AN OVERVIEW OF ITALIAN FOOTBALL LEXICON AND ITS ROLE IN TEACHING ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The Italian football represents a social, economic and linguistic phenomenon: it has its own specialized lexicon used even by those who do not show a particular interest in this game because they live in such an environment where it is constantly talked about football. Experiences demonstrate that knowing and learning a foreign language means above all learning to use the different registers of that language appropriately, developing communication skills in the sociolinguistic and pragmatic fields. Football language is a truly special language and as such has some of its own characteristics. The topic of study of this article is to identify and analyze the Italian football lexicon and to see how it can be applied in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language. The goal in choosing this topic is to produce an article with scientific and practical content and to get a clear idea regarding modern trends in linguistic research on functional languages.

Keywords: football lexicon; functional languages; teaching; Italian language.