Philosophy of languages

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1)      Knowledge and comprehension: knowledge and comprehension of complex texts from contemporary philosophy and semiotics of culture; ability to analyze the text, ability to put different theoretical perspectives into perspective and reconstruct the overall theoretical framework

2)      Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension:  ability to link, connect and compare different positions in an articulated theoretical debate

3)      Autonomy of judgement: ability to formulate original positions and objections to the texts examined

4)      Communicative abilities: complex expression and detailed reconstruction of theories, lexical property, acquisition of specialized vocabulary of the semiotics of culture

5)      Learning abilities: development of analytical, synthesis and rhetorical argumentation skills to defend theses and counter them, based on appropriate philosophical methodology and rhetorical techniques

1. Introduction: the Semiotics of culture and the semiotic view
2. Linguistics, anthropology, narratology: the origins of semiotics of cultures
3. Unity and plurality of cultures: the model of Lotman
4. Eco, Geertz: the network models of semiosis
5. Social discourses and analysis of ideologies: Barthes
6. Use, habits, encyclopedia: the meaning as negotiation
7. Lotman and the culture between explosion and unpredictability
8. Conflicts of cultures
9. The translation
10. The cultural heritage
11. Information, opening, closure: the culture as model
12. The semiogenesis
13. The semiotic imagination
14. Telling, imaging, transmission: a “distributed” theory of culture

 Bibliography :

-       A. M. Lorusso, Semiotica della cultura, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010, pp. 200

-       J. M. Lotman, La cultura e l’esplosione, Mimesis, Milano, 2022, pp. 236.

-       A. Bondì, Semiogenesi. Forme, figure e motivi    dell’espressione, Duetredue edizioni, Lentini, 2022, pp. 149

-       Other texts may be provided through the Studium platform.

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