Language - Langage & Cognition

6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARCO MAZZONE - Module Language and Cognition - M-FIL/05 - 3 CFU
SEBASTIANO VECCHIO - Module Langage et Cognition - M-FIL/05 - 3 CFU

Learning Objectives

Language and Cognition
The aim is to develop the ability to reflect on the collective processes involved in knowledge and reasoning.
Langage et Cognition
To acquire a critical view of the discreteness paradigm prevailing in linguistics in the last century.

Course Structure

Language and Cognition
Lectures, discussion in the classroom.

Detailed Course Content

Language and Cognition
Basic mechanisms of knowledge and reasoning; distributed ignorance and knowledge; how the illusion of knowledge emerges; social, political and technological reasoning.
Langage et Cognition
What is a phoneme; speaker vs listener; what is cognitive phonology; from discreteness to the ‘phonic face’.

Textbook Information

Language and Cognition
S. Sloman, P. Fernbach, The knowledge illusion, Riverhead Books, 2017 (296 pages)

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Langage et Cognition
F. Albano Leoni, Des sons et des sens, ENS éditions, 2014, 180 pp.

(italian edition: Dei suoni e dei sensi, Il Mulino, 2009), 200 pp.

The basic notions required can be found in F. Casadei, Breve dizionario di linguistica, Carocci, 2001, 127 pp.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied. For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

Open in PDF format Versione in italiano