Written, Spoken, Broadcasted Contemporary Italian



This course will study written, spoken and broadcasted contemporary Italian. Lessons will focus on various linguistic registers: youth jargon, email, chat, literary language and language used in films. The goal of this course is also to investigate whether the changes brought by the high-speed world of electronic communication and television have caused a linguistic degradation or have expanded the use and created more speakers of the contemporary Italian language.



Required Text:

G. Antonelli, L’italiano nella società della comunicazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007

Schedule
5:00pm-5:50pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Jul 5, 2012 to Aug 17, 2012)
Location
Library 230
Instructors