Language, Culture and Cognition in East Asian Context

This course is a linguistic introduction to the relationship between language, culture, and cognition with a focus on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In this course, we study the cognitive linguistic view that human cognition is fundamentally embodied and shaped by various figurative processes such as metaphor and metonymy grounded in our bodily and cultural experiences, and that human thought and language are fundamentally metaphorical in nature. Prerequisite: ASIA 100; ASIA 101; ASIA 102; ASIA 103; ASIA 104; 5th Semester standing