Wydział Filologiczny

Katedra UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacją Międzykulturową

zaprasza na wykład otwarty

Prof. Dylana Glynna
(Linguistique empirique : Cognition, société et langage University of Paris VIII)

Functional Linguistics,

corpora and the Usage-Based model

24 listopada 2014 (poniedziałek), godz. 16.00

Auditorium Maximum UJ, Kraków, ul. Krupnicza 33

Sala wystawowa A, II piętro

Wstęp wolny.

Functional linguistics in its many guises assumes what is commonly termed the Usage-Based Model of language (Hopper 1987, Langacker 1987, Tomasello 2005, Bybee 2007). According to this model, the grammar of a language does not actually exist in any traditional sense of the word. Instead it is an epiphenomenal artifact of analysis. The analytical implications of this theory are profound and necessitate the inductive use of contextualized nature language (corpora) and the use of quantitative methods to determine the significance of the inductively derived results. This lecture will firstly demonstrate the analytical implications that Functional Linguistics faces. It will then demonstrate how corpus methods hope to resolve some of those implications. It will present two case studies. The first will focus on the semasiological structure (polysemy) of the English lexeme over and the second will look at the onomasiological structure (near-synonymy) of the different parts of speech and grammatical constructions licensed by the English lemma HASSLE.