Il linguaggio sotto il profilo psicologico
TESTI / 1 / Karl Philipp Moritz / In this essay, Karl Philipp Moritz seeks to demonstrate how a psychological analysis of language can clarify the deeper meaning behind the use of...
Leibniz and 18th-century Philosophy of Language
ARTICOLI / 3 / Michael Losonsky / Leibniz’s work on language left a lasting impression on 18th-century philosophical thinking about language. His two major works that discussed natural language were both published in...
Lord Monboddo’s Anti-Enlightenment. Conjectural History, Human Nature, and the Teleological Foundation of Language
CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Francesco Cataldi / This paper aims to illustrate how Lord Monboddo (James Burnett), one of the most eccentric figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, conceived language, contrasting his positions with...
Cenni, corpi e canto. All’origine del linguaggio nella Scienza nuova del 1744
CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Sebastiano Mosti / Gestures, Bodies, Singing. At the Origin of the Language in Scienza nuova of 1744 This paper deals with Giambattista Vico’s linguistic doctrine presented in the 1744 edition of...
«Schon als Thier, hat der Mensch Sprache». Foundations of Linguistic Thinking in the European Enlightenment
ARTICOLI / 1 / Cordula Neis / This contribution is dedicated to the foundations of linguistic thinking in the European Enlightenment. Starting from Herder’s treatise on the origin of language, the nature of...
