SEMIOTIC & PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIA

lcomu1327  2017-2018  Louvain-la-Neuve

SEMIOTIC & PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIA
5 credits
30.0 h + 10.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Campion Baptiste (compensates Verhaegen Philippe); Verhaegen Philippe;
Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
This course prolongs and gives a deeper understanding of the course on General Semiotic COMU1121. It is situated within the framework of a socio-discursive interactionism taking into account the interactions between the systems and semiotic devices in social interactions and process of socialization and organization. In this perspective, the course comes back to various dimensions of mediatized communication updated by the linguistic theories and semiotics to give a deeper understanding ot these theories and widen them to analogical signs in a broad sense (images, gestures, voice).
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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At the term of this course, the student must have acquired: - A strong critical knowledge of the main concepts from semio-pragmatic theories and from various components (linguistic, iconic) communication devices; - The capacity to apply these concepts to the analysis of the real communication devices to estimate or formulate hypothesis on their action from the point of view of social interaction and cognition.

 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The course ex cathedra analyzes the different aforesaid topics through the different linguistic and semiotic theories permitting to deepen them. The main presented themes are:
  • the psychosociological pragmatic
  • the linguistic theory of the enunciation and illocutionary speech acts
  • the relationship communication-cognition and the inferential pragmatic
  • the semio-pragmatic and the cognitive semiotics
     the notion of socio-discursive interactionnism
  • Etc.
Teaching methods
The method includes lectures and case studies in plenary session. Some controlled exercises (online and in smaller groups) allow the student to acquire the expertise necessary to the analysis of media devices
Evaluation methods
The assessment is about the theoretical mastery of the concepts and the capacity at a time to apply them to the analysis of a concrete message. This assessmentis in two parts: a noted analysis exercise conducted during the semester (5 points out of 20) and a written exam (15 points on 20).
Bibliography
Le livre de J-P. Meunier et D. Peraya, Introduction aux théories de la communication, De Boeck, 2°édition, 2004, 459 p., fait office de syllabus pour ce cours. Les supports de cours seront mis à disposition des étudiants à chaque séance via la plateforme d'apprentissa en ligne.
Faculty or entity
ESPO


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Anthropology

Bachelor in Information and Communication

Minor in Information and Communication