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In the evaluation of the student's performance, special emphasis is placed on evaluating the extent to which the student:
" is familiar with the linguistic mechanisms which underpin the meaning effect of a sentence;
" is able to link specific linguistic constructions to more general cognitive skills;
" demonstrates understanding of the way the world of human experience is reflected in linguistic constructions.
The course in cognitive linguistics is concerned with four issues. 1) What are the structures of meaning? This problem is treated by means of frame semantics, schemas, and blending theory, amongst other things. 2) How are sentences composed into a meaningful whole? This is the problem of syntax and we find one possible answer to the question in construction grammar. 3) What do we do with language? This concerns the functional and social aspect of language. 4) How is language connected to other cognitive functions such as memory, perception, pattern recognition etc?
These questions are mainly treated from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and key authors are, among others, George Lakoff, Len Talmy, William Croft, Adele Goldberg, René Dirven, Michael Tomasello and Mark Turner. A basic book is René Dirven/Marjolin Verspoor: Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
BA in a discipline of the Humanities
Svend Østergaard.
To be announced.
Classroom teaching.
English.
To be announced: www.hum.au.dk/semiotics
Oral examination.
