La semiotica filosofica di Umberto Eco: cultura, enciclopedia, interpretazione
Stefano Traini XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio Eco was a semiotician who played a fundamental role in the birth, consolidation and development of semiotics, in Italy and in the world; but more generally he was – as he himself acknowledged in his Intellectual Autobiography – a historian and a theorist of culture. After all, the two […]
Tullio De Mauro. Una semiologia a base semantica
Michela Tardella XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio Tullio de Mauro was one of the most representative intellectuals in the field of philosophical reflection on language that Italian culture has expressed in the last sixty years. Scientifically multifaceted personality, he animated the cultural and political debate in our country, operating not only within the universities where he […]
L’altro dell’immagine. Il linguaggio in Emilio Garroni, tra riflessione estetica e filosofia critica
Dario Cecchi XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio The paper reconstructs Emilio Garroni’s criticism of semiotics’ claim to theorize reference only within semiotic systems, whilst Garroni points out to the ‘metaoperativity’ concerned with this operation. Garroni then theorized the existence of a mutual relationship between the ‘faculty of language’ and the ‘faculty of image’, which afford in […]
Le basi linguistiche della Critica del gusto di Galvano Della Volpe
Romeo Bufalo XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio This essay focuses on Galvano Della Volpe’s Critique of Taste, with which the Italian philosopher proposed, about 60 years ago, a materialistic-historical aesthetic based on the semantic character of the expressive means employed by art. In particular, this essay discusses the main theoretical novelties of the book and how […]
Le origini della filosofia analitica del linguaggio in Italia
Fabio Sterpetti XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio The aim of this paper is to identify the origin of Italian analytic philosophy of language. Firstly, some of its forerunners are identified. Then some authors that played a decisive role for establishing conditions that were necessary for an Italian analytic philosophy of language to begin are identified. Finally, […]
La semiotica del linguaggio di Ferruccio Rossi-Landi
Cosimo Caputo XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio In Rossi-Landi, general semiotics is sociosemiotics in a profound and original sense. The (socio-)semiotic interpretation of the notions of ‘mind’, ‘commodity’, ‘ruling class’, ‘ideology’ such as to find a semioeconomy renders Rossi-Landi’s research innovative and pioneering. Nonetheless, his work remained in the minor tradition, especially with respect to Italian […]
L’idea di linguaggio di Giovanni Vailati
Augusto Ponzio XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio Among the aims of Vailati’s philosophy of language, the main one is to emphasize expressive ambiguity and verbal misunderstandings, as from interpretation of the term ‘pragmatism’ and prejudice of empirical evidence with respect to hypotheses and reasoning. He exemplifies with infinitesimal calculus. Verbal language is considered in semiotic, thus […]
Storicismo e ricerca linguistica. La riflessione di Benvenuto Terracini
Ilaria Tani XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio Benvenuto Terracini was not strictly speaking a philosopher of language, but he was among the very few linguists of the early 20th century to tackle the methodological problems of his discipline. His linguistic thought therefore represents a significant step in the theoretical debate on language in Italy in the […]
Aspetti della filosofia del linguaggio in Antonino Pagliaro
Stefano Gensini XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio This paper illustrates the contribution made by the Sicilian glottologist Antonino Pagliaro to the philosophy of language. From the youthful Summary of Ario-European Linguistics (1930) to the works of the 1960s, the scholar developed an original idealistic doctrine of language. Accepting Benedetto Croce’s teaching, but also grasping its theoretical […]
Ancora su Gramsci e il Cours de linguistique générale
Alessandro Carlucci XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio The first part of this article highlights the similarities between Antonio Gramsci’s ideas on language and Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, with reference to the distinction between the synchronic and diachronic study of language and to a number of related topics concerning the relationship between linguistic and […]
