ESA132 Semiotics and the Theory of Communication

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
An Introduction to Philosophy An Introduction to Aesthetics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is 1. to introduce semiotics as a vital branch offering basic concepts for aesthetic analysis, 2. to offer art as well as its critics as a sign activity sui generis. Theories, concepts and methods are assigned to abovementioned spheres.
Learning outcomes
Student is able to analyze an work of art in a semiotic way.
Syllabus
  • sign, significance syntax, semantics, pragmatics Peirce, Saussure, Frege meaning and art critics role of epistemology in art valuing codes, decoding abduction, inference on the best explanation constructivism aesthetic realism, modernism gestalt emotive-valuing sign semantic gesture symptomaticity, aysmptomaticity archetyp, type – token – tone
Literature
  • SEDLÁČEK, Marek. Eco, Umberto. Teorie sémiotiky (A Theory of Semiotics) (A Theory of Semiotics). (Translated by Marek Sedláček). 1st ed. Brno: JAMU, 2004, 410 pp. JAMU. ISBN 80-85429-99-3. info
  • NAGEL, Ernest and James R. NEWMAN. Gödelův důkaz. Edited by Douglas R. Hofstadter. 1. vyd. Brno: Vutium, 2003, xxiii, 126. ISBN 80-214-2369-2. info
  • PEIRCE, Charles Sanders. Sémiotika. Edited by Bohumil Palek. 2. přeprac. vyd. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1997, viii, 335. ISBN 8071843563. info
  • PEIRCE, Charles Sanders. Sémiotika. Edited by Bohumil Palek. 2. přeprac. vyd. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1997, viii, 335. ISBN 8071843563. info
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Základy hudební sémiotiky. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 303 s. ISBN 8021005661. info
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Základy hudební sémiotiky. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 233 s. ISBN 8021003731. info
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Základy hudební sémiotiky. D. 3. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1992. ISBN 80-210-0567-X. info
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Pojmosloví hudební komunikace. Vyd. 1. Brno: Rektorát Masarykovy univerzity, 1991, 114 s. ISBN 80-210-0245-X. info
  • KARBUSICKÝ, Vladimír. Grundriss der musikalischen Semantik. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1986, ix, 316 s. ISBN 3-534-01785-4. info
  • ECO, Umberto. A theory of semiotics. 1st Midland book ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979, ix, 354. ISBN 0253359554. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Ivo. Divadlo, které mluví, zpívá a tančí : teorie jedné komunikační formy. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1974, 242 s. URL info
  • ECO, Umberto. Einführung in die Semiotik. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1972. ISBN 3-7705-0633-2. info
Teaching methods
Regular lectures and class discussions.
Assessment methods
The course is finalized by a written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Teacher's information
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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