Interdisciplinarity of linguistics 3201-3IZWJ
The purpose of this course is to address the key areas of contact between linguistics and cognate fields of study or disciplines. Individual discussions present linguistics as a donor and, simultaneously, a taker in the evolution of scholarly reflection upon language and communication, man and context. The focus of attention is laid on the linguistic (discursive) turn in philosophy, sociology, social psychology, ethnography, cognitive sciences and so on.
The course reviews possibilities of combining linguistic studies with other academic disciplines or areas of human activity. Initially, traditional linguistic fields and views on the place and role of linguistics among other areas of study will be discussed.
One of the major fault lines runs alongside theoretical and applied linguistics. Allegedly, theoretical linguistics constitutes an abstract enclave shunning any communication with other disciplines. A profound knowledge of syntactic, morphological and phonological structure, embracing the detailed knowledge of semantics and pragmatics, opens up unlimited vistas for interdisciplinary research and activities.
Under the umbrella of the humanities, liaisons with anthropology, ethnography, history, political science and international relations will be scrutinized. Moreover, possibilities of interdisciplinary research between linguistics and psychology and sociology will be discussed and illustrated. Different relations between linguistics or language itself and legal sciences and forensic science will be established.
Points of juncture between linguistics and hard sciences will constitute further discussion. Its objective will be to highlight the timeliness of interdisciplinary research covered by the common label computational linguistics. The capacious cover term embraces a broad spectrum of research and practical tasks in areas such as corpus linguistics, electronic dictionaries, natural language processing, information retrieval, machine translation, speech recognition etc.
The precise list of the topics covered is presented by the instructor responsible for each language variant of the course.
The student’s time involvement:
30 hrs. per semester – class attendance
30 hrs. per semester – individual work (course revision towards the final exam)
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student:
- acquires the knowledge of the main disciplinary perspectives on language and communication
- can show and explain the bonding between linguistics and cognate fields of study in the humanities and social sciences
- can indicate and explain relations between linguistics and selected sciences
- can determine possible applications of linguistic knowledge in other (research) areas and the other way round
- broadens his/her horizons in terms of his/her future career options
Assessment criteria
Assessment method:
Final oral examination – 100% of the final grade
Admission to the exam is conditioned by positive class attendance – 2 absences unaccounted for allowed.
Assessment criteria:
The student answers two questions (drawn). The questions concern essential issues covered during the course.
Each answer is graded on the following scale: 2, 3, 3+, 4, 4+, 5, 5! (highest). The examiner assesses and grades: the quantity, quality and fluency of the student’s answer. The highest grade (5!) is given for an answer qualitatively exceeding the expected standard. The final grade is the arithmetical average of the two partial grades.
Bibliography
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Berman, Harold J. 2013. Law and Language. Effective Symbols of Community. Cambridge.
Coulthard, Malcolm and Alison Johnson (eds.). 2013. The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics). London.
Dakowska, M. 2001. Psycholingwistyczne podstawy nauki języków obcych. Warszawa.
Duszak, A. 1998. Tekst, dyskurs, komunikacja międzykulturowa. Warszawa.
Fromkin, Victoria and Robert Rodman. 1993. An Introduction to Language. Fort Worth.
Kurcz, I. & Bobryk, J. 2010. Krótka historia psycholingwistyki polskiej. Warszawa.
Langacker, Ronald W. 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, vol. 1, Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford.
McEnery, Tony and Andrew Hardie. 2012. Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. Cambridge.
Pinker, Steven. 1995. The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind. Penguin.
Schane, Sanford. 2006. Language and the Law. London.
Tabakowska, E. 2001. Kognitywne podstawy języka i językoznawstwa. Kraków.
Wierzbicka, Anna. 2002. Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese. Oxford.
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