Sociolinguistics of contemporary Italian

Teacher(s)

Maeder Costantino;

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.
 

Content

Sociolinguistic panorama of contemporary Italian
- Diachronic, diatopic, diastratic, diaphasic, diamesic variations;
- Italian standard and neostandard;
- Regional Italians, regional koinés, dialects;
- Usual, popular, neglected Italians;
- Code switching and code mixing;
- Sectorial Italian;
- The contribution of immigration.

Teaching methods

Presentations on the sociolinguistic panorama of contemporary Italien. These presentations are complemented by analyses of documents according to an interactive methodology.

Evaluation methods

Assessment : a written assignment and an oral examination.

Other information

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Online resources

Resources are available on the course's Moodle site.

Bibliography

La liste bibliographique est disponible sur le site Moodle du cours.
A bibliographical list is available on the course website.

Teaching materials

• Les supports de cours se trouvent sur le site Moodle du cours.
• The course materials can be found on the course's Moodle site.

Faculty or entity

ELAL