20710308 - ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 2 LM

Refinement of:
a) knowledge and understanding of the main features of the foreign language;
b) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes and intentions;
c) ability to apply acquired knowledge to texts used in selected professional contexts.
Analysis and translation of short texts from a variety of genres and specialised domains.
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Programme

The course will address issues about Arabic onomastics and toponomastics: structure of person and place names, transcriptions, methodologies of identification

Core Documentation

Al-Onaizan, Yaser, e Kevin Knight. «Machine Transliteration of Names in Arabic Text», 1–13. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002.

Caetani, Leone, e Giuseppe Gabrieli. «1: Fonti, introduzione». Onomasticon Arabicum, ossia Repertorio alfabetico dei nomi di persona e di luogo contenuti nelle principali opere storiche, biografiche e geografiche, stampate e manoscritte, relative all’Islām, 1915.

Kay, Brant N, e Brian C Rineer. «Approaches to Arabic Name Transliteration and Matching in the DataFlux Quality Knowledge Base». a cura di Ali Farghaly e Farhard
Oroumchian, 6. San Diego, CA: AMTA, 2012.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Islamic names. Islamic surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.

Sublet, Jacqueline. Le voile du nom: essai sur le nom propre arabe. 1re éd. Ecriture. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1991

Type of delivery of the course

The course will be performed through class activities integrated by activities of text reading and homework. Students will also follow exercitations held by native language experts

Attendance

Frequency, although not compulsory, is strongly recommended in order to achieve a better understanding of issues and subject matters addressed in the course

Type of evaluation

Students will pass a preliminary written test and an oral test