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Metalinguistics: Language as an object of knowledge

Course literature

Bloomfield, Leonard 1936. Language or ideas? Language 12 (2): 89–95.

Chomsky, Noam 1993. Naturalism and dualism in the study oflanguage and mind. International journal of philosophical studies, 2 (2), 181–209.

Chomsky, Noam 2005. Linguistic Inquiry, 36 (1), 1–22.

Coseriu, Eugenio 1985.Linguistic competence: What is it really? The Modern Language Review 80 (4), 25–45.

Coseriu, Eugenio 1995. My Saussure. In Saussure and Linguistics Today, ed. by De Mauro & Sugeta (pp. 187–191). Roma: Bulzoni.

Coseriu, Eugenio [1992] 2000. The principles of linguistics as a cultural science. Transylvanian Review 9 (1), 108–115.

Evans, Nicholas & Stephen C. Levinson 2009. The myth of language universals. Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and brain sciences 32, 429–492.

Johansson, Sverker (in press). Biolinguistics or Physicolinguistics? Is The Third Factor Helpful Or Harmful In Explaining Language? Biolinguistics.

Hjelmslev, Louis 1948. Structural analysis of language. In Essais linguistiques 1, 27–35. (Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Copenhague 12). Copenhague.

Hockett, Charles. 1960. The Origin of Speech, Scientific American 203, 88–111

Itkonen, Esa 2008a. The central role of normativity in language and linguistics. In J. Zlatev, T. Racine, C. Sinha, E. Itkonen (Eds.) The shared mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity (pp. 279−305) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Itkonen, Esa 2008b. Concerning the role of consciousness in linguistics. Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (6), 15–33.

Itkonen, Esa. 2011. Philosophy of linguistics. Keith Allen (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics.

Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson 1999. The cognitive unconscious. In Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western thought (pp. 9–15). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Linell, Per 2005. The written language bias in 101 points. In The written language bias in linguistics. Its nature, origins and transformations (pp. 39–126). London: Routledge.

McNiell, D. (1985). So you think gestures are nonverbal? Psychological review 92 (3), 350-371.

Saussure, Ferdinand de [1916] 1960. Course in General Linguistics. (Selections). London: Peter Owen

Vološinov, V.N. [1929] 1986. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. (Selections). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Woelert, Peter 2011. Human cognition, space, and the sedimentation of meaning Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences10 (1), 113-137.

Zlatev, Jordan 2008. The dependence of language on consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies15 (6), 34–62.

Zlatev, Jordan 2011. From cognitive to integral linguistics and back again. Intellectica 56, 125-148.

Altogether, about 460 pages. Additional material may be distributed in class.

Recommended literature

Bloomfield, Leonard 1933. Language. New York: Holt.

Chomsky, Noam 1986. Knowledge of language. Its nature, origin, and use. New York: Praeger.

Coseriu, Eugenio 2007. Sprachkompetenz. Grundzüge der Theorie des Sprechens 2. utg. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.

Evans, Vyvyan & Melanie Green 2006. Cognitive linguistics. An introduction. Edinburg: Edinburg University.

Hjelmslev, Louis [1943] 1961. Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, rev. English ed.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (In Danish: Omkring sprogteoriens grundlæggelse. København: Munksgaard, 1943.)

Katz, Jerrold 1981. Language and other abstract objects.Oxford: Blackwell.

Sapir, Edward 1921. Language. An introduction to the study of speech.New York : Harcourt.

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