Course image Cognitive Linguistics - 241_81COLI6063_001
NH-2024-2025
The course offers a survey and knowledge of a variety of principles and methods known as ‘cognitive linguistics’, that have developed in the last three decades as an alternative to formal models of language. This course serves to introduce students in humanities and social sciences to the study of language from the perspective of human cognition and its impact on language production and language use. It is designed for students without prior exposure to linguistics or language studies. It aims to promote the view that language is a product of human cognition through the interaction between perception and conceptualization. By exposing them to some of the basic principles in cognitive linguistics and a range of linguistic constructions, the course aims to enable the students to gain a better appreciation of and better understanding about language for the purpose of developing the desirable analytical and intellectual language essential to academic inquiry.