Philosophy and theory of language

This area of research collects competences and perspectives that consider language and languages (verbal, visual, audiovisual, gestural, etc.) as objects of analysis and theoretical inquiry; it looks at the role that the communicative and linguistic spheres play in human experience; and it investigates various aspects of the philosophical reflection on language and its semiotic dimension.

In particular, these areas include the history of semiotics, the theories of the sign, semantics and cognitive studies, the theory of interpretation, text theory and analysis with special attention to the narrative and visual dimensions, languages of audiovisual media and new media, discourses and practices of cultural and collective memory, the theories of truth and reference, the connection between language, mind, and reality, the normative dimension of meaning and thought contents, the use of logic and formal semantics for modelling natural languages, the ontological commitment of language and its connection with metaphysics and epistemology.