Monographic lecture: Selected issues in cognitive semantics 3304-2DXW-WM-WZSK
Cognitive linguistics (CL), established in the late 1970s in the USA, in opposition to N. Chomsky's generative grammar, describes language as a specific manifestation of human cognitive abilities. As part of the lecture, selected concepts in the field of broadly understood semantics will be presented, which, according to CL, is closely related to other components of the language (syntax, morphology and phonology). Based on examples from French, as well as Polish and English, we will show main characteristics of such concepts described by CLas the scheme and its concretization, profile, base and domain, trajector and landmark, sidiomatic constructions and its relationship to the scheme-concretization concept. We will pay special attention to the issues of categorization in language and to the prototype theory (in G.Kleiber's approach), as well as the description of metonymy and metaphor (in terms of J.Lakoff and M.Johnson). We will discuss the functioning of idiomatic constructions as an example of the concretization of syntactic schemes (construction grammar). We will also show how research on the linguistic image of the world, conducted by Polish linguists (including Romanists), fits into the trend of CL.
Type of course
elective monographs
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will know and understandat the advanced degree the methodological specificity of cognitive linguistics, will know its terminology, will know what contribution to the development of this field was made by the studies of English-, French- and Polish-speaking linguists discussed during the course, will be able to analyze selected language problems in the spirit of cognitive semantics using its appropriate terminology and methodology.
Assessment criteria
Presence 50%, final test 50%.
Bibliography
Selected bibliography (in French):
Cadiot, Pierre, 1997, Les prépositions abstraites du français
Armand Colin
Delbecque, Nicole (éd.). 2002. Linguistique cognitive. Comprendre comment fonctionne le langage. Bruxelles: De Boeck Duculot.
Fauconnier, Gilles. 1984. Espaces mentaux. Aspects de la construction du sens dans les langues naturelles. Paris : Minuit
Fortis, Jean-Michel, 2012, La linguistique cognitive : histoire et épistémologie. Introduction. Histoire Epistémologie Langage, SHESL/EDP Sciences, 2012/
XXXIV (1), pp.5-17.
Fortis, Jean-Michel, 2011, « La notion de grammaire usage-based chez Langacker :
Emergence et développement », Travaux de Linguistique 62, 35-58.Fuchs, C,atherine (ed), 2004, La linguistique cognitive, Paris : Ophrys/Editions de la MSH
Fuchs. Catherine, 2009, "La linguistique cognitive existe-t-elle ?". Quaderns de filologia. Estudis literaris, Universidad de Valencia, Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación, 2009/14, pp.115-133.
Geeraerts, Dirk, "La réception de la linguistique cognitive ans la linguistique du français" [en ligne] URL: https://www.linguistiquefrancaise.org/articles/cmlf/pdf/2008/01/cmlf08310.pdf.
Kleiber, Georges, 1990, La sémantique du prototype. Catégories et sens lexical, Paris : Presses Universitaires de France.
Koselak, Arkadiusz 2007 « Sources et tradition polonaises en linguistique cognitive », Corela [En ligne], HS-6 | 2007 URL : http://journals.openedition.org/corela/1494
Lakoff, George & Johnson, Mark. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (tr. fr. 1985. Les Métaphores dans la Vie Quotidienne, Paris : Minuit).
Rastier, Francois., 1991, Sémantique et recherches cognitives, Paris : PUF.
Vandeloise, Claude, De la matière à l’espace : la préposition dans, Cahiers de grammaire, 20, pp. 123-145, 1995.
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