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Scienze riabilitative delle professioni sanitarie

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Specialized rehabilitation
Module GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: IGNAZIA TIZIANA EMMI

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students:

1) the theoretical basis for a "scientific study" of languages and language, through reflection on the characteristics and properties of all historical-natural languages, linguistic variation and the main sociolinguistic and dialectological themes;

2) the theoretical basis of text linguistics, through reflection on the speaker's textual competence. Particular attention will be paid to the written drafting of scientific texts (reports, scientific articles, essays, etc.) that the student will be required to produce in the context of his profession.

Course Structure

Lectures and active learning, with the support of multimedia presentations.. 

Workshop about textual competence. 

Required Prerequisites

Learn to read and understand complex texts on different subjects; knowing and enhancing the Italian language awareness and accuracy in terms of spelling and morphology, complex syntax, precision and richness of the vocabulary, even specialized.

Attendance of Lessons

See Regolamento didattico of the degree course 2022/2023.

Detailed Course Content

  • Natural and human language and natural-historical languages. Sociolinguistics and dialectology.
  • The text. Textual references. The distribution of information in the text. Sentence, proposition and utterance. The conversation.
  • Scientific texts and professional writing (curriculum, report, scientific article etc.).

Textbook Information


  • Natural and human language and natural-historical languages. Sociolinguistics and dialectology.
  1. G. Graffi, S. Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica, Il Mulino, 2013 (terza ed.): cap. 1. Che cos'è il linguaggio (pp. 15-26), cap. 2. Che cos'è una lingua (pp. 27-51), cap. 9. Sociolinguistica e dialettologia (pp. 229-246).
  2. R. Piro, L'italiano della medicina, Carocci, 2022: cap. 1. Lingua e medicina (pp. 11-21).


  • The text. Scientific texts and professional writing (curriculum, report, scientific article etc.).
  1. C. Andorno, Linguistica testuale. Un'introduzione, Carocci, 2003, pp. 194.
  2. R. Piro, op. cit., par. 4.2. Aspetti testuali (pp. 89-96), cap. 5. Aspetti pragmatici e tipologie testuali della comunicazione specialistica (pp. 97-118).  
  3. E. Lombardi Vallauri, Per la redazione di testi scientifici, in Franca Orletti (a cura di), Scrittura e nuovi media, Carocci, 2004, pp. 19-41.

 

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The exam consists of an oral test. For the evaluation of the exam, the mastery of contents, the skills acquired and the argumentative ability demonstrated will be taken into account.
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