Infopaket

Part 5. Lexicology of the Italian language

OK 01.05

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2024/2025

6 Semester

2

PLO 1. Communicate fluently on professional matters with specialists and non-specialists in the official and foreign languages, both orally and in writing, and use these skills to facilitate effective intercultural communication. PLO 10. Be familiar with the norms of the literary language and be able to apply them in practical activities. PLO 11. Be familiar with the principles, techniques and methods of creating oral and written texts of various genres and styles in the national and foreign languages. PLO 14. Use Romance languages and English in spoken and written form, across various genres, styles and registers of communication (formal, informal, neutral), to solve communicative tasks in the everyday, social, educational, professional and academic spheres of life. PLO 15. Carry out linguistic, literary and specialised philological analysis of texts of various styles and genres.

Full-time form

Before beginning this course, students must have successfully completed the required course “Introductory Italian language.” “Theoretical and Practical Phonetics of the Italian Language,” “Practical Course in Translation from Italian,” “Regional Studies of the Italian-Speaking Region,” “Introduction to Romance Philology”; and be familiar with the theoretical foundations of general linguistics. Students must be able to read and understand authentic texts, comprehend monologues and dialogues spoken by native speakers; engage in conversation on everyday and cultural topics, participate in discussions; logically and coherently express their thoughts orally and in writing; plan and evaluate their own work; use interactive and multimedia tools.

Course Objectives: – To provide students with knowledge of the lexical system of the Italian language and its evolution, to develop their linguistic expertise, taking into account their existing vocabulary as well as the conditions, motives, and goals of communication, and to establish a theoretical foundation for understanding approaches to the study of modern Italian vocabulary, taking into account the specifics of its evolution and existence in the form of national variants. The course “Lexicology of the Italian Language” is included in the list of required courses for full-time students and is taught in the fourth semester of the bachelor’s program in accordance with the curriculum of the educational and professional program “Italian Language and Translation, English Language, and a Second Romance Language.” It is taught for 2 credits, totaling 60 hours, of which 16 hours are lectures, 14 are practical sessions, and 30 hours are independent study. The course “Lexicology of the Italian Language” involves the systematic study of vocabulary and the analysis of the polysemy of the most commonly used Italian words by comparing them with their corresponding Ukrainian equivalents. Basic concepts of polysemy, antonymy, synonymy, homonymy, and phraseology are introduced; an understanding of the components and types of a word’s lexical meaning, as well as word-formation methods, is developed; issues regarding the causes and sources of loanwords in modern Italian are explored; the formation of national variants and dialects of the Italian language within the Italian-speaking world is examined; algorithms for analyzing literary and journalistic texts at the lexical-semantic level. Issues of Italian lexicography and types of dictionaries are also examined. The acquisition of language structure takes place in typical communicative contexts and the main types of speech activity (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and interaction).

1. Aprile, Gianluca. Italiano per modo di dire. Alma Edizioni, 2008. 111 p. 2. D’Achille, Paolo, L’italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010. 3. Dardano, Maurizio e Trifone, Pietro, Grammatica italiana con nozioni di linguistica, terza edizione, Zanichelli, 1995. 4. Marin T., Magnelli S. Nuovissimo Progetto Italiano 2. B1-B2. Libro dello studente + Quaderno. Edilingua, 2020. 210 p. 5. Medaglia, Cinzia; Medaglia, Filippo. Nuovo Spazio Civiltà. Loescher Editore, 2021. 176 p. 6. Petricca, Paolo, Semantica. Forme, modelli, problemi. Milano, LED, 2019. 7. Zordan, Rosetta, Datti una regola. Comunicazione, lessico, scrittura. Con espansione online. 2011 RCS Libri S.p.A. Milano.

The course consists of two modules. Forms of continuous assessment: oral responses, written homework assignments. Forms of module assessment: module test. Final assessment: takes the form of a comprehensive examination.

The final mark for the content module is calculated by adding the mark for ongoing performance to the mark for the module assessment: Written homework assignments + oral response + module assessment: (max. 30, min. 18). Students who have scored a total of fewer points across the two modules than the critical minimum of 36 points will not be permitted to sit the exam. For students who have not achieved the minimum threshold mark during the semester, a final semester assessment is conducted at the end of the semester, or essays and presentations on course topics are assessed. The maximum mark for additional forms of assessment may not exceed 40% of the maximum total marks for the semester – 24 marks. The final semester mark is composed of marks obtained by the student during the semester and marks obtained in the exam. The maximum weighting is distributed as follows: 60 marks (60%) – semester assessment and 40 marks (40%) – exam.

Italian