COURSE DESCRIPTION and REQUIREMENTS
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COURSE SYLLABUS HUMAN LANGUAGE AND MIND: THINKING AND SPEAKING FF UK SPRING/SUMMER 2023 Please note that classes in the course start on Wednesday Feb. 22 (rather than Feb. 15). Prof. Eva Eckert, Ph.D. Wednesday 9:10 am - 11:30 pm FFUK Palachovo nám., room 308B |
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Semester ECTS credits |
4 to 6 |
Language of Instruction |
English |
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Length |
14 weeks |
Level |
Intermediate to M.A. |
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1. Course Description
HUMAN LANGUAGE and MIND deals with psychological and cognitive aspects of language as key to human mind and creativity; to interrelation of language, thought and brain; language in mediating experience, remembering and creating meaning; the instinctive, emotional and rational in cognition; pre-linguistic cognition of hominids; psychology of "global" language and mind; language acquisition in children; bilinguals’ speaking and thinking; sign language, and the impact of disappearing languages on human culture.
2. Reading Materials, in Moodle
textbook: Julie SEDIVY, LANGUAGE in MIND, 2018
web activities linked to the chapters in Sedivy
readings selected from the following list:
Aitchison, Jean 2000. Seeds of Speech, Cambridge U Press
Damasio, Anthony. Cortex convergence zones: Brain yields clues on its organization for language
Diessel, G. Learning vs. Growth, in Language in Use, pp. 313-19
Evans, Vyvan. Language is not an instinct
Hauser, Marc 2002. Researchers debate the origin of language, in Harvard Gazette
Hickey, Raymond. Language and the mind
Kahneman & Tversky, Thinking fast, thinking slow
Kress, G. and T. Leuwen, Semiotic Landscape, in Language in Use, pp. 344-9
Lupyan, Gary & Ben Berger, How Language Programs The Mind
Pinker, Steven 1994. How the Mind Creates Language, in Language Instinct, HarperCollins
Digital Mind in an Analog World, in Language Instinct
Language is a human instinct, in Third Culture 1995, ch.13, Simon& Schuster
Plag, Ingo Productivity and the Mental Lexicon, in Language in Use, pp. 106-13
Premack, David 2004. Is Language a Key to Human Intelligence? in Science
Sperber, D. and D. Wilson 1996. Relevance: Communication and Cognition, pp. 1-24, 38, 46-9,172-9
Tomasello, Michael. Language acquisition