Semiotics - 1st and 2nd semester
Code
711011042
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Clara Nunes Correia, Clara Nunes Correia
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To develop theoretical and practical skills concerning semiotics;
b) To identify the dominant strands of this field;
c) To acknowledge the latest developments of the semiotic turn;
d) To apply the aforementioned skills in the analysis of texts, images, and objects.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. What are we talking about when we talk about semiotics? The concepts of symbol, sign and system. 2. Semiotics and semiology: the European structuralist perspective. Language as a system of signs. Linguistic and non-linguistic sugns. 3. Linguistic and non-linguistic systems: R. Barthes proposals. 4. Representational issues: meaning, sense and reference concepts. 5. Interpretative paths: what they are and how they are established. 6. Case studies: 6.1. Discourse and text analyses. 6.2. Multimodal analysis (the role of images).
Bibliography
Barthes, Roland, [1967] 1971. O sistema da Moda. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Eco, Umberto, (2015). Número Zero. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Eco, Umberto, (2016) Pape Satàn Aleppe. Crónicas de uma Sociedade Líquida. Lisboa: Relógio dÁgua.
Petrilli, Susan & A. Ponzio (2007) Semiotics Today. From Global Semiotics to Semioethics, a Dialogic Response. Signs vol. 1: pp. 29-127.
Kress, G. & T. van Leeuwen, (1996). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge.
Nöth, Winfried. 1995. Handbook of Semiotics. Bloomington / Indianapolis: Indiana University.
Peirce, C. S. (1931-1958). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. C. Hartshorne, P. Weiss, & A. Burks. (orgs) 1940. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Teaching method
This CU is theoretical-practical level. All classes will be schelluded (with a reference to specific bibliography related to a programmatic topic).
In class teaching.
Evaluation method
Two mandatory written works done in class - 80% (40% each); autonomous work (not mandatory) - 20%.