Alan H. Gardiner: dall'egittologia alla pragmatica linguistica

In this paper an attempt will be made to introduce Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879-1963), a well-known egyptologist, as a philosopher of language. Philosophy of language, in Gardiner’s conception, represented an interest of basical importance even for the advance of the egyptological science and went through a large part of his life, starting from the article written in 1919 and arriving to the one published in 1951. Gardiner is one of the main exponents of a protopragmatic current diffused between the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century, that conceived language as an instrument deeply settled in society. This pragmatics avant la lettre demonstrated its ability in drawing on numerous disciplines such as anthropology, psychology and sociology, becoming able to develop in advance and in a more complex way the concept of act of speech as theorized in morrisian pragmatics. Thorough the study of the act of speech as conceived in Gardiner (1932), the principal aspe

L'articolo si propone come una presentazione preliminare delle idee filosofico-linguistiche di Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879-1963), illustre egittologo inglese, ma, al contempo, arguto linguista. Ci si concentra in particolare sui concetti di act of speech e sulla dicotomia speech/language.