Language, Thought and Action: Language as a Cognitive System

3 Credits

What you know about language and how to use it when listening and speaking resides in your mind. Language is therefore part of human cognition. One important part of understanding language and human linguistic behavior is to understand how language interacts with other aspects of cognition: thought, perception, emotion and action. In this course will discuss recent insights in language and the mind. In this course will discuss recent insights in language and the mind from various disciplines including linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and computer science. This course counts toward the social and behavioral sciences requirement by exploring this relationship between mind and language, in other words covering the cognitive aspects of language.