Applied Linguistics: Theoretical Principles and Applications to the Italian Language

The course aims to introduce linguistics in various fields of application. Therefore, students will be provided with the basic concepts related to functional linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, acquisitional linguistics, glottology, and digital linguistics. At the end of the course students will be able to: 1) Relate the theoretical-methodological principles and the related applications of linguistics 2) Apply knowledge to the Italian linguistic and extra-linguistic context 3) Reflect critically and autonomously on linguistic phenomena of Italian.