L0065 - GENERAL LINGUISTICS I

courses

ID:

L0065

Duration (hours):

42

CFU:

SSD:

GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 15/01/2026)

Course Objectives

This course is meant to provide students with a precise understanding of what a historical-natural language is and how it works. It also provides students with a precise understanding of the communicative functions related to different linguistic uses.
At the end of the course, the students will acquire the basic methodological tools for language study and will be able to analyse and describe languages at different levels of analysis.

Course Prerequisites

As this is an introductory course, it does not require any specific knowledge.

Teaching Methods

Taught classes together with practice drills aimed at theoretical in-depth analysis of the issues dealt with in class, and at their practical application.

This discipline is characterised by technical, specific contents that students coming from secondary schools are not familiar with, therefore attendance is strongly recommended.

Assessment Methods

Final oral test with at least four questions on different parts of the course. The oral test verifies: knowledge and understanding of the tools of linguistic analysis, using the linguistic terminology correctly; capacity of personal reflection on linguistic phenomena.

Students who regularly attended are allowed and given the opportunity to take two optional ongoing tests during the Course. They will be in the form of a written questionnaire made up of open questions with predefined response space and multiple-choice questions; the final score will result from the average of the scores got in the single tests. The students who have obtained a final score of at least 18/30 will be allowed, if they wish, to dispense with the oral test, by entering directly the mark resulting from the average of the written tests.

Texts

- Gaetano Berruto / Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, UTET, 2017.
- The slides used during the lectures will be available on the e-learning website.

It is highly recommended to read them - both for those who attend the class and for those who cannot attend.

Reference texts for students who cannot attend on a regular basis:

- Gaetano Berruto / Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, UTET, 2017.

- Giulio C. Lepschy, La linguistica del Novecento, Bologna, il Mulino, 1992.

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Fundamental features of human language and of language signs; language as a system of communication; illustration of the functioning of historical-natural languages according to the main levels of analysis (phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax) with their interconnections (morpho-phonology and morpho-syntax).

Course Language

Italian

More information

For any clarification related to the topics dealt with in class or to reference bibliography, please address the teacher during her reception time or contact her via mail.