(in Polish) Wiedza o języku (wykład) 3600-KM-WJ-OG

The course provides general knowledge about world’s languages which includes their genetic classification, differentiation of their structural properties and sociolinguistic aspects (including different domains of language use and adaptation of writing systems). It also covers communication properties which include cultural backgrounds of discourse and ritual forms of communication (greetings, congratulations, condolences) as well as systemic features of grammar respecting social relations (honorific pronouns, morphemes of interpersonal relations, etc.). Particular presentations deal with cultural properties of languages, manifested in the use of proper names and ethnonyms, culturally motivated metaphors and cultural key-words. The program of the course includes presentation of research on cognitive aspects of some specific forms (such as body part terms used for conceptualization of notions) which justify systemic differences in coding the meanings and differences in meaning of the same notion in various languages. References and choice of particular areas/languages for more detailed presentations are linked with the currently taught languages.

Type of course

general courses

Course coordinators

Nina Pawlak
Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł

Learning outcomes

Having completed the course, student
- has in-depth and detailed knowledge (including terminology, theory and methodology) in linguistic studies (K_W01),
- has extended and deepened knowledge of how languages function in social and cultural environment and how this knowledge can be referred to the Oriental/African language context (K_W04),
- can search for, analyze, evaluate and use information from different sources and can form critical judgment on its basis (K_U01)
- has superior skill at formulating own opinions and conclusions in writing and in speech in Polish (K_U19)
- can set appropriate goals and ways to achieve them in the context of academic, professional and social activity (K_K04)
- understands and appreciates the value of tradition and cultural heritage of one’s own country and of Oriental/African country (K_K08)
- can use linguistic and cultural competences in professional situations such as aid programs, government programs, immigration problems, national security issues (K_K12)

Assessment criteria

participation in class, class activity
final exam

Bibliography

references
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Bamgbose, A. 2000. Language and exclusion, Hamburg: LIT
Bartmiński, Jerzy (red.). 2006. Językowe podstawy obrazu świata, Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS.
Blake, Barry J. 2011. Secret language: codes, tricks, spies, thieves, and symbols. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Campbell, Lyle. 2004. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (2nd ed.). Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Croft, W. (2002). Typology and universals. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2nd ed.
Duszak, Anna. 1998. Tekst, dyskurs, komunikacja międzykulturowa, Warszawa: PWN.
Fédry, Jacques, Anthropologie de la parole en Afrique, Paris: KARTHALA 2010.
Grabias, S. 2003. Język w zachowaniu społecznym, Lublin: Wydawnictwo IMCS
Heine B, Nurse D. 2000, African Languages. An Introduction. Cambridge: University Press
Heine B., 2008, A linguistic geography of Africa, Cambridge: University Press
Herbert, Robert. K.. (ed.) 1992. Language and Society in Africa: The Theory and Practice of Sociolinguistics, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
Huszcza, Romuald. 2004. Wielosystemowość i współsystemowość w językach naturalnych. Wschodnioazjatycki krąg językowy, Warszawa: WUW
Huszcza, Romuald. 1996. Honoryfikatywność : gramatyka, pragmatyka, typologia, Warszawa: DIALOG
Hyman, Larry M. and Charles Kisseberth (eds.) 1998. Theoretical Aspects of Bantu Tone, Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Kałużyńska, Irena. 2008. Chinese Female Namings. Past and Present, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo AGADE.
Brenzinger, Matthias and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (eds.). 2014. The Body in Language. Comparative Studies of Linguistic Embodiment, Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture (Book 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill
Łobodzińska, R. (red.). 2010. Nazwy własne a społeczeństwo, Łask: Oficyna Wydawnicza Leksem, t. 1, 2.
Ong, Walter J. Oralność i piśmienność. Słowo poddane technologii. Methuen, London and New York 1982
Pawlak, Nina, Podobińska Zofia (red.). Języki Afryki a kultura, Warszawa: AGADE, 2004.
Pawlak, Nina. 2008. Języki Azji i Afryki w komunikacji międzykulturowej, Warszawa: WUW.
Pawlak N., 2010, Języki afrykańskie, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa
Heine B, Nurse D.,2000, African Languages. An Introduction. Cambridge: University Press
Pawlak, Nina. 2018. Tekst naukowy z podtekstem kulturowym – cechy stylu prac naukowych hausa, w: Wybrane zagadnienia lingwistyki tekstu, analizy dyskursu i komunikacji międzykulturowej - In memoriam Profesor Anny Duszak (1950-2015), red. Urszula Okulska, Urszula Topczewska, Anna Jopek-Bosiacka. Warszawa: ILS UW (2018). 105-124.
Perlin, Jacek. 2004. Metodologia jezykoznawstwa diachronicznego, Warszawa: DIALOG.
Kaye, Alan S. (ed.). 1996. Phonologies of Asia and Africa, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
Piłaszewicz S., Rzewuski, E. 2005. Wstęp do afrykanistyki, Warszawa: WUW.
Sampson, Geoffrey. 1985. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford University Press, California.
Storch, Anne.2011. Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Szul Roman, 2009, Język, naród, państwo. Język jak zjawisko polityczne, Warszawa.
Holm, J., 2000, An Introduction to pidgins and creoles, Cambridge: University Press
Tabakowska, E. 2001. Kognitywne podstawy języka i językoznawstwa, Kraków: Universitas.
Wierzbicka, Anna. 2007. Słowa klucze. Różne języki, różne kultury, Warszawa: WUW (polski przekład Understanding Cultures through their Key-Words, 1998).
Wierzbicka, Anna. 1999. Język – umysł – kultura. Wybór prac pod redakcją Jerzego Bartmińskiego, Warszawa: PWN.
Will, I., Ahmad, Mustapha, 2008,“Symbolika gestów w kulturze Hausa”, in N. Pawlak (ed.) Języki Azji i Afryki w komunikacji międzykulturowej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, pp. 245-267.
Wołk, Ewa. 2008. Towards the Conceptualization of the Sphere of Interpersonal Relations in Amharic, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2008

Źródła internetowe
Ethnologue: Languages of the World (www.ethnologue.com)
Halvor Eifring & Rolf Theil: Linguistics for Students of Asian and African Languages
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ikos/EXFAC03-AAS/h05/larestoff/linguistics/
Haspelmath M., 2015, The serial verb construction: Comparative concept and cross-linguistics generalizations, http://www.eva.mpg.de/fileadmin/content_files/linguistics/conferences/2015-diversity-linguistics/Haspelmath_paper.pdf

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