COSTANZA NORCI

PhD Student

PhD program:: XL
email: costanza.norci@uniroma1.it




supervisor: Alessandro Prato
co-supervisor: Stefano Gensini
co-supervisor (2): Ines Adornetti

Research: Philosophy of language and animal communication. Terminologies and methods within current research paradigms

2024 - PhD student in "Documentation Studies, Linguistics and Literature", curriculum Theory of Languages, Sapienza University of Rome
2024 - Master degree in Philosophy. Thesis in Philosophy of Language, title: "La comunicazione animale tra filosofia ed etologia. Metodologie e case-studies", supervisor Stefano Gensini, co-supervisor Simone Pollo; Sapienza University of Rome
2023 - International Thesis Scholarship. Research (3 months) at Behavioral Ecology and Bioacustics Lab, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
2022 - Erasmus+ at Universität zu Köln
2021 - Bachelor Degree in Philosophy. Thesis in Philosophy of Language, title: "Jakob von Uexküll e la biosemiotica. I mondi invisibili degli animali non umani", supervisor Stefano Gensini; Sapienza University of Rome
2018 - High School Diploma at Liceo Statale Ennio Quirino Visconti, Rome

This research aims to examine the philosophical-linguistic foundations of the theoretical apparatuses used in the literature on animal communication. In particular, the research will focus on the notion of 'meaning' (around which the first systematic convergence between philosophical reflection and ethological research occurred) analysing it in its multimodal nature. An attempt will be made in order to assess the explanatory value of this notion with regard to the cognitive and communicative continuities that other species share with our own, and its possible implications for the understanding of human language origins.

Research interests: animal communication; animal cognition; non-human reference; multimodality


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