Introduction to American Poetry
Mirosława Buchholtz, professor
Lecturer
Type, year and Postgraduate studies, 1st year, spring semestre
semestre of the
course
2
ECTS points
30
Number of
hours
Type of course Lecture
The course offers an overview of American poetry from the 17th to the 1st
Course
century. Selected poems will be discussed in historical and theoretical
description
contexts.
Type of credit
Attendance and tests
Credit
requirements
Baym, N. (ed.) 2006. The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Literature
Sixth Edition
Bradbury, M., Ruland, R. 1991. From Puritanism to Postmodernism
Salska, A. (ed.) 2003. Historia Literatury Amerykańskiej
Kopcewicz, A., Sienicka, M. 1982. Historia literatury Stanów
Zjednoczonych w zarysie
Reliable Internet sources
Monograpphic lecture
Wiktor Pskit, PhD
Lecturer
Type, year and Postgraduate studies, 1st year, summer semestre
semestre of the
course
2
ECTS points
30
Number of
hours
Type of course Lecture
Selected topics in syntactic theory: the structure of phrases and clauses in
Course
English
description
The aim of the series of lectures is to familiarise students with recent
developments in English syntax from the perspective of generative
grammar and Culicover and Jackendoff’s Simpler Syntax model.
Topics: basic terminology and methodology of contemporary syntactic
theory, X-bar syntax, the structure of phrases in Simpler Syntax, different
types of phrases in English, syntactic ‘cartographies’, simple and complex
sentences in English
A numerical grade on a 5 to 2 scale (5 being the top grade)
Type of credit
Attendance, written test or term paper
Credit
requirements
Baltin, M. and C. Collins (eds.). 2001. The Handbook of Contemporary
Literature
Syntactic Theory. Blackwell.
Boeckx, C. 2008. Bare Syntax. Oxford University Press
Carnie, A. 2010. Constituent Structure. Oxford University Press.
Culicover, P. and R. Jackendoff. 2005. Simpler Syntax. Oxford University
Press.
Haegeman, L. 2006. Thinking Syntactically. A Guide to Argumentation
and Analysis. Blackwell.
Haegeman, L. and J. Guéron. 1999. English Grammar. A Generative
Perspective. Blackwell
Radford, A. 1998. Syntax. A Minimalist Introduction. Cambridge
University Press
Monographic lecture
Strugielska Ariadna, PhD
Lecturer
Type, year and Postgraduate studies, 1 year, winter term
semestre of the
course
2
ECTS points
30
Number of
hours
Type of course Lecture
The course provides an overview of major conceptualist theories in the
Course
20th and 21st centuries. The models will provide a background against
description
which CMT will be evaluated. It will be demonstrated that, contrary to its
theoretical assumptions, Conceptual Metaphor Theory is an isolating
approach and should thus be placed outside Cognitive Linguistics.
Grade
Type of credit
Attendance, participation, preparing a presentation.
Credit
requirements
Deignan, Alice. 2006. The grammar of linguistic metaphors.
Literature
Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), Corpus-Based
Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy, 106-122. Berlin and New York:
Mounton de Gruyter.
Fillmore, Charles, J., and B. T. Sue Atkins. 1992. Toward a frame-based
lexicon: the semantics of risk and its neighbors. Adrienne Lehrer and Eva
Feder Kittay (eds.), Frames, Fields and Contrasts: New Essays in
Semantic and Lexical Organization, 75–102. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Geeraerts, Dirk. 2010. Theories of Lexical Semantics. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Glynn, Dylan. 2002. Love and Anger: the grammatical structure of
conceptual metaphors. Style 36, 541 – 559.
Haser, Verena. 2005. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist
Philosophy. Berlin, New York: Mounton de Gruyter.
Langacker, Ronald. W. 2005. Construction Grammars: cognitive, radical,
and less so. Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and
Interdisciplinary Interaction, eds. Francisco.J.Ruiz De Mendoza Ibanez
and M. Sandra Pena Cervel. Berlin and New York: Mounton de Gruyter,
101-162.
McGlone, Matthew S. 2007. What is the explanatory value of a conceptual
metaphor? Language and Communication 27. 109–126.
Steen, Gerard J. 2007. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Taylor, John R. 2002. Cognitive Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University
Press
Vervaeke, John, and Christopher D. Green. 1997. “Women, fire, and
dangerous theories: A critique of Lakoff’s theory of categorization.
Metaphor and Symbol” 12, 59–80
Monographic Lecture
Michael Hornsby, PhD
Lecturer
Type, year and Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, winter semestre
semestre of the
course
2
ECTS points
30
Number of
hours
Type of course Lecture
These lectures will explore key concepts in modern sociolinguistics from
Course
both a variationist and ethnographic perspective and will take as case
description
studies a variety of situations from the Celtic world.
Examination
Type of credit
Credit
requirements
Coulmas (2006) Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices
Literature
Edwards (2009) Language and Identity: An Introduction
Garrett (2010) Attitudes to Language
Ball & Muller (2009) The Celtic Languages
Monographic lecture
Dr hab. Waldemar Skrzypczak
Lecturer
Type, year and Postgraduate studies, 1st year, winter term and summer term
semestre of the
course
2 points in each semestre
ECTS points
30 + 30
Number of
hours
Type of course Lecture
The main objective of the lecture Theory of Linguistic Communication:
Course
On Meaning Construction and Interpretation in Semiotics, Text
description
Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Pragmatics is to
familiarize the students with the main areas in question and terminological
distinctions. Emphasis will be placed on the role of meaning construction
and meaning interpretation in the dimension of semantic 3onceptualization
and pragmatic (inter-subjective and contextually dependent)
interpretation, hence off-line and on-line aspects of meaning will be of
Type of credit
Credit
requirements
Literature
crucial importance.
Credit with a grade
Attendance, reading assignments, mini-presentations, an essay, a test.
Chandler, Daniel. 2002. Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge
Mey. J. M. 1993. Pragmatics: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishers.
Oxford
Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2006. “On Text Linguistics: some terminological
distinctions.” Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Toruniu,
Silva Rerum. Nr 6/7, 63-71
Skrzypczak, Waldemar. 2007. “Cognitive Stylistics: Towards Dimensions
of Uniqueness and Novelty in Textual Imagery.” Multiculturalism, at the
Start of 21st Century, red. Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney I Maria A.
Łukowska. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 371-383
Peccei, Jean S. 1999. Pragmatics. London and New York: Routledge
Thomas, Jenny. 1995. Meaning in Interaction. London and
New York: Longman
Monographic lecture
Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Rachwał
Lecturer
Type, year and Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, winter and summer semestre
semestre of the
course
2 per semestre
ECTS points
30
Number of
hours
Type of course Lecture
The lecture will be devoted to reading and discussing selected literary and
Course
cultural texts with the eye on, generally, the ways of structuring culturally
description
relevant binary oppositions, such as good/evil, beauty/monstrosity,
harmony/chaos, order/disorder, artificial/natural, feminity/masculinity,
activity/passivity. Students will analyse the materials discussed from
various crtitical and theoretical perspectives so as to gain more experience
in interpreting and contextualizing texts.
Pass/fail
Type of credit
The final credit will be based on an essay (700 words) addressing a chosen
Credit
theme from the lectures. Advice concerning the feasible subjects will be
requirements
given to students in the lectures, but the choice of the topics of the essays
is up to them.
Betty Joseph, Re(playing) Crusoe/Pocahontas: Circum-Atlantic Stagings
Literature
in The Female American.
Agnes Heller, The Absolute Stranger: Shakespeare and the Drama of
Failed Assimilation
Amelia Jones, Equivocal Masculinity: New York Dada in the Context of
War World II
Mike Featherstone, Archiving cultures
John Milton, Areopagitica
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Henry David Thoreau, Walking
George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All, or Slaves Without Masters
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
Gary Snyder, Selected poems
Monographic lecture - Cognitive Science. An Introduction.
Sławomir Wacewicz, PhD
Lecturer
Type, year and
semestre of the
course
ECTS points
Number of
hours
Type of course
Course
description
Type of credit
Credit
requirements
Literature
Postgraduate studies, 1st year, winter semestre
2
30
Lecture
The main goal of this course consists in making students acquainted with
Cognitive Science (CS) – contemporary interdisciplinary science of the
mind and brain. The course will be focused on the fundamental issues of
mainstream CS, such as types of mental representation, mechanisms of
information processing, the relation of low-level and high-level cognition,
and the contributions of the constituent disciplines of CS.
Pass/fail
Attendance; alternatively: written test; alternatively: term paper
Clark, A. 2001. Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive
Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Green, D. (ed.) 2000. Cognitive Science. An Introduction. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers
Pinker, S. 1997. How the mind works. New York: Norton
Stafford, T. and M. Webb. 2004. Mind Hacks. Tips & Tricks for Using
Your Brain. Pekin: O’Reilly Media
Thagard, P. 2005. Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science. 2nd Edition.
Cambridge: MIT Press
Sociolinguistics – applied linguistics
Michael Hornsby, PhD
Lecturer
Type, year and Postgraduate studies, 2nd year, summer semestre
semestre of the
course
2
ECTS points
30
Number of
hours
Type of course Monographic lecture
Sociolinguistics – applied linguistics
Course
description
Language and Age
Language and Class
Language and Identity
Language and Ethnicity
Language Attitudes and Ideologies
Language and Politeness
Folklinguistics
Type of credit
Credit
requirements
Literature
Varieties of English : major dialects in Britain and Ireland from a
variationist perspective.
Accumulative
80% attendance; final semester paper
BBC Voices Project. http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
British Library Sound Archive. 2010. Voices of the UK: Accents and
Dialects of English.
Chambers, Trudgill & Schilling-Estes. 2004. The Handbook of Language
Variation and Change.
Coulmas, F. 2005. Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices.
Upton & Widdowson. 2006. An Atlas of English Dialects.