Sociolinguistics of contemporary Italian

lroge2853  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Sociolinguistics of contemporary Italian
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
15.0 h
Q2

  This biannual learning unit is not being organized in 2019-2020 !

Teacher(s)
Lucchini Silvia;
Language
Italian
Main themes
The objective of the course is to present a profile of the sociolinguistic situation in today's Italy. The main theoretical notions relevant to linguistics and sociolinguistics (language, norms, standard and neostandard, language use and users, dialects, the different types of linguistic variations,  and so on) will be discussed.
The main aim is to illustrate the characteristics of standard Italian, its regional variations and today's dialects by considering their use by speakers in different communicative situations.
 
Faculty or entity
LMOD


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Modern Languages and Literatures : General