Advanced seminar: Vertiefungsmodul: Sprachwissenschaft 1 und 4 - Cognitive Linguistics - Details

Advanced seminar: Vertiefungsmodul: Sprachwissenschaft 1 und 4 - Cognitive Linguistics - Details

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Course name Advanced seminar: Vertiefungsmodul: Sprachwissenschaft 1 und 4 - Cognitive Linguistics
Course number ANG.05277.02; ANG.06107.01
Semester SoSe 2026
Current number of participants 39
maximum number of participants 30
Entries on waiting list 4
Home institute Anglistik / Sprachwissenschaft
Courses type Advanced seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Thursday, 09.07.2026 10:15 - 11:45, Room: Hörsaal V (Raum E.03) [LuWu 2]
Type/Form Language System
Pre-requisites at least one "Aufbaumodul" in English linguistics
Performance record Studienleistung: 5 short exercises, to be uploaded to ILIAS
Modulleistung: Final Test (paper-based)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
Studiengänge (für) LAS Englisch 1. Unterrichtsfach (wahlobl.)
LAG Englisch 1. Unterrichtsfach (wahlobl.)
LAG Englisch 2. Unterrichtsfach (fak.)
M.A. 120 Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur und M.A. 45/75 Englische Sprache und Literatur (wahlobl.)
SWS 2
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

One of the basic hypotheses of cognitive linguistics is that "language is not an autonomous cognitive faculty" and "the representation of linguistic knowledge is essentially the same as the representation of other conceptual structures." (Croft /Cruse 2004:2)
In this course, we study the general perspective on language adopted by cognitive linguistics. We read and discuss introductory texts which cover central concepts like conceptual metaphor, image schemas, mental spaces, frames, construction grammar, prototypicality and radial sets. We also apply the cognitive perspective to text and discourse and try simple experiments to verify the theory.
Literature:
Evans, Vyvyan, Melanie Green (2007) - Cognitive Linguistics. An Introduction, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Croft, William, D. Alan Cruse (2004) – Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Geeraerts, Dirk (ed.) (2006) – Cognitive Linguistics – Basic Readings, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Vertiefungsmodul: Sprachwissenschaft 1 und 4 - Cognitive Linguistics".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 25.02.2026 on 23:59. Additional seats may be available via a waiting list.