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SYLLABUS DESCRIPTION

Course title: descriptive grammar		Course codę:
Type of course: ob/igalory		Level of course: advcmced
Year of study: II	Semester: III	\| Number of hours: 15
Number of credits:	Teaching methods: lecture
Language of instruction: English	Name of lecturer: dr Tadeusz Danilewicz

Prerequisites:

Students are familiar with different ways of implementing theoretical tools to the analysis of selected aspects of language units

Objectives of the course (expressed in terms of learning outeomes and competences):

Students should be able to analyze semantic and pragmatlc aspects of language units;

Students will implement the theoretical tools in the design ofan original language input.

COURSE CONTENTS:

-the study of meaning;

-lexical semantics;

-meaning relations among words; -conceptualization and categorization; -sentence meaning and interpretation; -speech acts;

-cooperative principle;

-conyersation analysis._

Assessment methods: exam_

RECOMMENDED READING:

Aitchinson, J. (2003). Words in the Mind. An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon. Malden: Blackwell.

Becker, A., Bieswanger, M. (2006). Introduction to Linguistics. A. Francke Verlag Tubingen und Basel.

Gregory, H. (2000). Semantics. London: Routledge

Lakoff, G. Johnson, M. 1980. Metaphors We Live Bv. The University of Chicago.

Langacker, R. 1984. Foundations of Coanitiye Grammar. Mimeo.

Langacker, R. W. (2001) “A Dynamie Usage-based Model” in Usage-Based Models ., Language, Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kremmer eds., Stanford: CSU Publications. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Language, Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kremmer eds., Stanford: CSLI Publications.Lyons, J. 1977._