Lecture: Describing Space in English

  • Teaching

    Details

    Faculty Faculty of Humanities
    Domain English
    Code UE-L06.00933
    Languages English
    Type of lesson Lecture
    Level Master, Bachelor
    Semester SA-2019

    Schedules and rooms

    Summary schedule Wednesday 13:15 - 15:00, Hebdomadaire (Autumn semester)

    Teaching

    Teachers
    • Maillat Didier
    Description

    One of the most impressive feasts in a natural language like English is to be found in its ability to describe and translate the cognitive complexity of spatial configurations into a linear string of words. It is also a rather puzzling fact of the English language that we use idiomatic expressions like 'to be in love' or 'to be on top of things' when really we are neither in nor on anything. How does English capture complex notions like distance, directions, spatial relations; and to what extent does it differ from other languages? How do you talk about and conceptualise sizes? Why do we spatialise non-spatial domains, as when we talk of 'the past being behind us'? In this course, it will soon become clear that the study of space in language touches upon some of the most central issues of human language and cognition.
    Training objectives
    • Understanding of the theoretical concepts
    • Application of crosslinguistic comparison to capture the specificities of English
    • Ability to use linguistic evidence in order to understand conceptual and cognitive processes
    • Theoretical and methodological tools used to analyse the English language
    Softskills Yes
    Off field Yes
    BeNeFri No
    Mobility Yes
    UniPop No

    Documents

    Bibliography

    A bibliography and a list of assigned readings will be made available in the first week of the semester. 
  • Dates and rooms
    Date Hour Type of lesson Place
    18.09.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    25.09.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    02.10.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    09.10.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    16.10.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    23.10.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    30.10.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    06.11.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    13.11.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    20.11.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    27.11.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    04.12.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    11.12.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
    18.12.2019 13:15 - 15:00 Cours MIS 03, Room 3115
  • Assessments methods

    Examen - SA-2019, Session d'hiver 2020

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure

    Examen - SP-2020, Session d'été 2020

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure

    Examen - SP-2020, Autumn Session 2020

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure

    Examen - SA-2020, Session d'hiver 2021

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure

    Examen - SP-2021, Session d'été 2021

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure
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