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Prepositions, Conjunctions & Complex Sentences

Simple/articulated prepositions, conjunctions and complex sentences
Analisi del testo: coesione e coerenza
Text analysis: cohesion and coherence
text-level organisation
Devices creating textual unity
Sociolinguistica dell'italiano
Sociolinguistics of Italian
variation and change
Social and regional variation
Italiano standard e neostandard
Standard and neo-standard Italian
evolving norms
How the spoken standard is changing
I dialetti e l'italiano regionale
Dialects and regional Italian
dialect vs regional Italian
Relationship between dialects and Italian
Pragmatica: atti linguistici e cortesia
Pragmatics: speech acts and politeness
politeness theory
Tu/Lei and face management
Analisi conversazionale
Conversation analysis
turn-taking, repair
Structure of spoken Italian interaction
Lingue speciali: linguaggi settoriali
Special languages: sectoral registers
legal, medical, bureaucratic Italian
Features of technical registers
Storia della lingua italiana
History of the Italian language
from Latin to today
Periodisation and key developments
L'italiano nel mondo
Italian in the world
diaspora, learners, status
Global presence of Italian
Tendenze contemporanee
Contemporary trends
English influence, simplification
Current changes in Italian