Selected issues in linguistics 3304-1DP1O-WZJ-024
A complementary course to the Introduction to Linguistics (1st year, winter semester), which is at the same time a separate, independent module. Similarly to Introduction to Linguistics, its aim is to get the participants acquainted with the basic linguistic phenomena and the areas of linguistic research, with particular emphasis on the French research, but in contrast to that subject, it focuses on language in use and not on language as a system. How do we categorize and define reality by means of language, how do we assign meaning to our experience? How do we try to capture new phenomena using neologisms? How is meaning described by a linguist, a dictionary, an average language user? How is our subjectivity expressed in language, our attitude towards others and the world? To what extent our utterances, which shape social reality, are a tool of influence?
Issues discussed:
1. Semantics: meaning in the structural approach - componential analysis of meaning (B. Pottier), theories of semantic field; meaning in the cognitive approach - prototype theory; evolution of meaning - types of neologisms and the reasons for their formation; meaning in the dictionary - building a dictionary entry; meaning in the intercultural approach - the cultural shaping of concepts.
2. Pragmatics: the theory of speech acts (J.L. Austin, J.R. Searle); conversational maxims (P.H. Grice); presupposition and implicature (P.H. Grice, O. Ducrot, C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni); French enunciative linguistics - subjectivity in an utterance (É. Benveniste, C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni); French discourse analysis - discourse and its features (D. Maingueneau).
Mode
Learning outcomes
Students who have successfully completed the course:
- should have basic knowledge of the processes taking place in the selected areas of language (K_W04)
- should have basic knowledge of selected issues in general and French linguistics (K_W08)
- should have elementary knowledge regarding language functions in social and intercultural communication (K_W09)
- can use basic lexicographic sources (K_U01)
- can use basic theoretical approaches, research paradigms and concepts particular to linguistics (K_U04)
- can analyse selected linguistic phenomena from the point of view of the learned linguistic theories (K_U05)
- understand the need to regularly broaden the language and the linguistic knowledge related to the emergence of new phenomena in language (K_K01)
- know how to cooperate in a group, solve problems in the discussion and initiate solutions appropriate to the situation (K_K02)
- understand the importance of language in culture and are aware of their responsibility for the linguistic cultural heritage of the studied region, country, Europe (K_K07)
Assessment criteria
- attendance and active in-class participation
- two tests
Bibliography
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6. Kerbrat-Orecchioni C., L'Enonciation, Paris, Armand Colin, 2002.
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10. Niklas-Salminen A., La lexicologie, Paris, Armand Colin, 2015.
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Additional information
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