1st Psychology Assistant - Bachelor

Linguistics and Semiotics

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ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffCORNELIS, Annelore; Henry, Anaïs
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-PSY00039/1
Prerequisite

General knowledge acquired through the secondary school

Aims and Objectives

On completion of the course, the student will have to master and apply the basic concepts of linguistics and semiotics in everyday life situations (advertising, print, …)

Description

Linguistics :

 

  • Distinction between « langue » and « parole »
  • The functions of language
  • Code and system
  • The sign (signifier and signified), the referent
  • Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
  • The dichotomy « arbitraire » versus « motivé »
  • Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
  • Elements of psycholinguistics
  • The double articulation : monemes and phonemes.
  • Denotation, connotation and metalanguage
  • Notion of semantics
  • Notion of pragmatics
  • Notion of rhetoric

 

Semiotics :

 

  • Specific semiotics and applied semiotics
  • Semiotics of communication and semiotics of signification
  • Classification of signs
  • Index, icon and symbol

Elements of visual semiotics : iconic signs and plastic signs

Bibliography

Barthes, Roland, L’Aventure sémiologique, Paris, le Seuil, 1985.

Dubois, Jean et al., Dictionnaire de linguistique, Paris, Larousse, 1973.

Ducrot, Oswald et Todorov, Tzvetan, Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences du langage, Paris, Seuil, Coll. “Points”, 1972.

Eco, Umberto, Le signe, adapté de l’italien par Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Bruxelles, Labor, Coll. “ Média ”, 1990.

Groupe µ, Rhétorique générale, Paris, Seuil, Coll. “ Points ”, 1982.

Groupe µ, Traité du signe visuel. Pour une rhétorique de l’ima

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

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