PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGES

The course aims to explore textual linguistics, the semiotics of the text, and the semiotics of cultures, with particular emphasis on hermeneutic, structural and interpretative perspectives.

The aim is to enable students to recognize cultures as a set of relevant, mutually translatable texts that are realized in terms of complex semiotic constructions.

Lectures, brainstorming and classroom exercises.

If the course will be taught in a blended mode or at a distance, the necessary changes will be made in order to comply with the syllabus.

1. Textual linguistics and hermeneutic perspective
2. Norms, usages, styles: from Bühler to Coseriu.
3. Language, discourse, enunciation.
4. Hermeneutics as a philosophical practice: Gadamer.
5. From the text linguistics to the semiotics of the text
6. Narrativity and discursiveness
7. Esthesia: aesthetic perception and meaning
8. The semiotics of culture: the structural and interpretative perspective (Lévi-Strauss, Jakobson, Lotman, Fontanille)
9. Culture as text and translation: between ideological networks and negotiation
10. Types of culture and semiospheres
11. The semiotics of culture as social critique: the sociosemiotic gaze
12. The logics of culture: norms, enunciations, praxis, dress

1. Eugenio Coseriu, Linguistica del testo. Introduzione a una ermeneutica del senso, Roma Carocci ,2014, cap. 1 e 2, pp. 159.
2. Gianfranco Marrone, Semiotica del testo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001, pp. 179.
3. Anna Maria Lorusso, Semiotica della cultura, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010, pp. 179.
4. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Linguaggio, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005 (one chapter of the student’s choice)
5. Other texts may be provided through the Studium platform.

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.