Programme

The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.

Core Documentation

Mandatory book:

- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma

One book among the following:

- Adornetti I., a cura di, 2015, Pragmatica del discorso e della conversazione, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

Type of evaluation

oral exam