課程資訊
課程名稱
認知語意學
COGNITIVE SEMANTICS 
開課學期
96-1 
授課對象
文學院  語言學研究所  
授課教師
黃宣範 
課號
LING7303 
課程識別碼
142 M0490 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期四6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
樂學館304 
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語意學與語用學領域本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。
總人數上限:12人
外系人數限制:3人 
 
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課程概述

Course Outline:
1. Overview and Preliminary Distinctions
J. Taylor.chapters 1-2.
R. Langacker(l998) Conceptualization, symbolization and grammar. In M.Tomasello(ed.) The New Psychology of Language. 724-765.
2. Lexical Information in Words
C. Fillmore (1977): The organization of semantic information in the lexicon. In CLS parasession on the lexicon.
Chapter I of A.Wierzbicka(1985) Chapt. 1 ( Cups and mugs) of Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Karoma.
G.A. Miller( 1996): The science of words
For presentation:
Chapter 6 of D. Cruse (2000) Meaning in Language. ‘Contextual variability of word meaning’

3. Componential analysis and WORDNET
Chapters 1 (Nouns in WordNet) of Fellbaum(ed.) WORDNET
For presentation:
Chapter 3 ( A semantic network of English verbs) of Fellbaum (ed.) WORDNET
[FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE]

4. Cognitive Semantics: polysemy
Chapter 10 of Lakoff (l987)
Ravin and Leacock (eds) 2000. Polysemy: theoretical and computational approaches. Oxford.
For presentation:
Tyler and Evans(2001) Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over. Language 77: 724-765.
Smith ( Icelandic dative of sickness) in Cuyckens and Zawanda (ed.) Polysemy in cognitive lingustics
Beitel ( embodied approach to the polysemy of on) In Cuyckens and Zawanda (eds.)
5. Cognitive Semantics: Levels of categorization
Chapter 2 of US
For presentation:
A.Wierzbicka(1984) Apples are not a ‘kind of fruit’: the semantics of human categorization. American Ethnologist 313-328.
6. Cognitive semantics: frame semantics, schema theory
Chapter 5-8 of Taylor
For presentation:
Fillmore(1992). Toward a frame-based lexicon: the semantics of risk. In A. Lehrer and E. Kittay(eds.) Frame, fields and contrasts
.
[ Second assignment due]

7 Cognitive Semantics: Metaphor, Metonymy and construal operations
Chapter 5-7 of Taylor
Chapter 3 of CC
For Presentation:
Barcelona, A. On the plausibility of claiming a metonymic motivation for conceptual metaphor. IN Barcelona(ed.) Metaphor and Metonymy at the crossroads. 31-58.
8. Meaning and embodiment
Johnson, M. 1987 The body in the mind. Chapter 5 (how schemata constrain meaning, understanding
And rationality), 101-138.
9. Semantic Change
Chapter 8 of Bybee (1994) Evolution of Grammar. University of Chicago Press.
Chapters 1-3 of Traugott and Dasher (2002) Regularity in semantic change.Cambridge.
10. Computational Semantics
Chapter 6 (Qualia Structure) of Pustejvosks (1996): The generative lexican. pp. 85-104
J. Fodor and E. Lepore. 1998. The emptiness of the lexicon. In Bouillon et al. (eds.) The language of word meaning. 28-50.
11. Semantics of emotions
Johnson-Laird & K. Oatley 1989. The Language of Emotions. Cognition and Emotion: 3(2) 81-123
Z. Kovecses.2000. Metaphor and Emotion: Language, culture and body in human feeling. Cambridge.
A. Wierzbicka.1999. Emotions across Languages and cultures: diversity and universals.Cambridge.
For presentation:
S. Huang(2002) Tsou is different: A cognitive perspective on language, emotion and body. Cognitive Linguistics.

[Third ASSIGNMENT DUE]

12. Language and space
Pederson, E et al. 1998. Semantic typology and spatial conceptualization. Language 74: 557-589.
Chapter 3 (Spatial Orientation) of B. Heine (1997) Cognition Foundations of Grammar. Pp.35-65.
S. Levinson (1996): Language and Space. Annual Review of Anthropology 25:353-38.
Sinha, C. (2000) Language, culture and embodiment of spatial cognition. Cognitive Linguistics 11,12-41.
For presentation:
Chapter 3 of Talmy(2000), vol. 2 ‘A typology of event integration’
S. Huang and M. Tanangkingsing (to appear) Reference to motion events in Western Austroneseian
Languages--- towards a semantic typology
13. Emergent lexical semantics
S. Huang. 1998. Emergent lexical semantics. In S. Huang (ed.) Selected papers from the Second International Symposium on Languages in Taiwan. Crane. 129-150.
13. Semantics of discourse markers
S. Huang (2000): The story of heads and tails. Language and Linguistics.
14. Report on term paper
15.Report on term papers
[TERM PAPER DUE]

 

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課程要求
Evaluation:
There will be four short assignments( each 5-10 pages) on topics related to cognitive semantics (45%) and a term paper (40%). Class participation and contribution to class account for the balance (15%).

Course Objectives: this course is an introduction to main issues in cognitive semantics and the tools needed
to do semantic analysis. We will discuss how semantic properties are discovered, defined and
realized in language and how these tools and assumptions are put to use in the following areas:
language and space, motion, emotion, tense , aspect and modality. We will also examine in some
detail the mechanisms of semantic change.
Your participation:
l. Presentation of required reading: each of you will present several required readings throughout the semester. The presenter is responsible for organizing the discussion around the comments.
2. Comments: each of you will write a short (200-300) critical response to the required reading, these comments are to be sent to the email list for this class by 8 m the evening before each class for which there is reading. Each participant should read, print and bring the comments to class and be ready to discuss the ideas in them.
3. Presentation of projects: On Nov.3, each participant will present their topic ( about 10 minutes) to the rest of the class, with a sort handout outlining the hypothesis, preliminary supporting evidence, and data sources.
Guidelines for presenting reading assignments:
-- plan to take about 10 minutes for your presentation
-- state what you think is important about this reading
-- offer 2 or three questions hat you’d like to see form the basis for the day’s discussion of that reading.
-- offer your won alternative analysis or understanding of the point the author is making
 
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參考書目
Textbooks:
Recommended:
L. Talmy, L. 2000. Toward a cognitive semantics. 2 vol. MIT Press.
Frawley, W. 1992. Linguistic Semantics.LEA.
Ungerer, F. and H. Schmid .1996.An Introduction to cognitive Linguistics [US].
Croft, W. and A. Cruse. 2004. Cognitive linguistics. Cambridge.
Taylor, J. 2002. Cognitive grammar. Oxford.
 
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