Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Rhetoric is the multi-secular discipline that deals with the techniques of argumentative discourse and, more generally, with the formal processes (enunciative, figurative, etc.) that make a text effective with a particular audience. This is a discipline with which students of Romance Studies, and more generally of Philosophy and Humanities, are not very familiar during their undergraduate years. Semiotics is present from the beginning of the Romanist's curriculum, but it is associated with linguistics. This course is an opportunity to situate it in a different order of problems.
After an introduction to the history and current status of rhetoric and semiology in the area of Humanities, , the course will focus on a specific problematic. This year, the course will focus on quotation and interdiscursivity, i.e. all the phenomena that arise from the presence of a second discourse within a first discourse. These phenomena touch on very old issues, such as imitation, or more recent ones, such as plagiarism or texts generated by artificial intelligence. They concern both the strictly verbal aspects of discourse and its visual or, more broadly, media dimensions. This thematic part of the course will be based on a list of compulsory readings, which will be presented in class.
As a preparation to the final examination, and on request from the students, the last session of the course will be dedicated to the topic of verbal interactions.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course, students will be able to :
- know the main historical and conceptual steps of the development of rhetoric and semiology among Humanities and literary studies;
- know and contextualize the main linguistic, semiotic and rhetoric theories of interdiscursivity;
- read and discuss a hard theoretical piece of work;
- produce an original and sharp case study on a literary or non-literary cultural production.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Students should have studied linguistics or semiotics in some form, prior to taking this course. The instructor will frequently refer to aspects of teaching points in semiotics or linguistics that he articulated during the first cycle.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course will at first consist in a series of lectures, and then the instructor will make assignments to students for seminar-type presentations.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face only.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- MyULiège
Further information:
Mandatory readings:
Authier-Revuz (Jacqueline), « Hétérogénéités(s) énonciative(s) », Langages, n° 73, 1984, p. 98-111.
Maingueneau (Dominique), « Hyperénonciateur et "particitation" », Langages, vol. 156, no 4, 2004, p. 111-126.
Lenain (Thierry), « La réénonciation dans les arts autographiques. Quelques cas, quelques problèmes », dans « Re- ». Répétition et reproduction dans les arts et les médias, sous la dir. de M. Colas-Blaise et G. M. Tore, Mimesis, 2021, p. 395-417.
Jeanneret (Yves), « Citare : mettre en mouvement » et « Énonciations éditoriale, documentaire et médiatique », dans Critique de la trivialité. Les médiations de la communication, enjeu de pouvoir, Paris, Éditions Non Standard, 2014, p. 109-141.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Further information:
Optional assignment
- Either a theoretical discussion
On one of the compulsory reading strands (see list above).
Work in groups of 2 to 4 students.
Oral presentation to the course, approx. 60 min. long, consisting of a synthesis, illustration with examples, further reading and critical discussion.
A written summary (max. 20,000 characters) is submitted to the teacher (by e-mail: Francois.Provenzano@uliege.be) one week after the presentation (taking into account any comments and discussions that may have taken place during the session); after correction, it is circulated to other students.
Registration required between 21/2 and 6/3 (on the notice board in Fr. Provenzano's office).
- Either a case analysis
Free choice of corpus and analytical perspective, to be explained in terms of the various theoretical frameworks seen in the course. All types of discourse permitted; visual discourse may be used. The work should not extend to contextualizing the corpus, but should 1/ identify a problematic; 2/ set out the chosen methodology and justify its relevance to the problematic; 3/ proceed with the analysis; 4/ present a conclusion. The analysis must respond to a need for intelligibility and/or criticism of a quotation device.
Individual work, or in groups of max. 3 students.
Opportunity to discuss work in progress.
Submission of work to the holder (by e-mail) 10 days before the exam
Exam
- two questions on the ex-cathedra lessons
- one question on the discussion presented by the students on the mandatory readings
- discussion of the case analysis
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The course will take place on Fridays, 2nd Term, from 3 to 5 PM, classroom A2/4/12.
Resumption : Friday, February 7, 2025.
Students who are interested in this course can contact the teacher by September 2024 to ask their questions.
Contacts
François PROVENZANO, Professor
Département de Langues et littératures françaises et romanes
Service de Sciences du langage et rhétorique
Place Cockerill, 3-5, bât. A2, 4000 Liège.
Tél. 04 366 56 45
Mail : Francois.Provenzano@uliege.be
Surgery hours: Wednesdays, from 9.30 to 11, office A2/4/4
Secretary
Ariane Nusgens : 04 366 56 50