mercato: best seller, “supereconomici”, ebook;
- le dimensioni del libro: il libro come testo, il libro come artefatto, il libro come merce;
- il libro prima della stampa e la stampa prima dell’industria libraria: la “storicità” del libro;
- intermezzo platonico: il Fedro e la critica della scrittura;
- il passaggio dal rotolo al codice, la vicenda del libro manoscritto, dalla tipografia
all’industria;
- nascita e sviluppo dell’industria del libro: innovazioni tecniche, pubblici e “generi”
editoriali;
- la grande dicotomia: “libri strumento” e “libri di varia” (e il “libro di cultura”?);
- orientarsi nell’offerta editoriale: classifiche, tipologie, “generi editoriali”,
- la fisionomia dell’editore e l’organizzazione del catalogo: le collane (ambiti tematici, scelte
grafiche, formati, allestimenti);
- il libro, il testo, il paratesto;
- a partire da Genette: la forma materiale come paratesto primario;
- il “libro” digitale è ancora un libro?;
- le scelte editoriali 1: cercare idee da trasformare in libri; temi, autori, stili editoriali,
destinatari, tra letture e conversazioni;
- le scelte editoriali 2.: le ragioni del testo, i costi del libro, le possibilità commerciali;
- la cura del catalogo: budget di spesa e piani editoriali tra novità, ristampe, nuove edizioni,
passaggi di collana; long seller e “slow seller”;
- il tascabile/paperback/economico: valorizzazione del catalogo e ampliamento del mercato;
- il contratto editoriale e il diritto d’autore;
- il lavoro redazionale tra standard di collana e specificità testuali;
- le fasi del lavoro redazionale dall’ editing al “visto si stampi”;
- la comunicazione dl libro: non solo recensioni;
- l’ ufficio commerciale e la promozione : “sell in”, “sell out”, “rese”, analisi delle vendite;
- il libro in libreria e i “canali di vendita”: iper produzione, “ciclo di vita del prodotto”.

- Enrico Mistretta; L' editoria. Un'industria dell'artigianato; Il Mulino Bologna, 2006, pagg.192;
- Alberto Cadioli, Giuliano Vigini; Storia dell'editoria italiana dall'Unità ad oggi. Un profilo introduttivo;Editrice Bibliografica, 2012, pagg.164;
- Lodovica Braida; Stampa e cultura in Europa; Laterza Roma-Bari, 2000, pagg. 166;
- Gian Arturo Ferrari; Libro; Bollati Boringhieri Torino, 2014; dal capitolo 13 "L'editoria industriale" fino alla fine;
- Guglielmo Cavallo; " Del rotolo, del codice e di altri aspetti della cultura antica e medievale", pagg. 9-11. (Download from professor's website)

Being a journalist today requires preparation, commitment, sacrifice, desire to deepen every day and constant updating: it is a fascinating daily challenge with oneself, before that with colleagues and between newspapers. This job has profoundly changed since the birth of the Internet in 1991 to the present, due to the new tools and technologies we have, but principles (honesty and fairness), strategies, sensitivity and courage always are the same and they are the keys to do a good work. Objectivity and the search for truth (when there are no more than one truth and therefore all must be told) must lead the information professional in a forest full of traps, pitfalls and large and small obstacles.
Among the topics that are deepened:
The principles of journalism and the work of telling facts and events today: have the rules changed compared to 50 years ago?
The rights and duties of the journalist. The rules on which the journalist's work is based: the Italian Constitution, the Code of Deontology and the Privacy law. Threats to the right to information.
How to write an article and the five "w" (but someone says they are six). How to use adjectives and verbs.
How to write an article. The different kinds of articles: white and judicial news. Verification of sources.
How to write an article in Economics. How to make a title. The path from the collection of information to the final draft of the article.
How a correspondent works, an expert on foreign affairs and a war correspondent.
Journalism on the web. Cross media and the relationship between old and new media, between competition and integration.
The interview: how to prepare, the meeting, the drafting of the text. Photojournalism and videos: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Political information: language. All-news TV and breaking news.
The newspaper and the online newspaper. How to compose a paper publication. And how you work on a newspaper website.
How to communicate on social networks
Information and publicity. Online information: quality is expensive. The journalist facing the future information scenarios.

• Exam texts: "The profession of the journalist" by Stefano Natoli - Published by the Journalistic Documentation Center

n the first part of the course, origins and history of advertising will be illustrated, along with the organization of advertising industry and its main professional figures; drawing on many case studies, different advertising techniques and strategies will be presented, showing how these change according to different media (printed ads, TV commercials, web ads, etc. will be taken into consideration). Finally, theoretical frameworks will be discussed and applied to specific advertisements.
The second part of the course focuses on what is probably to be considered advertising’s main ‘resource’ and most longstanding weakness at the same time: the use of stereotypes. After addressing stereotypes in theoretical terms and explaining the reasons for their widespread use and ‘efficacy’, we will focus on three categories of stereotypes commonly found in advertisements: 1) gender and ‘heteronormativity’ (how are female and male subjects and bodies depicted in ads? What are the reasons for and the effects of privileging heterosexual couples?); 2) age (which products/services/goods is the use of elderly in advertising limited to? Are old women and old men ‘used’ in the same way?); 3) race (in which roles non-Caucasian people feature in in advertising images and discourse?). Several forms of communication will be deconstructed and re-constructed in order to challenge common places and to analyze how (hetero)sexism, racism, and ageism work in advertising.
In the final part of the course, we will analyze how advertising normalizes, legitimizes, even celebrates the use of violence.

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (ATTENDING STUDENTS)
I testi di esame sono i seguenti:
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (only the chapters that will be indicated in classes).
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (to the exception of chapters 4 and 5).
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012 (only the chapters 2,3,4, and 5).
N:B: The PPTs from the lessons will be uploaded on the Comunicazione website, download area

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS)
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012.

GENDER E MEDIA TEXTBOOKS
- E. Giomi, Gender e Media, Pigreco Edizioni, Roma, 2015.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.

The intertwining between individual and collective life. The action of individuals and their symbolic importance. The use of procedural interpretation in order to read the complexity of everyday life. The limits of globalization.

The texts for not-attending students:

1. A textbook for the general part:
Matthew Engelke, Pensare come un antropologo, trad. it. di Luigi Giacone, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.

2. The monographic part includes:
Stefano de Matteis, La false libertà. Verso la post globalizzazione, Milano, Meltemi, 2017.

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

For the students following the course:
- L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.
A book to be chosen between:
- H. Van der Wee, L'economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
or
- G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CEDAM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

The students that will not follow the course must add:
- M. Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017, pp. 154-200.

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the ones listed here below:


Marie Sandell, The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism, I.B. Tauris, London 2015

Susan R. Grayzel and Tammy M. Proctor eds., Gender and the Great War, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’eta’ della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Georges Duby e Michelle Perrot eds., Storia delle donne in Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992: 8 chapters chosen by students in the two volumes “L’Ottocento” e “Il Novecento” (English version available)

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

and also the following essay:

Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol 1 N.1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30, (or: J.W. Scott, “Il genere. Un’utile categoria di analisi storica”, in Altre storie. La critica femminista della storia, a cura di P. Di Cori, Clueb, Bologna 1996, pp. 307-347).

General part: offers an overview of some key issues in second language learning research, with particular reference to the way in which teaching can facilitate and speed up the natural process of language acquisition.
Focus: provides students with knowledge and skills needed to analyse teaching materials. Characteristics of Task-based language teaching are illustrated in detail.

- Lightbown P., Spada N., How languages are learned, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Cortés Velásquez D., Faone S., Nuzzo E., Analizzare i manuali per l’insegnamento delle lingue: strumenti per una glottodidattica applicata, Analizzare i manuali per l’insegnamento delle lingue: strumenti per una glottodidattica applicata, in Italiano LinguaDue 2.2017, pp. 1-74.
- Nuzzo E., Cortés Velásquez D. (eds), Il task nell’insegnamento delle lingue. Percorsi tra ricerca e didattica al CLA di Roma Tre, RomaTrE-Press, in press (a selection of chapters specified by the teacher).

Course program
Grammar of the Palaeolithic language exemplified by the analysis of selected passages from anti-Slavic works:
- phonetics;
- morphology - the nominal system;
- morphology - the verbal system;
- the morpho-syntactic peculiarities of the ancient Slavic and some problems of translation.

Skomorochova-Venturini L., Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica, ed. ETS, Pisa 2000 (starting from the second part) or Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1; stampa a richiesta disponibile su http://epress.unifi.it), from p. 77 on.The texts in paleoslavic will be provided in photocopies during the course.

The course will introduce to the emerging, in the latin Middle Ages, of the ethical and aesthetic values of courtesy. Therefore it will offer a detailed analysis of some representative novels and epical and lyrical romance texts, also considering their fortune in Italian medieval poetry and in the works of Dante and Petrarch.

Texts:
- M. De Riquer, Leggere i trovatori, a cura di M. Bonafin, Macerata, EUM, 2010;
- Jaufre Rudel, L’amore di lontano, a cura di G. Chiarini, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Bernart de Ventadorn, Canzoni, a cura di M. Mancini, Roma, Carocci, 2003;
- - Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, BUR, 2009.
Ulteriori brani dalla lirica provenzale saranno messi a disposizione durante le lezioni.

Studies:
- A. Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra, 1999 (ristampa);
– M. Picone, «Vita Nuova» e tradizione romanza, Padova, Liviana, 1973;
- A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 1985;
- C. Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989:
– T. Barolini, Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della «Commedia», Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993;
– M. Mancini, La gaia scienza dei trovatori, Trento, Luni editrice, 2000 (o ristampe successive), capp. 2 e 4;
– S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante, a c. di M. Picone et al., Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92;
- A. Fassò, Gioie cavalleresche. Barbarie e civiltà fra epica e lirica medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)
- Barber, Charles, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993
- Wallace, David, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- Fadda, Anna Maria Luiselli, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts Two and Three)

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- Mitchell, Bruce, and Fred C. Robinson, ed., Beowulf: an Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts(Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)

– Francini, Marusca. La letteratura anglosassone in: Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, ed. by M. Battaglia, Roma: Carocci 2017, pp. 137-276.

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta. Filologia Germanica. Lingue e culture dei Germani antichi, Roma: NIS 1991 (or other edition).

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta / Digilio, Maria Rita. Breve storia della lingua inglese, Roma: Carocci 2004.

– Luiselli Fadda, Anna Maria. Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma: Laterza 2007.

– Beowulf, ed. by G. Brunetti, Roma: Carocci (2003).

Basic concepts of lexicology and semantics.
The lexical information.
The meaning of words.
The global structure of lexicon.
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures in lexicon.

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

This module aims to further explore the contrasts between English and Italian with respect to the structural, conceptual and cultural constraints of the two languages. The learning difficulties of Italian learners of English as a Foreign Language will be examined through the analysis of authentic data, in order to stimulate a reflection also on one’s own learning process.

Bertuccelli Papi, M. (2016), Prima di tradurre: note sui vincoli strutturali, concettuali e culturali nella traduzione dall'inglese in Italiano. Pisa: Pisa University Press (pp.15-22; 52-134; 225-232.

Calabrese, R. (2008), Insights into the lexicon-syntax interface in Italian learners’ English. A generative framework for a corpus-based analysis. Rome: Aracne (pp. 69-114).

Franceschi, D. (2010), Where cognitive and structural complexity meet: the use of the Present Perfect by Italian University learners of EFL. In: Bertuccelli Papi M. & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (Eds.), ‘Cognition and the Brain in Language and Linguistics’, Textus – English Studies in Italy 23(3): 621-646. Genova: Tilgher.

Prat Zagrebelsky, M.T. (Ed) (2004), Computer learner corpora: theoretical issues and empirical case studies of Italian advanced EFL learners’ interlanguage. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso (pp-61-222).

Translation

After a short introduction to Translation Studies we will analyze various arguments of special interest, such as the concept of equivalence, the role of universalistic theories as opposed to the role of relativistic theories, the Skopos Theory and the Scenes & Frames. We will then proceed to practical work, translating some texts, mostly from German to Italian, confronting the structure of some selected syntactic elements of the German Language to the structure of those elements in the Italian Language and analyzing the different possibilities of their translation. We will focus particularly on literary translation.

Bibliography:
Cinato Kather, L. (2011) Mediazione linguistica tedesco – italiano. Aspetti teorici e applicativi, esempi di strategie traduttive, casi di testi tradotti, Milano: Hoepli
Eco, U. (2003) Dire quasi la stessa cosa, Milano: Bompiani
Kußmaul, P. (2015) Verstehen und Übersetzen, Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch, 3., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Tübingen: Narr

Further bibliographical references:
Apel, F., Kopetzky, A. (2003) Literarische Übersetzung, Stuttgart: Metzler
Bosco Coletsos, S. (2007) Il tedesco lingua compatta, problemi di traducibilità in italiano, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso
Cavagnoli, F. (2012) La voce del testo, L’arte e il mestiere di tradurre, Milano: Feltrinelli
Stolze, R. (2005) Übersetzungstheorien, Eine Einführung, Tübingen: Narr

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 will address issues about Arabic onomastics and toponomastics: structure of person and place names, transcriptions, methodologies of identification

Al-Onaizan, Yaser, e Kevin Knight. «Machine Transliteration of Names in Arabic Text», 1–13. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002.

Caetani, Leone, e Giuseppe Gabrieli. «1: Fonti, introduzione». Onomasticon Arabicum, ossia Repertorio alfabetico dei nomi di persona e di luogo contenuti nelle principali opere storiche, biografiche e geografiche, stampate e manoscritte, relative all’Islām, 1915.

Kay, Brant N, e Brian C Rineer. «Approaches to Arabic Name Transliteration and Matching in the DataFlux Quality Knowledge Base». a cura di Ali Farghaly e Farhard
Oroumchian, 6. San Diego, CA: AMTA, 2012.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Islamic names. Islamic surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.

Sublet, Jacqueline. Le voile du nom: essai sur le nom propre arabe. 1re éd. Ecriture. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1991

Aim of the course is providing instruments and methods to analyse spoken Chinese through authentic data drawn from corpora and audio-visual material. After the description of
the key notions related to pragmatics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, spoken language will be investigated with particular attention to phenomena such as the usage of discourse markers and the syntactical and lexical devices employed to express specific speech acts.

Differente journal papers on Chinese linguistics

This module aims to further explore the contrasts between English and Italian with respect to the structural, conceptual and cultural constraints of the two languages. The learning difficulties of Italian learners of English as a Foreign Language will be examined through the analysis of authentic data, in order to stimulate a reflection also on one’s own learning process.

Bertuccelli Papi, M. (2016), Prima di tradurre: note sui vincoli strutturali, concettuali e culturali nella traduzione dall'inglese in Italiano. Pisa: Pisa University Press (pp.15-22; 52-134; 225-232.

Calabrese, R. (2008), Insights into the lexicon-syntax interface in Italian learners’ English. A generative framework for a corpus-based analysis. Rome: Aracne (pp. 69-114).

Franceschi, D. (2010), Where cognitive and structural complexity meet: the use of the Present Perfect by Italian University learners of EFL. In: Bertuccelli Papi M. & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (Eds.), ‘Cognition and the Brain in Language and Linguistics’, Textus – English Studies in Italy 23(3): 621-646. Genova: Tilgher.

Prat Zagrebelsky, M.T. (Ed) (2004), Computer learner corpora: theoretical issues and empirical case studies of Italian advanced EFL learners’ interlanguage. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso (pp-61-222).

Translation

After a short introduction to Translation Studies we will analyze various arguments of special interest, such as the concept of equivalence, the role of universalistic theories as opposed to the role of relativistic theories, the Skopos Theory and the Scenes & Frames. We will then proceed to practical work, translating some texts, mostly from German to Italian, confronting the structure of some selected syntactic elements of the German Language to the structure of those elements in the Italian Language and analyzing the different possibilities of their translation. We will focus particularly on literary translation.

Bibliography:
Cinato Kather, L. (2011) Mediazione linguistica tedesco – italiano. Aspetti teorici e applicativi, esempi di strategie traduttive, casi di testi tradotti, Milano: Hoepli
Eco, U. (2003) Dire quasi la stessa cosa, Milano: Bompiani
Kußmaul, P. (2015) Verstehen und Übersetzen, Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch, 3., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Tübingen: Narr

Further bibliographical references:
Apel, F., Kopetzky, A. (2003) Literarische Übersetzung, Stuttgart: Metzler
Bosco Coletsos, S. (2007) Il tedesco lingua compatta, problemi di traducibilità in italiano, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso
Cavagnoli, F. (2012) La voce del testo, L’arte e il mestiere di tradurre, Milano: Feltrinelli
Stolze, R. (2005) Übersetzungstheorien, Eine Einführung, Tübingen: Narr

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.

- 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.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).

The course aims to provide students with a training in teaching second language, in the framework of pluralistic approaches, in the light of the most recent research data, through the analysis of teaching materials. The development of receptive skills as well as intercomprehension among Romance languages are part of the programme.

Inglese
Cortés Velásquez, D. (2015). Intercomprensione orale: ricerca e pratiche didattiche. Firenze: Le Lettere.
Artilcles on Second language listening comprehension

First module (6 ECTS)

The first module intends to address the main critical and problematic nodes of early modern history in a perspective aimed at enucleating original characters and identity processes of the European continent. Particular attention will be devoted to the philosophical-political and political-institutional peculiarities that emerged in European states between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 19th century. From the English Revolutions of the 17th Century and later with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, parliamentary democracy, secularization, religious tolerance and the recognition of human rights became traditionally not only the key ideas of the definition of "being European", but real universal guiding principles to export and, if necessary, to impose on the rest of the globe. But can we really coincide the advent of modernity with the beginnings of the process of secularization? What was the relationship between Christian churches and modernity? What was the relationship between Catholic Church and human rights since the Lumières century?

Second module (6 ECTS)

According to the definition of the League of Nations, slavery is “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised” (September 25th 1926). Slavery had an enormous importance and impact in the early modern age, but compared to the Atlantic tract, only more recently Mediterranean slavery has received the attention it deserves from historiography. Reductions in slavery are one of the (dramatic) consequences of the stormy relations between Christian states and the Ottoman empire, with repercussions of great importance not only from a social and economic point of view, but also from a religious point of view. The second part of the course intends to focus on the consistent and significant presence of slaves, often of Islamic religion, in the Italian states of the early modern age, as well as the policies posed in this regard to religious minorities moving in the Mediterranean area, such as the moriscos, expelled from the Iberian peninsula since 1609. For the Christian European countries, the Turk is the natural catalyst of an inveterate hatred, an obscure entity ready to destroy their culture and their religion. Yet, starting from the Renaissance, between the European sovereigns (and the Pope, among them) and their archenemies also exchanges and calls for collaboration happened, which provide evidence of the permeability of the borderline between two apparently irreconcilable worlds.

For the first module (6 ECTS)

F. Chabod, Storia dell’idea di Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
P. Prodi, Homo Europaeus, Bologna, Il Mulino
V. Ferrone, Lo strano Illuminismo di Joseph Ratzinger. Chiesa, modernità e diritti dell’uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

For the second module (6 ECTS)

S. Bono, Schiavi. Una storia mediterranea (XVI-XIX secolo), Bologna, Il Mulino.
G. Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
B. Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l’Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press (il volume è scaricabile gratuitamente dalla piattaforma Open Access:
http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Introduction: from Kevian Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First modernization of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of an European power; The long Russian Nineteenth century from Napoleonic wars to Alexander II's reforms; Nicholas II, the last tzar and his empire: the contradiction of an impetuous and disorderly development; the World War One and the end of a world; the Russian revolutions; The rise of Lenin and the Bolshevik; The Bolshevik party his origins ad his success; The Russian civil wars and the origin of the Soviet state; The NEP; The rise of Stalin: Collectivization, industrialization and the birth of a new Soviet Russia; The Great Terror; the Comintern the foreign communist parties and the PCUS hegemony; The "double" Soviet foreign policy and the origin of the Second World War; The War; After the war: the birth of a super-power; Soviet Russia, western powers and the Cold War; Nikita Khrushchev and a very turning point in the soviet history: the XX Congress, The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; the impossible reform attempt: Gorbachev between Perestrojka and Glasnost'; the fall of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the shady era; a new strong man? Vladimir Putin and the new Russia.

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

2) G. P. Caselli, La Russia nuova. Economia e Storia da Gorbacev a Putin, Milano - Udine, Mimesis


for non-attending students:

Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi.

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last two and a half centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economie, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
One of the following books:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell'Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la «Parte prima»).
Additional bibliographical references will be provide during lessons.

Learning outcomes:
This course introduces students to the analysis of XX century Italin history. A special attention will be paid to political-institutional systems and to a global approach in the study of history.

Course contents:
This course analyses modern Italy in order to understand its historical development and present condition. It does so by pursuing three main themes:

• The evolution of the nation-state in global and transnational perspective
• Fundamental discontinuities in social, political and everyday life
• The changing balance between Italy and the wider world

The course will be divided into 3 parts. The first part will focus on the political transformation in Italy during the early XX century until the First World War. The second part will analyse the interwar period and the Fascist political system during the Twenties and Thirties. The last part of the course will concentrate on the Second post-war period, with particular attention on the Cold War.

Skills outcomes:

Teaches Common Skills listed below:

- High-level skills in oral and written communication of complex ideas.
- Independence of mind and self-discipline and self-direction to work effectively under own initiative.
- Ability to locate, handle and synthesize large amounts of information.
- Empathy and active engagement with alternative cultural contexts.

Mandatory Textbook: Jonathan Dunnage, Twentieth Century Italy. A Social History (London, 2002)

Students will have to choose one book among the followings and to discuss it at the oral examination (two books for non-attending students):

Philip Cooke, The legacy of the Italian resistance (New York 2011)
Christopher Duggan, Fascist voices. An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Oxford, 2013)
Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy (Cambridge, 2010)
John Foot, Italy’s Divided Memory (New York, 2009)
Emilio Gentile, The sacralization of politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, 1996)
Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy. Society and Politics, 1943 – 1980 (London 1990)
Salvatore Lupo, History of the Mafia (New York 2009)
Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance (New York, 2014)
Roberta Pegher, Mussolini's Nation-Empire. Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambridge, 2017)

CCourse program:
- The concept of Slavic-ecclesiastic literature.
- Hagiography: genres and macrogenres (collections of texts). Analysis of some hagiographic texts.
- Palaeoslavic hymnography. The hymnographic collections.
- Applied rhetoric: genres, collections. Analysis of some paleoslav sermons.
- Apocrypha.

Measures for foreign students
Erasmus students or other grant holders are kindly requested to contact the teacher. Lessons are held in Italian, the exam can also be taken in Russian.

Naumow A., Idea – immagine – testo. Studi sulla letteratura slavo-ecclesiastica, Ed. dell’Orso, Torino 2004 (capitoli scelti); Stantchev K., Questioni di terminologia, problemi di metodo, in: «Gli studi slavistici in Italia oggi. Atti del IV Congresso ltaliano di Slavistica», a cura di R. De Giorgi, S. Garzonio, G. Ziffer, Udine 2007; Stantchev K., Agiografia e agiologia nella tradizione slavo-ortodossa, in: «Santità, culti, agiografia. Temi e prospettive. Atti del I Convegno di studio dell’Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia, Roma 24-26 ottobre 1996», a cura di Sofia Boesh Gajano, Viella ed., Roma 1997, 27-50; Stantchev K., La poesia liturgica, in: «Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. 3. Le culture circostanti», vol. III: Le culture slave. A cura di Mario Capaldo. Salerno Editrice, Roma 2006, 439-473; Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1), II ed. Firenze University Press, 2007 (Manuali umanistica, 8), Introduzione (pp. 3-76) –

Techniques of composition and transmission of medieval Germanic texts.

The course will focus on the analysis of medieval English and German texts which will be the starting point for outlining the main characteristics of the literary and cultural milieu in which they were produced and for widening the students’ knowledge in the field of intertextuality, diachronic linguistics and textual
tradition.
Students will learn how to use the principle bibliographical instruments for carrying out individual
researches with an interdisciplinary approach.
Seminars, with students’ presentations of individual researches, will be held.

Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

- Krapp, George Philip and Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirkhe, Anglo-Saxon poetic records: a collective edition, 6 voll., New York: Columbia University Press1931-1953.
- Treharne, Elaine, Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450: An Anthology, Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell 2009.
- Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn et alii, The Idea of the Vernacular: an Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520, Exeter: University of Exeter Press 1999.

Further material will be given during the course.

This course is intended to analyse, within the Generative framework, the interplay ("interface") between syntax, prosody and discourse grammar,
in relation to a hierarchy of functional projections in the left periphery of the sentence, dedicated to the encoding of information-structural features and determining the interpretation of (different types of) Topic and Focus. In particular the course will focus on three major issues:
(1) the interpretation of different types of focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, mirative) and its formal realization, both from a prosodic and a syntactic viewpoint (in situ vs. fronted, in matrix vs. embedded clauses) in typological diverse languages. Special attention will be dedicated to postverbal subject in Romance languages.
(2) The creation of topical chains and the interpretation of null subject comparing consistent, partial and radical pro-drop languages.
(3) The acquisition of the competences connected to the issues dealt within (1) and (2) in children from 3 to 9 years old.

• Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2011). Linguistic Analysis: From Data to Theory. (Trends in Linguistics Series) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (Chapters 6-7).
• Bianchi, V. (2013). On Focus movement in Italian. In Victoria Camacho-Taboada et al (eds.), Information Structure and Agreement, 194-215. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.
• 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
• Bianchi, Valentina & Mara Frascarelli (2010). Is Topic a Root Phenomenon? Iberia: An international Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 2.1 (Special Issue on Information Structure), 43-88.
• 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, Part IIB, Ch. 9. OUP, Oxford/New York.
• Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgio Carella (in press). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic review.

The course will focus on the specific problems of translating from/to French with particular attention to the tranlsation strategies in advertisements.

M. Guidère, Introduction à la traductologie. Penser la traduction: hier, aujourd'hui, demain, Bruxelles, de Boeck, 2008
M. Guidère, Publicité et traduction, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000

Spanish linguistics for international communication 2. Spanish language and the new technologies: theoretical and applied perspectives

The course intends to give students theoretical and applied linguistics knowledge on spanish language in the context of international communication. In particular, the module will deal with aspects related to Spanish and the new technologies, in a double perspective. While contributing to the reflection on the role of language in nowadays society and fostering advanced competences in the linguistic analysis of Spanish, it aims at developing higher level translation competences, by working on texts produced in a variety of international specialized discourse contexts.

Additional references and materials will be provided during the course.

- Javier MÚÑOZ-BASOLS, Nina MORENO, Inma TABOADA, Manel LACORTE (eds.), Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica, Taylor and Francis, 2017.
- Manel LACORTE (coord.), Lingüística aplicada del español, Arco/Libros, 2007.
- LÓPEZ ALONSO, C. Análisis del discurso, Madrid, Síntesis, 2014.
- Manuel ALCÁNTARA PLÁ, Palabras invasoras. El español de las nuevas tecnologías, Catarata, 2018.

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be provided during the course. The detailed programme, texts and other didactic materials will be published on the course's Moodle. All students are asked to register in the Moodle platform.

The course includes the study of the general features of translation and interpreting. At the beginning of the course, the diamesic variation in Portuguese (European and Brazilian) and in particular the phenomena related to spoken communication will be examined.
On the basis of these reflections, the second part of the course will include the theoretical-practical study of the problems and strategies related to the "translation" of monologic and oral dialogic texts in Portuguese and Italian.

For more info on the course outline and for the learning material the non-attending students are welcome to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

Texts:
-Riccardi, A., Dalla traduzione all'interpretazione, Milano, Led, 2003.
-Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
-Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.

Other teaching materials and bibliographical references will be provided to the students during the lessons.

Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

This module aims to further explore the contrasts between English and Italian with respect to the structural, conceptual and cultural constraints of the two languages. The learning difficulties of Italian learners of English as a Foreign Language will be examined through the analysis of authentic data, in order to stimulate a reflection also on one’s own learning process.

Bertuccelli Papi, M. (2016), Prima di tradurre: note sui vincoli strutturali, concettuali e culturali nella traduzione dall'inglese in Italiano. Pisa: Pisa University Press (pp.15-22; 52-134; 225-232.

Calabrese, R. (2008), Insights into the lexicon-syntax interface in Italian learners’ English. A generative framework for a corpus-based analysis. Rome: Aracne (pp. 69-114).

Franceschi, D. (2010), Where cognitive and structural complexity meet: the use of the Present Perfect by Italian University learners of EFL. In: Bertuccelli Papi M. & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (Eds.), ‘Cognition and the Brain in Language and Linguistics’, Textus – English Studies in Italy 23(3): 621-646. Genova: Tilgher.

Prat Zagrebelsky, M.T. (Ed) (2004), Computer learner corpora: theoretical issues and empirical case studies of Italian advanced EFL learners’ interlanguage. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso (pp-61-222).

The course will address issues about Arabic onomastics and toponomastics: structure of person and place names, transcriptions, methodologies of identification

Al-Onaizan, Yaser, e Kevin Knight. «Machine Transliteration of Names in Arabic Text», 1–13. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002.

Caetani, Leone, e Giuseppe Gabrieli. «1: Fonti, introduzione». Onomasticon Arabicum, ossia Repertorio alfabetico dei nomi di persona e di luogo contenuti nelle principali opere storiche, biografiche e geografiche, stampate e manoscritte, relative all’Islām, 1915.

Kay, Brant N, e Brian C Rineer. «Approaches to Arabic Name Transliteration and Matching in the DataFlux Quality Knowledge Base». a cura di Ali Farghaly e Farhard
Oroumchian, 6. San Diego, CA: AMTA, 2012.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Islamic names. Islamic surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.

Sublet, Jacqueline. Le voile du nom: essai sur le nom propre arabe. 1re éd. Ecriture. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1991

The course will focus on the specific problems of translating from/to French with particular attention to the tranlsation strategies in advertisements.

M. Guidère, Introduction à la traductologie. Penser la traduction: hier, aujourd'hui, demain, Bruxelles, de Boeck, 2008
M. Guidère, Publicité et traduction, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000

Spanish linguistics for international communication 2. Spanish language and the new technologies: theoretical and applied perspectives

The course intends to give students theoretical and applied linguistics knowledge on spanish language in the context of international communication. In particular, the module will deal with aspects related to Spanish and the new technologies, in a double perspective. While contributing to the reflection on the role of language in nowadays society and fostering advanced competences in the linguistic analysis of Spanish, it aims at developing higher level translation competences, by working on texts produced in a variety of international specialized discourse contexts.

Additional references and materials will be provided during the course.

- Javier MÚÑOZ-BASOLS, Nina MORENO, Inma TABOADA, Manel LACORTE (eds.), Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica, Taylor and Francis, 2017.
- Manel LACORTE (coord.), Lingüística aplicada del español, Arco/Libros, 2007.
- LÓPEZ ALONSO, C. Análisis del discurso, Madrid, Síntesis, 2014.
- Manuel ALCÁNTARA PLÁ, Palabras invasoras. El español de las nuevas tecnologías, Catarata, 2018.

Additional bibliographical references and materials will be provided during the course. The detailed programme, texts and other didactic materials will be published on the course's Moodle. All students are asked to register in the Moodle platform.

The course includes the study of the general features of translation and interpreting. At the beginning of the course, the diamesic variation in Portuguese (European and Brazilian) and in particular the phenomena related to spoken communication will be examined.
On the basis of these reflections, the second part of the course will include the theoretical-practical study of the problems and strategies related to the "translation" of monologic and oral dialogic texts in Portuguese and Italian.

For more info on the course outline and for the learning material the non-attending students are welcome to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

Texts:
-Riccardi, A., Dalla traduzione all'interpretazione, Milano, Led, 2003.
-Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
-Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.

Other teaching materials and bibliographical references will be provided to the students during the lessons.

Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

This module aims to further explore the contrasts between English and Italian with respect to the structural, conceptual and cultural constraints of the two languages. The learning difficulties of Italian learners of English as a Foreign Language will be examined through the analysis of authentic data, in order to stimulate a reflection also on one’s own learning process.

Bertuccelli Papi, M. (2016), Prima di tradurre: note sui vincoli strutturali, concettuali e culturali nella traduzione dall'inglese in Italiano. Pisa: Pisa University Press (pp.15-22; 52-134; 225-232.

Calabrese, R. (2008), Insights into the lexicon-syntax interface in Italian learners’ English. A generative framework for a corpus-based analysis. Rome: Aracne (pp. 69-114).

Franceschi, D. (2010), Where cognitive and structural complexity meet: the use of the Present Perfect by Italian University learners of EFL. In: Bertuccelli Papi M. & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (Eds.), ‘Cognition and the Brain in Language and Linguistics’, Textus – English Studies in Italy 23(3): 621-646. Genova: Tilgher.

Prat Zagrebelsky, M.T. (Ed) (2004), Computer learner corpora: theoretical issues and empirical case studies of Italian advanced EFL learners’ interlanguage. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso (pp-61-222).

General part: offers an overview of some key issues in second language learning research, with particular reference to the way in which teaching can facilitate and speed up the natural process of language acquisition.
Focus: provides students with knowledge and skills needed to analyse teaching materials. Characteristics of Task-based language teaching are illustrated in detail.

- Lightbown P., Spada N., How languages are learned, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Cortés Velásquez D., Faone S., Nuzzo E., Analizzare i manuali per l’insegnamento delle lingue: strumenti per una glottodidattica applicata, Analizzare i manuali per l’insegnamento delle lingue: strumenti per una glottodidattica applicata, in Italiano LinguaDue 2.2017, pp. 1-74.
- Nuzzo E., Cortés Velásquez D. (eds), Il task nell’insegnamento delle lingue. Percorsi tra ricerca e didattica al CLA di Roma Tre, RomaTrE-Press, in press (a selection of chapters specified by the teacher).

Course program
Grammar of the Palaeolithic language exemplified by the analysis of selected passages from anti-Slavic works:
- phonetics;
- morphology - the nominal system;
- morphology - the verbal system;
- the morpho-syntactic peculiarities of the ancient Slavic and some problems of translation.

Skomorochova-Venturini L., Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica, ed. ETS, Pisa 2000 (starting from the second part) or Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1; stampa a richiesta disponibile su http://epress.unifi.it), from p. 77 on.The texts in paleoslavic will be provided in photocopies during the course.

The course will introduce to the emerging, in the latin Middle Ages, of the ethical and aesthetic values of courtesy. Therefore it will offer a detailed analysis of some representative novels and epical and lyrical romance texts, also considering their fortune in Italian medieval poetry and in the works of Dante and Petrarch.

Texts:
- M. De Riquer, Leggere i trovatori, a cura di M. Bonafin, Macerata, EUM, 2010;
- Jaufre Rudel, L’amore di lontano, a cura di G. Chiarini, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Bernart de Ventadorn, Canzoni, a cura di M. Mancini, Roma, Carocci, 2003;
- - Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, BUR, 2009.
Ulteriori brani dalla lirica provenzale saranno messi a disposizione durante le lezioni.

Studies:
- A. Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra, 1999 (ristampa);
– M. Picone, «Vita Nuova» e tradizione romanza, Padova, Liviana, 1973;
- A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 1985;
- C. Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989:
– T. Barolini, Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della «Commedia», Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993;
– M. Mancini, La gaia scienza dei trovatori, Trento, Luni editrice, 2000 (o ristampe successive), capp. 2 e 4;
– S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante, a c. di M. Picone et al., Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92;
- A. Fassò, Gioie cavalleresche. Barbarie e civiltà fra epica e lirica medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)
- Barber, Charles, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993
- Wallace, David, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- Fadda, Anna Maria Luiselli, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts Two and Three)

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)
- Barber, Charles, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993
- Wallace, David, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- Fadda, Anna Maria Luiselli, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts Two and Three)

– Francini, Marusca. La letteratura anglosassone in: Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, ed. by M. Battaglia, Roma: Carocci 2017, pp. 137-276.

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta. Filologia Germanica. Lingue e culture dei Germani antichi, Roma: NIS 1991 (or other edition).

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta / Digilio, Maria Rita. Breve storia della lingua inglese, Roma: Carocci 2004.

– Luiselli Fadda, Anna Maria. Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma: Laterza 2007.

– Beowulf, ed. by G. Brunetti, Roma: Carocci (2003).

Basic concepts of lexicology and semantics.
The lexical information.
The meaning of words.
The global structure of lexicon.
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures in lexicon.

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

First module (6 ECTS)

The first module intends to address the main critical and problematic nodes of early modern history in a perspective aimed at enucleating original characters and identity processes of the European continent. Particular attention will be devoted to the philosophical-political and political-institutional peculiarities that emerged in European states between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 19th century. From the English Revolutions of the 17th Century and later with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, parliamentary democracy, secularization, religious tolerance and the recognition of human rights became traditionally not only the key ideas of the definition of "being European", but real universal guiding principles to export and, if necessary, to impose on the rest of the globe. But can we really coincide the advent of modernity with the beginnings of the process of secularization? What was the relationship between Christian churches and modernity? What was the relationship between Catholic Church and human rights since the Lumières century?

Second module (6 ECTS)

According to the definition of the League of Nations, slavery is “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised” (September 25th 1926). Slavery had an enormous importance and impact in the early modern age, but compared to the Atlantic tract, only more recently Mediterranean slavery has received the attention it deserves from historiography. Reductions in slavery are one of the (dramatic) consequences of the stormy relations between Christian states and the Ottoman empire, with repercussions of great importance not only from a social and economic point of view, but also from a religious point of view. The second part of the course intends to focus on the consistent and significant presence of slaves, often of Islamic religion, in the Italian states of the early modern age, as well as the policies posed in this regard to religious minorities moving in the Mediterranean area, such as the moriscos, expelled from the Iberian peninsula since 1609. For the Christian European countries, the Turk is the natural catalyst of an inveterate hatred, an obscure entity ready to destroy their culture and their religion. Yet, starting from the Renaissance, between the European sovereigns (and the Pope, among them) and their archenemies also exchanges and calls for collaboration happened, which provide evidence of the permeability of the borderline between two apparently irreconcilable worlds.

For the first module (6 ECTS)

F. Chabod, Storia dell’idea di Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
P. Prodi, Homo Europaeus, Bologna, Il Mulino
V. Ferrone, Lo strano Illuminismo di Joseph Ratzinger. Chiesa, modernità e diritti dell’uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

For the second module (6 ECTS)

S. Bono, Schiavi. Una storia mediterranea (XVI-XIX secolo), Bologna, Il Mulino.
G. Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
B. Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l’Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press (il volume è scaricabile gratuitamente dalla piattaforma Open Access:
http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Introduction: from Kevian Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First modernization of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of an European power; The long Russian Nineteenth century from Napoleonic wars to Alexander II's reforms; Nicholas II, the last tzar and his empire: the contradiction of an impetuous and disorderly development; the World War One and the end of a world; the Russian revolutions; The rise of Lenin and the Bolshevik; The Bolshevik party his origins ad his success; The Russian civil wars and the origin of the Soviet state; The NEP; The rise of Stalin: Collectivization, industrialization and the birth of a new Soviet Russia; The Great Terror; the Comintern the foreign communist parties and the PCUS hegemony; The "double" Soviet foreign policy and the origin of the Second World War; The War; After the war: the birth of a super-power; Soviet Russia, western powers and the Cold War; Nikita Khrushchev and a very turning point in the soviet history: the XX Congress, The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; the impossible reform attempt: Gorbachev between Perestrojka and Glasnost'; the fall of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the shady era; a new strong man? Vladimir Putin and the new Russia.

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

2) G. P. Caselli, La Russia nuova. Economia e Storia da Gorbacev a Putin, Milano - Udine, Mimesis


for non-attending students:

Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi.

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last two and a half centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economie, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
One of the following books:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell'Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la «Parte prima»).
Additional bibliographical references will be provide during lessons.

Learning outcomes:
This course introduces students to the analysis of XX century Italin history. A special attention will be paid to political-institutional systems and to a global approach in the study of history.

Course contents:
This course analyses modern Italy in order to understand its historical development and present condition. It does so by pursuing three main themes:

• The evolution of the nation-state in global and transnational perspective
• Fundamental discontinuities in social, political and everyday life
• The changing balance between Italy and the wider world

The course will be divided into 3 parts. The first part will focus on the political transformation in Italy during the early XX century until the First World War. The second part will analyse the interwar period and the Fascist political system during the Twenties and Thirties. The last part of the course will concentrate on the Second post-war period, with particular attention on the Cold War.

Skills outcomes:

Teaches Common Skills listed below:

- High-level skills in oral and written communication of complex ideas.
- Independence of mind and self-discipline and self-direction to work effectively under own initiative.
- Ability to locate, handle and synthesize large amounts of information.
- Empathy and active engagement with alternative cultural contexts.

Mandatory Textbook: Jonathan Dunnage, Twentieth Century Italy. A Social History (London, 2002)

Students will have to choose one book among the followings and to discuss it at the oral examination (two books for non-attending students):

Philip Cooke, The legacy of the Italian resistance (New York 2011)
Christopher Duggan, Fascist voices. An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Oxford, 2013)
Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy (Cambridge, 2010)
John Foot, Italy’s Divided Memory (New York, 2009)
Emilio Gentile, The sacralization of politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, 1996)
Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy. Society and Politics, 1943 – 1980 (London 1990)
Salvatore Lupo, History of the Mafia (New York 2009)
Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance (New York, 2014)
Roberta Pegher, Mussolini's Nation-Empire. Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambridge, 2017)

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, Wod 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.

- 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.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).

the origins and the open questions of Artificial intelligence
The course is dedicated to the birth of Artificial intelligence which happened more or less together witht the birth of the first electronic computers. The term was invented in 1956, but the discussion around the possibilities and consequences of what was called mechanical or machine intelligence started during the early Fifties and even earlier.
The Famous Turing Test created a huge interest since it was invented and proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing. Many years and many different methods were considered since AI origins, now many perspectives and technologies changed since then, in order to solve problems that required intelligence and problem solving capabilities to be solved.
At present there are many soft bots, many robot and many artificial devices that with the help of algorithms seem to espress intelligence and oblige us to change the concept of intelligence itself, both if applied to humans or to machines.
the most interesting phenomenon is the tendence to attribute to machine intelligent capabilities, mainly when we don't know precisely how the machine works.
This social dimention in attributing intelligence to machines was underlined by Turing too at the very beginning of machine intelligence reflection.
However this characteristic risks to produce unintendend and undesired consequences for human beings. we know that not many ara capable of understanding how to program a deep learning algorithm, and that more and more even programmers ignore how the machine produced the output results, because the layers of calculations are too difficult to follow in details also by those who programmed them. We know that only a small group of programmers and experts know the details. they tend to be trained by the same universities and to be hired by the same few multinational companies.
There are political and social problems that need a solution when we introduce a new AI tool. Innovation is not enough we need to build tools that are fair and useful to promote the development and wellbeing of all humans and not only of a small minority.
the course proposes some methods and histories to understand the political and social dimensions of the technological choices around us, with special regard to AI.

Somenzi V. Cordeschi R. (1994) La filosofia degli automi, Bollati boringhieri, Torino, pp. 19-203
O'Neil C. (2017) Weapons of math destruction, Penguin, London, New York
Tegmark M. (2017) Life 3.0 being human in the age of artificial intelligence, Alfred Knopf Inc.

The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.

Mandatory book:

- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma

One book among the following:

- Adornetti I., a cura di, 2015, Pragmatica del discorso e della conversazione, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

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.

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.

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

Di seguito, alcuni punti affrontati nel corso delle lezioni:

- libri, lettori, editori nell’Italia di oggi: qualche numero;
- le tendenze del mercato: best seller, “supereconomici”, ebook;
- le dimensioni del libro: il libro come testo, il libro come artefatto, il libro come merce;
- il libro prima della stampa e la stampa prima dell’industria libraria: la “storicità” del libro;
- intermezzo platonico: il Fedro e la critica della scrittura;
- il passaggio dal rotolo al codice, la vicenda del libro manoscritto, dalla tipografia
all’industria;
- nascita e sviluppo dell’industria del libro: innovazioni tecniche, pubblici e “generi”
editoriali;
- la grande dicotomia: “libri strumento” e “libri di varia” (e il “libro di cultura”?);
- orientarsi nell’offerta editoriale: classifiche, tipologie, “generi editoriali”,
- la fisionomia dell’editore e l’organizzazione del catalogo: le collane (ambiti tematici, scelte
grafiche, formati, allestimenti);
- il libro, il testo, il paratesto;
- a partire da Genette: la forma materiale come paratesto primario;
- il “libro” digitale è ancora un libro?;
- le scelte editoriali 1: cercare idee da trasformare in libri; temi, autori, stili editoriali,
destinatari, tra letture e conversazioni;
- le scelte editoriali 2.: le ragioni del testo, i costi del libro, le possibilità commerciali;
- la cura del catalogo: budget di spesa e piani editoriali tra novità, ristampe, nuove edizioni,
passaggi di collana; long seller e “slow seller”;
- il tascabile/paperback/economico: valorizzazione del catalogo e ampliamento del mercato;
- il contratto editoriale e il diritto d’autore;
- il lavoro redazionale tra standard di collana e specificità testuali;
- le fasi del lavoro redazionale dall’ editing al “visto si stampi”;
- la comunicazione dl libro: non solo recensioni;
- l’ ufficio commerciale e la promozione : “sell in”, “sell out”, “rese”, analisi delle vendite;
- il libro in libreria e i “canali di vendita”: iper produzione, “ciclo di vita del prodotto”.

- Enrico Mistretta; L' editoria. Un'industria dell'artigianato; Il Mulino Bologna, 2006, pagg.192;
- Alberto Cadioli, Giuliano Vigini; Storia dell'editoria italiana dall'Unità ad oggi. Un profilo introduttivo;Editrice Bibliografica, 2012, pagg.164;
- Lodovica Braida; Stampa e cultura in Europa; Laterza Roma-Bari, 2000, pagg. 166;
- Gian Arturo Ferrari; Libro; Bollati Boringhieri Torino, 2014; dal capitolo 13 "L'editoria industriale" fino alla fine;
- Guglielmo Cavallo; " Del rotolo, del codice e di altri aspetti della cultura antica e medievale", pagg. 9-11. (Download from professor's website)

Being a journalist today requires preparation, commitment, sacrifice, desire to deepen every day and constant updating: it is a fascinating daily challenge with oneself, before that with colleagues and between newspapers. This job has profoundly changed since the birth of the Internet in 1991 to the present, due to the new tools and technologies we have, but principles (honesty and fairness), strategies, sensitivity and courage always are the same and they are the keys to do a good work. Objectivity and the search for truth (when there are no more than one truth and therefore all must be told) must lead the information professional in a forest full of traps, pitfalls and large and small obstacles.
Among the topics that are deepened:
The principles of journalism and the work of telling facts and events today: have the rules changed compared to 50 years ago?
The rights and duties of the journalist. The rules on which the journalist's work is based: the Italian Constitution, the Code of Deontology and the Privacy law. Threats to the right to information.
How to write an article and the five "w" (but someone says they are six). How to use adjectives and verbs.
How to write an article. The different kinds of articles: white and judicial news. Verification of sources.
How to write an article in Economics. How to make a title. The path from the collection of information to the final draft of the article.
How a correspondent works, an expert on foreign affairs and a war correspondent.
Journalism on the web. Cross media and the relationship between old and new media, between competition and integration.
The interview: how to prepare, the meeting, the drafting of the text. Photojournalism and videos: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Political information: language. All-news TV and breaking news.
The newspaper and the online newspaper. How to compose a paper publication. And how you work on a newspaper website.
How to communicate on social networks
Information and publicity. Online information: quality is expensive. The journalist facing the future information scenarios.

• Exam texts: "The profession of the journalist" by Stefano Natoli - Published by the Journalistic Documentation Center

n the first part of the course, origins and history of advertising will be illustrated, along with the organization of advertising industry and its main professional figures; drawing on many case studies, different advertising techniques and strategies will be presented, showing how these change according to different media (printed ads, TV commercials, web ads, etc. will be taken into consideration). Finally, theoretical frameworks will be discussed and applied to specific advertisements.
The second part of the course focuses on what is probably to be considered advertising’s main ‘resource’ and most longstanding weakness at the same time: the use of stereotypes. After addressing stereotypes in theoretical terms and explaining the reasons for their widespread use and ‘efficacy’, we will focus on three categories of stereotypes commonly found in advertisements: 1) gender and ‘heteronormativity’ (how are female and male subjects and bodies depicted in ads? What are the reasons for and the effects of privileging heterosexual couples?); 2) age (which products/services/goods is the use of elderly in advertising limited to? Are old women and old men ‘used’ in the same way?); 3) race (in which roles non-Caucasian people feature in in advertising images and discourse?). Several forms of communication will be deconstructed and re-constructed in order to challenge common places and to analyze how (hetero)sexism, racism, and ageism work in advertising.
In the final part of the course, we will analyze how advertising normalizes, legitimizes, even celebrates the use of violence.

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (ATTENDING STUDENTS)
I testi di esame sono i seguenti:
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (only the chapters that will be indicated in classes).
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (to the exception of chapters 4 and 5).
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012 (only the chapters 2,3,4, and 5).
N:B: The PPTs from the lessons will be uploaded on the Comunicazione website, download area

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS)
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012.

GENDER E MEDIA TEXTBOOKS
- E. Giomi, Gender e Media, Pigreco Edizioni, Roma, 2015.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

For the students following the course:
- L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.
A book to be chosen between:
- H. Van der Wee, L'economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
or
- G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CEDAM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

The students that will not follow the course must add:
- M. Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017, pp. 154-200.

This course will provide an overview of the cultural and literary context of 17th - 18th century French literature highlighting some of the main features of the period. It will then focus on the reading and analysis of three texts: La Princesse de Clèves, Candide and Les Liasons dangereuses, with the aim of tracing the evolution of the novel with regard to narrative strategies, stylistic and genre changes.

M. Bertini (a cura di), Beaubourg. Auteurs, textes, genres de la littérature française. Le XVII et XVIIIe siècle (the passages to be read and analysed will be said in class). J. Rousset, Forme et signification, Paris, Corti, 1962 (Chapters I-IV).
Texts: Three novels to be chosen among the following : Diderot, Jacques le fataliste o La Religieuse; Laclos, Les Liaisons dangeureuses; Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves; Rousseau, La Nouvelle Héloïse (selection of 80 letters from all the 6 parts of the novel); Voltaire, Candide.

Course program
Grammar of the Palaeolithic language exemplified by the analysis of selected passages from anti-Slavic works:
- phonetics;
- morphology - the nominal system;
- morphology - the verbal system;
- the morpho-syntactic peculiarities of the ancient Slavic and some problems of translation.

Skomorochova-Venturini L., Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica, ed. ETS, Pisa 2000 (starting from the second part) or Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1; stampa a richiesta disponibile su http://epress.unifi.it), from p. 77 on.The texts in paleoslavic will be provided in photocopies during the course.

The course will introduce to the emerging, in the latin Middle Ages, of the ethical and aesthetic values of courtesy. Therefore it will offer a detailed analysis of some representative novels and epical and lyrical romance texts, also considering their fortune in Italian medieval poetry and in the works of Dante and Petrarch.

Texts:
- M. De Riquer, Leggere i trovatori, a cura di M. Bonafin, Macerata, EUM, 2010;
- Jaufre Rudel, L’amore di lontano, a cura di G. Chiarini, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Bernart de Ventadorn, Canzoni, a cura di M. Mancini, Roma, Carocci, 2003;
- - Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, BUR, 2009.
Ulteriori brani dalla lirica provenzale saranno messi a disposizione durante le lezioni.

Studies:
- A. Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra, 1999 (ristampa);
– M. Picone, «Vita Nuova» e tradizione romanza, Padova, Liviana, 1973;
- A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 1985;
- C. Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989:
– T. Barolini, Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della «Commedia», Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993;
– M. Mancini, La gaia scienza dei trovatori, Trento, Luni editrice, 2000 (o ristampe successive), capp. 2 e 4;
– S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante, a c. di M. Picone et al., Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92;
- A. Fassò, Gioie cavalleresche. Barbarie e civiltà fra epica e lirica medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.

- 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.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).

Basic concepts of lexicology and semantics.
The lexical information.
The meaning of words.
The global structure of lexicon.
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures in lexicon.

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

the origins and the open questions of Artificial intelligence
The course is dedicated to the birth of Artificial intelligence which happened more or less together witht the birth of the first electronic computers. The term was invented in 1956, but the discussion around the possibilities and consequences of what was called mechanical or machine intelligence started during the early Fifties and even earlier.
The Famous Turing Test created a huge interest since it was invented and proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing. Many years and many different methods were considered since AI origins, now many perspectives and technologies changed since then, in order to solve problems that required intelligence and problem solving capabilities to be solved.
At present there are many soft bots, many robot and many artificial devices that with the help of algorithms seem to espress intelligence and oblige us to change the concept of intelligence itself, both if applied to humans or to machines.
the most interesting phenomenon is the tendence to attribute to machine intelligent capabilities, mainly when we don't know precisely how the machine works.
This social dimention in attributing intelligence to machines was underlined by Turing too at the very beginning of machine intelligence reflection.
However this characteristic risks to produce unintendend and undesired consequences for human beings. we know that not many ara capable of understanding how to program a deep learning algorithm, and that more and more even programmers ignore how the machine produced the output results, because the layers of calculations are too difficult to follow in details also by those who programmed them. We know that only a small group of programmers and experts know the details. they tend to be trained by the same universities and to be hired by the same few multinational companies.
There are political and social problems that need a solution when we introduce a new AI tool. Innovation is not enough we need to build tools that are fair and useful to promote the development and wellbeing of all humans and not only of a small minority.
the course proposes some methods and histories to understand the political and social dimensions of the technological choices around us, with special regard to AI.

Somenzi V. Cordeschi R. (1994) La filosofia degli automi, Bollati boringhieri, Torino, pp. 19-203
O'Neil C. (2017) Weapons of math destruction, Penguin, London, New York
Tegmark M. (2017) Life 3.0 being human in the age of artificial intelligence, Alfred Knopf Inc.

The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.

Mandatory book:

- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma

One book among the following:

- Adornetti I., a cura di, 2015, Pragmatica del discorso e della conversazione, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

Di seguito, alcuni punti affrontati nel corso delle lezioni:

- libri, lettori, editori nell’Italia di oggi: qualche numero;
- le tendenze del mercato: best seller, “supereconomici”, ebook;
- le dimensioni del libro: il libro come testo, il libro come artefatto, il libro come merce;
- il libro prima della stampa e la stampa prima dell’industria libraria: la “storicità” del libro;
- intermezzo platonico: il Fedro e la critica della scrittura;
- il passaggio dal rotolo al codice, la vicenda del libro manoscritto, dalla tipografia
all’industria;
- nascita e sviluppo dell’industria del libro: innovazioni tecniche, pubblici e “generi”
editoriali;
- la grande dicotomia: “libri strumento” e “libri di varia” (e il “libro di cultura”?);
- orientarsi nell’offerta editoriale: classifiche, tipologie, “generi editoriali”,
- la fisionomia dell’editore e l’organizzazione del catalogo: le collane (ambiti tematici, scelte
grafiche, formati, allestimenti);
- il libro, il testo, il paratesto;
- a partire da Genette: la forma materiale come paratesto primario;
- il “libro” digitale è ancora un libro?;
- le scelte editoriali 1: cercare idee da trasformare in libri; temi, autori, stili editoriali,
destinatari, tra letture e conversazioni;
- le scelte editoriali 2.: le ragioni del testo, i costi del libro, le possibilità commerciali;
- la cura del catalogo: budget di spesa e piani editoriali tra novità, ristampe, nuove edizioni,
passaggi di collana; long seller e “slow seller”;
- il tascabile/paperback/economico: valorizzazione del catalogo e ampliamento del mercato;
- il contratto editoriale e il diritto d’autore;
- il lavoro redazionale tra standard di collana e specificità testuali;
- le fasi del lavoro redazionale dall’ editing al “visto si stampi”;
- la comunicazione dl libro: non solo recensioni;
- l’ ufficio commerciale e la promozione : “sell in”, “sell out”, “rese”, analisi delle vendite;
- il libro in libreria e i “canali di vendita”: iper produzione, “ciclo di vita del prodotto”.

- Enrico Mistretta; L' editoria. Un'industria dell'artigianato; Il Mulino Bologna, 2006, pagg.192;
- Alberto Cadioli, Giuliano Vigini; Storia dell'editoria italiana dall'Unità ad oggi. Un profilo introduttivo;Editrice Bibliografica, 2012, pagg.164;
- Lodovica Braida; Stampa e cultura in Europa; Laterza Roma-Bari, 2000, pagg. 166;
- Gian Arturo Ferrari; Libro; Bollati Boringhieri Torino, 2014; dal capitolo 13 "L'editoria industriale" fino alla fine;
- Guglielmo Cavallo; " Del rotolo, del codice e di altri aspetti della cultura antica e medievale", pagg. 9-11. (Download from professor's website)

Being a journalist today requires preparation, commitment, sacrifice, desire to deepen every day and constant updating: it is a fascinating daily challenge with oneself, before that with colleagues and between newspapers. This job has profoundly changed since the birth of the Internet in 1991 to the present, due to the new tools and technologies we have, but principles (honesty and fairness), strategies, sensitivity and courage always are the same and they are the keys to do a good work. Objectivity and the search for truth (when there are no more than one truth and therefore all must be told) must lead the information professional in a forest full of traps, pitfalls and large and small obstacles.
Among the topics that are deepened:
The principles of journalism and the work of telling facts and events today: have the rules changed compared to 50 years ago?
The rights and duties of the journalist. The rules on which the journalist's work is based: the Italian Constitution, the Code of Deontology and the Privacy law. Threats to the right to information.
How to write an article and the five "w" (but someone says they are six). How to use adjectives and verbs.
How to write an article. The different kinds of articles: white and judicial news. Verification of sources.
How to write an article in Economics. How to make a title. The path from the collection of information to the final draft of the article.
How a correspondent works, an expert on foreign affairs and a war correspondent.
Journalism on the web. Cross media and the relationship between old and new media, between competition and integration.
The interview: how to prepare, the meeting, the drafting of the text. Photojournalism and videos: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Political information: language. All-news TV and breaking news.
The newspaper and the online newspaper. How to compose a paper publication. And how you work on a newspaper website.
How to communicate on social networks
Information and publicity. Online information: quality is expensive. The journalist facing the future information scenarios.

• Exam texts: "The profession of the journalist" by Stefano Natoli - Published by the Journalistic Documentation Center

n the first part of the course, origins and history of advertising will be illustrated, along with the organization of advertising industry and its main professional figures; drawing on many case studies, different advertising techniques and strategies will be presented, showing how these change according to different media (printed ads, TV commercials, web ads, etc. will be taken into consideration). Finally, theoretical frameworks will be discussed and applied to specific advertisements.
The second part of the course focuses on what is probably to be considered advertising’s main ‘resource’ and most longstanding weakness at the same time: the use of stereotypes. After addressing stereotypes in theoretical terms and explaining the reasons for their widespread use and ‘efficacy’, we will focus on three categories of stereotypes commonly found in advertisements: 1) gender and ‘heteronormativity’ (how are female and male subjects and bodies depicted in ads? What are the reasons for and the effects of privileging heterosexual couples?); 2) age (which products/services/goods is the use of elderly in advertising limited to? Are old women and old men ‘used’ in the same way?); 3) race (in which roles non-Caucasian people feature in in advertising images and discourse?). Several forms of communication will be deconstructed and re-constructed in order to challenge common places and to analyze how (hetero)sexism, racism, and ageism work in advertising.
In the final part of the course, we will analyze how advertising normalizes, legitimizes, even celebrates the use of violence.

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (ATTENDING STUDENTS)
I testi di esame sono i seguenti:
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (only the chapters that will be indicated in classes).
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (to the exception of chapters 4 and 5).
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012 (only the chapters 2,3,4, and 5).
N:B: The PPTs from the lessons will be uploaded on the Comunicazione website, download area

COMUNICAZIONE PUBBLICITARIA TEXTBOOKS (NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS)
- M. Ferraresi (a cura di), Pubblicità: teorie e tecniche, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.
- L. Corradi, Specchio delle sue brame: analisi socio-politica delle pubblicità. Genere, classe, razza, età ed etero sessismo, Ediesse, Roma, 2012.

GENDER E MEDIA TEXTBOOKS
- E. Giomi, Gender e Media, Pigreco Edizioni, Roma, 2015.
- E. Giomi, S. Magaraggia, Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

For the students following the course:
- L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.
A book to be chosen between:
- H. Van der Wee, L'economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
or
- G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CEDAM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

The students that will not follow the course must add:
- M. Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017, pp. 154-200.

The course will introduce to the emerging, in the latin Middle Ages, of the ethical and aesthetic values of courtesy. Therefore it will offer a detailed analysis of some representative novels and epical and lyrical romance texts, also considering their fortune in Italian medieval poetry and in the works of Dante and Petrarch.

Texts:
- M. De Riquer, Leggere i trovatori, a cura di M. Bonafin, Macerata, EUM, 2010;
- Jaufre Rudel, L’amore di lontano, a cura di G. Chiarini, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Bernart de Ventadorn, Canzoni, a cura di M. Mancini, Roma, Carocci, 2003;
- - Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, BUR, 2009.
Ulteriori brani dalla lirica provenzale saranno messi a disposizione durante le lezioni.

Studies:
- A. Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra, 1999 (ristampa);
– M. Picone, «Vita Nuova» e tradizione romanza, Padova, Liviana, 1973;
- A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 1985;
- C. Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989:
– T. Barolini, Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della «Commedia», Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993;
– M. Mancini, La gaia scienza dei trovatori, Trento, Luni editrice, 2000 (o ristampe successive), capp. 2 e 4;
– S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante, a c. di M. Picone et al., Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92;
- A. Fassò, Gioie cavalleresche. Barbarie e civiltà fra epica e lirica medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)
- Barber, Charles, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993
- Wallace, David, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- Fadda, Anna Maria Luiselli, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts Two and Three)

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- Mitchell, Bruce, and Fred C. Robinson, ed., Beowulf: an Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts(Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)

– Francini, Marusca. La letteratura anglosassone in: Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, ed. by M. Battaglia, Roma: Carocci 2017, pp. 137-276.

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta. Filologia Germanica. Lingue e culture dei Germani antichi, Roma: NIS 1991 (or other edition).

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta / Digilio, Maria Rita. Breve storia della lingua inglese, Roma: Carocci 2004.

– Luiselli Fadda, Anna Maria. Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma: Laterza 2007.

– Beowulf, ed. by G. Brunetti, Roma: Carocci (2003).

Basic concepts of lexicology and semantics.
The lexical information.
The meaning of words.
The global structure of lexicon.
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures in lexicon.

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

Course program
Grammar of the Palaeolithic language exemplified by the analysis of selected passages from anti-Slavic works:
- phonetics;
- morphology - the nominal system;
- morphology - the verbal system;
- the morpho-syntactic peculiarities of the ancient Slavic and some problems of translation.

Skomorochova-Venturini L., Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica, ed. ETS, Pisa 2000 (starting from the second part) or Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1; stampa a richiesta disponibile su http://epress.unifi.it), from p. 77 on.The texts in paleoslavic will be provided in photocopies during the course.

The course will introduce to the emerging, in the latin Middle Ages, of the ethical and aesthetic values of courtesy. Therefore it will offer a detailed analysis of some representative novels and epical and lyrical romance texts, also considering their fortune in Italian medieval poetry and in the works of Dante and Petrarch.

Texts:
- M. De Riquer, Leggere i trovatori, a cura di M. Bonafin, Macerata, EUM, 2010;
- Jaufre Rudel, L’amore di lontano, a cura di G. Chiarini, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Bernart de Ventadorn, Canzoni, a cura di M. Mancini, Roma, Carocci, 2003;
- - Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, BUR, 2009.
Ulteriori brani dalla lirica provenzale saranno messi a disposizione durante le lezioni.

Studies:
- A. Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra, 1999 (ristampa);
– M. Picone, «Vita Nuova» e tradizione romanza, Padova, Liviana, 1973;
- A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 1985;
- C. Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989:
– T. Barolini, Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della «Commedia», Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993;
– M. Mancini, La gaia scienza dei trovatori, Trento, Luni editrice, 2000 (o ristampe successive), capp. 2 e 4;
– S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante, a c. di M. Picone et al., Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92;
- A. Fassò, Gioie cavalleresche. Barbarie e civiltà fra epica e lirica medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.

- 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.
A scelta:
G.R. Cardona, I sei lati del mondo. Linguaggio ed esperienza. Laterza 1988.
G.R. Cardona, Introduzione all'etnolinguistica. UTET Università, 2006.).

First module (6 ECTS)

The first module intends to address the main critical and problematic nodes of early modern history in a perspective aimed at enucleating original characters and identity processes of the European continent. Particular attention will be devoted to the philosophical-political and political-institutional peculiarities that emerged in European states between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 19th century. From the English Revolutions of the 17th Century and later with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, parliamentary democracy, secularization, religious tolerance and the recognition of human rights became traditionally not only the key ideas of the definition of "being European", but real universal guiding principles to export and, if necessary, to impose on the rest of the globe. But can we really coincide the advent of modernity with the beginnings of the process of secularization? What was the relationship between Christian churches and modernity? What was the relationship between Catholic Church and human rights since the Lumières century?

Second module (6 ECTS)

According to the definition of the League of Nations, slavery is “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised” (September 25th 1926). Slavery had an enormous importance and impact in the early modern age, but compared to the Atlantic tract, only more recently Mediterranean slavery has received the attention it deserves from historiography. Reductions in slavery are one of the (dramatic) consequences of the stormy relations between Christian states and the Ottoman empire, with repercussions of great importance not only from a social and economic point of view, but also from a religious point of view. The second part of the course intends to focus on the consistent and significant presence of slaves, often of Islamic religion, in the Italian states of the early modern age, as well as the policies posed in this regard to religious minorities moving in the Mediterranean area, such as the moriscos, expelled from the Iberian peninsula since 1609. For the Christian European countries, the Turk is the natural catalyst of an inveterate hatred, an obscure entity ready to destroy their culture and their religion. Yet, starting from the Renaissance, between the European sovereigns (and the Pope, among them) and their archenemies also exchanges and calls for collaboration happened, which provide evidence of the permeability of the borderline between two apparently irreconcilable worlds.

For the first module (6 ECTS)

F. Chabod, Storia dell’idea di Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
P. Prodi, Homo Europaeus, Bologna, Il Mulino
V. Ferrone, Lo strano Illuminismo di Joseph Ratzinger. Chiesa, modernità e diritti dell’uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

For the second module (6 ECTS)

S. Bono, Schiavi. Una storia mediterranea (XVI-XIX secolo), Bologna, Il Mulino.
G. Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
B. Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l’Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press (il volume è scaricabile gratuitamente dalla piattaforma Open Access:
http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last two and a half centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economie, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
One of the following books:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell'Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la «Parte prima»).
Additional bibliographical references will be provide during lessons.

Learning outcomes:
This course introduces students to the analysis of XX century Italin history. A special attention will be paid to political-institutional systems and to a global approach in the study of history.

Course contents:
This course analyses modern Italy in order to understand its historical development and present condition. It does so by pursuing three main themes:

• The evolution of the nation-state in global and transnational perspective
• Fundamental discontinuities in social, political and everyday life
• The changing balance between Italy and the wider world

The course will be divided into 3 parts. The first part will focus on the political transformation in Italy during the early XX century until the First World War. The second part will analyse the interwar period and the Fascist political system during the Twenties and Thirties. The last part of the course will concentrate on the Second post-war period, with particular attention on the Cold War.

Skills outcomes:

Teaches Common Skills listed below:

- High-level skills in oral and written communication of complex ideas.
- Independence of mind and self-discipline and self-direction to work effectively under own initiative.
- Ability to locate, handle and synthesize large amounts of information.
- Empathy and active engagement with alternative cultural contexts.

Mandatory Textbook: Jonathan Dunnage, Twentieth Century Italy. A Social History (London, 2002)

Students will have to choose one book among the followings and to discuss it at the oral examination (two books for non-attending students):

Philip Cooke, The legacy of the Italian resistance (New York 2011)
Christopher Duggan, Fascist voices. An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Oxford, 2013)
Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy (Cambridge, 2010)
John Foot, Italy’s Divided Memory (New York, 2009)
Emilio Gentile, The sacralization of politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, 1996)
Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy. Society and Politics, 1943 – 1980 (London 1990)
Salvatore Lupo, History of the Mafia (New York 2009)
Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance (New York, 2014)
Roberta Pegher, Mussolini's Nation-Empire. Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambridge, 2017)

CCourse program:
- The concept of Slavic-ecclesiastic literature.
- Hagiography: genres and macrogenres (collections of texts). Analysis of some hagiographic texts.
- Palaeoslavic hymnography. The hymnographic collections.
- Applied rhetoric: genres, collections. Analysis of some paleoslav sermons.
- Apocrypha.

Measures for foreign students
Erasmus students or other grant holders are kindly requested to contact the teacher. Lessons are held in Italian, the exam can also be taken in Russian.

Naumow A., Idea – immagine – testo. Studi sulla letteratura slavo-ecclesiastica, Ed. dell’Orso, Torino 2004 (capitoli scelti); Stantchev K., Questioni di terminologia, problemi di metodo, in: «Gli studi slavistici in Italia oggi. Atti del IV Congresso ltaliano di Slavistica», a cura di R. De Giorgi, S. Garzonio, G. Ziffer, Udine 2007; Stantchev K., Agiografia e agiologia nella tradizione slavo-ortodossa, in: «Santità, culti, agiografia. Temi e prospettive. Atti del I Convegno di studio dell’Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia, Roma 24-26 ottobre 1996», a cura di Sofia Boesh Gajano, Viella ed., Roma 1997, 27-50; Stantchev K., La poesia liturgica, in: «Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. 3. Le culture circostanti», vol. III: Le culture slave. A cura di Mario Capaldo. Salerno Editrice, Roma 2006, 439-473; Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1), II ed. Firenze University Press, 2007 (Manuali umanistica, 8), Introduzione (pp. 3-76) –

Techniques of composition and transmission of medieval Germanic texts.

The course will focus on the analysis of medieval English and German texts which will be the starting point for outlining the main characteristics of the literary and cultural milieu in which they were produced and for widening the students’ knowledge in the field of intertextuality, diachronic linguistics and textual
tradition.
Students will learn how to use the principle bibliographical instruments for carrying out individual
researches with an interdisciplinary approach.
Seminars, with students’ presentations of individual researches, will be held.

Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

- Krapp, George Philip and Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirkhe, Anglo-Saxon poetic records: a collective edition, 6 voll., New York: Columbia University Press1931-1953.
- Treharne, Elaine, Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450: An Anthology, Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell 2009.
- Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn et alii, The Idea of the Vernacular: an Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520, Exeter: University of Exeter Press 1999.

Further material will be given during the course.

This course is intended to analyse, within the Generative framework, the interplay ("interface") between syntax, prosody and discourse grammar,
in relation to a hierarchy of functional projections in the left periphery of the sentence, dedicated to the encoding of information-structural features and determining the interpretation of (different types of) Topic and Focus. In particular the course will focus on three major issues:
(1) the interpretation of different types of focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, mirative) and its formal realization, both from a prosodic and a syntactic viewpoint (in situ vs. fronted, in matrix vs. embedded clauses) in typological diverse languages. Special attention will be dedicated to postverbal subject in Romance languages.
(2) The creation of topical chains and the interpretation of null subject comparing consistent, partial and radical pro-drop languages.
(3) The acquisition of the competences connected to the issues dealt within (1) and (2) in children from 3 to 9 years old.

• Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2011). Linguistic Analysis: From Data to Theory. (Trends in Linguistics Series) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (Chapters 6-7).
• Bianchi, V. (2013). On Focus movement in Italian. In Victoria Camacho-Taboada et al (eds.), Information Structure and Agreement, 194-215. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.
• 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
• Bianchi, Valentina & Mara Frascarelli (2010). Is Topic a Root Phenomenon? Iberia: An international Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 2.1 (Special Issue on Information Structure), 43-88.
• 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, Part IIB, Ch. 9. OUP, Oxford/New York.
• Frascarelli, Mara & Giorgio Carella (in press). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic review.

Course program
Grammar of the Palaeolithic language exemplified by the analysis of selected passages from anti-Slavic works:
- phonetics;
- morphology - the nominal system;
- morphology - the verbal system;
- the morpho-syntactic peculiarities of the ancient Slavic and some problems of translation.

Skomorochova-Venturini L., Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica, ed. ETS, Pisa 2000 (starting from the second part) or Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1; stampa a richiesta disponibile su http://epress.unifi.it), from p. 77 on.The texts in paleoslavic will be provided in photocopies during the course.

The course will introduce to the emerging, in the latin Middle Ages, of the ethical and aesthetic values of courtesy. Therefore it will offer a detailed analysis of some representative novels and epical and lyrical romance texts, also considering their fortune in Italian medieval poetry and in the works of Dante and Petrarch.

Texts:
- M. De Riquer, Leggere i trovatori, a cura di M. Bonafin, Macerata, EUM, 2010;
- Jaufre Rudel, L’amore di lontano, a cura di G. Chiarini, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Bernart de Ventadorn, Canzoni, a cura di M. Mancini, Roma, Carocci, 2003;
- - Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, BUR, 2009.
Ulteriori brani dalla lirica provenzale saranno messi a disposizione durante le lezioni.

Studies:
- A. Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra, 1999 (ristampa);
– M. Picone, «Vita Nuova» e tradizione romanza, Padova, Liviana, 1973;
- A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 1985;
- C. Di Girolamo, I trovatori, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989:
– T. Barolini, Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della «Commedia», Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993;
– M. Mancini, La gaia scienza dei trovatori, Trento, Luni editrice, 2000 (o ristampe successive), capp. 2 e 4;
– S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante, a c. di M. Picone et al., Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92;
- A. Fassò, Gioie cavalleresche. Barbarie e civiltà fra epica e lirica medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)
- Barber, Charles, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993
- Wallace, David, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- Fadda, Anna Maria Luiselli, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts Two and Three)

Feasts and banquets in medieval England

Through the reading of a selection of passages from works of poetry of the Old (Beowulf and other texts) and Middle English literary tradition (Chaucer and the Gawain’poet), the main features of the conventions of hospitality in medieval English literature will be identified. Banquet scenes - to be interpreted as visible signs of magnificence, power and idealized order- will also be addressed through references to other works of the Germanic world, mainly German and Norse.

The philological-literary analysis of these texts will be combined with an outline of the fundamental changes of the English language through the centuries.

- Brunetti, Giuseppe, ed., Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages)
- Fulk, R. D., Robert Bjork and J. D. Niles, ed., Klaeber’s Beowulf, 4th edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
- D. Benson, Larry.D, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages)
- Andrew. Malcolm and R. Waldron, Ronald, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages)
- Barber, Charles, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993
- Wallace, David, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- Fadda, Anna Maria Luiselli, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts Two and Three)

– Francini, Marusca. La letteratura anglosassone in: Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, ed. by M. Battaglia, Roma: Carocci 2017, pp. 137-276.

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta. Filologia Germanica. Lingue e culture dei Germani antichi, Roma: NIS 1991 (or other edition).

– Francovich Onesti, Nicoletta / Digilio, Maria Rita. Breve storia della lingua inglese, Roma: Carocci 2004.

– Luiselli Fadda, Anna Maria. Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma: Laterza 2007.

– Beowulf, ed. by G. Brunetti, Roma: Carocci (2003).

Basic concepts of lexicology and semantics.
The lexical information.
The meaning of words.
The global structure of lexicon.
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures in lexicon.

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

First module (6 ECTS)

The first module intends to address the main critical and problematic nodes of early modern history in a perspective aimed at enucleating original characters and identity processes of the European continent. Particular attention will be devoted to the philosophical-political and political-institutional peculiarities that emerged in European states between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 19th century. From the English Revolutions of the 17th Century and later with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, parliamentary democracy, secularization, religious tolerance and the recognition of human rights became traditionally not only the key ideas of the definition of "being European", but real universal guiding principles to export and, if necessary, to impose on the rest of the globe. But can we really coincide the advent of modernity with the beginnings of the process of secularization? What was the relationship between Christian churches and modernity? What was the relationship between Catholic Church and human rights since the Lumières century?

Second module (6 ECTS)

According to the definition of the League of Nations, slavery is “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised” (September 25th 1926). Slavery had an enormous importance and impact in the early modern age, but compared to the Atlantic tract, only more recently Mediterranean slavery has received the attention it deserves from historiography. Reductions in slavery are one of the (dramatic) consequences of the stormy relations between Christian states and the Ottoman empire, with repercussions of great importance not only from a social and economic point of view, but also from a religious point of view. The second part of the course intends to focus on the consistent and significant presence of slaves, often of Islamic religion, in the Italian states of the early modern age, as well as the policies posed in this regard to religious minorities moving in the Mediterranean area, such as the moriscos, expelled from the Iberian peninsula since 1609. For the Christian European countries, the Turk is the natural catalyst of an inveterate hatred, an obscure entity ready to destroy their culture and their religion. Yet, starting from the Renaissance, between the European sovereigns (and the Pope, among them) and their archenemies also exchanges and calls for collaboration happened, which provide evidence of the permeability of the borderline between two apparently irreconcilable worlds.

For the first module (6 ECTS)

F. Chabod, Storia dell’idea di Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
P. Prodi, Homo Europaeus, Bologna, Il Mulino
V. Ferrone, Lo strano Illuminismo di Joseph Ratzinger. Chiesa, modernità e diritti dell’uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

For the second module (6 ECTS)

S. Bono, Schiavi. Una storia mediterranea (XVI-XIX secolo), Bologna, Il Mulino.
G. Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
B. Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l’Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press (il volume è scaricabile gratuitamente dalla piattaforma Open Access:
http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last two and a half centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economie, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
One of the following books:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell'Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la «Parte prima»).
Additional bibliographical references will be provide during lessons.

Learning outcomes:
This course introduces students to the analysis of XX century Italin history. A special attention will be paid to political-institutional systems and to a global approach in the study of history.

Course contents:
This course analyses modern Italy in order to understand its historical development and present condition. It does so by pursuing three main themes:

• The evolution of the nation-state in global and transnational perspective
• Fundamental discontinuities in social, political and everyday life
• The changing balance between Italy and the wider world

The course will be divided into 3 parts. The first part will focus on the political transformation in Italy during the early XX century until the First World War. The second part will analyse the interwar period and the Fascist political system during the Twenties and Thirties. The last part of the course will concentrate on the Second post-war period, with particular attention on the Cold War.

Skills outcomes:

Teaches Common Skills listed below:

- High-level skills in oral and written communication of complex ideas.
- Independence of mind and self-discipline and self-direction to work effectively under own initiative.
- Ability to locate, handle and synthesize large amounts of information.
- Empathy and active engagement with alternative cultural contexts.

Mandatory Textbook: Jonathan Dunnage, Twentieth Century Italy. A Social History (London, 2002)

Students will have to choose one book among the followings and to discuss it at the oral examination (two books for non-attending students):

Philip Cooke, The legacy of the Italian resistance (New York 2011)
Christopher Duggan, Fascist voices. An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Oxford, 2013)
Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy (Cambridge, 2010)
John Foot, Italy’s Divided Memory (New York, 2009)
Emilio Gentile, The sacralization of politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, 1996)
Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy. Society and Politics, 1943 – 1980 (London 1990)
Salvatore Lupo, History of the Mafia (New York 2009)
Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance (New York, 2014)
Roberta Pegher, Mussolini's Nation-Empire. Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambridge, 2017)

CCourse program:
- The concept of Slavic-ecclesiastic literature.
- Hagiography: genres and macrogenres (collections of texts). Analysis of some hagiographic texts.
- Palaeoslavic hymnography. The hymnographic collections.
- Applied rhetoric: genres, collections. Analysis of some paleoslav sermons.
- Apocrypha.

Measures for foreign students
Erasmus students or other grant holders are kindly requested to contact the teacher. Lessons are held in Italian, the exam can also be taken in Russian.

Naumow A., Idea – immagine – testo. Studi sulla letteratura slavo-ecclesiastica, Ed. dell’Orso, Torino 2004 (capitoli scelti); Stantchev K., Questioni di terminologia, problemi di metodo, in: «Gli studi slavistici in Italia oggi. Atti del IV Congresso ltaliano di Slavistica», a cura di R. De Giorgi, S. Garzonio, G. Ziffer, Udine 2007; Stantchev K., Agiografia e agiologia nella tradizione slavo-ortodossa, in: «Santità, culti, agiografia. Temi e prospettive. Atti del I Convegno di studio dell’Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia, Roma 24-26 ottobre 1996», a cura di Sofia Boesh Gajano, Viella ed., Roma 1997, 27-50; Stantchev K., La poesia liturgica, in: «Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. 3. Le culture circostanti», vol. III: Le culture slave. A cura di Mario Capaldo. Salerno Editrice, Roma 2006, 439-473; Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1), II ed. Firenze University Press, 2007 (Manuali umanistica, 8), Introduzione (pp. 3-76) –

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, Wod 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.