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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lessons 1) The predecessors of cognitive linguistics (CL): W. v. Humboldt, theory of linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis); 2) The status of CL in the present-day linguistics, difficulties in CL delimitation, CL as a component of cognitive sciences; 3) MAJOR TRENDS IN CL: theory of conceptual metaphor and metonymy as manifestations of the economy of thinking, basic image schemas (container, cycle, part and whole, path); 4) Senses as source areas of conceptual metaphors; 5) The theory of conceptual integration, cognitive grammar, construction grammar; 6) Anthropocentricity in CL: embodiment, body experience of human beings as a source of thinking and experiencing; 7) MEANING - CL central notion, body experience of human beings mediated by senses as the source of language meanings; affective meanings, collocation and connotation meanings; the relation between words and things in wide contexts; cognitive semantics; 8) Cognitive analysis of concepts/words and syntagmas, its steps and objectives; 9) WORLDVIEW and participation of the language in its creation, categorization of phenomena based on prototypes, categorization and meaning, ethnic differences in linguistic worldview, empirical research; 10) Interpretation of the results of empirical research (colors); 11) Interpretation of the results of empirical research (perception by senses, mental predicates); 12) Conceptualization of emotions; cultural key words, criteria of their selection, key words for Czech culture; 13) CL in interdisciplinary perspective of culture and everyday life of a national community, detection of cultural specificity through the language of an ethnic group. Seminars - the interpretation of the latest texts of cognitive linguistics - the cognitive analysis of concepts/words of the native language
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Seminar
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 22 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 30 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
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| Course requires no special prior knowledge and skills. |
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| Students - shall be able to summarize and explain the basic problems of cognitive lingvistic within cognitive sciences - shall acquire an overview of predecessors of cognitive linguistics - shall compare and evaluate its trends, important ideas and theoretical systems - shall identify distinctions in the linguistic worldview within different ethnic groups - shall recognize conceptual metaphor and assess the source domain thereof - shall explain variety of prototypes of the same thematic domain in particular communities - shall create an entry of a virtual cognitive dictionary of his/her native language |
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Recommended literature
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Dirven, René; Verspoor, Marjolijn. Cognitive exploration of language and linguistics. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN 90-272-1906-0.
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Lakoff, George; Johnson, Mark. Metafory, kterými žijeme. Brno : Host, 2002. ISBN 80-7294-071-6.
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Lakoff, George. Ženy, oheň a nebezpečné věci : co kategorie vypovídají o naší mysli. Praha : Triáda, 2006. ISBN 80-86138-78-X.
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Saivocá Římalová, L. (ed.). Čítanka textů z kognitivní lingvistiky.. Praha, Univerzita Karlova, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7308-212-3.
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Šlédrová, J. (ed.). Obraz světa v jazyce Ii.. Praha, Univerzita Karlova, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7308-213-0.
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Vaňková, I. Obraz světa v jazyce. Praha : Univerzita Karlova, 2001. ISBN 80-738-005-02.
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Vaňková, Irena. Co na srdci, to na jazyku : kapitoly z kognitivní lingvistiky. Praha : Karolinum, 2005. ISBN 80-246-0919-3.
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Vaňková, Irena. Nádoba plná řeči : (Člověk, řeč a přirozený svět). V Praze : Karolinum, 2007. ISBN 978-80-246-1122-8.
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Wierzbicka, A. Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis. Ann Arbor : Karoma Publisher, INC, 1985. ISBN 0-89720-069-1.
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