UCL - SEMIOTIC & PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIA

[COMU1327]

[30h + 10h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Philippe Verhaegen

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the term of this course, the student must have acquired:
- A strong critical knowledge of the main concepts from semio-pragmatic theories and from various components (linguistic, iconic) communication devices;
- The capacity to apply these concepts to the analysis of the real communication devices to estimate or formulate hypothesis on their action from the point of view of social interaction and cognition.

Main themes

This course prolongs and gives a deeper understanding of the course on General Semiotic COMU1121. It is situated within the framework of a socio-discursive interactionism taking into account the interactions between the systems and semiotic devices in social interactions and process of socialization and organization. In this perspective, the course comes back to various dimensions of mediatized communication updated by the linguistic theories and semiotics to give a deeper understanding ot these theories and widen them to analogical signs in a broad sense (images, gestures, voice).

Content and teaching methods

The course ex cathedra analyzes the different aforesaid topics through the different linguistic and semiotic theories permitting to deepen them. The main lapresented nded themes are :
- the psychosociological pragmatic
- the linguistic theory of the enunciation and acts illocutionnaires
- the relationship communication-cognition and the inferential pragmatic ,
- the semio-pragmatic and the cognitive semiotics
- the notion of socio-discursive interactionnisme,
- ...

The method includes lectures and case studies in plenary session.
Some controlled exercises allow the student to acquire the expertise necessary to the analysis of media devices

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pre-requisite: General semiotics
Assessment: The assessment is about the theoretical mastery of the concepts and the capacity at a time to apply them to the analysis of a concrete message.
Support: The book of J.P. Miller and D.Peraya, Introduction to the theories of the communication, Of Boeck, 2°édition, 2004, 459 p., serves as syllabus for this course.