RUSSIAN LANGUAGE I
LINGUA RUSSA I
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2024/2025 | 9 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Antonella Cavazza | By arrangement, via e-mail |
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Course partially taught in a foreign language
Russian
This course is taught partially in Italian and partially in a foreign language. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to create a philological and linguistic sensitivity to the literary text. The course is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part focuses on the linguistics of the text, especially on the means that guarantee the cohesion and coherence of a literary text. The practical part includes reading, understanding and textual analysis of some fragments taken from works by Russian authors of the 19th century. XIX and XX. A very limited theoretical and practical reflection is planned on the transliteration systems from Russian to Italian and on the related uses.
Program
1.1 The text as an object of study.
1.2 Definition of text.
1.3 Categories and basic properties of the text.
2. Main means of textual cohesion: Discursive signals, the correlation of aspect and tense, pronouns, temporal references, concrete terms, abstract terms, repetition of words, synonymy of words.
3. Text typologies and related syntactic structure: opisanie, povestvovanie, rassuždenie.
4. Transliteration systems.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Ability to understand and describe the main textual typologies on a linguistic level: opisanie, povestvovanie and rassuždenie“ (description, story, commentary).
Ability to apply the knowledge of textual linguistics to the analysis of authentic literary texts, selected for the current academic year, analyzing the linguistic peculiarities of the story in monological and dialogic form.
Ability to analyze the structure of a text and to critically formulate judgments on the argumentative strategies adopted by the author.
Conscious use of some notions of simple and complex sentence syntax (Level B2) in written composition and conversation.
Ability to apply the ISO/9 system if necessary and to recognize it compared to the remaining transliteration systems. Ability to apply the ISO/9 system if necessary and to recognize it compared to the remaining transliteration systems.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Interactives lectures.
- Attendance
Attend the first lesson of the course.
- Course books
Bolotnova, N.S., Filologičeskij analiz teksta, Izdatel’stvo Flinta- Izdatel’stvo Nauka, Moskva 2009.
Bobrova, A.V., Grammatika russkogo jazyka, Moskva 1999.
Kuprijanova, T.F. ed al., Sintaksis, Rus. jaz. Kursy, Moskva, 1998.
Mazzitelli, G., Ancora sul problema della traslitterazione dei caratteri cirillici, in “Bollettino AIB”, ISSN 1121-1490, vol.48, n.4 (2008), pp. 343-357.
Nikiforov-Volgin, V.A., V berёzovom lesu, in V.A., Nikiforov-Volgin, Dorožnyj posoch, Nikeja, Moskva, 2014, pp. 205-208.
Nikiforov-Volgin, V.A., Nel bosco di betulle, in A. Cavazza, Racconti di Resurrezione, Marietti1820, Bologna, 2024, pp. 166-171.
Zolotova G.A., Onipenko N.K., Russkij jazyk. Ot sistemy k teksty, Drofa, Moskva, 2002.
- Assessment
Oral exam, written exam and language test.
The final exam will assess metalinguistic knowledge and language skills in Russian at the requisite level. In particular, assessment will concern the following skills: written (33% of all marks), oral (33%), and metalinguistic knowledge (33%).
The exam on metalinguistics (“monographic course”) is a written test. It consists of 30 multiple choice questions in Italian, principally to assess the knowledge acquired and also applied comprehension skills. The use of dictionaries is not pernitted during this test. Criteria for the assessment of this test are:
- pertinence and correctness of answers in relation to contents of program.
- ability to apply knowledge to specific cases
- ability to reflect critically on concepts and processes
- knowledge of the metalanguage
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Attendance
Follow the lesson diary on Blended.
- Course books
Bolotnova, N.S., Filologičeskij analiz teksta, Izdatel’stvo Flinta- Izdatel’stvo Nauka, Moskva 2009.
Bobrova, A.V., Grammatika russkogo jazyka, Moskva 1999.
Kuprijanova, T.F. ed al., Sintaksis, Rus. jaz. Kursy, Moskva, 1998.
Mazzitelli, G., Ancora sul problema della traslitterazione dei caratteri cirillici, in “Bollettino AIB”, ISSN 1121-1490, vol.48, n.4 (2008), pp. 343-357.
Nikiforov-Volgin, V.A., V berёzovom lesu, in V.A., Nikiforov-Volgin, Dorožnyj posoch, Nikeja, Moskva, 2014, pp. 205-208.
Nikiforov-Volgin, V.A., Nel bosco di betulle, in A. Cavazza, Racconti di Resurrezione, Marietti1820, Bologna, 2024, pp. 166-171.
Zolotova G.A., Onipenko N.K., Russkij jazyk. Ot sistemy k teksty, Drofa, Moskva, 2002.
- Assessment
Oral exam, written exam and language test.
The final exam will assess metalinguistic knowledge and language skills in Russian at the requisite level. In particular, assessment will concern the following skills: written (33% of all marks), oral (33%), and metalinguistic knowledge (33%).
The exam on metalinguistics (“monographic course”) is a written test. It consists of 30 multiple choice questions in Italian, principally to assess the knowledge acquired and also applied comprehension skills. The use of dictionaries is not pernitted during this test. Criteria for the assessment of this test are:
- pertinence and correctness of answers in relation to contents of program.
- ability to apply knowledge to specific cases
- ability to reflect critically on concepts and processes
- knowledge of the metalanguage
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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