COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 6060 COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BURCU ILKAY KARAMAN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

The objective of the course is to demonstrate that language is based on our experience of the extra-linguistic world and vice versa, revealing how words are coined, and how cognition contributes to the building up of cognitive systems in the mental lexicon, having an impact on the internal and external structures of words in terms of semantic and syntactic properties.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Acquiring knowledge on the mental processes involved in the perception, segmentation, and conceptualisation of extra-linguistic reality
2   Acquiring knowledge on the transfer of our experience of well-known objects and events
3   Understanding the selection and arrangement of information
4   Realising how iconicity, grammaticalisation and lexical change occurs, and the potential of a cognitive approach to foreign language learning
5   Designing and performing cognitive linguistic experiments

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics Brief History Early Proponents - The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis The Three Main Streams in Cognitive Linguistics: Experiential View Prominence View Attentional View
2 Prototypes and Categories Colours, Squares, Birds and Cups: Early Empirial Research into Lexical Categories The Internal Structure of Categories: Prototypes, Attributes, Family Resemblances and Gestalt
3 Context-dependence and Cultural Models Levels of Categorisation Basic Level Categories of Organisms and Concrete Objects Superordinate Categories and Experiential Hierarchies
4 Subordinate Categories, Composite Terms and Word-formation Basic Level Categories and Basic Experiences: Actions, Events, Properties, States and Locations
5 Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies Metaphors and Metonymies: From Figures of Speech to Conceptual Systems Metaphors, Metonymies and the Structure of Emotion Categories
6 Metaphors as a Way of Thinking: Examples from Science and Politics
7 Exams Week
8 Exams Week
9 Figure and Ground Figure and Ground, Trajector and Landmark: Early Research into Prepositions
10 Figure, Ground and Two Metaphors: A Cognitive Explanation of Simple Clause Patterns Other Types of Prominence and Cognitive Processing
11 The Frame and Attention Approach Frames and Scripts Event-Frames and the Windowing of Attention
12 Language-specific Framing and Its Use in Narratives
13 Other Issues in Cognitive Linguistics Iconicity Grammaticalisation
14 Lexical Change and Prototypicality Effects on Foreign Language Teaching

Recomended or Required Reading

Cruse, Alan D. & Croft, William (2004) Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dabrowska, Ewa & Dagmar Divjak (2015) Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Evans, Vyvyan, Bergen, Benjamin & Zinken, Jörg (eds.) (2006) The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. London: Equinox.
Evans, Vyvyan & Melanie Green. (2006) Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Geeraerts, Dirk (2006) Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Geeraerts, Dirk & Cuyckens, Hubert (2007) The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ungerer, Friedrich & Schmid, Hans-Jörg (1996) An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London & New York: Addison Wesley Longman Ltd.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Presentations
Discussions on examples and experiments
Designing and performing experiments

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-5 will be evaluated through an assignments/presentations porfolio, and mid-term and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

70% class attendance is obligatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

burcu.karaman@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By Appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Student Presentations 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 18 18
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Project Preparation 1 30 30
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
Project Assignment 1 20 20
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 216

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.153
LO.253
LO.3354
LO.4555
LO.5555

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