6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4020117FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Italian
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
Linguistics and Literary Studies
Educational team
Stefano De Pascale (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
13 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
156 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

The main objective of this course is to familiarize students with the variety of genres in which contemporary Italian manifests itself and how register and genre variation correlate with structural aspects of the language. To this end, we take as our starting point the theoretical and methodological framework of corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics (Cresti & Panunzi 2013; Cresti & Moneglia 2016).Students will explore sample texts and datasets using qualitative and quantitative analysis. The qualitative component will focus on identifying different lexical, syntactic or pragmatic case studies that characterize each register, genre and text type. In the quantitative component, students will have to operationalize the previously identified phenomena in order to examine those on a larger scale in Italian corpora and datasets. Students will also learn the basic notions of Excel, AntConC and CQL for data processing.

L'obiettivo principale di questo corso è quello di familiarizzarsi con la varietà di generi in cui si manifesta l'italiano contemporaneo e di studiare come le variazioni di registro e di genere correlano con gli aspetti strutturali della lingua. Il nostro punto di partenza è il quadro teorico e metodologico della linguistica dei corpora e della sociolinguistica (Cresti & Panunzi 2013; Cresti & Moneglia 2016). Gli studenti andranno ad esplorare testi esemplari e banche dati attraverso un'analisi sia qualitativa che quantitativa. La parte qualitativa si concentrerà sull'identificazione di diversi fenomeni lessicali, sintattici o pragmatici dell'italiano, che gli studenti dovranno a loro volta ‘operazionalizzare’  nella parte quantitativa per indagare su scala più ampia in corpora e dataset italiani. Gli studenti impareranno anche le nozioni di base di Excel, AntConC e il linguaggio di interrogazione CQL per l'elaborazione dei dati.

Course material
Handbook (Recommended) : Essere #matteorenzi, C. Giunta, Il Mulino, Bologna, 9788815257291, 2013
Handbook (Recommended) : Parole al potere, Discorsi politici italiani, G. PedullĂ , Rizzoli, Milano, 9788817025201, 2015
Handbook (Recommended) : L'italiano al voto, R. Vetrugno, C. De Santis, C. Panzeri e F. Della Corte (a cura di), Accademia della Crusca, Firenze, 9788889369128, 2017
Handbook (Recommended) : Politolinguistica, L'analisi del discorso politico, L. Cedroni, Prefazione di T. de Mauro, Carocci, Roma, 9788843073979, 2017
Handbook (Recommended) : Linguistica italiana, M. Palermo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 9788815284891, 2020
Additional info

This course is taught in Italian.

La lingua d'insegnamento di questo corso è l'italiano. 

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The student learns to motivate the building blocks of empirical and, more specifically, corpus linguistic research and to operationalize them into a concrete study. At the end of the course, each student presents the research hypotheses and/or preliminary results of his a personal paper during a seminar.

Lo studente impara a motivare e mettere in pratica gli elementi costitutivi di una ricerca linguistica empirica e più specificamente basata su corpora. Alla fine del corso è previsto un seminario in cui ogni studente presenterà le ipotesi di ricerca e/o i risultati preliminari del proprio lavoro su un tema concordato.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Written Exam determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • examen mondeling with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • persoonlijk werkstuk with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written part of the examination (80%): paper that elaborates on a corpus linguistic issue.

Oral part of the examination (20%): presentation of preliminary research questions and results  of the case study, at the end of the semester

La parte scritta dell'esame (80%) prevede la redazione di un saggio con un analisi empirica/corpus-based di un fenomeno linguistico.

La parte orale dell'esame (20%) prevede una presentazione in classe, alla fine del semestre, dei risultati preliminari della propria analisi. 

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Intermediality - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Intermediality - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Intermediality - 1 language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Intermediality - 2 languages
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Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies 2 Languages Double Degree
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Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics 2 Languages Double Degree
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Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Psycho- and Neurolinguistics 2 Languages Double Degree
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Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Multilingualism & Foreign Language Acquisition 2 Languages Double Degree
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Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Intermediality 2 Languages Double Degree