Master 2023/2024

Research Seminar "Linguistic Personology"

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, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Мошняга Елена Викторовна

Master’s programme: Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 24

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course focuses on the following issues: Linguistic and cultural characteristics of a linguistic personality. Linguistic personality vs. Communicative personality. Psychotype as a linguocultural phenomenon. Semantics and pragmatics of communicative behavior. Basic personality vs. Linguocultural type. Linguocultural types as an object of linguocultural research.

Learning Objectives

• Developing students’ linguacultural competencies in the field of linguapersonology: 1. to know the approaches, mechanisms and methods of interpreting linguistic consciousness and communicative behavior; 2. to be able to identify and classify cultural, social, linguistic and communicative stereotypes of perception of reality; 3. to develop the skills of analyzing and interpreting linguacultural types as typified representatives of ethnosociocultural communities that serve as the keys to understanding linguacultures; 4. to do the in-depth research in the field of linguistic personology.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students conceptualize and analyze a “linguistic personality” as identity
• Students distinguish linguistic, cultural, and social characteristics of a linguistic personality
• Students draw distinction between linguistic and communicative personalities
• Students analyze the semantics and pragmatics of communicative behavior
• Students interpret the concept of “basic personality” in respect to linguacultural types
• Students analyze the conceptual triad: national character – social character – basic personality
• Students model archetype, prototype, and psychotype as linguacultural phenomena
• Students analyze linguacultural types from the perspective of stereotyping
• Students model linguacultural types from cross-cultural perspective
• Students categorize linguacultural types
• Students apply different classifications for the analysis of linguacultural types
• Students model linguacultural types from cognitive and interactional perspectives
• Students apply comparative, narrative and discourse analysis as methods of research in the field of linguapersonology

Course Contents

• The Phenomenon of Linguistic Personality
• Linguistic Personality vs. Communicative Personality
• Basic Personality vs. Linguacultural Type
• Linguacultural Typology as Stereotyping
• Categorization of Linguacultural Types
• Linguacultural Types as an Object of Linguacultural Research

Assessment Elements

• Class Participation
  Participating in the discussion of the problems on the topics of the course, answering topical questions, commenting, providing arguments, examples and illustrative cases
• Practical and analytical assignments
  Completing homework assignments within the topic segments of the course, reading, analyzing, commenting
• Analytical essay
  Writing an analytical essay on the phenomenon of languaging
• Project
  Doing research on a linguacultural type and making up a project for the defence in class

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 2nd module
  0.25 * Analytical essay + 0.25 * Class Participation + 0.25 * Practical and analytical assignments + 0.25 * Project

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Research methods in linguistics, , 2013
• Лингвокультурология : учеб. пособие для вузов, Маслова, В. А., 2010
• Лингвокультурология : учеб. пособие: ценностно - смысловое пространство языка, Алефиренко, Н. Ф., 2012
• Национальные стереотипы в межкультурной коммуникации : моногр., Сорокина, Н. В., 2014
• Русские : стереотипы поведения, традиции, ментальность, Сергеева, А. В., 2012
• Этнопсихолингвистика и лингвокультурология : Курс лекций, Красных, В.В., 2002
• Языковой круг : личность, концепты, дискурс, Карасик, В. И., 2004

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• (Нео)психолингвистика и (психо)лингвокультурология : новые науки о человеке говорящем, , 2017
• Research methods in linguistics, , 2011
• Язык социального статуса, Карасик, В. И., 2002