The Course “Philology 1” falls within the domain of the Basic learning activities labelled “Philology, General and Applied Linguistics” of the Degree Course in Languages and Cultural-Linguistic Mediation, specifically the activities aiming at providing adequate tools for the analysis of texts in the light of their transmission and cultural context.
The course aims to provide a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. The course aims furthermore to provide an understanding of the principles of textual criticism.
Expected Learning Outcomes: the student will acquire a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. S/he will become familiar and understand the principles of textual criticism underlying a critical edition.
The course aims to provide a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. The course aims furthermore to provide an understanding of the principles of textual criticism.
Expected Learning Outcomes: the student will acquire a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas. S/he will become familiar and understand the principles of textual criticism underlying a critical edition.
teacher profile teaching materials
- Germanic culture: social structure, law, religion, poetry
- Phonological and morphological development from Indo-European to Common Germanic.
- Phonological and morphological development from Common Germanic to Old English.
- Linguistic analysis of Old English texts within their historical and cultural background
Using Old English as model for the purposes of illustration, its phonological, morphological and lexical aspects will be analysed and explained in order to facilitate the reconstruction of the Germanic language family.
N. Francovich, La filologia germanica, Carocci, Roma 2002
S. Leonardi – E. Morlicchio, La filologia germanica e le lingue moderne, il Mulino, Bologna 2009
M.G. Saibene – M. Buzzoni, Manuale di Linguistica germanica, Cisalpino, Milano 2006
One of the following texts:
Il Canzoniere eddico, a cura di P. Scardigli, Garzanti, Milano 2004;
I Nibelunghi, a cura di L. Mancinelli, Einaudi, Torino 1972;
Beowulf, a cura di L. Koch, Einaudi, Torino 1992
One of the following texts:
G. Mazzuoli Porru, Manuale di inglese antico, Giardini, Pisa 1992
R. Quirk – C. L. Wrenn, An Old English Grammar, Methuen, London 1973
Mutuazione: 20703280 FILOLOGIA GERMANICA 1 in Lingue e mediazione linguistico-culturale L-12 R CANALE 2 RIVIELLO CARLA
Programme
- Classifications of Old Germanic Languages.- Germanic culture: social structure, law, religion, poetry
- Phonological and morphological development from Indo-European to Common Germanic.
- Phonological and morphological development from Common Germanic to Old English.
- Linguistic analysis of Old English texts within their historical and cultural background
Using Old English as model for the purposes of illustration, its phonological, morphological and lexical aspects will be analysed and explained in order to facilitate the reconstruction of the Germanic language family.
Core Documentation
One of the following texts:N. Francovich, La filologia germanica, Carocci, Roma 2002
S. Leonardi – E. Morlicchio, La filologia germanica e le lingue moderne, il Mulino, Bologna 2009
M.G. Saibene – M. Buzzoni, Manuale di Linguistica germanica, Cisalpino, Milano 2006
One of the following texts:
Il Canzoniere eddico, a cura di P. Scardigli, Garzanti, Milano 2004;
I Nibelunghi, a cura di L. Mancinelli, Einaudi, Torino 1972;
Beowulf, a cura di L. Koch, Einaudi, Torino 1992
One of the following texts:
G. Mazzuoli Porru, Manuale di inglese antico, Giardini, Pisa 1992
R. Quirk – C. L. Wrenn, An Old English Grammar, Methuen, London 1973
Attendance
Students are invited to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the courseType of evaluation
The oral examination aims to test: (a) the knowledge of the content of the texts given in the syllabus and of the problems discussed during the semester; (b) the ability to critically rework the acquired knowledge and place the texts in their historical, cultural and linguistic context; (c) the expressive skills and the acquisition of the use of a specialized vocabulary; (d) the acquisition of the discipline's own methods of inquiry; (e) the results of individual investigations. Marks –from 18 to 30 cum laude – are classified as follows: 18-20: elementary knowledge of the topics included in the program and elementary argumentative and communicative skills; 21-23: satisfactory knowledge of the topics included in the program and satisfactory argumentative and communicative skills; 24-26: good knowledge of the topics included in the program and good argumentative and communicative skills; 27-29: very good knowledge of the topics included in the program and very good argumentative and communicative skills; 30 and 30 cum laude: excellent knowledge of the topics included in the program and excellent argumentative and communicative skills.