0000006 - Linguistic and history of italian language

courses

ID:

0000006

Duration (hours):

72

CFU:

SSD:

Italian Linguistics

Located in:

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"

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Course Details:

ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE FOR FOREIGNERS/Percorso comune Year: 1

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 16/01/2026)

Course Objectives

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

In line with the educational objectives for which the teaching is offered, the course wants to deepen the metalinguistic reflection on Italian also in a diachronic key and provide an overview of both the external and internal linguistic history of Italian, with a particular focus on literary Italian. At the end of the course and after passing the exam, the student will have to know how to move easily between texts, literary and otherwise, recognizing their typology, linguistic phenomena and historical framework; he must also be able to reuse the knowledge acquired both for teaching purposes and for research work.

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

The training program aims to offer students knowledge and resources to be able to navigate through the stages of Italian linguistic history, perform linguistic and stylistic analysis of texts, comment and recognize rhetorical strategies. During the assessment, students must be able to connect the events of the external linguistic history of Italian with the description of the internal linguistic evolution; they will have to be able to identify and comment on the syntactic, textual and lexical phenomena in texts from different periods, literary and otherwise, comparing their differences and distances with contemporary Italian and possibly with the foreign languages studied.

Course Prerequisites

Students who must deal with the lessons and study of the Linguistics and history of the Italian language program must be able to recognize and describe the main morphological, syntactic, textual and lexical phenomena of Italian and the essential features of Italian and European history. It’s necessary to have a basic preparation in Italian linguistics.

Teaching Methods

The course includes traditional lectures, supplemented by at least 20 hours of workshop and/or seminar activities designed to encourage student interaction and support content learning through the flipped classroom model. For attending students, periodic assessments are also planned to monitor and progressively reinforce the acquisition of the knowledge covered during lessons. The syllabus is the same for both attending and non-attending students, but the reading list will differ to allow those who cannot attend classes to independently recover the content presented during lectures.

Assessment Methods

Final Examination and Assessment Criteria

The final examination will consist exclusively of an oral test conducted in Italian. It will aim to assess:

the level of knowledge of the course content (for attending students) and of the reference bibliography (for all students);
the ability to apply the acquired knowledge to texts not directly analyzed during the course;
the command of specific technical terminology.

For attending students, in itinere assessments are planned in order to progressively monitor their understanding of the topics covered in class and to support their preparation for the final exam.

The final grade, expressed on a scale of 30, will follow this evaluation range:

Excellent: 30 with honors / 30
Very good: 29–27
Good: 26–23
Satisfactory: 22–18
Fail: below 18

The final mark will be determined based on a weighted average of the evaluations obtained, according to the following criteria:

coherence and clarity of presentation;
completeness and accuracy of the information provided;
correct use of specialized terminology;
ability to appropriately apply analytical procedures to texts.