Linguistics 104

Language and Conceptualization
Winter quarter 2004
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Linguistics 104 -- Language and Conceptualization
Syllabus   Winter 2004
Instructor:  Anne Sumnicht


Grading Policy  
Required Readings:  Course Reader

Topics
I.        Embodiment:
  • McCrone, John.  1991. From baby talk to strong language.  Chapter 5 in The ape that   spoke.  New York:  William Morrow & Co.
  • Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1999.  The embodied mind.  Chapter 3 in Philosophy in the flesh.  New York:  Basic Books.
  • Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr.  2003.  Embodied experience and linguistic meaning.  Brain and Language. 84: 1-15.
  • Zwaan, Rolf A.  Unpublished.  Embodied Sentence Comprehension.  To appear in The grounding of cognition:  The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking.  D. Pecher and R.A. Zwaan (Eds.).  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press.
II.    Categorization
  • Taylor, John R.  1989.  Chapter 2-4 in Linguistic categorization  Prototypes in linguistic theory.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press.
  • Rosch, Eleanor.  1978.  Principles of categorization.  Chapter 2 in Cognition and categorization.  Eleanor Rosch and B.B. Lloyd (Eds.).  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Goldberg, Adele.  1995.  Chapter 1 in Constructions  A construction grammar approach to argument structure.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.  1-23.
III.    Attention,  Framing and Construal
  • Langacker, Ronald.  1987.  Selection from chapter 3 in Foundations of cognitive grammar  Vol. 1.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press.  110-126.
  • Filmore, Charles J.  1982.  Frame Semantics.  In Linguistics in the morning calm.  Linguistic Society of Korea (ed.).  Seoul:  Hanshin.  111-137.
  • Langacker, Ronald.  1993.  Universals of Construal.  Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 19. 
IV.    Humor
  • Bergen, Ben  and Binsted, Kim.  2003.  The cognitive linguistics of scalar humor. CSLI Publications.
  • Coulson, Seana .  2001.  Frame Shifting in one line jokes.  Chapter 2.2 from Semantic Leaps.  Cambridge University Press.
V.    Imagery
  • Baddeley, Alan.  1998.  Visual imagery and the visuo-spatial sketchpad.  In Human memory:  Theory and practice.  Allyn & Bacon.
  • Talmy, Leonard  1996.  Fictive motion in language and “ception”.  Chapter 6 in Language and Space.  Paul Bloom, Mary Pederson, Lynn nadel and Merrill F. Garrett (Eds.)  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.  211-276.
  • Matlock, Teenie.  2003 (under review)  Fictive motion as cognitive simulation.
VI.    Metaphor,  Metonomy,  Blending
  • Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson  1980.  Chapters 1-6 from Metaphors we live by.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.  3-40.
  • Fauconnier, Gilles  1997.  Blends.  Chapter 6 from Mappings in thought and language.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.  149-186.

VII.    Embodied Machines
  • Steels, Luc  1999.  Chapter 1 & 2 in The talking heads experiment  vol. 1:  Words and meaning.  Antwerpen:  Special pre-edition for Laboratorium.
  • Roy, Deb  2002.  Grounded spoken language acquisition:  experiments in word learning.  IEEE Transactions on multimedia vol. X, No. Y.  100-112.
  • Chang, Nancy  2001  Learning grammatical constructions.  Available at www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nchang/research/lang-learning.html.















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