Analysis of auditive languages
[COMU2220]
[45h] 5 credits
Teacher(s): Thierry De Smedt, Sébastien Fevry
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
a good understanding of the semiotic models and concepts relating to analogue messages;
the ability to analyse the semantic content of an analogue message, and to formulate hypotheses on this reception
Targeted skills:
A capacity for conscious listening to, and interpretation of, the auditive dimension of face-to-face and media communications.
Inter-disciplinary theoretical basis for an analysis of the auditive dimension of communication.
An analysis in communicational terms of certain typical cultural practices reliant on particular auditive forms of communication (e.g. demonstrations, sport, the theatre, radio, television and the cinema).
A critical skill with regard to the main general models of communication, based on theoretical questions raised by study of the auditive and its social uses..
Main themes
The principal topics to be approached are:
- the definition of the field of the analogical communications relative to that of the digital communications;
- various types of analogical signs; - the problem of the direction of the analogical signs;
- the problem of the relation implied by the analogical communication;
- the problem relating to the phenomena of perception, cognition and representation related to the analogical communication;
- physique of the sound one
- psychophysiology of the sound one
- concept of landscape sound
- the organizing role of the sound in the genesis of the communication
- the voice and identity
- sémiopragmatique of the sound communication
- the mediatized sound: applications acousmatic, radiophonic, theatrical, cinematographic and televisual.
- theses on the role of the sound communication in the social interaction.
The authoritative review includes meetings of listening with accompanying notes.
Content and teaching methods
the psychological genesis of images;
the perception of images and the psychological phenomena involved (e.g. participation and identification);
the semiological model of meaning (denotation and connotation), and criticism thereof;
the question of polysemia;
metaphor and metonymy at the root of analogue meaning;
the relationship between image and cognition.
Methodology: The course will include lectures illustrated by analyses of concrete examples of images and other kinds of analogue signs. There will also be analytical exercises to be completed by small groups.
- Physics of the auditive.
- Psycho-physiology of the auditive.
- The notion of the auditive landscape.
- The organisational role of sound in the genesis of organisation.
- Voice and identity.
- Semio-pragmatics of auditive communication.
- Media sound: ACOUSMATIQUE radiophonic, theatrical, cinematographic and televisual applications.
- Papers on the role of auditive communication in social interaction.
The lecture will include listening sessions with commentaries.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Course requirements: The course followed by students on the second year of the first cycle.
Assessment will include a theoretical section, and another sector involving concrete analysis.
Help from an Assistant in supervising exercise is desirable