30972 - Spanish Language and Linguistics 1 (A-F)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will possess a fundamental knowledge of the metalanguage and different aspects of a descriptive-analytical model of the Spanish language. He/She will be competent in all the communicative abilities according to the level B1 of the parameters fixed by the Council of Europe.

Course contents

LINGUISTICS (semestrale course)

 First module: Principles of Spanish phonology and phonetics

1. Phonetics and Phonology. Sounds. Archiphonemes. Phonemes. Allophones.
2. Characteristics of the articulation of sounds in Spanish.
3. Phonetic International Alphabet and Alphabet of the Review of Spanish Philology.
4. Vowels. Diphthong and Triphthong. Hiatus.
5. Accentuation. Intonation. Phonic groups. Groups of the intonation. Melodic curve. Tonemes. Functions of the intonation.
6. Syllabi.  

 Second module: Spanish Morphology

1. Concept and limits of morphology.
2. The morphologic component: unity, representation and models of organization.
3. The Spanish lexicon. Constitutive elements of the lexicon, the vulgarim and the neologism.
4. The constitution of words. Morphologic processes: flexion, origin or derivation – prefix, suffix and infix – and the composition.
5. Structure of the complex word. Morphologic analysis: segmentation and classification of morphemes. The allomorphs.
6. Relationship between morphology and phonology. Relationship between morphology and syntax.
7. Verbal paradigm. Morphology of the verb in Spanish.

PRACTICES ON SPANISH LANGUAGE (Annual course)
Dott.ssa Ana Carvalho e Dott.ssa Marina Partesotti

The students will be divided into four groups, depending on the surname's first letter. The distribution will be communicated at the begining of the lessons.

-  The main objective of this course is to encourage the recognition, the understanding and the application of functions and communicative structures by means of the acquisition of the four basic abilities: writing/reading comprehension/production.

-  The continuous attention on the language as an assembly of linguistic acts with different functions and purposes will be concretely exercised by means of texts comprehension and production (dialogues, readings, abstracts, etc.) both on written and oral form.

-  The language reflection, specially regarding the phonetics, the orthography and the morphosyntactic structures of the second language (also in contrast with those of the first language) will help the student to refine the linguistic observation and to develop the logic abilities both inductive and deductive.

-  Moreover the objective of this course is to offer the necessary instruments for a first direct comparison between the own culture and other cultures, also by means of the lexicon and phraseology study.

Readings/Bibliography

LINGUISTICS

Bibliografia d'esame

• Quilis, Antonio (1998), Principios de fonología y fonética españolas, Madrid, Arco/Libros, 7-91.

• Varela Ortega, Soledad (2005), Morfología léxica: la formación de palabras, Madrid, Gredos, 7-101.

• DOSSIER

- Álvarez Martínez, Ma. Ángeles (2000), “Vulgarismos y neologismos” in Introducción a la lingüística española, a cura di Manuel Alvar, Barcelona, Ariel, 533-545.

- Gutiérrez Araus, María Luz (2000), “El paradigma verbal” in Introducción a la lingüística española, a cura di Manuel Alvar, Barcelona, Ariel, 213-233.

- Hernández Alonso, César (2000), “Morfología del verbo. La auxiliaridad” in Introducción a la lingüística española, a cura di Manuel Alvar, Barcelona, Ariel, 195-211.

- Martín García, Josefa (2008), “Neologismo y teoría morfológica: métodos de análisis” in Neologismo y morfología, Murcia, Edit.um.

 

Bibliografia di consultazione

• Alcaraz Varó, E. y Martínez Linares, María A. (2004), Diccionario de  lingüística moderna, Barcelona, Ariel.

• Almela, Ramón (1999), Procedimientos de formación de palabras en español, Barcelona, Ariel.

• AA. VV. (2011), Invitación a la lingüística, Madrid, Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces, UNED.

• Cantero, Francisco José (2002), Teoría y análisis de la entonación, Barcelona, Edicions Universitat de Barcelona.            

• Gil Fernández, Juana (a cura di) (2000), Panorama de la fonología española actual, Madrid, Arco/Libros.

• Martínez Celdrán, Eugenio e Fernández Planas, Ana M. (2007), Manual de fonética española. Barcelona, Ariel.

• Quilis, Antonio (1999, 2a ed.), Tratado de fonología y fonética españolas, Madrid, Gredos.

• Real Academia Española e Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2010), Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Manual, Madrid, Espasa Libros, S. L.

 

PRACTICES ON SPANISH LANGUAGE

The compulsory manuals and the other texts adopted on this course will be communicate at the beginning of the lessons.

Teaching methods

PRACTICES ON SPANISH LANGUAGE (Annual course)

-  Continuous exercise of the four abilities development;

-  implementation of activities in order to consolidate a correct phonologic system;

-  implementation of activities in order to consolidate a correct orthography;

-  reflection on language's morphosyntactic and semantic aspects;

-  language use on simulations near to the student's reality;

-  speaking/writing exercises and verifications;

-  error correction, error analysis and analysis of the efficiency of the study's method.

Assessment methods

LINGUISTICS

Oral exam in Spanish about the contents of the course and phonologic/phonetic and morphological analysis of some structures. The student shall succeed a previous written exam (Practices on Spanish Language) in order to access the oral exam of Spanish Linguage and Linguistics 1.

 

PRACTICES ON SPANISH LANGUAGE

Writing examination

This course's final evaluation will be made by means of a written exam that should be passed in order to be admitted to the oral exam (only the students with a positive result of 18/30 will be allowed to do the oral exam). In addition to the programme contents, the student should study the socio-cultural contents and others materials. The use of any type of dictionaries will be forbidden.

Oral examination

The student should demonstrate his/her assimilation of the functional, morphosyntactic and semantic contents presented during the course and the acquisition of the basic abilities.

All the students (first, second and third language) should know, in addition to the compulsory manuals, the supporting texts that will be presented at the beginning of the course by the assistant.

At the beginning of the lessons the assistants will indicate where the student can find the materials and the detailed programme with the specific topics of the course.

Teaching tools

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