The Marxist semiotician Ferruccio Rossi-Landi conducts an interdisciplinary research connecting the fields of philosophy, linguistics and social sciences. His attempt is to find a synthesis between the studies on language and on Marxism, which leads him at the end of the 1960s to conceive the thesis "language as work". In the article, my purpose is to reconstruct the genesis of this idea and to show its strengths and weaknesses, trying to understand it into the contemporary debate on the linguistic turn of economics. Beyond criticisms, Rossi-Landi has the main merit of highlighting the decisive role of the language-work pair in the description of human nature, which is distinguished from that of other animals precisely for the production of words and tools.
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Chapter Title
F. Rossi-Landi: il lavoro del linguaggio
Authors
Angelo Nizza
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.153
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919