Syllabus
Weekly Schedule
Week 1
Course Introduction content of the seminar, goals, expectations, requirements will be discussed research areas and key concepts will be introduced
Week 2
Setting up the Stage
Lillard, A. S. (1997). Other folks’ theories of mind and behavior. Psychological Science, 8, 268-274.
Astington, J. W., & Filippova, E. (2005). Language as the route into other minds. In B. F. Malle & S. D. Hodges (Eds.), Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others (pp. 209-222). New York, NY: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Week 3
Language Socialization I
Ochs, E., & Schieffelin, B. (1995). The impact of language socialization on grammatical development. In P. Fletcher & B. MacWhinney (eds.), Handbook of child language. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 168-189.
Week 4
Language Socialization II
Kulick, D., & Schieffelin, B. (2004). Language socialization. In A. Duranti (Ed.), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 349-368.
Week 5
Conceptual Development I: Intro
Carpendale, J. I. M. & Lewis, C. (2004). Constructing an understanding of mind:
The development of children’s social understanding within social interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, 79-151.
Week 6
Conceptual Development II: Culture and Discourse
Nelson, K. (2005). Language Pathways into the Community of Minds. In J. W. Astington & J. A. Baird (eds.), Why language matters for theory of mind. Oxford: Oxford UP, pp. 26-49.
Week 7
Conceptual Development III: Mind concepts, Emotions
Callaghan, T., Rochat, P., Lillard, A., Claux, M. L., Odden, H., Itakura, S., et al. (2005). Synchrony in the onset of mental-state reasoning: Evidence from five cultures. Psychological Science, 16, 378-384.
Tenenbaum, H. R., Visscher, P., Pons, F., & Harris, P. L. (2004). Emotional understanding in Quechua children from an agro-pastoralist village. International Journal of Behavioral Development 28, 472-478.
Week 8
Pragmatics I: Intro
Sperber, D., & Wilson, D. (2002). Pragmatics, modularity and mind-reading. Mind & Language, 17, p. 3-23.
Week 9
Pragmatics II: Non-literal language
Filippova, E., & Astington, J. W. (2010). Children's understanding of social-cognitive and social-communicative aspects of discourse irony. Child Development, 81, 915-930.
Week 10
Pragmatics III: Language ideology, language change, language shift
Fader, A. (2006). Learning faith: Language socialization in a community of Hasidic Jews. Language in Society, 35, 205-229.
Week 11
Biology and Social Cognition I: Atypical development
Filippova, E. & Hudakova, A. (in press). Czech Sign Language in contemporary Czech Society. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Week 12
Biology and Social Cognition II: Evolutionary perspectives
Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (2007). Social Cognition in Humans. Current Biology 17, 724-732.
Note: The schedule is subject to change with a prior notice. Any such notice will be made in class well in advance.
Annotation
Course Description: The course introduces students to selected topics centered on the relationship among social cognition (i.e., folk psychology, theory of mind), language and culture. In spite of its cross-disciplinary scope, its chief focus is on questions of human development. It is designed both for students in arts and the sciences and will be run as a combination of lectures and seminars. The lectures will be closely tied to the readings but will often go beyond them. The seminars offer an opportunity to discuss the readings in detail and to raise questions arising from both the readings and lectures.
U tohoto předmětu je možný opakovaný zápis předmětu podle čl. 9 Pravidel pro organizaci studia na FF UK v Praze, která byla schválena AS FF UK v Praze dne 13. 5. 2010 a AS UK v Praze dne 28. 5. 2010 s účinností od prvního dne akademického roku 2010/2011.