This course is an introduction to contemporary philosophy of language. Philosophy of language is concerned with many topics, of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic nature, such as: meaning, truth, reference, epistemology of language understanding and language learning, ontology of languages, mental and psychological basis of communication, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, metaphors, indeterminacy of translation, and so on. The course will offer an overview of these topics, with a special focus on their pragmatic features and on implicit communication.

CILO-1: Capability of Critically Discussing and Evaluating the various approaches to language. CILO-2: Understanding of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic level of language analysis. CILO-3: Capability of applying basic linguistic analysis.