Social Semiotics

Content

Objective

The aim of this course is to provide a semiotic approach to the analysis of social practices. In this course situations and objects that constitute our social environment will be considered as discourses. The sense created by social practices
will be analysed.

Course Content

Socio-semiotics allows for the analysis of social, political and everyday objects. It takes them into account in their communicative and interactional contexts. The course consists of analyses of social-semiotics.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will learn the foundations and principles of semiotics as well as the methods and topics of social semiotics. They will be able to apply semiotics and socio-semiotics to social and communicational objects. They will be able to analyze how meaning arises in these objects. They will acquire a method that they can apply to their own research and a new way of looking at things.

References

Books
BARTHES R., Mythologies, Seuil,1957.
KRESS, G., and VAN LEEUWEN, T. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design.
London: Routledge,1996. 
KRESS, G. and VAN LEEUWEN, T, Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of
Contemporary Communication. Arnold, London, 2001. 
MORRIS C.W., Foundations of the theory of sign, Chicago, University of Chicago
Press, 1938. 59 p.
PEIRCE C.S., The collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Vols. I-VIII (the
electronic edition). Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1931.
BOUTAUD J.-J., Sémiotique et communication – du signe au sens, Paris,
L’Harmattan, 1998.
SCHÜTZ A., LUCKMANN T., The structures of the Life-World, Vol. I, Evanston,
Northwestern University Press, 1973.
SEMPRINI A., La marque, une puissance fragile, Vuibert, 2005.
SEMPRINI A., Analyser la communication 2, Collection Champs visuels,
L’Harmattan, 2007.
VAN LEEUWEN, T. (2005). Introducing Social Semiotics. London/New York:
Routledge.


Articles
Gill Abousnnouga & David Machin (2011) The changing spaces of war commemoration: a multimodal analysis of the discourses of British monuments, Social Semiotics

Elisabetta Adami (2018): Shaping public spaces from below: the vernacular
semiotics of Leeds Kirkgate Market, Social Semiotics,

Patricia Camilleri, Object~ Space and the :Museum:a semiotic approachMalta Archaeological Review • Issue 5 2001

David Chapman & Louise K. Wilson (2011) The caress of the audible: Resounding Falkland , Social Semiotics, 21:4, 517-529

Marion Colas-Blaise et Gian Maria Tore Les pratiques muséales : une étude sémiotique sur l’expérience spectatorielle et ses médiations

Amir Sasan Hadian & Mahyar Arefi (2016) Metaphor, analogy, and the discourse of originality: five Iranian case studies, Social Semiotics, 26:5, 541-562,

Mojtaba Sokhanvar Dastjerdi & Rafooneh Mokhtarshahi Sani (2015) Linking the past and present through symbolic housing features: North Cyprus, Social Semiotics, 25:5,

Halime Yücel (2021) Cultural identity in Turkish advertisements, Social Semiotics, 31:2, 305-323.

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