The course aims to provide students with the conceptual tools characterizing the study of language in a cognitive perspective. In particular, the course aims at providing knowledge about the processes underlying a specific aspect of language: the ability to tell stories.


At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

- reconstruct the contemporary debate on the nature of language in the framework of cognitive science.
- know the basic concepts and empirical investigations carried out in the context of the cognitive sciences of language.
- read and understand experimental scientific articles dealing with issues relating to the cognitive foundations of language.