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Bibliografia degli scritti di Andrea Battistini
No full textLa bibliografia degli scritti integra e completa quella precedentemente edita in A. Battistini, "Svelare e rigenerare. Studi sulla cultura del Settecento", a cura di A. Cristiani e F. Ferretti, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2019, pp. 304-366 (ferma al 2019)
"Nota dei curatori" premessa alla curatela di A. Battistini, "Il sacrificio di Ifigenia tra Lucrezio e Vico", a cura del Centro Studi “La permanenza del Classico”, Bologna, Patron, 2021.
No full textIntroduzione alla riedizione, curata dagli stessi Andrea Cristiani e Francesco Ferretti, della sezione su Lucrezio e Vico di A. Battistini, "La degnità della retorica. Studi su G.B. Vico", Pisa, Pacini, 1975, pp. 72-77 in forma di contributo autonomo
Agonistic conversation. A cognitive-interactive perspective on the origin of grammar
No full textContrary to a common attitude that overemphasizes the cooperative nature of communication, the thesis of this chapter is that the different viewpoints of interlocutors characterize human conversation in both competitive and cooperative terms. The idea that human conversation is governed by a competitive logic brings to the fore that the way humans typically communicate also evolves around what distinguishes rather than unites the interlocutors. The diversity of viewpoints and the idea that in communication the listener accepts (as well as understands) what the speaker says is the basis of a persuasive model of human conversation. More specifically, the diversity of viewpoints of the interlocutors characterizes conversation as a form of persuasive reciprocity, given the continuous exchange of roles between speaker and listener. Since persuasion is achieved primarily through argumentative strategies, it is the dialectic of argument and counterargument that governs the arena of human conversation. Such a dialectic requires appropriate cognitive devices and expressive resources. The system of cognitive architectures underlying “epistemic vigilance” seems to be an indispensable condition for a conversation based on persuasive reciprocity. As for expressive resources, since argumentation is a kind of reasoning, and reasoning makes use of propositional structures, persuasive reciprocity also requires grammatical structures. Such structures are the product of a process of grammaticalization driven by selective pressures in favour of enhancing argumentation skills. Persuasive pragmatics is the basis of persuasive syntax: a way of supporting the pragmatic foundation of grammar
Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics. How Language Emerges from Use
No full textThis collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field. The volume adopts a broad view of pragmatics, providing a counterpoint to classical models of language evolution by exploring the ways in which the origins of language can be traced through the emergence of language structures from use in context. The book synthesizes different lines of inquiry, ranging from evolutionary linguistics to cognitive linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive pragmatics, among other fields, which foreground the impact of the environment on language and of language, through speaker use, on context. The volume is organized around three sections, each taking in turn a different dimension of evolutionary pragmatics research; the origins of language as seen in animal communication; a closer look at the use of language in interaction for the formation of communication channel and linguistic meaning; the role of cooperation and competition dynamics for the emergence of language structure. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in evolutionary linguistics, language origins, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive archaeology, and cognitive semiotics, as well as related areas in philosophy, psychology, and anthropology
Ragione spiegata e ragioni inspiegabili
No full textLa premessa dei curatori dei saggi settecenteschi di Andrea Battistini (1947-2020) raccolti con il titolo "Svelare e rigenerare. Studi sulla cultura del Settecento" in occasione dell'emeritato di questo grande maestro dell'Alma Mater (2019) spiega le ragioni per cui il volume non va letto come una semplice raccolta di studi, ma come un libro organico finalizzato a indagare il nesso suggerito dal titolo e dal sottotitolo. Il sottotitolo avverte il lettore che l’angolatura critica alla quale è sottoposto il secolo dei Lumi abbraccia una moltitudine di versanti, ossia non si accontenta di un punto di vista meramente letterario (peraltro impossibile da isolare in un periodo come quello in esame), bensì mira a porre in rilievo alcune tendenze immanenti alla cultura settecentesca nel suo complesso, con uno sguardo, per così dire, a tutto campo. Suggestivamente polisemico, invece, si direbbe il titolo. Da una parte la coppia di verbi all’infinito allude a quel “tournant des Lumières” in conseguenza del quale alla brama di «svelare», «illuminare» e «dissotterrare», che segna il primo cinquantennio del secolo, subentra una coscienza critica nuova, affascinata dall’estetica del sublime e pronta a liberarsi del passato, considerato un peso per chi ha l’ansia di rigenerare in chiave rivoluzionaria ogni ambito non solo della cultura, ma della stessa condizione umana. D’altro canto «svelare» e «rigenerare» sono pur sempre due operazioni complementari e inscindibili: se la rigenerazione della cultura italiana è obiettivo che si pongono anche gli intellettuali della prima metà del secolo (senza che ancora, all’idea di rigenerazione, si associ quella di rivoluzione), «andare oltre le apparenze è nel Settecento un principio epistemologico di validità e applicazione universali», fatto proprio anche da chi, come ad esempio Alfieri nella "Vita", si dichiara disposto a mettere a nudo le proprie contraddizioni, offrendosi «seminudo» allo sguardo del lettore
Resoconti di Letteratura italiana. Collana diretta da Claudio Gigante. Comitato scientifico: Giancarlo Alfano (Università Federico II, Napoli), Francesco Ferretti (Università di Bologna), Claudio Gigante (Université de Bruxelles, ULB), Martino Marazzi (Università degli Studi di Milano), Giovanni Palumbo (Université de Namur).
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Microcosmi mediterranei narrati e illustrati nell’isolario dell’ingegnere militare Francesco Ferretti
No full text[EN] Flouwered in the first decades of the fifteenth century, the cartographic-literary genre of islands books constitutes a suggestive and important chapter in the history of geographical representations, despite having aroused limited interest among cartography scholars. Consisting of an organic set of representations of the various islands of the world, the "isolari" associate nautical and cartographic elements with descriptions in prose or verse on the physical, historical, political, economic but also mythological conditions of certain islands realities initially of the Mediterranean only and, a second time, of the other seas and oceans of the planet. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are the period of greatest diffusion of the isolaristics genre, with the publication of specialized works that can be considered as real thematic atlases. The treatise on the art of war known as "Diporti Notturni" fits into this vein, written by the military engineer from Ancona Francesco Ferretti in the last decades of the sixteenth century, part of which has the specific connotations of an "isolario". The investigation aims to shed light on the figure of the engineer Ferretti, on his literary production, on the peculiarities of islands of the Mediterranean world, and especially the Aegean, which has always emanated a singular charm, assuming symbolic roles at all times, also combining the myth and reality.Bertini, MA. (2024). Microcosmi mediterranei narrati e illustrati nell’isolario dell’ingegnere militare Francesco Ferretti. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/FORTMED2024.2024.18069OC
What is evolutionary pragmatics?
No full textThis chapter analyses the path from philosophical pragmatics to evolutionary pragmatics. Specifically, the first part of the essay shows how pragmatics emerges in the context of ordinary language philosophy with reference to the idea of meaning as use. The second part examines the definitions of pragmatics offered by the two main schools of thought on the subject that have developed over time: the Anglo-American tradition and the continental European tradition. The last part of the essay outlines the contours of a new line of research in the field of language origins studies: evolutionary pragmatics. The chapter proposes that considering pragmatics as the basis for the origin of human communication (and, secondarily, language) means taking into account the specific contribution of three fundamental factors: 1) selective pressures driving the evolution of communication; 2) structural preconditions (i.e. brain and cognitive structures underlying the use of language); 3) material conditions of expression (i.e. the evolution of the channel used in communicative exchange)
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