Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

Second term
Thursday from 10:45 to 12:45 at 109 Marais 510

German

The objectives of the course of German linguistics III are:
(1) provide students with a contextualization of Cognitive Linguistics and establish its fundamental principles and key notions;
(2) to introduce students to research in Applied Cognitive Linguistics;
(3) to help students develop a range of cross-disciplinary skills: reading scientific papers, synthesis skills, oral presentations, research methodology, corpus research, etc.

For the Bachelor in Modern Languages and Letters: German, Dutch and English :

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(1) The course addresses Cognitive Linguistics through, on the one hand, different theoretical aspects and, on the other hand, different empirical research on German.
(2) The course is based, in part, on a reading portfolio, consisting of various scientific articles. The first articles are of a general nature and allow a better contextualization of Cognitive Linguistics and aim at establishing its fundamental principles and key notions. The other articles focus on empirical analyses of German language phenomena.
(3) In addition to the discussion of articles and theoretical input, corpus linguistics is also regularly addressed. The main German corpora are presented to the students, as well as the methodological challenges that corpus research may involve.

The seminar is interactive and dynamic and requires active student participation (presentation of articles, reflection on different language realities, etc.).
Students are invited to make an oral presentation and to write a paper based on a scientific article related to the aspects discussed in the course.

Formative:
Assessment is based on formative evaluation, i.e. on the active participation in the course, a portfolio of scientific articles to read and some exercises to do at home.

Certificate-based assessment:
During the term, the student must read a scientific article dealing with one of the linguistic aspects described in the course, make a detailed summary and an oral presentation (counts for 30% of the final mark). At the end of the term, there is a written and oral examination covering the subject material covered during the course (70% of the final mark).
In the event of a change in the pandemic risk and a return to partial or total confinement, the evaluation of this course unit may take the form of an oral exam on Teams.

Here are a few references as an illustration:
Bergen, Benjamin K. (2012): Louder than words. The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning. New York : Basic Books.
Dirven, René and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza (2010). Looking back at 30 years of Cognitive Linguistics. In Tabakowska, Elzbieta, Michal Choinski, and Lukasz Wiraszka (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics in Action: From Theory to Application and Back, 13-70. Berlin/New York : de Gruyter Mouton.
Evans, Vyvyan & Melanie Green (2006): Cognitive Linguistics - An Introduction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press.
Jessen, Moiken, Blomberg, Johan & Roche, Jörg (2018). Kognitive Linguistik. Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
Johnson, Mark (1987): The Body in the Mind. Chicago, London : University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, Georges & Johnson, Mark (2021). Leben in Metaphern: Konstruktion und Gebrauch von Sprachbildern. Heidelberg : Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag
Lakoff, Georges & Elisabeth, Wehling (2016). Auf leisen Sohlen ins Gehirn. Heidelberg : Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag
Lemnitzer, Lothar & Heike Zinsmeister (2010): Korpuslinguistik. Eine Einführung. Tübingen : Gunter Narr.
McEnery, Tony & Andrew Hardie (2012): Corpus Linguistics: Method, theory and practice. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Schwarz, Monika (2008): Einführung in die Kognitive Linguistik. Tübingen : A. Francke Verlag.
Smirnova, Elena & Mortelmans, Tanja (2010). Funktionale Grammatik. Konzepte und Theorien. Berlin/New York : Walter de Gruyter.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol (2018), Eine Frage der Moral, Warum wir politisch korrekte Sprache brauchen. Berlin : Dudenverlag
Wildgen, Wolfgang (2008). Kognitive Grammatik: Klassische Paradigmen und neue Perspektiven. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter.
Ziem, Alexander & Lasch, Alexander (2013). Konstruktionsgrammatik: Konzepte und Grundlagen gebrauchsbasierter Ansätze. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter.
Zima, Elisabeth (2021). Einführung in die gebrauchsbasierte Kognitive Linguistik. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter.

The teacher provides the PowerPoint slides of the course to the students. Moreover, she illustrates the theses and describes the linguistic models with excerpts of works specialized in linguistics.