COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Catalog description

One of two courses to satisfy the Linguistics core of Semantics in the major and the minor. It is also an elective in Track Four (General Linguistics) of the Linguistics major and in the minor programs in Cognitive Neuroscience, TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), and Linguistics. This course focuses on the embodied nature of language: how all aspects of human language—including acquisition, structure, and use—are crucially affected by the fact that speakers inhabit human bodies. Using classic and contemporary texts, this course covers category formation, prototype theory, frame semantics, conceptual metaphor, metonymy, conceptual blends, and other timely developments in the field. Lecture, discussion. Prerequisite: LING 2320 or LING 2350. [UD UCA Core: I]