Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language and Its Use I - ABO700101

• Title: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language and Its Use I
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication (21-UCJTK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Eva Lehečková, Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Lucie Saicová Římalová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.; Mgr. Eva Lehečková, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Lucie Saicová Římalová, Ph.D.
• Class: A - Mezioborová nabídka VP: Lingvistika; Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics
• Interchangeability : ACN500200

Annotation

The aim of the course is to introduce the main interdisciplinary approaches in linguistics (mostly empirically or experimentally oriented). The course will integrate findings from psycholinguistics (first and second language acquisition, speech production and perception etc.), and cognitive linguistics (cognitive and construction grammar, cognitive semantics). This is a basic course intended for students with minimal prior knowledge of these areas.

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (24.02.2025)

Literature

Literature will be introduced during the semmester.

Last update: CHROJ1AF (22.09.2016)

Requirements to the exam

Credit requirements:

• completion of online Moodle tests;
• an in-class written exam, consisting of three types of tasks:

• a series of multiple-choice questions and

• one open question, both aimed at testing the knowledge and competences acquired in the course;

• an open question about a scientific article assigned 5 days prior to the exam.

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.08.2025)

Syllabus

The course will consist of short audio-commented presentations (approximately between 5-10 minutes long), tests, obligatory and voluntary readings, complementary materials and exercises. 

Everything is accessible through Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=10122 (password "intapproaches").

The topics for this semmester are: 

• Biological foundations of language
• Language acquisition
• Language of adult speakers
• Language disorders
• Mental lexicon and its organization
• Language production
• Language processing
• Bilingualism and L2 acquisition
• Cognitive linguistics (Meaning and categorization, Metaphor. Metonymy. Blendig. Image Schema)
• Language and culture
• Cognitive grammar

Last update: Saicová Římalová Lucie, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2023)