Ateneo - UPO

The integrated course consists of two teaching units
that, in their respective advanced 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:
"Mission impossible" A French Knight in the East.

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 (a cura di), La voce come fenomeno culturale, Roma,
Carocci, 2002, n. ed. 2023 (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).
Non-attending students must in any case agree on the program with the teacher. Those who have not attended at least 60% of the lectures will be considered non-attenders.

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology:
For attending students, the specific bibliography will be provided in class, following students' interests.
Some titles about the subject of the seminar are:
Huon de Bordeaux, éd. par P. Ruelle, Bruxelles-Paris, PUB-PUF, 1960
Huon de Bordeaux, publ. W.W. Kibler et F. Suard, Paris, Champion, 2003
D.D.R. Owen, «The principal source of Huon de Bordeaux», French Studies, 7/2, 1953, pp. 129-139
M. Rossi, Huon de Bordeaux et l’évolution du genre épique au XIIIe siècle, Paris, Champion, 1975
Alessandro Vitale-Brovarone, «Una nuova redazione di Huon de Bordeaux», Pluteus, 1, 1983, pp. 85-128
Some titles about textual transmission in the Middle Ages 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
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 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:

Those who have never taken a linguistics examination during their previous university career are required to take this course/program with General Linguistics A (LSM). 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:

Frontal lessons and online teaching (DIR); the material in DIR
however, constitutes only and exclusively an aid and does NOT replace in any way
the texts indicated in the program bibliography.
During the lessons, the active involvement of the students is expected through the examination, analysis and commentary of
linguistic and ethnological data, also with short essays and compulsory reports assigned by the teacher, in order to
develop the ability to analyze diachronic and synchronic
material, the assimilation of teaching methodologies
of applied linguistics and specific communication skills.

Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special
Education Needs can request
specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento
Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse
e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage:
https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/servicesstudentsphysical-
or-learning-disabilities. Students with disabilities,
learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted
the University Staff, must refer to the tutor in charge of the course to
define the modalities of examination
at least 15 days before; some of these must be approved by docent.

For both courses there is an oral exam; the exam
will be passed when the grade is equal to or greater
than 18/30. During the exam it is
possible to withdraw and at the end of the exam reject the grade if positive; the grade will be
accepted sitting
standing is no longer modifiable. According to Art. 35 of the Athenaeum Didactic Reg., the
student may appear for the same examination no more than three times in an
academic year. 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 not
never taken a linguistics exam before). The formulation of the grade
overall will be based on the evaluation of the appropriate use of the
specific metalanguage (33%) , the accuracy and
the appropriateness of the answers to the
questions on the texts given in the syllabus (33%), on the activities carried out (including reports and tsine) during the lectures ((34%). Honors will be
awarded on the basis of an evaluation of the ability to
in-depth study and
autonomous elaboration of the written work and the oral exam.

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
coevolution,
both from a pragma-linguistic, socio-cultural and historicalcognitive
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
selfawareness, to the voices within.
Students will present in class, during a collective discussion, the result of the papers assigned to them by the teacher .

Teaching Unit Advanced Romance Philology

During the seminar (2024-2025) we will deal with an interpretive edition of chanson de geste ‘Huon de Bordeaux’, transmitted by Turin MS, BNU, L.II.14. At the crossroads of different literary traditions (epic, fable, romance), the text tells of the impossible mission entrusted by Charlemagne to Hugh: to go to the king of Babylon and recover four teeth without the latter noticing.
The course is divided into two parts: in the first part, the lecturer will provide a theoretical framework of the problems that will be addressed, and equip students with the tools for independent study of an unpublished medieval novel text; the second part, a seminar, will see students working directly on a medieval novel text, to present, at the end of the course, the results of their work.
The following topics will be covered in the first part of the course:
- The chanson de geste: meter, language and style
- The subject matter of the Huon de Bordeaux
- The manuscript tradition of a medieval french text
- From text to cycle
- A particular witness: Turin, BNU, L.II.14
- Paleography, codicology and philology: tools
In the second part of the course, the class will tackle the edition of redaction T of the Huon de Bordeaux. Students will be guided through the reading of the text, transcription, and study of the language, leading to each producing an edition specimen of the text itself with glossary.

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