08认知语义学毛继光.doc-温州大学外国语学院.doc

温州大学研究生课程教学进度和计划表 （ 2008 至 2009 学年第 2 学期） 课程名称： 认知语义学 总学时： 36 （其中理论： 实验： 上机： ） 开课班级： 08语言文学研究生 教师姓名： 毛继光 职 称： 副教授 所在学院(加盖公章)： 外语学院 周 次 (按校历表)周 学 时授 课 章 节教 学 内 容授课方式 （包括讲授、实验操作、上机、观摩录像、分组讨论等）作业布置教学目的教学重点、难点 第1周 第2周 第3周 第4周 第5周 第6周 第7周 第 8 周 第9周 第10周  2Chapter 1 Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics Basic Concepts Chapter 2 Space; Extensions from Spatial Meanings Chapter 3 Radial Categories; Metaphor and Mytonymy Chapter 4 An Overview of Construction Grammmar Chapter 5 Mental Space Chapter 6 Language Change Chapter 7 Count and Mass Nouns Chapter 8 Perfective and Imperfective Uses of Verbs Consolidation of basic scopes and cognitive linguistic terms, cracking of modern-day theoretical issues, and their application to language study Slowly but surely understand main concerns in cognitive linguistics Insights of disputes on psychological research, and decision-taking on topic-relevant preparatory materials Initial steps towards the finalization of the graduation paper Research-based activities and case or field study  Defining the following terms and their applications: Construal; Perspective; Foregrounding; Metaphor; Frame.etc Construal of objects and spatial relationships Examples: in; out over, at, up; through; Landmark as obstacle Landmark as instrument Landmark as ordeal Attribute radiality Process radiality Thing radiality Constructional meaning Naturalness and grammaticality Iconicity The coused-motion construction Apparaent semantic anomalities; Referential ambiguities Count and mass phenomena Nouns lacking a singular form; Nouns laching with sdentical singular and plural forms Class lectures plus students’ presentations on relevant topics Panel discussions plus individual presentaion Vedio-replaying of lectures by renowned linguists Lakff, Langacker, and Talor  Domain-specific readings In-class presentation with an aid of PPT Book review on essays a