General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Linguistic theory: Cognitive linguistics |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Karolina Krawczak-Glynn |
| Lecturer's email | krawczak@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | University professor |
| Faculty | Faculty of English |
| Semester | 2026/2027 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 3 |
| USOS code | 15-LTCL-AMU-PIE-11 |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the students with the theoretical underpinnings of Cognitive Linguistics and to demonstrate some possible applications of the model of language proposed in this framework.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Syllabus
The topics to be covered are listed below. Credits will be given on the basis of active participation in class activities (discussion, group work, in-class exercises) & successful completion of a final mini research project (research report).
Theory:
Introduction: Contextualizing Cognitive Linguistics
Categorization: Prototypes, Family Resemblances, Fuzzy Boundaries & Levels of Categorization
Figurative language and thought: Conceptual Metaphors & Conceptual Metonymies
Construction Grammar
Critical discoure analysis
Method and application
Study design, hypotheses and IMRaD
Observational data in Cognitive Linguistics: Access, extraction & cleaning
Qualitative analysis of corpus data
Some basics quantitative methods for corpus data
Reading list
Selected references (not obligatory reading)
Evans, Vyvyan & Melanie Green. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics. An introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Evans, Vyvyan & Stephanie Pourcel (eds.). 2009. New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Geeraerts, Dirk. (ed.). 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Geeraerts, Dirk. 2010. Theories of Lexical Semantics. Oxford: OUP.
Glynn, Dylan & Kerstin Fischer (eds.). 2010. Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-driven approaches. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Glynn, Dylan & Justyna Robinson. 2014. Polysemy and Synonymy, Corpus method and cognitive theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gries, Stefan Th. & Anatol Stefanowitsch. 2006. Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics. Corpus-Based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Lakoff, George. 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Langacker, Ronald. 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Theoretical prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Langacker, Ronald. 1990. Concept, Image, and Symbol: The cognitive basis of grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Schmid, Hans-Jörg & Susanne Handl (eds.). 2010. Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage-Patterns. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Ungerer, Friedrich & Hans-Jörg Schmid. 1996. An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London: Longman.