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| LROM0130-1 | Questions of rhetoric and semiology
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Second Language, Professional Focus, 1st year | | 3,5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus | | 5 |
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| Master in Linguistics, Research focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General | | 5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures: General, Research Focus, 1st year | | 3,5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, General orientation, Teaching Focus , 1st year | | 3,5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in French as a Second Language (réforme du master PMFRAN), 1st year | | 3,5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General | | 3,5 |
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| Lecturer : | François Provenzano |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| After an introduction to the history and current status of rhetoric and semiology in the area of the human sciences, the course will focus on that specific topic: theories of metaphor.
This issue will be addressed primarily through Paul Ricoeur's La Métaphore vive (Paris, Seuil, 1975), which reading will be mandatory (see section below).The teacher will first introduce the main theories of metaphor; Ricoeur's work would then be used to support the discussion of more accurate theoretical issues.
The course will end with different concrete case studies on literary and non-literary corpus.
Students will have themselves to produce a case study on a freely chosen corpus. The concrete modalities of this work will be discussed and negociated at the beginning of the course. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| By the end of the course, students will be able to :
- know the main historical and conceptual steps of the development of rhetoric and semiology among human sciences and literary studies;
- know and locate the main theories of metaphor;
- read and discuss a hard theoretical piece of work;
- produce an original and sharp case study on a literary or non-literary cultural production. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Students should have studied linguistics or semiotics in some form, prior to taking this course. The instructor will frequently refer to aspects of teaching points in semiotics or linguistics that he articulated during the first cycle. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course will at first consist in a series of lectures, and then the instructor will make assignments to students for seminar-type presentations. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face only. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Mandatory reading:
Paul RICŒUR, La Métaphore vive, Paris, Seuil, 1975, études I, II, III, V, VII.
Selected bibliography:
Aristote, Poétique, trad. J. Hardy, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1932.
Aristote, Rhétorique, Livres I et II : texte établi et traduit par Médéric Dufour, Livre III : texte établi et traduit par Médéric Dufour et André Wartelle, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1961-1973.
Barthes (Roland), « L'ancienne rhétorique : aide-mémoire », Communications, 16.Recherches rhétoriques (1970), Paris, Seuil, coll. « Points-Essais », 1994, pp. 254-333.
Benveniste (Émile), « Sémiologie de la langue » [1969], Problèmes de linguistique générale, t. 2, Paris, Gallimard, 1974, pp. 43-66.
Black (Max), Models and Metaphors, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1962.
Eco (Umberto), Les Limites de l'interprétation, Paris, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1992.
Fontanier (Pierre), Les Figures du discours, Paris, Flammarion, 1977.
Genette (Gérard), « La rhétorique restreinte » [1970], Communications, 16.Recherches rhétoriques, Paris, Seuil, coll. « Points-Essais », 1994, pp. 233-253.
Groupe µ, Rhétorique générale, Paris, Larousse, 1970 [Seuil, 1982].
Groupe µ, Traité du signe visuel, Paris, Seuil, 1992.
Jakobson (Roman), « Deux aspects du langage et deux types d'aphasie » [1956], dans Essais de linguistique générale, Paris, Minuit, coll. « Arguments », 1963, pp. 43-67.
Lakoff (Georges) & Johnson (Mark), Les Métaphores dans la vie quotidienne, Paris, Minuit, 1985.
Le Guern (Michel), Sémantique de la métaphore et de la métonymie, Paris, Larousse, 1973.
Schlanger (Judith), Les Métaphores de l'organisme, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1995 [Vrin, 1971].
Shibles (Warren A.), Metaphor : an Annotated Bibliography and History, Whitewater Wisconsin, Language Press, 1971. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Marking is based on results of an oral examination, taking place during the regular exam session. The examination covers 1) encyclopaedic knowledge presented in lectures, 2) analytical ability, tested using a particular case, 3) oral defence of a written exposition, whose content, method and time for completion will be arranged in consultation with the instructor.
Participation by students in course activities will be taken into consideration in assigning marks. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course will take place on Fridays, 2nd Term, from 3 to 5 PM, classroom A2/4/12. Students who are interested in this course can contact the teacher by September 2012 to ask their questions. |
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Contacts :
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| Surgery hours : Wednesdays, 10 to 12 AM, office A2/4/4.
Mail : Francois.Provenzano@ulg.ac.be
Tel. office : 04 366 56 45.
Secretary : V. Hamoir and C. Jouck. |
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