Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

Second term
Tuesday from 13:30 to 15:30 at 119 Marais 2200

French.

1) Familiarizing oneself with different approaches to communication (or discourse) that address the relations between communication (or discourse) and culture, identity and social interaction.
2) Being able to analyze the role of culture in different communication situations.
3) Becoming aware of the role of communication (or discourse) in producing or transforming social identities and relations (including power relations).
4) Developing one's writing skills according to the methods and standards of academic social science research.

For the Bachelor in Information and Communication :

For the Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General :

For the Bachelor in Philosophy :

For the Bachelor in Political Sciences: General :

For the Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology :

None

This course focuses on research fields or approaches that address the relations between communication and culture, or between communication and social interaction (with connections between these two perspectives).

The course content is divided in three parts :
- discourse analysis, especially critical discourse analysis ;
- the systemic approach to communication developed by the Palo Alto school (also called « pragmatics of communication ») ;
- anthropology of communication (including symbolic interactionism, proxemics and the ethnography of communication).

Using those different perspectives, the course addresses a wide range of « concrete » objects of study such as interpersonal communication, non verbal communication, organisational communication, intercultural communication, digital communication…

On the one hand, the course includes teaching sessions, with the lessons focusing on theoretical and methodological aspects and providing many concrete examples discussed in class.

On the other hand, the students are required to write an individual research paper (about 25000 signs, which means 10 pages with a 1,5 spacing) that witnesses their capacity to use wisely the course content in order to carry out a « small » research and account for it in a paper that reaches the standards of academic writting. It is discourse analysis that provides the framework for the research paper (the exact subject will have to be defined further by the student, with the support of the teaching assistant).

The assessment method is twofold :
- a written exam (graded by the professor) counting for 60% of the final grade ;
- a research paper (graded by the teaching assistant) counting for 40% of the final grade.

In order to succeed the course in June, both parts of the evaluation have to be successful (minimum 10/20). If at least one part of the evaluation is not successful, the student will get as a final grade the grade received for the least successful part. She will then have to proceed again with the failed part(s) in September. If at least one part of the final evaluation is failed in September, the student will get as a final grade the grade received for the least successful part.

Recommended readings :
- Cuche, D. (2010), La notion de culture dans les sciences sociales, Paris, La Découverte.
- Derèze, G., et Reyniers, A. (2014), Anthropologie des systèmes de communication, Bruxelles, De Boeck Supérieur.
- Fairclough, N. (1992), Discourse and Social Change, Cambridge, Polity Press.
- Goffman, E. (1967), Interaction Ritual. Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior, New Yprk, Anchor Books.
- Goffman, E. (1973), La mise en scène de la vie quotidienne. 1. La présentation de soi, Paris, Les Editions de Minuit.
- Hall, E. T. (1971), La dimension cachée, Paris, Seuil.
- Hymes, D. (1986), « Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life », in Gumperz, J., et Hymes, D. (dir.), Directions in Sociolinguistics. The Ethnography of Communication, Oxford/New-York, Basil Blackwell, pp.35-71.
- Hymes, D. (1991), Vers la compétence de communication, Paris, Le Editions Didier.
- Jørgensen, M. et Phillips, L. (2002), Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method, Londres, Sage.
- Lohisse, J., avec la collab. de Patriarche, G., et Klein, A. (2009), La communication. De la transmission à la relation, 4ème éd., Bruxelles, De Boeck.
- Machin, D., et Mayr, A. (2012), How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis. A Multimodal Introduction, Londres, Sage.
- Watzlawick, P. Helmick Beavin, J., et Jackson Don D. (1972), Une logique de la communication, Paris, Seuil.
- Winkin, Y. (2001), Anthropologie de la communication. De la théorie au terrain, Paris, Seuil.
- Winkin, Y. (1981) (textes recueillis et présentés par), La Nouvelle Communication, Paris, Seuil.