Corso di laurea magistrale in
Lingue dell'Asia e dell'Africa
per la comunicazione e la cooperazione internazionale

Arabo I, II, III annualità or equivalent level. Fair knowledge and skills in English.

Developing student's learning skills and ability to make appropriate methodological judgments and choices when accessing the written literary production in Arabic, with particular reference to its diachronic dimension

Knowledge and understanding of Arabic technical literature, with particular reference to lexicography.

Translation skills, i.e., applying knowledge and understanding, as illustrated immediately above, in the process of translation from Classical Arabic into Italian (Classical Arabic being intended as the Arabic variety that represents a diachronically preceding phase of Modern Standard Arabic)

The course lasts a total of 54 academic hours. Teaching is organized in the form of traditional lessons. The teaching approach is based on the philological method, which focuses both on the written texts in which the language variety under consideration is attested to, as well as on their sociohistorical context and chronological succession (i.e., their historical development)

The exam programme consists of the textual corpus examined during this course as well as on some selected secondary sources related to it (see Recommended texts and bibliography). Learning will be assessed through a compulsory oral exam, which is organized into two parts: firstly, an interview based on the course topics, with the aim of assessing students' learning skills and ability to make appropriate methodological judgments concerning the course topics; secondly, a translation from Classical Arabic into Italian of some passages drawn from the aforesaid texts, with the aim of assessing students' ability to apply their knowledge and understanding related to Classical Arabic

MA-level students, First Year:

Attendance to the native speaker's lectures is not mandatory but strongly recommended. Students are kindly requested to contact the native-speaker lecturer for further information concerning his lecture programme and the related exam modalities.

MA-level students, Second Year:

Relevant information will be made available slight before the beginning of this course

An inquiry into the so-called kalaam al-'arab, through:

- a selected lemma list, in turn based on a contextualized version of Swadesh list

- a primary source from earlier Arabic lexicography, and another from later Arabic lexicography

Exam-related:

- primary source material drawn from lexicographical works written in Classical Arabic, in the form of excerpts, and available on the teacher's download page Materiale Didattico;

- theoretical background material, available on the teacher's download page Materiale Didattico

- further materials:

Fronzaroli, P.

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