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.