ELCB100 Увод в науката за езика
Анотация:
This unit aims at acquainting students with linguistics, the science of language study. More precisely, it assists students in understanding the various aspects of linguistics and its relation to other disciplines and fields. Moreover, it helps students become aware of the nature of human language and its characteristics, components and acquisition. Specific topics include: first and second language acquisition; sounds of language; morphology, grammar and syntax; language and meaning; pragmatics, language variation; as well as language and the brain.
Преподавател(и):
проф. Дияна Янкова д.н.
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
1) On completion of the course the student will know:
• the main hypotheses about the origin of language;
• how language systems differ from other communication systems;
• how human language originated;
• the main levels of language description
• grammatical categories.
2) On completion of the course the student will be able to:
• use basic linguistic terminology;
• analyse language as a code communication system;
• define the relationship between thought and language;
• define the characteristics of language change.
Предварителни изисквания:
none
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Български
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
- Traditional and modern linguistics
- Origin and functions of language
- Phonetics and phonology. Production, transmission and perception of sounds. Their function within a language to encode meaning.
- Morphological classification of languages. Parts of speech. Word formation.
- Parts of the sentence. Grammatical relations, constituency, agreement.
- Comparative linguistics. History of languages. Classification of languages into families. Synchronic and diachronic developments.
- Linguistic schools of thought. Von Humboldt’s ideas. Sapir-Wharf hypothesis.
- Structuralism: de Saussure, the sign character of language, structure, system, sign. The Prague school: function, nucleus, periphery, theme/rheme. Dutch structuralism. American structuralism.
- Chomsky. Computer linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, deep and surface structure, competence, performance.
- Semantics: Sinn und Bedeutung, semantic fields, componential analysis
- Psycholinguistics. Language processing. Language Acquisition.
- Sociolinguistics. Cultural norms and expectations. Sociolect, idiolect, jargon.
- Text Linguistics. Speech act theory. Linguistic pragmatics.
Литература по темите:
Allan, K. (1986). Linguistic Meaning. 2 Volumes. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Avramides, Anita. (1989). Meaning and Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Blakemore, Diane. (1992). Understanding Utterances: an introduction to pragmatics. Oxford : Blackwell.
Cann, Ronnie. (1993). Formal Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
McConnel, G. and Ginet, Chierchia (1990). Meaning and Grammar: an Introduction to Semantics.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cruse, D. A. (1986). Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Fauconnier, Gills (1994). Mental spaces: aspects of meaning construction in natural language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Leech, Geoffery N. (1983). Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman
Levinson. Stephen C 1998: Pragmatics. N. Y.
Lyons, John (1981). Language, Meaning and Context. London: Fontana
Lyons, John (1995). Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Schiffrin, D. 2001. Discourse Markers. In: Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Blackwell Publishing.
Schiffrin. D. 1987. Discourse Markers. Studies in International Sociolinguistics 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Searle, J. 1969. Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Searle, J. 1979. Expression and Meaning. Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press