FISIOPATOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Module FILOSOFIA DEL LINGUAGGIO

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: SABINA FONTANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

  1. Knowledge and understanding
    Knowledge of the main theoretical frameworks in the philosophy of language.

  2. Applying knowledge and understanding
    Ability to apply the main theoretical frameworks across different fields of study and to support arguments in order to solve problems.

  3. Making judgements
    Ability to identify relevant data in order to form independent judgements on issues related to one’s field of study.

  4. Communication skills
    Ability to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

  5. Learning skills
    Development of the skills needed to pursue further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Course Structure

Teaching activities will be done in presence and based also on groupwork

Required Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is compulasory

Detailed Course Content

This course will allow students to develop a critical thinking on language, the faculty of language and communication, the various perspectives on disabilities by using the strategies of analysis of the philosophy of language

Textbook Information


Fontana S., (2025), Che cos'è la Pragmatica, Carocci, Roma

Szadeiko K., (2020) “Il modello bio-psicosociale: verso un approccio integrale” in Teoria e Prassi, Rivista di scienze dell’educazione, 1.

Sannipoli, M. (2020) La cornice bio-psico-sociale tra teoria e prassi educative: possibili domande di ricerca in ItalianoJournal of Special Education for Inclusion.


AuthorTitlePublisherYearISBN
Bianchi ClaudiaPragmatica del LinguaggioLaterza20039788842071341

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Assignment on some of the topics discussed during classes

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

1. Language, language and communication have been analysed from different theoretical perspectives that have emphasised various characteristics of human communication. Analysis of the different theories or approaches that have described the linguistic phenomenon, taking into account the multimodal, social and cognitive nature of language and the influences exerted by different linguistic ideologies.

2. Analysis of the development of language in the deaf and hearing child, taking into account the different theories of language and describes the various stages starting from the prelinguistic period, exploring the role of the body and more specifically gesture in the construction of the first forms of symbolic communication.

3. Explore the bio-psychosocial perspective in the care of people with disabilities as proposed by the UN Convention for the Equal of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, taking into account the enabling and educational role played by the speech therapist and analysing the possible advantages and/or disadvantages of overcoming an exclusively pathological perspective.

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