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Cognitive Semantics - MA ( efterår 2010 - 10 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

  • Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
  • Niveau: MA
  • Semester/kvarter: 1 semester.
  • Timer per uge: 2 every second week.
  • Deltagerbegrænsning: None.
  • Undervisningssted: Århus
  • Hovedområde: Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • Udbud ID: 23816

Formål

 

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.

Indhold

 

In the course "Cognitive Semantics" the student is presented with theories of meaning such as frame semantics, schema theory, blending theory, and construction grammar. These theories are used partly to account for word meaning, including categorization and metaphor theory, and partly to account for syntactic structure. Besides, the students will be presented with theories of pragmatics which concerns the functional and social aspects of language. Finally, we will also discuss the possible relations between language and other cognitive functions such as memory, perception, attention, and pattern recognition.

The main text books are Croft/Cruise: Cognitive Linguistics and Dirven/Verspoor: Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics . Besides we will use texts and articles written by George Lakoff, Len Talmy, William Croft, Adele Goldberg, René Dirven, Michael Tomasello and Mark Turner.

Faglige forudsætninger

BA in a discipline of the Humanities.

Underviser

Svend Østergaard.

Tid og sted

To be announced.

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

Classroom teaching.

English.

Litteratur

W. Croft: Cognitive Linguistics

F. Ungerer: Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics

Studieordning og bedømmelse


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