Linguistic sources in multidisciplinary research 3600-AFS-LSMR-OW
The seminar is intended for students preparing their diploma theses and conducting individual research projects for which linguistic data can be used as sources. These data can be in the form of already developed issues (such as language classifications, structural patterns of languages in the synchronic and diachronic dimension, linguistic metaphors) or direct linguistic sources (borrowings, phraseologisms, thematic vocabulary).
Based on the analysis of articles on African languages, the conclusions of which concern history, anthropology, sociology, and political science, the
methodological foundations of inference about non- linguistic issues based on linguistic data will be discussed.
Seminar participants will be able to present their research projects, which will then be discussed.
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The seminar is intended for students preparing their diploma theses and conducting individual research projects for which linguistic data can be used as sources. These data can be in the form of already developed issues (such as language classifications, structural patterns of languages in the synchronic and diachronic dimension, linguistic metaphors) or direct linguistic sources (borrowings, phraseologisms, thematic vocabulary). |
Course coordinators
Type of course
General: foreign languages elective courses | Term 2026Z: elective courses foreign languages |
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student has the following skills:
(he/she)
- has detailed knowledge pertaining to the state of research on chosen issues related to the countries of Africa as well as in-depth knowledge of research centres in Poland and all over the world (K_W05)
- knows and understands advanced analysis and interpretation methods of various products of culture in the countries of Africa, characteristic of chosen traditions, theories, research schools within the scope of linguistics or literary and cultural studies or philosophy and religion studies or history (K_W06)
- knows and understands the local academic tradition (methods of analysis, interpretation and evaluation) in the context of chosen countries of Africa (K_W07)
- knows and understands the rules of copyright and intellectual property management (K_W11)
- can search for, analyze, evaluate and use information different sources and can form critical judgement on its basis (K_U 01)
- can acquire knowledge independently and enhance research skills as well as develop abilities to build a professional career (K_U03)
- can choose and formulate a subject of a research work, select and find sources in a language of a chosen region in the Orient or Africa, make references to a range of theoretical approaches and other sources (K_U17)
- has superior skill in substantive argumentation with the use of other authors’ views K_U20)
- can set appropriate goals and ways to achieve them in the context of academic, professional and social activity (K_K04)
- is open to new ideas and trends as well as cultural diversity (K_K05)
- understands and appreciates the value of tradition and cultural heritage of one’s own country and of a chosen region in Africa (K_K08)
Assessment criteria
Credit will be awarded based on
1) participation in the seminar and active participation in classes (confirmed by knowledge of at least one selected reading per semester),
2) presentation based on own research.
3) Attendance check - two absences, i.e. 4 hours, are permitted per semester, in the case of absence due to illness,, a medical certificate justifying the absence should be submitted within seven working days of the end date of the leave indicated therein.
Practical placement
none
Bibliography
Bartmiński, Jerzy. 2014. Językowe podstawy obrazu świata. Wydawnictwo UMCS.
Blench, R. 2013. Language, linguistics and archaeology; their integration in the study of African prehistory in Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology ed. by Peter Mitchell & Paul Lane Oxford University Press, 49-64.
Dimmendaal, G.2011. Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hollington, A., A. Mitchell & N. Nassenstein (eds.). 2024. Anthropological linguistics. Perspectives from Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Rao, V.Ch.S. 2021. “Cognitive Linguistics: An Approach to the Study of Language and Thought”. Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching 5(24), 1-8.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350793950_Cognitive_Linguistics_An_Approach_to_the_Study_of_Language_and_Thought
Underhill, J.W. 2013. Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language. Edinburgh: University Press.
Wybrane lektury / Selected readings
Blench, R. 2014. “The diffusion of cassava in Africa: lexical and other evidence”. https://www.academia.edu/7331453/The_diffusion_of_cassava_in
_Africa_lexical_and_other_evidence
Brock-Utne, B. 2002. “Language, Democracy and Education in Africa”. Discussion Paper 15. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
Gordon, A. 2000. Cultural identity and illness: Fulani views Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 24: 297–330.
Kiessling R., M. Mous. 2004. “Urban Youth Languages in Africa” Anthropological linguistics.
Ladhams, J. 2012. “Article agglutination and the African contribution to the Portuguese-based Creoles” In Angela Bartens & Philip Baker (eds.) Black through White, 31-50. London: Battlebridge.
Mous, M. 2001. “Ma'a as an ethno-register of Mbugu”. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 16-17, 293-320.
Schlebusch C., F. Prins, M. Lombard, M. Jakobsson, H. Soodyall. 2016. The disappearing San of southeastern Africa and their genetic affinities
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351230422_Schlebusch_Soodyall_Prins_et_al_2016_The_disappearing_San_of_southeastern_Afr
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Bartmiński, Jerzy. 2014. Językowe podstawy obrazu świata. Wydawnictwo UMCS. Blench, R. 2013. Language, linguistics and archaeology; their integration in the study of African prehistory in Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology ed. by Peter Mitchell & Paul Lane Dimmendaal, G.2011. Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Hollington, A., A. Mitchell & N. Nassenstein (eds.). 2024. Anthropological linguistics. Perspectives from Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Rao, V.Ch.S. 2021. “Cognitive Linguistics: An Approach to the Study of Language and Thought”. Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching 5(24), 1-8. Underhill, J.W. 2013. Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language. Edinburgh: University Press. |
Notes
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