Basic Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Metaphors We Live By
Wei-lun Lu


•Lecturer: Wei-lun LU (wllu@phil.muni.cz)
•Course overview.
•Office hours.
•Student autonomy and self-discipline required.
•Roster and student self intro.
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•Guest lecturer: Zoltán Kövecses (1-4.10)
•Suggested lectures:
•1.10, 10:00, G01
•2.10, 10:00, G01
•https://www.muni.cz/en/events-calendar/3270-metaphors-at-center-stage
•Metaphors at Center Stage (DVE063)

Before the next class meeting (15.10)
•Attend two lectures by Zoltán Kövecses and complete the following:
•Assignment 1: 1-page summary of Zoltán Kövecses’s talk 1 (due 5.10)
•Assignment 2: 1-page summary of Zoltán Kövecses’s talk 2 (due 8.10)
•Assignment 3: your research statement (1-page, due 12.10)

•Questions?