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School of Letters Department of Humanities Literature Course English Linguistics & Literature Major Major (Credit 2) Intended Year: This course is intended for advanced undergraduates, but motivated students at any level are welcome. Intended School: This course is intended for students in English, but motivated students from any department are welcome. |
English Linguistics (Seminar IX)
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Numbering Code: LET-HUM4564E Course Code: 17052605 2017 FallTerm weekly Tue2 Hakozaki Classroom E科目 (English, English) |
| Course Overview |
In social psychology, construal is the subjective way that an individual interprets or perceives some aspect of the world, particularly human behavior, especially when directed toward that individual. In cognitive linguistics, grammar is an encoding of a conception of the world based in a culture. Here, linguists use the term construal to refer to ways that we encode our experience into language (both as far as meaning-construction and knowledge representation), and more specifically to refer to the cognitive processes that allow us to take different perspectives on the same topic, as revealed by our linguistic behavior. Croft and Cruse (2004) argue that there are four high-level cognitive abilities that allow humans to make construals: attention/ salience, judgment/ comparison, situatedness, and constitution/ gestalt. Within these general categories, they place specific cognitive operations such as metonymy, metaphor, categorization, deixis, and subjectivity/objectivity. The focus in our course will be on these cognitive abilities and the ways that they help to encode experience in language. |
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