Cognitive linguistics 2401-K-S1-1-LK

Introductory lectures on: structure and function, and the levels of linguistic organisation, the theory of meaning and the semantics-pragmatics distinction, the design features of human language, theories on language origin and ontological and epistemological considerations, the cybernetic model of communication. Further on: foundations of phonology, morphology and syntax. A survey of linguistic theories (espacially structuralism, genarativism and cognitive-functional approaches). Basics of semiotics and the semiotic sign: index, icon and symbol. Syntactic and semantic roles and relations. Garden-path theory, ambiguity and constituent structure. Introduction to textual analysis: cohesion, coherence, etc. The Basics of Cognitive Grammar: the figure and ground distinction, the act of comparison and scanning operations, construal operations (camera-work), grammar as image, virtuality, etc. The Basics of Cognitive Semantics: categorisation, metaphorical and metonymic models, the Conceptual Integration Theory (Mental Spaces and Blends).

Term 2022/23Z:

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Term 2023/24Z:

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Total student workload

Contact hours with teacher: - participation in lectures - 30 hrs. Self-study hours: - preparation for lectures - 10 hrs. - preparation for assignments - 10 hrs. - preparation for the final test - 20 hrs. Altogether: 70 hrs. (3 ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

K_W04 The Student will obtain orientation in cognitive science (cognitive linguistics and general linguistics) in English

Learning outcomes - skills

K_U13 The Student will develop skills in expressing arguments supported by appropriate sources

Learning outcomes - social competencies

K_K01 The Student will have orientation in the field of declarative and procedural knowledge (skills) and will develop the understanding of the necessity to constantly update knowledge and skills in the professional career

Teaching methods

lecture K_W04, K_U13, K_K01

Expository teaching methods

- problem-based lecture

Type of course

core frame (attribute withdrawn)

Prerequisites

Basic orientation in linguistics at the level of grammar school. The command of English (the lecture will be partially delivered in English and recapitulated in Polish).

Course coordinators

Term 2025/26Z:

Waldemar Skrzypczak

Term 2023/24Z:

Anna Karczmarczyk
Waldemar Skrzypczak

Term 2022/23Z:

Waldemar Skrzypczak

Term 2024/25Z:

Waldemar Skrzypczak

Learning outcomes

Students will shape their analytical awareness and sensitivity, and they will be capable of applying the declarative knowledge in procedural tasks

Assessment criteria

a mini-essay, an assignment work-sheet

K_W04, K_U13, K_K01

Practical placement

n/a

Bibliography

Beaugrande de, Robert, Wolfgang Dressler, 1980. Introduction to text Linguistics. Longman. London and new
York
Cruse, Alan. 2006. A Glossary of Linguistics and Pragmatics. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh.
Fauconnier, Gilles. 2001. “Conceptual Blending and Analogy”, in: D. Gentner, K. J. Holyoak, B. N. Kokinov
(eds.), The Analogical Mind, Cambridge Mass./London, England, A Bradford Book MIT, 255-286.
Lakoff, George and M. Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. (Afterword 2003). University of Chicago Press.
Chicago.
Langacker, Ronald W. 2000. Grammar and Conceptualization. Mouton de Gruyter. Berlin/New York.
Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. Analog-Based Modelling of Meaning Representations in English. Nicolaus
University Press. Toruń.
Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. “On Text Linguistics: some terminological distinctions.” Nauczycielskie
Kolegium Języków Obcych w Toruniu, Silva Rerum. Nr 6/7, 63-71.
Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. “Alternate Construals, Duals and Selective Projections.” Worlds in the Making:
Constructivism and Postmodern Knowledge, red. Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Teresa Siek-Piskozub i
Katarzyna Więckowska. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 67-85.
Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2007. “Cognitive Stylistics: Towards Dimensions of Uniqueness and Novelty in Textual
Imagery.” Multiculturalism, at the Start of 21st Century, red. Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney i Maria A.
Łukowska. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 371-383.
Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2008. „Metaphor as a dynamic asymmetry.” Philologica
Wratislaviensa: From Grammar to Discourse. Metaphor and Cognition, red. Zdzisław Wąsik and
Tomasz Komendziński. Frankfut am Main: Peter Lang, 53-62.
Tarsk. R. L. 1999. (edited by Peter Stockwell 2007). Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts. Routledge.

Term 2022/23Z:

As in A

Term 2023/24Z:

As in A

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