SubjectsSubjects(version: 970)
Course, academic year 2008/2009
   Login via CAS
Semiotics - JJM008
Title: Sémiotika
Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2007 to 2011
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)Schedule is not published yet, this information might be misleading.
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Otakar Šoltys, CSc.
Examination dates   Schedule   Noticeboard   
Annotation -
The semiotic course is devoted to the signs and sign systems operating in communication. The stress is laid on the media communication, especially on the semantic and pragmatic dimension of the semiosis. The aim of the course is to deepen the analysis skills and widen the interpretation possibilities of the signs and sign system used in media communication.
Last update: Šoltys Otakar, PhDr., CSc. (21.04.2008)
Aim of the course

The aim of the subject is to enrich the active participants in media discourse by semiotic knowledge helping them to produce and interpret complex communicates of the contemporary media.

Last update: Šoltys Otakar, PhDr., CSc. (21.04.2008)
Literature -

Austin, J. L (2000).: Jak dělat věci se slovy. (Oxford 1962), Praha 2001

Hjelmslev, L.(1985): Jazyk. Praha: Academia

Doubravová, J. (2002): Sémiotika v teorii a praxi. Praha: Portál

Barthes, R. (1987) Mytologie. New York: Hill and Wang

Fiske, J. (1992): Introduction to Communication Studies. London, New York: Routledge

Grice, P.(1975): Logic and Conversation. In: Syntax and Semantics.

Vol. 3 Speech Acts, Ed. Cole, J. - Morgan, L. New York, San Francisco, London

Hajičová, E. ed (1975).: Studie z transformační gramatiky I. Praha, MFF UK

Macura, Vl.(1992) : Šťastný věk. Praha: Pražská imaginace

Macura, VL.(1993): Masarykovy boty. Praha: Pražská imaginace

Mistrík, V. (1992): Vektory neverbálnej komunikácie. Bratislava: UK (skripta)

Morris, Ch., W. (1971): Writings on the general theory of signs. New York: Routledge

Piaget, J.: Inhelderová, B.(1970): Psychologie dítěte. Praha: SPN

de Saussure, F. (1989, 1995): Kurs obecné lingvistiky. Praha: Odeon

Last update: Šoltys Otakar, PhDr., CSc. (21.04.2008)
Teaching methods

The complex description of the immanent development of the semiotics with regard to the media discourse, the study of secondary literature, the functional and structural analysis of the prototypical complex communicates and media events in contemporary media discoursa, pragmatic and qualitative actualizations.

Last update: Šoltys Otakar, PhDr., CSc. (21.04.2008)
Requirements to the exam -

The regular and active presence during lectures accompanid by prepared inputs (incl. systemic study of semiotic themes in the Czech media production), and semiotic analysis of the chosen theme (from the List of themes) presented and defended during the oral examination.

Last update: Šoltys Otakar, PhDr., CSc. (21.04.2008)
Entry requirements

Magister level of FSV study of the media communication either as continuation of the bachelor level, or as a newcommer.

Last update: Šoltys Otakar, PhDr., CSc. (20.02.2010)
 
Charles University | Information system of Charles University | http://www.cuni.cz/UKEN-329.html