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Course: 2024/2025

Language: mind and culture

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Master in Cultural Theory and Critique (Plan: 356 - Estudio: 253)

EPH

Coordinating teacher: PAVON LUCERO, MARIA VICTORIA

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Electives

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 1º

Semester: 1º

Objectives

This course aims that the students achieve the following competences and skills: - Knowing and understanding the main theories about human language. - Knowing and understanding the main theories that have tried to explain the relation between language and mind. - Knowing and understanding the cultural dimension of language. - Examining and understanding the relation between the language and the social processes that configure meanings. - Acquiring methodological instruments that allow to analize and understand the elements involved in the relation between language, mind and culture. - Knowing the most relevant bibliography on the topic. - Ability to use oral and written methods of study and analysis. - Ability to produce academic texts related to the matter. As a result of the learning process, the student is expected to know the main problems related to mental and cultural dimensions of language (as well as the theories that have analized them), to have acquired the conceptual and methodological tools to deal with them, and to be able to use the bibliography on the topic to elaborate a brief paper with academic and conceptual accuracy.

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1. Introduction: mind and culture, the double dimension of human language. 2. Homo loquens: 2.1. How it all started? The origins of language. 2.2. Neurological basis of language. 2.3. A portuguese was amazed...: the problem of Plato (language acquisition). 2.4. Language processing. 2.5. Sign languages. 3. Language, culture and cognition: 3.1. Cognitive, social and linguistic categories. 3.2. Do we look at the world through our language? Language and though: linguistic relativism. 3.3. Metaphors. 3.4. Gender and language. 4. The evolution of languages: intralinguistic and cultural factors: 4.1. Linguistic policies. 4.2. Standardization of languages. 4.3. The concepts of language and dialect. 4.4. Language contact: pidgins and Creole languages. 4.5. Minority languages. 4.6. Linguistic nationalism. 5. Language-culture communication. 5.1. Intercultural communication. 5.2. Pragmatics. 6. Writing systems.

Learning activities and methodology

During teaching sessions, learning activities such as the following will be conducted: - Teacher¿s presentations of general contents and readings. - Comments on the course reading and related activities. - Group work. - Exercises to be solved individually. - Oral presentations. In addition to that, students will be expected to complete reading assignments, and to prepare the exercises prior to each tutorial session. They can also attend tutorial sessions and must complete an end-of-term paper.

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 60
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Active participation during teaching and tutorial sessions (40%) and end-of-term paper on any of the course's topics, according to teacher's indications (60%).

Basic Bibliography

Acero, J.J., Bustos, E. y Quesada, D. . ¿La hipótesis del relativismo lingüístico¿, en Introducción a la filosofía del lenguaje. Madrid: Cátedra. 1989
Bastardas Boada, Albert: . Ecología y sostenibilidad lingüística: Una aproximación desde la (socio)complejidad, en Casas Gómez, Miguel (dir.) & Rocío Vela Sánchez (ed.). Eugenio Coseriu, in memoriam. XIV Jornadas de Lingüística. Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones, pp. 143-163. 2014
Bosque, Ignacio. ¿Sexismo lingüístico y visibilidad de la mujer¿. Boletín de Información Lingüística de la Real Academia Española, (1), 1-18.. 2015
Briz Gómez, Antonio. Guía de comunicación no sexista. Madrid, Aguilar. 2011
Briz Gómez, Antonio. Guía de comunicación no sexista. Madrid, Aguilar. 2011
Castillo Lluch, Mónica y Johannes Kabatek (eds.). Las lenguas de España. Política lingüística, sociología del lenguaje e ideología desde la Transición hasta la actualidad. Madrid-Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana-Vervuer. 2006
Chomsky, Noam. El lenguaje y los problemas del conocimiento, trad. de C. Alegría y D. J. Flakoll. Madrid, Visor. 1988
Corbet, Greville. Gender. Cambridge University Press. 1991
Crystal, David. Language Death. Cambridge: C.U.P.. 2000
Escandell Vidal, Mª Victoria (coord.) et al.. Claves del lenguaje humano. Madrid, Editorial universitaria Ramón Areces-UNED. 2014
Evans, Vyvyan. The Language Myth. Cambridge, CUP. 2014
Ibarretxe Antuñano, Iraide y Javier Valenzuela (dirs.). Lingüística cognitiva. Barcelona, Anthropos. 2012
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Catherine . "¿Es universal la cortesía?", en D. Bravo y A. Briz (eds.), Pragmática sociocultural. Estudios sobre el discurso de cortesía en español. Barcelona, Ariel, cap. 4, pp. 39-53. 2004
Kramsch, Claire. Language and Culture. Oxford University Press. 1998
Lakoff, George y Mark Johnson. Metaphors we live by. Chicago, Chicago University Press. 2003 (1º ed.: 1980
López Rodríguez, Irene. Una visión panorámica de los criollos de base hispánica. Madrid: EAD. 2019
Mendívil Giró, José Luis: . Origen, evolución y diversidad de las lenguas, . Frankfut am Main, Peter Lang, . 2009.
Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos. De Babel a Pentecostés: manifiesto plurilingüista. Horsori. 2006
Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos. El nacionalismo lingüístico. Una ideología destructiva. Barcelona, Atalaya. 2008
Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos: . Las lenguas y sus escrituras: tipología, evolución e ideología, . Madrid, Síntesis, . 2005.
O'Grady, William . Cómo aprenden los niños el lenguaje, trad. de A. Benítez Burraco. Madrid, Akal. 2010
Pinker, Steven: . El instinto del lenguaje, versión de José Manuel Igoa González, . Madrid, Alianza, . 1995.
Pullum, Geoffrey K.: . The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language, . Chicago-London, The University of Chicago Press, . 1991.
Tannen, Deborah: . You just don't understand. Women and men in conversation, . New York, Morrow, . 1990.
Ting-Toomey, Stella y Chung, Leeva C.: . Understanding Intercultural Communication, 2ª ed., . New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press, . 2012.
Yule, George. El lenguaje, 3ª ed., trad. de Nuria Bel Rafecas. Madrid, Akal. 2008

Additional Bibliography

Bernárdez, Enrique. El lenguaje como cultura: una crítica del discurso sobre el lenguaje. Madrid, Alianza. 2008
Casado Velarde, Manuel. Lenguaje y cultura. Madrid, Síntesis. 1998
Colón Domenech, Germà y Lluís Gimeno Botí (eds.): . Ecologia lingüística i desparició de llengües, . Castelló, Universitat Jaume I, . 2007.
Croft, William y D. Alan Cruse: . Cognitive Linguistics [Trad. esp.: Lingüística cognitiva, Madrid, Akal, 2008.]. CUP, . 2004.
Cuenca, Maria Josep y Joseph Hilferty: . Introducción a la lingüística cognitiva, . Barcelona, Ariel, . 1999.
Daniels, Peter T. y William Bright: . The World's Writing Systems. . Oxford, Oxford University Press, . 1996.
Harris, R.: . Signos de escritura, . Barcelona, Gedisa, . 1999.
Harris, R.: . Rethinking Writing, . Londres, The Athlone Press, . 2000.
Holmes, Janet y Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.): . The Handbook of Language and Gender, . Oxford, Blackwell,. 2003.
Jackendoff, Ray. Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure (Jean Nicod Lectures). Cambridge (MA), MIT Press. 2007
Junyent, Carme:. El valor de la diversitat linguística. Onada Edicions. 2024
Langacker, Ronald W.: . Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, . Stanford University Press, . 1987 (vol. I) - 1991 (vol. II).
Langacker, Ronald W.: . Concept, Image and Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar, . Berlín, Mouton, . 1990.
Lledó Cunill, Eulàlia (coord.), M.ª Ángeles Calero Fernández y Esther Forgas Berdet. De mujeres y diccionarios. Evolución de lo femenino en la 22.ª edición del DRAE. Madrid, Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales. 2004
Lorenzo González, Guillermo J. y Longa Martínez, Víctor Manuel. El innatismo. Madrid, Cátedra. 2018
Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos. La dignidad e igualdad de las lenguas. Crítica de la discriminación lingüística. Madrid, Alianza. 2000
Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos: . Curso universitario de Lingüística General, 2ª ed., vol. I, . Madrid, Síntesis, . 2000.
Moreno Fernández, Francisco: . Principios de sociolingüística y sociología del lenguaje, . Barcelona, Ariel, . 1988.
Ong, W. J.: . Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. . Nueva York: Methuen, . 1982. [Trad. esp.: Oralidad y escritura. Tecnologías de la palabra. México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987]
P. T. Daniels y W. Bright (eds.): . The World's Writing Systems. . Oxford, Oxford University Press, . 1996.
Sapir, Edward: . Language, . 1921..
Soriano Díaz, Ramón Luis: . Política lingüística y derechos lingüísticos. Revista de Llengua y Dret 32, 115-125. 1999
Sperber, Dan y Deirdre Wilson: . Relevance. Communication and Cognition. . Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1986. . [Trad. esp.: Relevancia. Comunicación y procesos cognoscitivos. Madrid, Visor, 1994]
Whorf, Benjamin Lee: . Language, Though and Reality, . 1956..

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.