Ateneo - UPO

The integrated course consists of two teaching units
that, in their respective seminars, are intended to
enable students to begin studies and research in
Applied Linguistics and Romance Philology;
specifically:

Teaching unit Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:

Language, orality and writing: the voice as an instrument of knowledge.

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

«Go to Hell!» Transmission and edition of a text in a romance language about an infernal journey

Teaching Unit Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:

1) F. Albano Leoni, Voce. Il corpo del linguaggio, Roma, Carocci, 2022 (ALL);
2) D. Crepaldi, Neuropsicologia della lettura, Roma, Carocci, 2020 (ALL);
3) A. De Dominicis (ed.), La voce come fenomeno culturale, Roma, Carocci, 2002 (caps. 1 to 8, pp.7-157).
For non-attending students add:
4) C. Severi, Il percorso e la voce. Un’antropologia della memoria, Torino, Einaudi, 2004 (part.: cap. III, pp. 185-239).
Those who did not take the examination of
General Linguistics A or Fundamentals of Linguistics must add to the programme:
5) R. SIMONE,Nuovi fondamenti di linguistica. Edizione riveduta e corretta, Milano, McGraw-Hill, 2016 (ALL).
1) F. Albano Leoni, Voce. Il corpo del linguaggio, Roma, Carocci, 2022 (TUTTO);

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

For attending students, the specific bibliography will be provided in class, following students' interests. Some titles for further study are:
- L.D. Reynolds - N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars. A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, Oxford 2013
- Le livre au Moyen Âge, sous la dir. de J. Glénisson, Paris, Presses du CNRS, 1988
- A. Varvaro, Critica dei testi classica e romanza. Problemi comuni ed esperienze diverse, in Id., Identità linguistiche e letterarie nell'Europa romanza, Roma, Salerno, 2004.
- L. Leonardi, Filologia romanza. 1. Critica del testo, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2021
- S. Lefèvre, La magie du codex. Corps, folio, page, pli, cœur, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2023 (in press)

Non-attending students will choose a program with the teacher.

The integrated course consists of two teaching units
that aim to have the student learn and use
advanced notions of Applied Linguistics and
Romance philology. Given the monographic, seminar and advanced nature of both courses, attendance is
highly recommended.

In particular:

Teaching unit - Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:

The first objective of the course is to provide the student with the main linguistic, sociolinguistic and ethnopragmatic notions necessary to correctly analyze language in all its diaphasic and diamesic aspects (orality, aurality, literacy, etc.), both in the examples provided in class than during the final check. A second, more advanced objective is to enable the student to apply the metalanguage and independently develop the concepts and methodologies learned for linguistic reasoning on theoretical and empirical data connected to the performative component of languages and to the cultural and mythical-ritual aspects of the voice. A third objective is to prepare students for the teaching of applied linguistics.

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

Knowledge:
- basic knowledge of the mechanisms of text transmission in the Western Middle Ages;
- knowledge of the philologist's working methods;
- basic knowledge of the main moments and articulations of medieval literary history.
Skills:
- ability to read a medieval text in a romance language on its manuscript support;
- ability to independently face and critically analyze a philological problem;
- ability with the bibliography.
Transversal skills:
- refinement of the skills of exposition of the topics covered in class and studied independently;
- refinement of the analysis skills of a novel text;
- refinement of critical skills in front of a written text.

Teaching unit - Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:

Anyone who has not taken the three-year exam of
A General Linguistics or Fundamentals of Linguistics is required to
add to the program R. SIMONE, New foundations of linguistics.
Revised and corrected edition, Milan, McGraw-Hill, 2016 (ALL); such
text will form the initial part of the exam, which will last in this case
45-60 minutes. This program is valid until the exam session of
February 2025, after which everyone is required to ask the teacher for a
new updated program.

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

Basic knowledge in philology and linguistics expected after a BA in "Lettere".

Frontal lectures and seminar activities, with active
student participation, are planned for both courses.

Teaching unit - Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:

Lectures and online teaching (DIR); the material in DIR is, however, only and exclusively an aid and does NOT in any way replace the texts indicated in the programme bibliography. During the lessons, the active involvement of students through analysis and commentary of
linguistic and ethnological data, even with short term papers and reports, in order to
develop the ability to analyze material diachronic and synchronic, the assimilation of teaching methodologies
of applied linguistics and specific communication skills.

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

Lectures, seminar discussion, individual study.

Anyone wishing to take the integrated exam as a single or external course will necessarily have to agree a personal program with both teachers.

For both courses there is an oral exam; the exam
will be passed when the grade is equal to or greater
than 18/30. The final evaluation of the integrated
exam will take into account the marks obtained in
the single tests of the two teaching units of which it
is composed and the evaluation of the overall
degree of in-depth knowledge, autonomy in their
application and communication skills, as specified
by the training objectives and expected learning
outcomes.
In particular:

Teaching unit - Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:

Oral examination lasting approximately 30-40 minutes (45-60 for those who have never taken a linguistics examination before). The examination will be passed when the grade is 18/30 or higher. During the examination it is possible to withdraw and at the end of the examination to reject the grade if positive; the grade accepted on the spot can no longer be changed. The formulation of the overall grade will be based on the assessment of the appropriate use of the specific metalanguage and the accuracy and appropriateness of the answers to the questions on the texts indicated in the syllabus and in class. Honours will be awarded on the basis of an assessment of in-depth and independent elaboration skills. In accordance with Art. 35 of the University Teaching Regulations, students may sit for the same examination no more than three times in one academic year.

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

Learning will be verified in progress and with a final exam. The evaluation will be based on the following points:
1. Students are required to actively participate during the seminar discussion;
2. Students will be asked to write down a specimen edition of an unpublished medieval text, which will be presented and discussed in class;
3. Students are required to study a book, chosen with the teacher;
4. Students are required to provide a review (ca 2 pages) on a book or a group of articles;
5. The oral interview (exam) will conclude the evaluation process with the presentation by the candidate of the work done.
Point 1.: 10% of the final evaluation. Point 2.: 30%. Point 3.: 20%. Point 4.: 20%. Point 5. 20%.
Honors will be awarded on the basis of the acuteness of the written work and the oral interview.

Teaching unit - Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:

The course will focus on the analysis of the main characteristics of the voice as an intrinsic and indissoluble element of language and its co-evolution, both from a pragma-linguistic, socio-cultural and historical-cognitive point of view. After having identified the animal and human origins and the basic functions related to the use of the phonic-acoustic apparatus and its biological evolution, the voice will face perception and classification, its use as a work tool and as a cultural asset, and the relationships between voice and historical-natural languages, between voice and writing, between voice and neurolinguistics of reading (graphematics of languages and history of alphabets, reading aloud, dyslexia, etc.). Finally, the examination of the ethnolinguistic characteristics of the ritual voice will highlight some metalinguistic and cognitive peculiarities of the voice that is embodied in a traditional cantor, linking them to the development of consciousness and self-awareness, to the voices within

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

The course is divided into two parts: in the first one the teacher will provide a general framework, and will show the tools for an independent study of an unpublished text written in a medieval romance language; in the second part (seminar) students will work directly on a medieval text, and they will present the results of their work at the end of the course.

Topics of the first part:
- Writing in the Middle Ages: who? how? when? where? why and for whom?
- Types of books in the Middle Ages: describing a complex object.
- Reading and transcribing a medieval text (exercises).
- Palaeography, codicology and philology.
- Problems in the transmission of a text in the Middle Ages: concepts and vocabulary of philology.
- History of books, history of texts.

In the second part of the course the class will deal with the edition of a medieval text. Students will be guided in the reading of the text, in the transcription, in the study of the language, in order to produce a specimen edition of the text itself.

The integrated course consists of two didactic units
that aim to make the student understand and learn
advanced notions of general and applied linguistics
and Romance philology, notions both theoretical
and practical that will be applied, in synchrony and
in diachrony, to concrete case studies, also in
foreign languages, in which one will have to prove,
at the advanced level, to be able to critically and
autonomously use what has been learned.
Specifically, the expected learning outcomes are as
follows:

Teaching unit - Applied Linguistics A 2nd level:
The pre-established objective is the achievement of a level of competence such as to profitably allow the conclusion of the course of study and subsequent work applications wherever in-depth and advanced knowledge of general and applied linguistics are required.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: knowing how to illustrate the theoretical bases of linguistic and ethnopragmatic analysis presented in the course with the appropriate specific metalanguage; knowing how to understand the linguistic differences between the different types of performative agency and texts produced in the utterance. • ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Knowing how to set up the linguistic analysis of texts, even those that have never been analyzed before; identify, explain and evaluate at least three of their main pragmatic, diamesic and diaphasic characteristics (context characteristics and their textual impact, type of linguistic register chosen, focusing mechanisms, discursive signals, interruptions, overlaps, dialogic repetitions, evaluate the degree of involvement , of symmetry or dissymmetry between the interlocutors, self-referentiality and identity of those who take turns, etc.); provide examples of at least two of the types of written and oral texts addressed during the course. • MAKING JUDGMENTS: Knowing how to recognize which are the main linguistic phenomena that operate in the proposed examples and appropriately propose their own. • COMMUNICATION SKILLS: knowing how to express one's knowledge using the specific metalinguistic terminology with awareness. • LEARNING SKILLS: knowing how to deepen the topics presented and develop a capacity for critical analysis with respect to the theoretical references presented during the course and their concrete application.

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:

Students are expected to:
- (at a basic level) expose the knowledge and skills acquired during the course and demonstrate mastering vocabulary and methods of Romance philology;
- (at an advanced level) deal independently with a medieval text, using methods and bibliographical tools of Romance philology