Programme

The course aims to develop non-native students’ linguistic skills, in order to take them toward an advanced level of proficiency. More complex morphological and syntactic aspects of the French sentence structure will be focused from a contrastive perspective. Students will improve their understanding and awareness of the language use, appealing to the logical relations used by native speakers. The analysis will move from a sentence-based grammar to the discourse level, through an introduction to different text types and to the notions of coherence and cohesion. A part of the course will be devoted to an approach to the theoretical and methodological problems concerning translation as a process of linguistic and cultural mediation.

Core Documentation

Grammatica della lingua francese, a cura di F. P. A. Madonia e A. Principato, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2011 : cap. 1 (Fonetica e fonologia), cap. 2 (Grafematica e ortografia), cap. 3 (L’articolo), cap. 4 (Il nome).

A. Principato, Breve storia della lingua francese, Roma, Carocci, 2000 (capp. 1, 2, 3).

Further reading material which will be available to members in Teams.

Type of delivery of the course

According to the guidelines of the Anti-Covid-19, the course will take place remotely through Microsoft Teams.

Type of evaluation

In the case of long-term anti-Covid measures, exams will take place remotely through Microsoft Teams.