Course Title: Words, Words, Words: a Multidisciplinary Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Meaning.
The course is divided into two parts. In the first, introductory, part some basic notions of the Theory of communication, Semiotics and Linguistics will be presented with the aim of highlighting the distinctive features of language and linguistic communication in respect of other kinds of signs and communication.
In the second part students will be introduced to the central claims and authors of the so called "Dominant paradigm" in the Semantics of natural language and to some of the most important rival approaches to it, both in the Philosophy of language, Linguistics and the Cognitive Sciences.