Abstract
The Master’s Degree Programme “Digital technologies in philology. Computer linguistics” at Southern Federal University, Russia, Rostov-on-Don, offers innovative multi-disciplinary courses based on the ideology of Digital Humanities. It combines knowledge from various sciences which complement each other in digital research. Cognitive linguistics is interdisciplinary in its essence as it makes use of different sciences, such as philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, mathematical statistics and others in order to explain the workings of our mind. This humanitarian science widely implements in its linguistic inquiry technologies, methods and tools from other related spheres. All these make it important to incorporate the academic course of cognitive linguistics into the Master’s Degree Programme. To better benefit the Programme the course is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. During the course the students get knowledge of basic assumptions in cognitive linguistics, which help to set their minds in ‘cognitive linguistics’ thinking. Further course-based experience enables students to carry out linguistic research applying modern methods of corpus analysis, cognitive analysis, introspection and other big data tools. The practical part is based on a definite algorithm of steps, which help to conduct multidisciplinary analysis and easy to follow in the students’ independent research.
Highlights
The development of digital technologies and their increased importance in all spheres of life of a modern person and society requires transformations of the existing academic curricular
Computational Linguistics” in 2018 and its academic content is fully based on the ideology of DH
Computational Linguistics” at Southern Federal University offers an interdisciplinary curriculum as a combination of courses in computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, as well as digital technologies, mathematical models in philology, and artificial intelligence methods
Summary
The development of digital technologies and their increased importance in all spheres of life of a modern person and society requires transformations of the existing academic curricular. Modern academic programmes at universities aim to prepare students to conduct innovative, mostly interdisciplinary research. Such curricular are designed in order to stimulate students’ scientific competences and in general contribute to the development of science. Modern Humanitarian studies are combined into the sphere of Digital Humanities (hereinafter DH), which is understood as the field of research, teaching and creation at the intersection of computer science and the humanities [1]. The purpose of training under this Programme is to develop competencies that will allow students to conduct linguistic research combining up-to-date digital methods and technologies with traditional linguistic ones [7]. The corpus analysis is widely used in CL, as it provides a huge quantity of authentic material which varies in styles, sources and variants of English
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