Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
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.
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 and the analysis of a visual discourse (photographic, pictorial). The focus is not upon the ability to reproduce the minute details of this subject, but about the understanding and application of theories and methodologies. 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, Department for Roman Languages and Literature
3-5 Place Cockerill, 4000 Liège, tel. 04.366.5946.
Secretariat: Tel. 04 366 56 50