Language from a social, psychological, and cultural perspective – how to reconstruct linguistic images of the world 1500-SZD-LFASPACP
The following topics will be discussed during the classes:
1. Various concepts of meaning.
2. Classical and cognitive categorization theory.
4. Lexical fields, WordNet semantic networks. Semantic relations: synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, hypo / hyperonymy, partivity. polysemy, homonymy.
5. Keywords, basics of stylometry. Corpus analysis.
6. The concept of connotation
7. Cognitive definition
9. The meaning of words in cognitive terms: the concept of the cognitive domain, profiling, interpretation framework, ICM. FrameNet network.
10. The concept of linguistic relativism (Sapir, Whorf's thesis): culture and categorization. Comparative semantics.
11. Linguistic and textual image of the world: methods of reconstruction.
12. Semantic prosody.
13. Conceptual metaphor in terms of Lakoff and Johnson: metaphor in classical, interactive terms and conceptual metaphor, functions of conceptual metaphor, metaphorization process (source and target domain)
14. The theory of amalgams (mental spaces).
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: knows and understands
P8S_WG.1 to the extent enabling the revision of the existing paradigms - world achievements, covering theoretical foundations and general issues and selected specific issues regarding lexical and comparative semantics, ethnolinguistics and cognitive linguistics
P8S_WG.2 main development trends in semantics, ethnolinguistics and cognitive linguistics
P8S_WG.3 methodology of corpus research, lexical fields, mental spaces, frame semantics
P8S_WK.1 fundamental dilemmas of modern civilization
Skills: can
P8S_UW.1 use knowledge from various fields of linguistics to creatively identify, formulate and innovatively solve complex problems or perform research tasks, in particular:
- define the purpose and subject of semantic and ethnolinguistic research, formulate a research hypothesis,
- develop methods, techniques and research tools for semantics and ethnolinguistics and use them creatively,
- make conclusions on the basis of the results of scientific research
P8S_UK.1 communicate on specialist topics to a degree that allows active participation in the international scientific environment
P8S_UK.4 participate in the scientific discourse
P8S_UK.5 use a foreign language at the B2 level of the European Educational Description System to a degree enabling participation in the international scientific and professional environment
Social Competence: is ready to
P8S_KK.3 recognition of the importance of knowledge in solving cognitive and practical problems
P8S_KR.1 maintaining and developing the ethos of research and creative environments, including:
- conducting scientific activities in an independent manner,
- respecting the principle of public ownership of the results of scientific activity, taking into account the principles of intellectual property protection
Assessment criteria
Timely execution of assignments on the Kampus UW platform (tests, tasks, individual and group projects).
Bibliography
Coulson, S., & Oakley, T. (2005). Blending and coded meaning: Literal and figurative meaning in cognitive semantics. Journal of pragmatics, 37(10), 1510-1536.
Egbert, J., Larsson, T., & Biber, D. (2020). Doing linguistics with a corpus: Methodological considerations for the everyday user. Cambridge University Press.
Geeraerts, D. (2009). Theories of lexical semantics. OUP Oxford.
Glaz, A., Danaher, D., & Lozowski, P. (2013). The linguistic worldview: Ethnolinguistics, cognition, and culture. Walter de Gruyter.
Glynn, D. (2010). Corpus-driven cognitive semantics introduction to the field. Quantitative methods in cognitive semantics: Corpus-driven approaches, 1-41.
Głaz, A. (Ed.). (2019). Languages–Cultures–Worldviews: Focus on Translation. Springer Nature.
Mierzwińska-Hajnos, A. (2010). The Linguistic Worldview Revisited. A Cognitive Analysis of Plant Terms. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 46(4), 457-479.
Sharifian, F. (2017). Cultural Linguistics: Cultural conceptualisations and language (Vol. 8). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Additional information
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