The course includes the structural-semiotic analysis of some texts representative of political discourse and the identification within the texts themselves of some linguistic parameters characterizing the structure of Western logic, in order to identify the basic elements of the logic of Western identity with some references to the global one.
KANTZA’ G., Tre donne, una domanda, Edizioni Ares, Milano 2012, pp. 17-134.
- M. Heidegger “Da un colloquio nell’ascolto del linguaggio” in In cammino verso il Linguaggio, Mursia, Milano 1959, pp. 83-125.
-E. Benveniste, Problemi di Linguistica generale, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1971, capp. XVIII, XX, XXI.
- F. Ditifeci, I. Kantzas, Constitution and reconstitution. Parametri linguistici della crisi in alcuni discorsi di insediamento presidenziale americano. RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLO STATO, 2010, vol. ---, pp. 1-24, ISSN:2038-4882 URL: http://www.unifi.it/rivsts/saggi/Ditifeci%20-%20Constitution/Constitution.pdf
- F. Ditifeci, I. Kantzas, “Trama e traccia nel discorso politico americano” in F. Ditifeci (a cura di) Il testo al centro. Atti del convegno in onore di Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani, Edizioni dell’Assemblea, Firenze 2012.
The material will be made available to students during the course in the classroom and through the e-learning platform Moodle.
At the end of the course the full collection of documents will be available at:
Copisteria Centro Stampa Il Prato
Via Carlo del Prete 38
50127 Florence
Tel 055 4368530
Learning Objectives
The course aims help students to consolidate and deepen their linguistic structures and to participate in the current debate that sees the comparison between subordinative and coordinative structures. An integral part of the course consists of the Conference organized in May as part of the Permanent Seminar “La Polis senza Creonte e senza Antigone. La Politica senza Legge e senza Desiderio” (Proff. L. Bozzo, F. Ditifeci, P. Kantzas).
Prerequisites
Test C1 (CLA)
Teaching Methods
Frontal with students' active participation
Type of Assessment
Final written exam
Course program
The course includes the structural-semiotic analysis of some texts representative of political discourse and the identification within the texts themselves of some linguistic parameters characterizing the structure of Western logic, in order to identify the basic elements of the logic of Western identity with some references to the global one. The course aims to help students to consolidate and deepen their linguistic structures and to participate in the current debate that sees the comparison between subordinative and coordinative structures. An integral part of the course consists of the Conference organized in May as part of the Permanent Seminar “La Polis senza Creonte e senza Antigone. La Politica senza Legge e senza Desiderio” (Proff. L. Bozzo, F. Ditifeci, P. Kantzas).
What is Politics?
I MODULO
A) Hannah ARENDT
Selected Texts
KANTZA’ G., Tre donne, una domanda, Edizioni Ares, Milano 2012, pp. 17-134.
II MODULO
A) The soap bubble
Selected Texts
III MODULO
A) International relations: International Adoption
Selected Texts
B)
- M. Heidegger “Da un colloquio nell’ascolto del linguaggio” in In cammino verso il Linguaggio, Mursia, Milano 1959, pp. 83-125.
-E. Benveniste, Problemi di Linguistica generale, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1971, capp. XVIII, XX, XXI.
- F. Ditifeci, I. Kantzas, Constitution and reconstitution. Parametri linguistici della crisi in alcuni discorsi di insediamento presidenziale americano. RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLO STATO, 2010, vol. ---, pp. 1-24, ISSN:2038-4882 URL: http://www.unifi.it/rivsts/saggi/Ditifeci%20-%20Constitution/Constitution.pdf
- F. Ditifeci, I. Kantzas, “Trama e traccia nel discorso politico americano” in F. Ditifeci (a cura di) Il testo al centro. Atti del convegno in onore di Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani, Edizioni dell’Assemblea, Firenze 2012.