Un programma per la filosofia del linguaggio nel lavoro teorico demauriano degli anni Sessanta

Tullio De Mauro's contribution to the Philosophy of language is reviewed, with reference to his books and papers dating back to the 1960s. Attention is paid mainly to his well-known commentary (1967) on Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale (1916, 1922), his discussion of Wittgenstein's concept of language 'use', and his works in the field of semantics (see esp. Senso e significato, 1971). It is argued that De Mauro put forward an original, semantics-based, theory of language which challenged the mainstream generative trend.