Преподавател(и):

проф. Елена Андонова  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

Students who complete this course:

1) will know:

Demonstrate a critical understanding of the published literature and current debates in the areas;

2) will be able to:

Demonstrate research skills, including formulating and pursuing research questions about relevant research topics of interest.

Предварителни изисквания:


Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1. Language & Mind in the Language Sciences
2. The linguistic relativity hypothesis.
3. Lexical category effects Color.
4. Spatial relations - cross-linguistic variation.
5. Spatial Frames of Reference across languages and cultures.
6. Temporal relations.
7. Grammatical category effects on cognitive processes, eg, gender, number, evidentiality.
8. Seminar
9. Conceptual Metaphor Theory.
10. Emotions in language and culture.
11. Embodiment & mental simulation.
12. Theoretical frameworks on the relation between language and thought and its mechanisms.
13. Discussion
14. Seminar
15. Seminar

Литература по темите:

• Barner, D., Li, P., & Snedeker, J. (2010). Words as Windows to Thought The Case of Object Representation. Current directions in psychological science, 19(3), 195-200.

• Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K. A., & Gendron, M. (2007). Language as context for the perception of emotion. Trends in cognitive sciences, 11(8), 327-332.

• Boroditsky, L., Fuhrman, O., & McCormick, K. (2011). Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently?. Cognition, 118(1), 123-129.

• Geeraerts, D. (Ed.). (2006). Cognitive linguistics: basic readings. Walter de Gruyter.

• Głaz, A. (2017). Worldview as cultural cognition. Language, Mind, Culture, and Society, 1(1), 34-53.

• Imai, M., Kanero, J., & Masuda, T. (2016). The relation between language, culture, and thought. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 70-77.

• Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2008). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago press.

• Landau, M. J., Meier, B. P., & Keefer, L. A. (2010). A metaphor-enriched social cognition. Psychological bulletin, 136(6), 1045.

• Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Russell, J. A. (2006). Language and the perception of emotion. Emotion, 6(1), 125.

• Majid, A., Bowerman, M., Kita, S., Haun, D., & Levinson, S. C. (2004). Can language restructure cognition? The case for space. Trends in cognitive sciences, 8(3), 108-114.

• Malt, B.C., & Wolff, P. (Eds.). (2010). Words and the Mind. How Words Capture Human Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Roberson, D., & Hanley, J. R. (2010). An Account of the Relationship between Language and Thought in the Color Domain. Words and the Mind, 183.

• Thompson, B., Kirby, S., & Smith, K. (2016). Culture shapes the evolution of cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(16), 4530-4535.

• Whorf, B. L. (2012). Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. MIT Press.

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• Supplementary

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• Barsalou, L. W. (2010). Grounded cognition: past, present, and future. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2(4), 716-724.

• Boroditsky, L. (2011). How Language Shapes Thought. Scientific American, 304(2), 62-65.

• Boroditsky, L. (2001). Does language shape thought?: Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time. Cognitive psychology, 43(1), 1-22.

• Casasanto, D. (2011). Different Bodies, Different Minds The Body Specificity of Language and Thought. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(6), 378-383.

• Gentner, D. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (Eds.). (2003). Language in Mind. Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

• Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A. (2005). Language and thought. Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning, 633-661.

• Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). The metaphorical structure of the human conceptual system. Cognitive Science, 4(2), 195-208.

• McGlone, M. S. (2007). What is the explanatory value of a conceptual metaphor?. Language & Communication, 27(2), 109-126.

• Niedenthal, P. M. (2007). Embodying emotion. science, 316(5827), 1002-1005.

• Nuyts, J. (2012). Language is an instrument for thought. Really?. Pragmatics & Cognition, 20(2), 317-333.

• Wierzbicka, A. (2011). Common language of all people: The innate language of thought. Problems of Information Transmission, 47(4), 378-397.