DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and Languages
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year - LINGUISTIC Curriculum and COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Curriculum

Language - Langage & Cognition

Teaching Staff

Course Structure

• Language and cognition
  

  Lectures and seminars.

• Langage et Cognition
  

  Lectures and seminars.

Detailed Course Content

• Language and cognition
  

  The role of Speaker and the discreteness paradigm in the 20th century linguistic thought. The dynamics of language and languages: individual dimensions and structural aspects, abstract and concrete components, culture and cognition, continuity and discreteness.

• Langage et Cognition
  

  Hjelmslev’s ‘dynamic’ structuralism.

Textbook Information

• Language and cognition
  

  M. De Palo, Saussure e gli strutturalismi, Carocci, 2016 (capp. da 1 a 8), 260 pp.

  F. Albano Leoni, Dei suoni e dei sensi, Il Mulino, 2009, 190 pp.

• Langage et Cognition
  

  A. Bondì, Louis Hjelmslev. Fra lingua e linguaggio, Carocci, 2012, 100 pp.