- Docente: Paolo Leonardi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 0956)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Communication Sciences (cod. 0960)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Learning outcomes
Taking this class the student will come to know some classical and
some contemporary philosophical views of language.
Course contents
Four philosophers of language across the 17th and the 18th centuries, and one XXth century philosopher of language.
(DAMS students) For the half class on Analysis of Visual Communication go to the class with that name.
Readings/Bibliography
Passages from:
Gérauld de Cordemoy Discorso fisico della parola (a cura di E. Lojacono Roma Editori Riuniti 2006).
Giambattista Vico La scienza nuova.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Saggio sull'origine delle lingue (Napoli Guida 1984).
Johann Gottfried Herder Saggio sulle origini del linguaggio (Rome Editoriale B.M. 1987).
Paul Grice Logica e conversazione (Bologna Il Mulino 1993).
Texts:
Lia Formigari Il linguaggio (Roma-Bari Laterza 2004: 6cfu: chapters 1, 3, 5, 6; 9cfu:chapters1,3, 5, 6, 7).
Paolo Casalegno Brevissima introduzione alla filosofia del linguaggio (Roma Carocci 2011).
Weekly class notes at the url:
http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/~paolo.leonardi/
Teaching methods
Lectures, as already said, and besides a class discussion on some
text the
student will be required to read before hand.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
Lectures. Notes available on line.
Lecture notes, texts for the written exam, interview schedule,
news, etc at the following URL:
http://web.ddc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/
Links to further information
http://web.ddc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Leonardi