Elementary notions of linguistics, such as phonemes, morphemes, phrases, lexemes, the understanding of the distinctions among the various levels of analysis, the ability to recogniza linguistic phenomena in actual utterances, IPA transcription, etc.
Canali
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- The rise of linguistics. Historical linguistics. General linguistics.
- Semiotic foundations of language. Design features.
- Using the language device: the theory of Speech Acts, the theory of implicatures. Persuading: the need to know how the device is shaped. Intonation and politeness. Sociolinguistic choices.
Linguistic and present-day comunication: linguistic strategies of persuasive communication. The grammar of persuasion.
Linguistics and society: rights, linguistic deprivation, variational linguistics.
- Linguistics and the languages of the world.
- Phonetics; phonetic transcription. Italian and English phonetics.
- Phonology. Phonemes and allophones. Phonological oppositions. Phonological rules. The syllable. Suprasegmental features. Intonation, illocution and Information Structure.
- The lexicon. The Word. Word classes.
- Morphology. Morphemes and allomorphs. Types of morphemes and morphological typology. Inflexion. Word formation: derivation and composition.
- Syntax. Structure. Head and modifier. Basic word order. Argument structure. The ergative parameter.
- Semantics. What is meaning. Types of meanings. Ordering schemes for meanings. The delimitation of meanings: traditional categories and prototypes.
- Pragmatics. Macropragmatics: speech acts and conversational implicatures. Micropragmatics: Information Structure of the utterance.
- Interfaces between levels. The phonology-morphology interface: the loss of inflections, metaphony. The morphology-syntax interface: inflection and word order. The syntax-pragmatics interface: marked constructions and informational stress.
- Linguistics, knowledge and culture.
- Linguistics, man and the brain: what are we? Linguistic universals. Implicational universals. Explaining language universals. An example: two kinds of memory, and the "magical nunber seven".
- Diachronical linguistics and the past: history, archaeology, philology. Language change. Phonetic change. Morphological change. Semantic change. The "laws" of linguistic change. Words and Things: linguistic reconstruction and cultural reconstruction. The interpretation of texts.
Programme
- Linguistics, as a science of language and thought.- The rise of linguistics. Historical linguistics. General linguistics.
- Semiotic foundations of language. Design features.
- Using the language device: the theory of Speech Acts, the theory of implicatures. Persuading: the need to know how the device is shaped. Intonation and politeness. Sociolinguistic choices.
Linguistic and present-day comunication: linguistic strategies of persuasive communication. The grammar of persuasion.
Linguistics and society: rights, linguistic deprivation, variational linguistics.
- Linguistics and the languages of the world.
- Phonetics; phonetic transcription. Italian and English phonetics.
- Phonology. Phonemes and allophones. Phonological oppositions. Phonological rules. The syllable. Suprasegmental features. Intonation, illocution and Information Structure.
- The lexicon. The Word. Word classes.
- Morphology. Morphemes and allomorphs. Types of morphemes and morphological typology. Inflexion. Word formation: derivation and composition.
- Syntax. Structure. Head and modifier. Basic word order. Argument structure. The ergative parameter.
- Semantics. What is meaning. Types of meanings. Ordering schemes for meanings. The delimitation of meanings: traditional categories and prototypes.
- Pragmatics. Macropragmatics: speech acts and conversational implicatures. Micropragmatics: Information Structure of the utterance.
- Interfaces between levels. The phonology-morphology interface: the loss of inflections, metaphony. The morphology-syntax interface: inflection and word order. The syntax-pragmatics interface: marked constructions and informational stress.
- Linguistics, knowledge and culture.
- Linguistics, man and the brain: what are we? Linguistic universals. Implicational universals. Explaining language universals. An example: two kinds of memory, and the "magical nunber seven".
- Diachronical linguistics and the past: history, archaeology, philology. Language change. Phonetic change. Morphological change. Semantic change. The "laws" of linguistic change. Words and Things: linguistic reconstruction and cultural reconstruction. The interpretation of texts.
Core Documentation
- E. Lombardi Vallauri, La linguistica in pratica. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.Type of delivery of the course
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