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  • General

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    Teacher: Hubert Kowalewski
    Email: hubert.kowalewski@umcs.pl
    Office hours: Tuesday 11:30-13:00, Wednesday 11:30-13:00, room 4B (Department of Philology building)


    Course books:

    Evans, Vyvyan and Melanie Green. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.(available online via UMCS Main Library)

  • Topic 1

    Setting the scene

  • Topic 2

    Chapter 5: What is cognitive semantics? (sec. 5.1 and 5.2)

  • Topic 3

    Chapter 6: Embodiment and conceptual structure (sec. 6.1 and 6.2)

  • Topic 4

    Chapter 7: The encyclopaedic view of meaning (sec.7.1 and 7.2)

  • Topic 5

    Chapter 7: The encyclopaedic view of meaning (sec.7.3 and 7.4)

  • Topic 6

    Chapter 8: Categorisation and idealised cognitive models (sec. 8.1 and 8.2)

  • Topic 7

    Mid-term test

  • Topic 8

    Highlighted

    Chapter 9: Metaphor and metonymy (sec. 9.1-9.3)

  • Topic 9

    Chapter 9: Metaphor and metonymy (sec. 9.5-9.8)

  • Topic 10

    Chapter 10: Word meaning and radial categories (sec. 10.1-10.5)

  • Topic 11

    Description theories of reference

  • Topic 12

    Final test