SEMANTICS AND COGNITIVE PRAGMATICS
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
MARCO MAZZONE
Expected Learning Outcomes
1) Knowledge and comprehension: students will learn
the basics of cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, with a
focus on the crisis of rationality.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension:
students will exercise their ability to apply the notions they acquire to
linguistic phenomena of the present.
3) Autonomy of judgment: students will be trained to
compare theoretical models with their own intuitions.
4) Communicative abilities: students will acquire the
ability to give expression to the subject matters with appropriate technical
language.
5) Learning
abilities: students will acquire the ability to understand scientific texts
(not handbook or introductory books) on the subject matters.Course Structure
Lectures, class discussion.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
1) Rationality crisis, behavioral economics, management
of emotions and ideological thinking.
2)
Nature of the fake news, individual constraints, social factors, misinformation
and democracy.Textbook Information
1) M.
Mazzone, Pensiero critico e pensiero ideologico,
2020, dispensa messa a disposizione su Studium (250 pagg.)
2) T. Piazza e M. Croce, Che cosa sono le fake
news, Carocci, 2022 (119 pagg.)
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.
