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Language, Culture And Cognition: An Introduction

Prof. Bidisha Som · IIT Guwahati

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Lectures

Week 1 : Introduction

  1. Lec 1: Nature of human thought- I Video
  2. Lec 2: Brain and cognition, Seat of thought- II Video
  3. Lec 3: Language, meaning, reality- III Video

Week 2: Language and Conceptualization: Categorization

  1. Lec 4: Categorization Video
  2. Lec 5: Categorization: contd. Video

Week 3: Language and Conceptualization: Frames and their use

  1. Lec 6: Frames: another way to understand categories Video
  2. Lec 7: Metaphor Video
  3. Lec 8: Metaphor and Metonymy Video

Week 4: Language and embodied mind

  1. Lec 9: Image schema Video
  2. Lec 10: Image schema contd. Video

Week 5: Language acquisition and Social Cognition

  1. Lec 11: Language acquisition Video
  2. Lec 12: Language acquisition contd. Video

Week 6: Language in the brain

  1. Lec 13: Language in the brain Video
  2. Lec 14: Language in the brain contd. Video

Week 7: Language and attention

  1. Lec 15: Language and attention Video
  2. Lec 16: Language and visual attention Video
  3. Lec 17: Attention in Sentence processing Video

Week 8: Language, action, executive control

  1. Lec 18: Executive control/function and its facets Video
  2. Lec 19: Role of executive function in language processing Video
  3. Lec 20: Mental simulation and its relation with language; summary of the course Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 19-02-2024 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Bidisha Som
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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