本课程将简要梳理日常生活中的语言现象及其所反映的人类思模式与特点，由此引导学生反思语言与思维的关系，提升对语言问题的敏感度与学术兴趣。

本课程将帮助你

•       提升对语言现象的敏感度和意识

•       激发对语言研究的兴趣和好奇心

•       欣赏语言之美、探索语言的奥妙

•       初步了解人类语言的共性与差异

•       强化母语自信和文化自信

•       培养未来语言研究中的独立思考与批判性思维能力

Language reflects how a people perceives and represents the world. This project, by introducing the major frameworks in cognitive linguistics, aims to explore the universals and variations demonstrated in different people’s linguistic representations of the world. Students will familiarize themselves with the major theories in cognitive linguistics, such as categorization, image schema, metaphor and metonymy, iconicity, frame semantics, construction grammar and conceptual integration. This course helps students analyze how Chinese perceives and represents the world by adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, delving into the cognitive pattern of the Chinese people, thus enhancing students’ awareness of the uniqueness and typological significance of the Chinese language.

本课程的评价包含下面四项内容：

1. 单元测验（30%）：本课程每周有一次单元测验。每次测验题目1-2个，均为客观题。测验允许答题2次，答题时间为10分钟，取最高成绩。
2. 课堂讨论（20%）：本课程设置多次课堂讨论。教学团队会在课堂交流区内发布讨论题目，在课堂交流区内回复主题帖得分，回复5次以上才可以获得讨论满分，匿名回复不计分，评论不计分，其他讨论区不计分。
3. 单元作业（20%）：本课程每周一次单元作业，内容是与当周课程相关的语言故事。
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6. 学期考试（30%）：学期考试分为1道主观题，内容为语言现象解读。

Assessment

    1. Unit Quiz (30%): Each unit includes a few yes/no or multiple choice questions. You can try twice.

    2. Discussion (20%): Each unit includes some mini-topics for discussion.

    3. Unit Project (20%): Each unit has a language project and you need to report a story or example of language use related to the phenomenon mentioned in the lecture.

    4. Final Examination (30%): The final exam is an essay, by which you need to describe one linguistic fact and try to explain the fact with the theories covered in the lectures.