Study Programmes 2016-2017
LROM0151-1  
Visual semiotics
Duration :
30h Th
Number of credits :
Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general4
Master in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English (120 ECTS)5
Master in linguistics (120 ECTS)5
Master in modern languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (60 ECTS)5
Lecturer :
Maria Giulia Dondero
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents :
  • Theories of visual signification: semiotics of the Paris School (Algirdas Julien Greimas, Jacques Fontanille) and Visual Rhetoric of the Groupe µ.
  • Methodologies for the Analysis of Visual grammar. Plastic categories: topology, form, colour, texture; semi-symbolisme. Rhetoric categories: mereology. Discursive categories: enunciation (utterance).
  • Relations between enunciation and visual meta-language. 
  • Autography and Allography by N. Goodman: the problem of support and inscription in relation with L. Hjelmslev's Theory (purport, substance, form).
  • Analysis of artistic, advertising, documentary and scientific images.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
  • Initiating students into theoretical and methodological issues of visual semiotics.
  • Giving students the tools to analyse and interpret visual languages in different fields of use (artistic, scientific, advertising).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Duration and period: 30 hours teaching in the 1st term.
Location and times of teaching: Salle Wittert, Mondays from 4pm to 6.30pm. See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
Recommended or required readings :
Required readings:
Pierluigi Basso Fossali and Maria Giulia Dondero, Sémiotique de la photographie, Limoges, Pulim, 2011 (from p. 19 to p. 142).


On Enunciation in Visual Language : Maria Giulia Dondero, « L'énonciation énoncée dans l'image », L'énonciation aujourd'hui. Un concept clé des sciences du langage, Colas-Blaise, Perrin, Tore (eds), Limoges, Lambert Lucas, pp. 343-369, 2016. URL : http://hdl.handle.net/2268/176921
 
Hamid Reza Shairi & Jacques Fontanille,  « Approche sémiotique du regard photographique : deux empreintes de l'Iran contemporain », Actes sémiotiques, 73-74-75, 2001, URL : http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/jacques.fontanille/articles_pdf/visuel/semiotiqueregarddanslesphotosorientales.pdf, 2001.
 
Maria Giulia Dondero, « Voir en art, voir en sciences », Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique, 17, pp. 139-159, 2016. URL : http://hdl.handle.net/2268/199271 
 
On the relation between support and inscription:
 
Jacques Fontanille, "Du support matériel au support formel" , in Arabyan & Klock-Fontanille (eds). L'Écriture entre support et surface, Paris : L'Harmattan, pp. 183-200. URL : http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/jacques.fontanille/articles_pdf/visuel/Ecritssupportsconclusion.pdf.
 
Maria Giulia Dondero & Everardo Reyes Garcia, « Les supports des images : photographie et images numériques », Revue Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication, 9, 2016. https://rfsic.revues.org/2124 URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2268/199023
  
On the plastic-figurative analysis of image:
Félix Thürlemann, « Blumen-Mythos (1918) de P. Klee », Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle, A. Hénault et A. Beyaert-Geslin (eds), Paris, P.U.F, 2004.
 
On the statutes of images:
Maria Giulia Dondero, « Les aventures du corps et de l'identité dans la photographie de mode », Actes sémiotiques, 117, 2014. URL: http://epublications.unilim.fr/revues/as/4979 et http://hdl.handle.net/2268/153052 
  
Assessment methods and criteria :
Assessment consists of a written exam. The exam includes seven open questions plus an analysis of a text (photographic, pictorial). The focus is not upon the ability to reproduce the minute details of this subject, but about the understanding and application of knowledge. Corrected copies can be consulted by students in the lecturer's office.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Some authors of articles will be invited to give presentations.
Contacts :
Lecturer Maria Giulia Dondero, FRS-FNRS research associate at the Department for Roman Languages and Literature 3-5 Place Cockerill, 4000 Liège, tel. 04.366.5946.
Secretariat: Tel. 04 366 56 50