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Course Syllabus

Bachelor 2023/2024

Research Seminar “Emotions and Colour in Linguacultures”

Type: Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies: Linguistics
Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages
Where: School of Foreign Languages
When: 1 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 26

Course Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course “Emotions and Colour in linguacultures” is connected with the study of emotions conveyed by colour. The "world of colour" is closely connected with the world of emotional reactions. The research seminar is aimed to familiarize students with the definition “linguaculture” itself, to consider emotions as a linguistic object, peculiarities of colour and expressing emotions via colour terms in various aspects: linguistics, psychology in different linguacultures. As a part of a research seminar, it will be discussed how colour naming is being built into the mechanism of emotionality; what can determine the choice of colour naming in conveying positive/positively directed and negative/negatively directed emotions; how writers and publicists use a rich range of possibilities of colour vocabulary in their works.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • • Basic knowledge of a linguaculture
  • • Consideration of emotionality, emotions as a linguisic category
  • • Basic knowledge of a Colour Concept
  • • Determination the choice of colour-naming in conveying emotions in a literary and publicistic text
  • • Consideration of colour emotionality as a linguisic category in linguacultures
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Know the definition of a linguaculture, its peculiarities, explain its multidisciplinary aspect.
  • Know the main scientific directions in emotiology in order to consider emotion as a linguistic object.
  • Decode colour-making vocabulary as a sign of emotion or an emotive in literary and publicistic texts.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Introduction. The object and aims of the course
  • Emotionality as a linguistic category
  • The ability to identify the features of lexical units containing an element of colour-naming in their semantics
  • Colour and Emotionality. Colour Symbolism
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Defence
  • non-blocking Activity
  • non-blocking Project
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 2nd module
    Estimation formula: Class participation: In-class assignment * 0.15 + Project: Project * 0.2 + Class participation: In-class assignment * 0.15 + Project: Project * 0.2 + Defence: Defence * 0.3
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Hazel Rose Markus, & Shinobu Kitayama. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.F4474DDB
  • Kemmerer D. Concepts in the brain: The view from cross-linguistic diversity. – Oxford University Press, 2019.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Habermas, T. (2019). Emotion and Narrative : Perspectives in Autobiographical Storytelling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1948891