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502Deissi, arbitrarietà e disambiguazione. Due approcci a confrontoIn Artemij Keidan & Luca Alfieri (eds.), Deissi, riferimento, metafora. Questioni classiche di linguistica e filosofia del linguaggio, Firenze University Press. pp. 19-66. 2008.Two approaches to indexicality are comparatively taken into analysis: John Parry's analytic approach on the one hand, and a sort of Saussure-inspired approach within the domain of Functionalist Linguistics, on the other hand. It is argued that these two approaches do diametrically oppose each other in some important aspects. The notion of Saussurean arbitrariness of reference, opposing the analytic notion of rigid designation, is eventually argued to have a good explanatory power when some ordin…Read more
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410Meaningfulness, the unsaid and translatability. Instead of an introductionOpen Linguistics 1 634-649. 2015.The present paper opens this topical issue on translation techniques by drawing a theoretical basis for the discussion of translational issues in a linguistic perspective. In order to forward an audience- oriented definition of translation, I will describe different forms of linguistic variability, highlighting how they present different difficulties to translators, with an emphasis on the semantic and communicative complexity that a source text can exhibit. The problem is then further discussed…Read more
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43Understanding a Philosophical Text. The Problem of “Meaning” in Jayanta’s Nyāyamañjarī, Book 5In Patrick McAllister & Helmut Krasser (eds.), Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism, . pp. 251-290. 2017.The authors make an attempt to comparatively analyse some stances of the Old Indian philosophy of language, exemplified by the Medieval Indian author Jayanta, along with the Western tradition of the analytical philosophy of language, and to highlight the differences as well as the similarities. The main focus is on Jayanta's discussion of the meaning vs. reference problem.
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4Deissi, riferimento, metafora. Questioni classiche di linguistica e filosofia del linguaggio (edited book)Firenze University Press. 2008.A collection of papers (in Italian) devoted to some of the most debated questions of the Philosophy of Language: indexicality, reference and metaphors.
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Università degli Studi di Roma La SapienzaItalian Institute of Oriental StudiesAssistant Professor
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
Dipartimento Di Studi Glottoantropologici E Discipline Musicali
PhD, 2005
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Areas of Specialization
Historical Linguistics |
Other Areas of Linguistics, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Historical Linguistics |
Other Areas of Linguistics, Misc |