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General Semiotics [COMU1121]
[30h+10h exercises] 4 credits

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Teacher(s):

Philippe Verhaegen

Language:

French

Level:

First cycle

>> Aims
>> Main themes
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Aims

By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- present and discuss the principal theoretical and conceptual frameworks used in the study of sign systems (digital and analogue)
- situate Semiology within the field of Communication Sciences and within the broader field of Social Sciences
- conduct a methodical and detailed analysis of elementary semiotic devices (text and image-based media)

Main themes

During lectures, students will be taught the general theory of signs including:
- an introduction to Saussurian Linguistics (syntax and semantics) and Structural Semiology (Buyssens, Priéto, Hjelmslev, Barthes, Eco etc.)
- an introduction to Linguistic Pragmatics (analysis of deictic and interactional contexts, Austin, Searle and Ducrot) and General Pragmatics (Jakobson, Bateson and Goffman)
- an introduction to Inferential Semiotics (Peirce, Sperber and Wilson)
Practical exercise sessions will be given on:
- how to apply the concepts and notions discussed in the theoretical part of the course to a range of corpora from different areas of society (such as journalism, science, political propaganda)
- how to carry out a methodical semiotic analysis

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

Supervision: The ten hours of practical exercises are in the form of project work which will be supported and supervised by members of the scientific personnel.
Additional Information: this course is part of the Minor in Information and Communication

Other credits in programs

COMU11BA

Première année de bachelier en information et communication

(4 credits)

Mandatory

COMU1PM

Année d'études préparatoires au master en information et communication (60 et 120)

(4 credits)

Mandatory

LING1PM

Année d'études préparatoires au master en linguistique

(4 credits)



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