HISPANIC-AMERICAN LANGUAGE 3

The teaching of Hispanic-American Language 2 (and 3) is one of the characterizing educational activities of the Degree Course in “Languages, Civilizations and Language Sciences”. The course is divided into a six-month theoretical module (II semester) and annual linguistic exercises.
The main purpose of the course is to develop and strengthen linguistic skills in Hispanic-American Language described by level B2 (C 1 for the III year) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Furthermore, the course aims to provide students with knowledge of the linguistic characteristics of Hispanic-American variants in a diachronic and synchronic perspective.

At the end of the course students will be able to:
- Know the Hispanic-American Language at the B2 level (C1 at the third year) of the CEFR;
- Know the main features of the Hispanic-American Language and be able to identify and describe them;
- Develop judgment skills in relation with the course contents;
- Develop skills in individual processing, classroom interaction and independent comprehension of academic articles.

Possess a B1 level (II year) and B2 level (III year) of Hispanic-American or Spanish language.

Module (II semester):
- Varieties of Spanish in Hispanic America
- Study of the linguistic borrowings
- Lexicon
- study of the different types of "argot"
- Phenomena of contact with indigenous languages
- Detailed study of some variants

Practices (full year):
Grammatical, phonetic-graphic, lexical, textual content and functional exponents of the Hispanic-American language (CEFR level B2 and C1).

Module:
Annecchiarico, Sabatino Alfonso (2012). Cocoliche e Lunfardo: l'italiano degli argentini. Storia e lessico di una migrazione linguistica. Milano: Mimesis (selezione).
Cancellier, Antonella (2001). «Italiano e spagnolo a contatto nel Rio de la Plata. I fenomeni del cocoliche e del lunfardo», in A. Cancellier, R. Londero (a cura di), Italiano e spagnolo a contatto. Atti del XIX convegno dell’Associazione Ispanisti Italiani, Padova: Unipress, pp. 69 – 84.
Castillo Fadic, M. Natalia (2002). “El préstamo léxico y su adaptación: un problema lingüístico y cultural”, Onomázein, 7, pp. 469-496.
Goldoni, Federica (2018). “Los italianos, el lunfardo y el tango”, The Coastal Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 1-29.
Kailuweit, Rolf (2007). «El contacto lingüístico italiano-español: ascenso y decadencia del ‘cocoliche’ rioplatense», in D. Trotter (éd. par.), Actes du XXIV Congrès  International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes. Aberystwyth 2004, Tubinga, Niemeyer, 2007, pp. 505 – 514. 
Lipski, John M. (1996). El español de América. Madrid: Cátedra.
Luque Nadal, Lucía. “Los culturemas: ¿unidades lingüísticas, ideológicas o culturales?”, Language Design, 11, pp. 93-120.
Moreno Fernández, F. (2000). Qué español enseñar. Madrid: Arco Libros.
Steiner, George (2022). Linguaggio e silenzio. Milano: Garzanti.
__________ (2014). Dopo Babele. Aspetti del linguaggio e della traduzione. Milano: Garzanti.
Further material will be provided during the course.

Practices:
II year:
Sans Baulenas, Neus et al. (2018). Bitácora 4. Curso de español. Barcelona: Difusión.
Moreno, Concha; Hernández, Carmen e Miki Kondo, Clara. (2007). Gramática. Avanzado B2. Madrid: Anaya

III year:
VV.AA (2017). C de C1. Libro del alumno y cuaderno de ejercicios. Barcelona. Difusión.
Aragonés, L., Palencia R. (2011). Gramática del uso del español: teoría y práctica. SM/Hoepli.

The written test, consisting of multiple-choice and gap-filling exercises, aims to verify the achievement of the required language competence (B2 and C1).
Students who pass the written test will be required to take the oral test, which aims to verify the learning of the module content.
The final grade will be the average of the marks from both tests.

A student holding a DELE certification of the required level (B2 and C1) or higher, obtained no more than two years prior to the date of the exam, will be required to take only the oral test. The student is required to give the teacher a copy of the certificate before the exam. The grade obtained in the DELE certification (expressed in hundredths) will be converted into thirtieths, regardless of the level of the certification.

written and oral

The grading scale is in thirtieths and is determined by the following criteria:

-Knowledge of the key concepts of the history of Hispanic American language and cultures and the topics covered in class and in textbooks (range 10 points)
-Ability to interpret, analyze and have detailed knowledge of the primary texts covered in class (range 10 points)
-Clarity and confidence in oral exposition (range 10 points)

Lectures, practices, workshops, further material made available on Moodle.

Laboratory lessons on text analysis are planned.