Lecture Title :What Is Cognitive Linguistics?

Speaker: Jeffrey Heath (Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan)

Lecture time: 21:00-22:30 on Monday, March 28, 2022

Tencent Conference Code: 485-0668-8341

Organizer: School of Foreign Studies

Introduction to the Speaker: Jeffrey Heath is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. His research fields include cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, and field studies of West African languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, and Arabic.

Introduction to the Lecture: Cognitive linguistics (cogling) is essentially a conceptual semantics. It aims to represent the meaningful input in language coding systems (" syntax ", "morphology", "phonology"). Cognitive linguistics is based on simple cognitive psychology: The conceptualization of things, space-time, attention, and the structure of speech events; it is closely related to construction grammar and opposed to generative grammar. Cognitive linguistics combines both university and culture-specific elements to help study semantic similarities and differences between languages. It also helps to study the meaning of poetry and other literary texts.