[英语考试]Cognitive Lingusitics.ppt

Cognitive Linguistics Course Requirements Reference books Journal (3 times) 8th Presentation Class attendance Final Exam Distinguished Figures George Lakoff Metaphors We Live By Philosophy in the Flesh Women, Fire and Dangerous Things Ronald Langacker Foundation of Cognitive Grammar Distinguished Figures Charles Fillmore Frames and the Sematics of Understanding Gilles Fauconnier Spaces, Worlds and Grammars TOPIC I TOPIC II Three approaches to the nature of language Language is a kind of behavior. Language is a Platonic object. Language is a mental phenomenon. Language is a kind of behavior. 1. Behaviorism 2. Bloomfield 3. Doing Linguistics is only looking at and classifying what people said. Language is a Platonic object. 1. Plato 2. There were abstract ideas floating around, independent of us. 3. Language is studied rather like a mathematical system with no reference to its speakers. Language is a mental phenomenon. Chomsky’s great achievement The mind is modular. The mind has a rich initial structure. Linguistic knowledge is distinct from conceptual knowledge, social cognition, interpersonal skills , reasoning, etc. The Chomskyan approach has had some unfortunate by-products. The distinction between the core and the periphery. An over-reliance on intuition and invented data, and a neglect of actual linguistic data. A general neglect of semantics. What is cognitive linguistics? It subsumes a variety of concerns and broadly compatible theoretical approaches that have a common basic outlook: that language is an integral facet of cognition which reflects the interaction of social, cultural, psychological, communicative and functional considerations, and which can only be understood in the context of a realistic view of acquisition, cognitive development and mental processing. ( Editorial statement, Cognitive Linguistics Research, Mouton de Gruyter) Lecture 2 Cognitive Linguistics S