DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and Languages
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year - EURO MEDITERRANEAN Curriculum
Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and Languages
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year - EURO MEDITERRANEAN Curriculum
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGES
M-FIL/05 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester
Teaching Staff
SEBASTIANO VECCHIOLearning Objectives
Analysis of some theoretical aspects involved in the diversification of the unique human faculty of language in various linguistic systems.
Detailed Course Content
The issue ‘one language, many languages’ studied in its theoretical, anthropological and cognitive components. Exposition of the universalism/relativism debate.
Textbook Information
- L. Formigari, Introduzione alla filosofia delle lingue, Laterza, 2007, 130 pp.
- C. Marcato, Il plurilinguismo, Laterza, 2012, 170 pp.
- E. Lalumera, Che cos’è il relativismo cognitivo, Carocci, 2013, 100 pp.
- a paper by the teacher (available on Studium)
Open in PDF format Versione in italiano