Selected linguistic phenomena 3304-1DX1O-WZJ-01
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).
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
- attendance and active in-class participation
- one test
- one speaking test
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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