Knowledge of central concepts and approaches in functional and cognitive linguistics, and in corpus linguistics
Skill and ease at reading scholarly articles and book chapters in linguistics
Across the learning activities, permit students to obtain at least level C1 for receptive skills, and B2 for productive skills, as defined by the Council of Europe in its Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
To introduce students to a range of linguistic topics approached from a so-caled "functional" and/or "cognitive" linguistic angle, both theoretically and across more applied studies
To introduce students to the basic methords used in corpus linguistics
In terms of linguistic skills, the goal is to attain (or exceed) proficiency levels C1 for receptive skills, and B2 for productive skills, as defined in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
More specifically for this course, the aim is to stimulate and activate various skills, notably reading skills to a scientific level, writing up a linguistic piece of argumentation, and orally presenting research results
This course introduces students to a number of basic concepts in functional and cognitive approaches to language and corpus linguistics on the basis of articles and book chapters. The main topics include the notion of a 'construction' as a form-meaning pairing, the distinction between 'representational' and 'interpersonal' constructions, aspects of cognitive semantics, and corpus linguistics. The theoretical notions taught will each time be applied to descriptive problems in English grammar. In this way, it is hoped students will acquire the ability to construct a linguistic argumentation on the basis of corpus data.
A take home exam (students get to choose two questions from a set of four to six questions and get at least one week to prepare their written answers) + oral group presentation about a corpus linguistics research project.
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