Research Center for Linguistic Cognitive and Brain Sciences (RCLCBS) is to hold the 2nd International Forum on Linguistic Cognitive Science, which takes the form of a series of lectures. The title of this forum is "Perspectives on Cognitive Linguistics", with Professor John R. Taylor as the main speaker. Below are the schedules:
|
Topic |
Date and Time |
Place |
Lecture 1 |
Categorization, prototypes, and the basic level(1) |
9:00—11:00am Mar. 31 |
Lecture Hall (Rm.903) |
Lecture 2 |
Categorization, prototypes, and the basic level(2) |
9:00—11:00am April 1 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
Lecture 3 |
Cognitive Grammar, constructions, and idioms(1) |
15:00—17:00pm April 1 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
Lecture 4 |
Cognitive Grammar, constructions, and idioms(2) |
9:00—11:00am April 2 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
Lecture 5 |
Word classes |
9:00—11:00am April 3 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
Lecture 6 |
Prepositions and spatial relations |
9:00—11:00am April 7 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
Lecture 7 |
Blending |
9:00—11:00am April 8 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
Lecture 8 |
Subjectivity and causal relations |
9:00—11:00am April 9 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
Lecture 9 |
Semantic enrichment |
9:00—11:00am April 10 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
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Questions and general discussion |
9:00—11:00am April 11 |
Lecture Hall(Rm.903) |
John R. Taylor has held positions in Germany and in South Africa. Currently he is the managing editor of Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton de Gruyter) and is on the editorial board of the Functions of Language (John Benjamins), and of the journal Cognitive Linguistics.
His research interests include phonetics and phonology, Germanic languages, Romance languages, cognitive grammar, spatial relations.
Main Publications
Possessives in English: An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar. (1996)
Cognitive Grammar. (2002)
Linguistic Categorization. (2003)