Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
After an introduction to the history and current status of rhetoric and semiology in the area of Humanities, the course will focus on that specific topic: ethos.
This issue will be addressed primarily through Ruth Amossy's La Présentation de soi. Ethos et identité verbale, which reading will be mandatory.
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.
As a preparation to the final examination, and on request from the students, the last session of the course will be dedicated to the topic of verbal interactions.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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 Humanities and literary studies;
- know and locate the main theories of ethos;
- read and discuss a hard theoretical piece of work;
- produce an original and sharp case study on a literary or non-literary cultural production;
- deal with a verbal interaction such as an oral examination at the university.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course will at first consist in a series of lectures, and then the instructor will make assignments to students for seminar-type presentations.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face only.
Recommended or required readings
Mandatory reading:
Ruth Amossy, La Présentation de soi. Ethos et identité verbale, Paris, PUF, 2010.
Selected bibliography :
Adam (Jean-Michel) & Bonhomme (Marc), 1997. L'argumentation publicitaire. Rhétorique de l'éloge et de la persuasion, Paris, Nathan.
Angenot (Marc), 1989. 1889. Un état du discours social, Québec, Le Préambule.
Angermuller (Johannes), Maingueneau (Dominique) & Wodak (Ruth) (dir.), The Discourse Studies Reader. Main Currents in Theory and Analysis, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Aristote, 1990. Les Topiques, trad. et notes de J. Tricot, Paris, Vrin.
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.
Berthelot-Guiet (Karine), Analyser les discours publicitaires, Paris, Armand Colin, 2015.
Doury (Marianne), Argumentation. Analyser textes et discours, Paris, Armand Colin, 2016.
Fontanille (Jacques), Pratiques sémiotiques, Paris, PUF, 2008.
Goffman (Erving), La Mise en scène de la vie quotidienne. 1. La Présentation de soi, Paris, Minuit, 1973.
Groupe µ, Rhétorique générale, Paris, Larousse, 1970 [Seuil, 1982].
Groupe µ, Traité du signe visuel, Paris, Seuil, 1992.
Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Catherine), L'Énonciation. De la subjectivité dans le discours, Paris, Armand Colin, 1980.
Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Catherine), Le Discours en interaction, Paris, Armand Colin, 2005.
Krieg-Planque (Alice), Analyser les discours institutionnels, Paris, Armand Colin, 2012.
Maingueneau (Dominique), « Problèmes d'ethos », Pratiques, 2002, 113-114, p. 55-67.
Assessment methods and criteria
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.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course will take place on Fridays, 2nd Term, from 3 to 5 PM, classroom A2/4/12.
Resumption : Friday 7th February 2019.
Students who are interested in this course can contact the teacher by September 2019 to ask their questions.
Contacts
Teacher
François PROVENZANO, Professor
Département de Langues et littératures françaises et romanes
Service de Sciences du langage et rhétorique
Place Cockerill, 3-5, bât. A2, 4000 Liège.
Tél. 04 366 56 45
Mail : Francois.Provenzano@ulg.ac.be
Surgery hours: Wednesdays, from 9.30 to 11, office A2/4/4
Secretary
Ariane Nusgens : 04 366 56 50
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
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Assessment subjects
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Assessment methods
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Contacts
Francois.Provenzano@uliege.be