英語総合講座III-48　
KUWABARA KAZUKI
桑原　和生　		 4単位　
3〜4年　
後期　
Study of Language and Mind

This course deals with various aspects of human language and its relation to mind in a nontechnical way. Topics covered will be broad, including language acquisition, brain science, evolution and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Choice of some of the topics is up to the registered students.
This course also aims at improving skills to express ideas in English in a clear way.
Students are encouraged to analyze people's views critically.  

評価方法： Evaluation will be based on class presentations, participation, and written assignments.

テキスト名： Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, HarperPerennial, 1994.

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１．Some Generalities
２．An instinct to acquire an art
３．Language: Species-specific human possession
４．Pidgins and Creoles
５．Mental grammar
６．Language impairment
７．Language and thought: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
８．How language works: rules of language
９．Rules of words
10．Language acquisition
11．Brain science
12．Evolution of language