SEMIOTICS M - Z
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
ANTONINO BONDI'
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1. knowledge and understanding
The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge of the fundamentals of communication and the structure of semiotic and signification processes. The aim of the course is to provide students with an overview of the main semiotic approaches, from a historical and theoretical perspective and with the help of case studies and pratical analyses. The course aims in particular to develop basic skills in the analysis of texts and cultural products through a semiotic methodology. The construction of a semiotic method will enable all students, at the end of the course, to possess a set of tools to be able to observe, analysing and describing different communicative and cultural phenomena from the point of view of their 'meaning'.
2. applying knowledge and understanding
Ability to link, connect and compare different positions in an articulated theoretical debate
3. learning skills
Development of analytical, synthesis and rhetorical argumentation skills to defend theses and counter them, based on appropriate philosophical methodology and rhetorical techniques.
Course Structure
Lectures, brainstorming and classroom exercises.
If the course will be taught in a blended mode or on line, the necessary changes will be made in order to comply with the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
optional
Detailed Course Content
1. The semiotic view
2. Semiotics and everyday life
3. Making sense of the world
4. How semiotics works
5. Signs and words
6. Constructing meaning
7. Textual production as a set of choices
8. The enunciation in semiotics
9. Structural semiotics and Interpretative semiotics
10. The visual domain and the aesthetic text
11. The text as a “assemblage”
12. Semiotics and Society
13. Reading and interpreting a text: Eco and the encyclopaedia
14. Interpreting, negotiating, remembering: how semiotics studies cultures as texts
Textbook Information
Texts:
- M. P. Pozzato, Capire la semiotica, Roma, Carocci, 2013, pp. 172.
- E. Grillo, Semiotica dell’investigazione, Roma, Carocci, 2014, pp. 110 (excluding the chapter IV)
- U. Eco, Lector in Fabula. La cooperazione interpretativa nei testi narrativi, Milano, La Nave di Teseo, 2020(first edition, Milano, Bompiani, 1979), cap. I-VII (162 pp.)
Other texts may be provided through the Studium platform.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).
All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References |
1 | What is semiotics? | Pozzato, premessa, cap. I, |
2 | Signs and words | Texts on Studium Platform |
3 | Types of signs | Pozzato, chap. 1-3 |
4 | What is a text? | Pozzato, chap. 4-5 |
5 | Narrativity | Pozzato, chap. 2 |
6 | Visual semiotics | Pozzato, chap. 6-8 |
7 | Textual montage | Pozzato, chap. 9-10 |
8 | A semiotic case study: advertising | Pozzato, last chap. |
9 | Semiotics and interpretation: the inferential path | Grillo, chap. 1-2 |
10 | Investigating and narrating | Grillo, chap. 3-4 |
11 | Lector in Fabula: Eco between text and encyclopedia | Eco, chap. 1 |
12 | Textual cooperation and the Model Reader | Eco, chap. 2-4 |
13 | Discursive and narrative structures | Eco, chap. 5-6 |
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