67007 - Analysis Methodologies (2) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course deepens the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the semiotic discipline, continuing the work of the course of Methodologies (1).

Course contents

The Methodology 2 course aims at deepening the knowledge of the methodological tools introduced during the course of Methodologies 1, also widening the field of application of these ones. For this reason, the course will be divided into three modules of 10 hours each (corresponding to 5 lessons), in an order that will be defined near the beginning of the course: a module that we will call Semiotics and cooking, in which we will analyze the universe of food and its communication; a module that we will call Semiotics of places, in which urban and spatial realities in general will be analyzed from the morphological, practical and representational point of view; a module that we will call Semiotics of the Literary text, in which specific tools and examples will be introduced for both prose and poetry texts.

Readings/Bibliography

Alice Giannitrapani, Introduzione alla semiotica dello spazio, Carocci, 2013

Maria Pia Pozzato, cap. “Genres of maps of places of origin. A semiotic survey” in Visual and linguistic Representation of Places of Origin, Springer 2018

Daniela Panosetti, Semiotica del testo letterario, Carocci, 2015

Daniele Barbieri, Il linguaggio della poesia, Bompiani, 2011

Gianfranco Marrone, La cucina del senso: gusto, significazione, testualità, ed. Mimesis 2012

Jean-Jacques Boutaud, Il senso goloso. Inizio modulo

La commensalità, il gusto, gli alimenti, ed. ETS, 2012

For the purpose of the examination, the bibliography can be adapted according to the chosen corpus.

Assessment methods

Students can form working groups and choose which of the three modules to focus their analysis on. Their analysis will be exposed in powerpoint. Non-attending students must equally choose which of the three areas to focus their examination work on, which will consist of a term paper agreed with the teacher.

Unlike Methodologies 1, the groups will work independently, on a corpus agreed with the teacher, without preliminary meetings for the development of the analysis. There will not even be a multiple choice test as foreseen for Methodologies 1, but only the oral presentation of the work.

Teaching tools

Nothing specific except slides and any hand outs

Office hours

See the website of Maria Pia Pozzato