Ricerc@Sapienza

Tullio De Mauro, a pupil of the well-known glottologist Antonino Pagliaro, had an importanti role in the histiry not only of Italian linguistics, but also of the philosophy of langage, First official professor of the discipline, he tried to give a theoretical answer to the questoions left open by the researchers of the 1940a and 1950s on the social component of language, on the interpretation to be given of Saussure's thought, on the function of semantics in a semeiological perspective. In this paper, extensive references are made to the interventions of illustrious post-war linguistis (such as Nencioni, Devoto, Terracini, Pagliaro) the frm the context in which De Mauro's theoretical project was developed.