SEMIOTICS M - Z

The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge of the fundamentals of communication and the structure of semiotic and signification processes.

The aim of the course is to provide students with an overview of the main semiotic approaches, from a historical and theoretical perspective and with the aid of case studies and concrete analyses.

Lectures, brainstorming and classroom exercises.

If the course will be taught in a blended mode or at a distance, the necessary changes will be made in order to comply with the syllabus.

1. Semiotics and everyday life
2. Making sense of the world
3. How semiotics works
4. Signs and words
5. The two ways of semiotics: understanding structures and interpreting signs
6. Structural semiotics
7. Generative semiotics
8. Interpretive semiotics
9. Text semiotics
10. Applied semiotics and new problems
11. Semiotics and society
12. Reading and interpreting a text: Eco and the encyclopaedia
13. Interpreting, negotiating, remembering: how semiotics studies cultures as texts

Texts:

• T. De Mauro, Guida all’uso delle parole, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, pp. 200.
• S. Traini, Le due vie della semiotica. Teorie strutturali e teorie interpretative, Milano, Bompiani, 2006, cap. 1-7, pp. 288 (disponibile solo in e-book).
• U. Eco, Lector in Fabula. La cooperazione interpretativa nei testi narrativi, Milano, La Nave di Teseo, 2020 (1^a edizione, Milano, Bompiani, 1979), cap. 1-7, pp. 162.

Other texts may be provided through the Studium platform.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.