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Semiotics of Folk Culture

ОК 23

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2023/2024

5 Semester

3

PLO 2. Analyze, comment on, and summarize scientific and analytical texts of ethnocultural nature. PLO 4. To know and understand theoretical approaches to the definition of culture, its manifestations and forms. PLO 7. Understand the factors of ethnocultural dynamics, the principles of periodization of ethnocultural processes, their specific features and characteristics. PLO 10. Recognize and classify different types of ethnocultural products, determine their qualitative characteristics based on comprehensive analysis.

Full-time form

To study this discipline, students should use the knowledge and skills formed while studying СС.13 "Ukrainian Ceremonial Culture", СС.11 "Introduction to Ethnocultural Studies", СС.29 "Ukrainian Verbal Culture". Should know basic culturological concepts and terms, patterns of development and structure of cultural phenomena; Be able to collect and interpret information about the phenomena of folk culture, work with various sources of scientific information; To have elementary skills of analysis of elements of folk culture.

Purpose of discipline - familiarize with the main semiotic theories and methods of research of cultural phenomena; teach how to use them to solve semiotic problems in ethnocultural studies; to teach to recognize sign systems in traditional culture, to inculcate the skills of semiotic analysis of phenomena of traditional culture. Annotation. The educational discipline is designed to form students' understanding of culture as a semiotic space, where information is transmitted through various channels and code systems, for understanding the language of which the use of semiotic methods is required; to show the variety of symbolic means used in traditional culture, information encoding mechanisms and the process of sign creation; to learn to understand the properties of a sign and sign structures, to see as an organized message what it expresses and with the help of which elements (signs) it is constructed, which will help decipher the deep meanings of cultural phenomena.

Deely J. Basics of semiotics / Translated. from English and science ed. Anatoly Karas. Lviv: Arsenal, 2000. 232 p Ivanovska O.P. Ukrainian folklore: semantics and pragmatics traditional meanings. K., 2012. 336 p. Nadel-Chervinskaslovyan M. Slavic folklore and yogo semiotic system. Ternopil: Krok, 2012. 304 p. Journals of semiotics in the world // URL: https://www.academia.edu/5267056/Journals_of_semiotics_in_the_world International Journal on Semiotics and Sign Processes in Culture and Living Nature "Sign Systems Studie" // URL: http://www.sss.ut.ee/index.php/sss Mayerchyk M. Ritual and body. Structural and semantic analysis of Ukrainian rites of the family cycle. K., 2011. 326 р. Yankovska Zh. O. Symbolic codes of Ukrainian culture: educational and methodological manual. Ostroh: Publishing House of the National University "Ostroh Academy", 2021. 170 p. James Liszka. The Semiotic of Myth. 1989. The Semiotic Web. Edited by: Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok. 1987.

The course includes 2 content parts. Classes are held in the form of lectures and seminars. The discipline ends with an exam. The first part is an introduction to the methodological foundations of modern semiotics, basic semiotic terms and concepts, typology of signs; the interaction of cultural and language factors, the concept of a cultural text, the main stages of the formation of a myth as a symbolic system and the peculiarities of the organization of information in a ritual. The second is an analysis of the main codes and symbolic means that function in traditional culture, features of information coding in traditional culture; semiotic status of verbal and non-verbal messages and their doubling in different sign systems; Forms of education: lecture, seminar, independent work. Throughout the semester, after lectures on relevant topics, seminar classes are held, at which evaluation is carried out according to the types of work (oral response, report/presentation, control test).

Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for the evaluation of theoretical training (50%); assessment of practical training (40%); assessment of communication (10%). The semester number of points is formed by the points received by the student in the process of learning the material from all topics of the two content parts (oral answers), performing individual works (presentation, essay) and writing control papers: 36/60. For students who during the semester did not reach the minimum cut-off grade level (36 points) at the end of the semester, a final semester test is conducted or individual papers are evaluated on course topics. The maximum grade for additional assessment forms cannot exceed 40% of the maximum total points for the semester (24 points). Final evaluation in the form of an exam: the maximum number of points on the exam is 40 points, the minimum number of points that are added to the semester ones is 24 points.

Ukrainian Language