General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | SEMIOTICS AND CULTURES |
| Language | EN |
| Module lecturer | Dr Katarzyna Machtyl |
| Lecturer's email | machtylk@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | adiunkt |
| Faculty | Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies |
| Semester | 2022/2023 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 4 |
| USOS code | 20-KUDU-MA-SCE |
Timetable
Classes are held on Mondays, starting from 27th Feb, 11:30 AM, room 307 (2nd floor) building D, Fauculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Szamarzewskiego st. 89, Poznań.
The first class (i.e. on Monday 27th Feb. 2023) will be the introductory one.
Module aim (aims)
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Syllabus
Week 1: Introductory class
Week 2: Introduction to semiotics
Week 3: The history of semiotics. Ferdinand de Saussure (semiology) and Charles S. Peirce (semiotics)
Week 4: Semiotics of culture. Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School
Week 5: Dynamism, explosion, semiosphere. Semiotics of late Yuri Lotman
Week 6: Symbol
Week 7: Structuralist and postsructuralist semiotics
Week 8: The problem of representation – signs and things. Simulacrum and digitalization
Week 9: Analyzing structures I.
Week 10: Analyzing structures II. Visual Semiotics
Week 11: Rhetorical tropes. Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche
Week 12: Codes, denotation and connotation
Week 13: Myth in modern culture. R. Barthes
Week 14: Textual interactions. Intertextuality
Week 15: Summary
Reading list
D. Chandler, Semiotics. The Basics, Routledge 2002; D. Chandler, 2007. Semiotics. The basics, Routledge. Taylor&Francis Group, New York [available online]; D. Chandler, Semiotics – the basics, 4th edition, Routledge 2022 - the newest edition.
M. Leone, 2017. Welcome to Semiosistan!
B. Uspienski, Y. Lotman, 1978. On the Semiotic Mechanism of Culture, New Literary History, The University of Virginia.
Y. Lotman, 2009. Culture and explosion, Ed. by Grishakova, Marina, Transl. by Clark, Wilma, De Gruyter Mouton.
Y. Lotman, 2001 [1990]. Universe of the Mind: a Semiotic Theory of Culture, London, New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers.
Y. Lotman, 2005 [1984]. On the semiosphere, “Sign Systems Studies” 33(1), 205-229.
R. Posner, 2011. Post-modernism, post-structuralism, post-semiotics? Sign theory at the fin de siècle, „Semiotica” 183–1/4, 9–30.
J. Baudrillard, 2001. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, Seagull Books.
R. Barthes, 1997. Mythologies, New York : Hill and Wang.