This unit aims to develop students' understanding and performance of advanced syntactic and discursive practices in the Italian language. The focus is on the contemporary language but textual conventions from other periods are studied for comparative purposes and also to develop a historical understanding of the evolution of discourse practices through changing sociocultural contexts. Students analyse texts from a variety of genres to identify syntactic and discursive characteristics. They develop their own ability to produce coherent and genre-appropriate texts in Italian. The unit is taught entirely in the Italian language in order to further develop the oral competence of students and... -- Course Website
