Syllabus
The course will consist of short audio-commented presentations (approximately between 5-10 minutes long), tests, obligatory and voluntary readings, complementary materials and exercises.
Everything is accessible through Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=10122 (password "intapproaches").
The topics for this semmester are:
Biological foundations of language
Language acquisition
Language of adult speakers
Language disorders
Mental lexicon and its organization
Language production
Language processing
Bilingualism and L2 acquisition
Cognitive linguistics (Meaning and categorization, Metaphor. Metonymy. Blendig. Image Schema)
Language and culture
Cognitive grammar
Annotation
The aim of the course is to introduce the main interdisciplinary approaches in linguistics (mostly empirically or experimentally oriented). The course will integrate findings from psycholinguistics (first and second language acquisition, speech production and perception etc.), cognitive linguistics (cognitive and construction grammar, cognitive semantics), sociolinguistics (language variation, language ideologies) and pragmatics.
The emphasis will be also on the historical contexts of the development of linguistics in 20th and 21st century.