The Seminar of Japanese Studies & the Department of Linguistics & Baltic
Studies
invite you to the course of
Cognitive linguistics is the most recent development in the study of
language. The course Cognitive Linguistics and Japanese offers an
introduction to its basic ideas, followed by a series of discussions on
some of the major points in grammar and lexis with examples
borrowed predominantly from English. The lectures in cognitive
linguistics will be followed by a brief account
of some basic characteristics of the Japanese
language.
The lecturer is Yoshihiko IKEGAMI,
professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo
and one of the most prominent figures in the
field of Japanese linguistics.
The lectures will be taught in English.
The course is offered to all students as
JAP225 Visiting Professor’s Course
in the Spring 2014 term. It will be taught from 17. 2. to 8. 3. 2014 in
the classroom C15 (for details see IS).
For all further information contact:
E-mail:
Mgr. Jiří Matela, M.A.
[email protected]
S y lla b u s :
PART 1: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
1. Language as Object of Linguistics
2. A Brief Historical Sketch of Linguistics in the 20th Century – Structural
Linguistics, Transformational-Generative Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics
3. Cognition and Linguistics, with a Brief Note on Biosemiotics
4. ‘Meaning’ in Cognitive Linguistics
5. Questions of ‘construal’ – Universality vs. Relativity, and Linguistic Typology
6. Selected Topics in Grammar – ‘Different form, Different meanings’
7. Selected Topics in Lexicon, esp. ‘Metaphor’
PART 2: JAPANESE LINGUISTICS
8. Language Ideology – Native Speakers’ image vs. Non-native Speakers’ image…
9. ‘Omission’ of the Grammatical Subject and Mixing of Present and Past Tense
Forms – What do they mean to the native speakers?
10. Indirect Ways of Saying Things – What do they mean to the native speakers? …
11. Haiku and the Japanese Language
12. Selected Topics in Grammar and Lexicon
13. Japanese on the Evolutionary Scale