Human Language and Mind - Thinking and speaking - ALINV415BE

• Title: Human Language and Mind - Thinking and speaking
• Guaranteed by: International Office (21-ZO)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 1/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (3); summer:unknown / unknown (3)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: ALINV415B
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: prof. doc. Eva Eckertová, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Andrea Hermanová (31.08.2017)

Aitchison, Jean 2000. Seeds of Speech, Cambridge U Press

Diessel, G. Learning vs. Growth, in Language in Use, pp. 313-19

Hauser, Marc 2002. Researchers debate the origin of language, in Harvard Gazette

Kandel, Eric 2006. In Search of Memory, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 1-16

Kress, G. and T. Leuwen, Semiotic Landscape, in Language in Use, pp. 344-9

McGilchrist,The Divided Brain TED talk

Montague, Red 2006. Why Choose this Book, Introduction and ch. 1, Dutton 2006

Pinker, Steven 1994. How the Mind Creates Language, in Language Instinct, HarperCollins

Digital Mind in an Analog World, in Language Instinct

Language is a human instinct, in Third Culture 1995, ch.13, Simon& Schuster

Plag, Ingo Productivity and the Mental Lexicon, in Language in Use, pp. 106-13

Premack, David 2004. Is Language a Key to Human Intelligence?, in Science

Sperber, D. and D. Wilson 1996. Relevance: Communication and Cognition, pp. 1-24, 38, 46-9,172-9

Stubbs, Michael 1998. Language and the Mediation of Experience, in Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Blackwell, ch. 22

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Andrea Hermanová (31.08.2017)

HUMAN LANGUAGE and MIND is taught as a seminar that introduces a topic through a presentation, discussion and video, poses probing questions, proposes ways of examining and organizing the materials, and analyzes readings.