Universität Wien

122250 AR Linguistics Course (Advanced 1-5) - Hist., Appl. & TEFL (2012W)

Metaphor: cognitive and discourse perspectives

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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Details

max. 24 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 12.10. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 19.10. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 09.11. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 16.11. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 23.11. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 30.11. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 07.12. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 14.12. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 11.01. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 18.01. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Freitag 25.01. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The course will introduce students to the notions of conceptual metaphor and conceptual categories, their structure and role in understanding our everyday experience and the way metaphor is used as a persuasion or framing device in texts. A distinction will be made between conceptual and discourse metaphors. Conceptual metaphors are viewed as stable mental representations present in individual minds and are based on an individual organism's interaction with the environment, while discourse metaphors are created through social interaction and refer to culture and history of a given speech community. This is why methods of investigating them vary between psycholinguistic experiments and/or observations and discourse analysis. We will look into these two approaches in turn.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

The evaluation of the course is two-fold:
1. Continuous assessment of the in-class tasks (case studies implementing the methods of cognitive analysis in discourse) (50%)
2. A written test towards the end of the course (50%)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

1. Students will be able to recognize and identify conceptual metaphors used in media discourse
2. Students will be able to analyze these metaphors and explain which particular linguistic expressions create the entailments.
3. Students will be able to predict the associations triggered by the metaphor.
4. Students will be able to evaluate the use of metaphors in particular texts.
5. Students will be able to rephrase such metaphor-based texts in order to consciously create the implications they want to promote.
6. Students will be able to create metaphor-structured texts attaining particular pre-set goals.

Prüfungsstoff

Readings, classroom discussions, in-class tasks, a written test towards the end of the course

Literatur

Gibbs, Ray. 2008. The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. CUP.
Kövecses, Zoltán. 2002. Metaphor. A practical introduction. OUP.
A complete reading list will be available on the first class.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, ME 812;
Code/Modul: Diplom 225, 226/228, 236/238, 721-723, UF 4.2.3-223, ME4, ME5;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0359

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33