Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Advanced Studies in Semiotics

Code

722011052

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Ciências da Comunicação

Credits

10

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1) Education for research in the field of semiotics and state of the art of research in several departments at national and international universities;
2) assessment of programs of textual, visual and cultural semiotics. Training in semiotic analysis.

Prerequisites

NOne.

Subject matter

The Semiotic Field - Genealogical Perspective
1) Communication and Meaning
2) Textual Semiotics
3) Visual Semiotics
4) Semiotics of Culture

Bibliography

- (dir.) Jean Petitot e Paolo Fabbri (2000), Au nom du Sens. Autour de l’oeuvre d’Umberto Eco, Paris, Grasset
- Per Aage Brandt (1995), Dynamiques du sens, Aarhus University Press
- (dir.) Anne Hénault (2002), Questions de sémiotique, Paris, PUF
- (dir.) Pierluigi Basso e Lúcia Corrain (1999), Eloquiio del senso. Dialoghi per Paolo Fabbri, costa & nolan
- Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio, Semiotics Unbounded, University of Torornto Press, 2005

Teaching method

Regime of seminar: Presentation and analysis of the proposed objects; Discussion and justification of perspectives.

Evaluation method

Introducing the theme of work and justification of literature.
Discussion of the proposal.
Written work on predetermined theme.

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