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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019) |
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| Cognition and Cognitive Processes in English |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Cognition and Cognitive Processes in English | Code | 613505110 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Introduction to psycholinguistics: aims, scope and methods. 2. Experience or genes. Innateness. 3. The biology of language. Acquisition. 4. Words in the mind. 5. Syntactic comprehension. 6. Language production 7.-Semantic production: the importance of meaning. |
Chomsky's cognitive theory. Functionalism and experientialism. The symbolic function of language. Language experience and lexical foundations. Cognitive semantics Categorization, prototypes, schema. Metaphor and metonymy. The construction of the spaces of the mind. Cognitive aspects of grammar Cognition and literature. |
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