FISIOPATOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE

Learning Objectives

• Glottology and Linguistics

  The course aims to provide students the theoretical basis of linguistics, early elements of language acquisition, tools and methods of human phonetic analysis and description of the relevant sounds of a language (phonology), in particular of standard Italian and varieties.

• Applied Medical Sciences Techniques

  To define the anatomical and functional structures deputed to the language, phonation, and swallowing.

  To identify the normal steps of neuropsychomotor development.

  To outline the physiology of speech, voice, and swallowing in the different ages of life.

  To know the physiological development of reading and writing.

• Philosophy of Language

  The module "Philosophy of Language" aims to provide students with the theoretical basis for a philosophical study of the relationships between language and languages, language and thought, language and body. The basic elements of the most recent theories and experimental research investigating the relationships between language and cognition will be discussed: the embodied theories; the pragmatics of communication; the theory of mirror neurons; the theory of extended mind; the relationship between concepts and meanings.

Course Structure

• Glottology and Linguistics

  Lectures, active learning. Workshop about phonetic transcription.

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

• Applied Medical Sciences Techniques

  Frontal interactive lessons, with slides, videos, and tutorials.

  Any seminars.

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

• Philosophy of Language

  Frontal lessons, brainstorming and participatory lessons.

Detailed Course Content

• Glottology and Linguistics

  Natural languages and human language. The acquisition of language in newborn babies and infants. Suprasegmental articulatory phonetics. Segmental articulatory phonetics: the vowel and the consonants. Italian phonetics: standard, regional pronunciation and neostandard, dialects. Phonology. The phonetic spelling (IPA).

• Applied Medical Sciences Techniques

  Anatomy and physiology of the organs of speech, voice, and swallowing.

  Normal neuropsychomotor development.

  Development of language, swallowing skills, and voice quality in developmental, adult, and senile age.

  Development of the metaphonological, pragmatic, and narrative competence.

  Development of reading and writing.

• Philosophy of Language

  Body, word, action: from pragmatics to embodied theories. Language and simulation: problems of embodiement in language theory. Languages and cognition. Language and extended mind. Theories of concept vs. theories of meaning: from semantic universalism to the return of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Languages, body, context.

Textbook Information

• Glottology and Linguistics

  Text 1. G. Gagliardi, Linguistica per le professioni sanitarie, Pàtron, 2019 (cap. I. “Il linguaggio e le lingue storico-naturali”; cap. II. “Farsi e disfarsi del linguaggio: metodi e prospettive per l’analisi delle funzioni linguistiche”; cap. III. “Fonetica”; cap. IV. “Fonologia”, pp. 1-160).

  Text 2. M. Nespor, D. J. Napoli, L’animale parlante, Carocci, 2004 (cap. 9 “Lo sviluppo del sistema linguistico nei primi mesi di vita”, pp. 131-143).

  Text 3. F. Albano Leoni, P. Maturi, Manuale di fonetica, Carocci, 2018, terza edizione con materiali on line (cap. 1. Introduzione; cap. 2. “Fonetica articolatoria e trascrizione fonetica”, pp. 11-83).

  Text 4. F. Albano Leoni, Il ruolo dell’udito nella comunicazione linguistica. Il caso della prosodia, «Rivista di Linguistica», 13.1 (2001), pp. 45-68.

  Text 5. P. Maturi, I suoni delle lingue, i suoni dell’italiano, Il Mulino 2006 (cap. II. “Fonetica italiana: standard, pronunce regionali e neostandard, dialetti”, pp. 101-124).

• Applied Medical Sciences Techniques

  Oskar Schindler, Antonio Schindler. Fisiologia della comunucazione. Omega Edizioni. 2001

  Anna Emilia Berti, Anna Silvia Bombi. Corso di psicologia dello sviluppo. Il Mulino Strumenti (4° Edizione). 2018

• Philosophy of Language

  1) Liuzza, Marco Tullio, Cimatti, Felice, Borghi, Anna Maria (2010). Lingue, corpo, pensiero: le ricerche contemporanee, Carocci, Roma, pp. 125.