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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 |
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| 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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| 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. Cognitive linguistics. 7.-Semantic production: the importance of meaning. |
COGNITIVE THEORIES and HISTORY COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS THEORY- INTRODUCTION- COGNITIVE AND FUNCIONAL THEORIES COGNITIVE AND FUNCIONAL THEORIES II The relationship between linguistic knowledge and cognition. Language and speech production. Comprehension (definition, coherence and cohesion, assessing comprehension). Chomsky's cognitive theory. Functionalism and experientialism. The symbolic function of language. Language experience and lexical foundations. Cognitive semantics Categorization, prototypes, schema. The mental representation of categories. The concept of frames. Embodied experience. Metaphor and metonymy. The construction of the spaces of the mind. Cognitive aspects of grammar Cognition and literature. |
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