Cognition and the language myth

Love, Nigel

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2004.09.003

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“…In comparative neurophysiology the plasticity of language is traced to how we came to 18 See Savage-Rumbaugh et al (2000). 19 It could be argued that this fits with Love's (2004) conceptual arguments, Ross's (2007) use of game theory and the biocognitive critique of Kravchenko (2007). Elsewhere, Cowley (in press) seeks to re-conceptualize neural coding as a dynamical process where semantic synthesis emerges from a history of past experience.…”

Section: Language In the Perception-action Cyclementioning

confidence: 93%

Foundationalism and neuroscience; silence and language

Keestra

Cowley

2009

Language Sciences

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Neuroscience offers more than new empirical evidence about the details of cognitive functions such as language, perception and action. Since it also shows many functions to be highly distributed, interconnected and dependent on mechanisms at different levels of processing, it challenges concepts that are traditionally used to describe these functions. The question is how to accommodate these concepts to the recent evidence. A recent proposal, made in Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (2003) by Bennett and Hacker, is that concepts play a foundational role in neuroscience, that empirical research needs to presuppose them and that changing concepts is a philosophical task. In defending this perspective, PFN shows much neuroscientific writing to be dualistic in nature due to our poor grasp of its foundations. In our review article we take a different approach. Instead of foundationalism we plead for a mild coherentism, which allows for a gradual and continuous alteration of concepts in light of new evidence. Following this approach it is also easier to deal with some neurological conditions (like blindsight, synaesthesia) that pose difficulties for our concepts. Finally, although words and concepts seem to seduce us to thinking that many skills and tasks function separately, it is language skill that -as neuroscientific evidence shows -co-emerges with action/perception cycles and thus seems to require revision of some of our central concepts.

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Section: Language In the Perception-action Cyclementioning

confidence: 93%

Foundationalism and neuroscience; silence and language

Keestra

Cowley

2009

Language Sciences

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“…Studies which start from the premise that consciousness is determined by causal processes beyond the body and the brain, also known as the theory of "extended cognition", are growing in numbers; see, for example, Сowley (2011); Love (2004); Hodges (2007);Linell (2009);Thibault (2005). According to this neolinguistic approach, which promotes the distributed nature of language and cognition, cognitive processes are distributed through our minds, bodies, social and physical dimensions.…”

Section: New Paradigm In Linguistics: Language Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Facebook Birthday Postings from a Language Ecology Perspective in Russian, German, American English, and French

Olga

2016

JLE

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The aim of the paper is to examine Facebook postings from an ecological language perspective as a special type of discourse of "everyday life" with an orientating function, to evaluate the environmental potential of this network that influences the character of the posts, and to determine cultural differences in thinking and expressing birthday greetings on the Facebook platform. The paper outlines some specific features of the Facebook environment or niche such as the reduced characters of the message, the use of abbreviations, simple structures, merging and interaction of written and spoken languages, and the use of graphical signs to convey emotions. The methodological approach was to compile a database by randomly gathering, from various Facebook timelines, 680 birthday postings in Russian, American English, German, and French. The posts were then analyzed according to three dimensions: (1) focus of the greetings on the specific day or years to come / life in general (Western vs. non-Western countries, analytical vs. holistic mindsets); (2) use of nominal structures; (3) stress/emphasis on characteristic features of a person, compliments. Various psycholinguistic and cultural aspects of the verbal greetings from the timelines of Russian, American, German, and French users of the social net are singled out in terms of holistic and analytical types of critical thinking. The data collection shows that while Russians and Germans predominantly display holistic thinking, as expressed in birthday postings of a general character and wishes in general for the upcoming year or years to come, Americans and the French display analytical thinking as their birthday posts are more focused on that special day. Most birthday postings are usually short and have one similar pattern. Americans use a lot of praise and stress personal relations. French postings are very emotional often expressing love and kisses. This study shows that analysis of Facebook birthday postings should be multimodal and complex, taking into account a complex interaction of a number of internal and external factors and a personal inclusion into socio-cultural interactions.

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“…The scientific novelty of the study is determined by the fact that a linguistic sign is examined on cognitive perspective, the traditional notion of the "information transfer" in the process of communication is reconsidered (Harris, 1981;Love 2004;Kravchenko, 2001;2003). The linguistic model of a communicative act on the sign level is formulated and the orienting character of a linguistic sign form is emphasized.…”

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Linguistic sign and reading as text creating activity

Karamalak

Pesina²

2017

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The article is devoted to the theoretical understanding of linguistic sign functioning in the process of semiosis within the framework of cognitive paradigm. It discusses the process of sign formation from the anthropological perspective, reviews the traditional treatment of a linguistic sign theory, postulating the continuity of the signified and the signifier, presents a critic argument concerning "information transfer". Moreover, it expands F. de Saussure's understanding of a linguistic sign and reconsiders the psychological part of a linguistic sign into a mnemonic structure, explaining semiosis differently. The current paper criticizes the viewpoint according to which a reader is considered as a passive recipient. On the opposite it suggests that a reader is an active member of the interpretation process who generates the meaning of the linguistic sign in a personal and creative way. Reading is realized as a complex psychological process, connected with speech and different kinds of perception (acoustic, visual, spatial, cognitive, and so on.). This implies an action from the part of the reader. The process of reading integrates perception, attention, memory, and thinking. Obviously, reading is a hyper active phenomenon.

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Cognition and the language myth

Cited by 254 publications

References 6 publications

Foundationalism and neuroscience; silence and language

Foundationalism and neuroscience; silence and language

Facebook Birthday Postings from a Language Ecology Perspective in Russian, German, American English, and French

Linguistic sign and reading as text creating activity

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