OJ416 Semantics and semiotics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Nothing but for the sake of contrast, it is good to have some experience with a functional-structural description of grammar (e.g. OJ202) and lexicon.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 1 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/1, only registered: 0/1
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The objectives of the course are to introduce student to the functional-structuralist way from morphemes, minimal language signs, to a linguistic description of the content of a particular text.
Syllabus
  • 1) Semantics of natual language. 2) Three traditons of the sing. 3) Morpheme as a minimal sing. 4) Semata 5) Semata in morphems as a product of existence of other morphems in the same texts. 6) Isotopy and isosemy 7) Relation to hermeneutics and poetics.
Literature
  • GREIMAS, Algirdas Julien. Sémantique structurale : Recherche de méthode. Paris: PUF, 1986, 262 s. ISBN 2-13-039308-X. info
  • POTTIER, Bernard. Sémantique générale. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1992, 237 s. ISBN 2-13-044159-9. info
  • RASTIER, François. Sémantique et recherches cognitives. 2e éd., cor. et augm. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2001, 272 s. ISBN 213052351X. info
  • LYONS, John. Linguistic semantics : an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xvi, 376. ISBN 0521438772. info
  • DUCROT, Oswald and Jean-Marie SCHAEFFER. Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences du langage. Edited by Marielle Abrioux. Paris: Seuil, 1995, 817 s. ISBN 2020381818. info
  • POTTIER, Bernard. Thérie et analyse en linquistique. Paris: Hachette, 1992, 239 s. ISBN 2-01-018719-9. info
  • Einführung in den Strukturalismus. Edited by Oswald Ducrot - François Wahl. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1973, 479 s. ISBN 3-518-07610-8. info
  • Qu'est-ce que le structuralisme? Edited by Oswald Ducrot - Tzvetan Todorov - Dan Sperber - Moustafa Safouan - Fra. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1968, 445 stran. info
  • LYONS, John. Structural semantics : an analysis of part of the vocabulary of Plato. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967, 237 s. info
  • KIEFER, Ferenc and Samuel ABRAHAM. A Theory of Structural Semantics. Paris: Mouton and Co., 1966, 98 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written exam consisting in two parts: 1) notional apparatus, 2) analysis of a concrete text
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Mimořádný běh pouze pro individuální studijní plán. Řádně vypsáno bude na jaře 2015.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2016.
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