Aesthetics and Language

Code:

CL004

Acronym:

ELING

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Linguistics

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://www.davidpinhobarros.com/Estetica-e-LinguagemAesthetics-and-Language
E-learning page:	https://moodle.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	6	study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Through a theoretical and contextual perspective, as well as through case studies, this course aims to provide a set of introductory references on language as an aesthetic object, introducing arguments, examples and bibliography that alert to the complexity of the sensitive values of language. The first three topics will discuss theoretical approaches to language that bring it close to aesthetics and ideology, as well as matrixes that point to the importance of the corporal and spatial nature of the word. In the last three topics, in turn, these matrixes will be illustrated and tested in contexts stemming from different communicational and artistic practices in which the written word assumes a fundamental role: silent cinema, animation and comics.

Learning outcomes and competences

On completion of the course, students are expected to be able to identify and develop a critical eye on the multiple aesthetic dimensions of verbal communication.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Considerations on style and taste
2. The written image and the iconotext
3. Communication, myth and ideology
4. Poetics of the intertitle in silent cinema
5. Metalepsis and the body of words in animation
6. Aesthetics, language and sign in comics

Mandatory literature

Gaut, Berys & McIver Lopes, Dominic (eds.); The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 978-0415290227
Gil, José; A Arte Como Linguagem, Relógio D'Água, 2010. ISBN: 978-9896412029
Molinié, Georges; De la beauté, Hermann, 2012. ISBN: 978-2705682378
Prodi, Giorgio; L'uso estetico del linguaggio, Il Mulino, 1983. ISBN: 978-8815002082

Complementary Bibliography

Barthes, Roland; Mythologies, Points, 2014. ISBN: 978-2757841754
Christin, Anne-Marie; L’Image écrite ou La déraison graphique, Flammarion, 2009. ISBN: 978-2081228900
Crafton, Donald; Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928, University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 978-0226116679
Croce, Benedetto; Estetica, Adelphi, 1990. ISBN: 978-8845907784
Desideri, Fabrizio; Forme dell'estetica. Dall'esperienza del bello al problema dell'arte, Editori Laterza, 2004. ISBN: 978-8842074762
Eisner, Lotte H.; L'Écran démoniaque, Ramsay, 2006. ISBN: 978-2859564537
Gerbier, Laurent; Hybridations. Les rencontres du texte et de l'image, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2014. ISBN: 978-2869063624
Louvel, Liliane; Texte/Image. Images à lire, textes à voir, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016. ISBN: 978-2753547407
Marie, Michel; Le Cinéma muet, Cahiers du cinéma, 2005. ISBN: 978-2866424398
Ngai, Sianne; Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0674088122
Peeters, Benoît; Lire la bande dessinée, Flammarion, 2010. ISBN: 978-2081244856
Philippe, Gilles; Le Rêve du style parfait, PUF, 2013. ISBN: 978-2130620938
Pierrot, Anne Herschberg; Le style en mouvement: Littérature et art, Belin Éditions, 2005. ISBN: 978-2701141459
Ross, Kristin; Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture, MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 978-0262680912
Schlanger, Judith; Trop dire ou trop peu: La densité littéraire, Hermann, 2016. ISBN: 978-2705691677
Thomson-Jones, Katherine; Aesthetics and Film, Continuum, 2008. ISBN: 978-0826485236

Teaching methods and learning activities

Oral lecturing supported by Keynote presentations, collective analysis of texts and images, viewing of film excerpts, debates with students and a conference with a guest speaker. The language used in the classes will be Portuguese, but students, if they so choose, will also have the option of submitting their final work in English, Italian or French.

keywords

Humanities > Arts
Humanities > Literature
Humanities > Philosophy

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	70,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho de investigação	25,00
Trabalho escrito	26,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable.

Calculation formula of final grade

Assessment will be the result of the average between the following components, all of which are mandatory: questions for the guest speaker (25%), essay (25%) and exam (50%). The non-fulfillment, by any student, of one or more of the evaluation components will imply the failure of the curricular unit with the classification "RFC" ("failed due to lack of component"). In addition, any attempt at plagiarism or copying will result in the attribution of the score of 0 to the assessment component in which it is detected.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students and students with special educational needs are allowed to request, before the first moment of assessment, exemption from the components of the questions for the guest speaker and the essay, and in that case the exam is worth 100% of the grade.

Classification improvement

Only the component of the exam can be resat or improved.