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Course Objectives/Goals

This course aims to offer an overview of basic theories within cognitive semantics. Cognitive semantics provides tools that bring language and cognition together, assuming that language is not separate from other cognitive processes like memory, attention, categorization, social cognition, etc., and that language is influenced by the way the body interacts with the world. 

Upon successful completion of the course students are expected to:

• acquire basic theoretical and methodological knowledge in the area of cognitive semantics;
• apply such knowledge to the analysis of linguistic data;
• critically reflect on, and assess, the utility of cognitive semantics for the study of language;
• identify various applications of cognitive semantics in lexicography, L2 learning and teaching, discourse analysis, and the study of literature.

Instructors

Dr. Anna Piata

Email: apiata@enl.uoa.gr

Office hours: Thu 11.00-12.00 & by appointment

Instructional Methods

The course is offered in the form of lectures, which will be uploaded on e-class together with other learning materials, such as articles and book chapters, online resources, and formative coursework. Students are expected to actively participate through in-class discussions and workshop-style group work during class meetings. Classes will include also take-home assignments in order to facilitate, and monitor, students’ understanding of the topics discussed in class. Students will be assessed on the basis of a written project to be submitted at the end of the semester (90%), as well as an oral presentation (10%). Finally, the course will be evaluated through an evaluation form that will be completed anonymously by the students.

Course Syllabus

Bibliography

Required reading:

Croft, W. & Cruse, A. (2004). Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Additional readings:

Cuyckens H. & Zawada B. (2001). Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam, NJ: John

Benjamins.

Cuyckens H., Dirven R. & Taylor, J. (2003). Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics.

Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Dabrowska, E. & Divjak, D. (2015). Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de

Gruyter.

Fauconnier G. & Turner M. (2002). The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s

Hidden Complexities. New York: Basic Books.

Geeraerts, D. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Geeraerts, D., & Cuyckens, H. (2006). Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford:

Oxford University Press.

Goldberg, Adele. (2006). Constructions at Work. New York: Oxford University Press.

Evans, V. & Green, M. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. New Jersey:

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Evans V., Bergen B. & Zinken J. (eds) (2006). The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. London:

Equinox.

Kövecses Z. (2002). Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lakoff G. & Johnson M. (2003). Metaphors We Live By (2^nd edition). Chicago: University of

Chicago Press.

Lakoff G. & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its

Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.

Lee, D. (2002). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Ungerer, F. & Schmid, H-J. (2006). An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London:

Longman.