A&H 325 Topics in Linguistics

Content

Topics in Linguistics: Cognitive Linguistics

 

This year’s topic in linguistics is cognitive linguistics.  Following the ‘cognitive revolution’ of the latter part of the twentieth century came the birth of a new subdiscipline of linguistics known as cognitive linguistics.  The so-called ‘cognitive linguistics enterprise’ has since become highly influential; work in cognitive linguistics, and especially in such areas as blending theory and conceptual metaphor theory, is now positioned at the cutting edge of research in theoretical linguistics.  Often heralded as a ‘more human’ alternative to formal models of language, cognitive linguistics draws on the findings of research in the cognitive sciences as a means to examining the relationship between language, body and mind. From this cognitive perspective, many of the principles underlying previous linguistic theories have come to be re-framed, re-examined and questioned.

Instructor

Dr. Ernestine Lahey

Track

Linguistics

Period

Fall / 2010

Course Material

• Evans, Vyvyan and Green, Melanie. Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Edinburgh: EUP, 2006.
• The A&H 325 course reader

Prerequisites

The following courses are required in order to take this course:

• A&H 126 Introduction to English Linguistics
• A&H 225 Sociolinguistics