La relación entre pensamiento y lenguaje según la hipótesis del recableado de Bermúdez

• Bernardo Aguilera ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Chile

     Universidad de Chile

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: Revista de filología y lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, ISSN-e 2215-2628, ISSN 0377-628X, Vol. 41, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 115-130
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The relationship between thought and language according to Bermudez' s hypothesis of rewiring
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  • español

    En el presente trabajo indagamos en una concepción cognitiva del lenguaje a través de un examen de la “hipótesis del recableado” propuesta por Bermúdez (2005), según la cual la adquisición del lenguaje (tanto en la ontogenia como en la filogenia) genera una profunda reestructuración de la arquitectura de la cognición, haciendo posibles nuevas formas de procesamiento y representación. Con el fin de evaluar esta hipótesis, exploramos sus dimensiones ontogénica y filogénica, concluyéndose que la evidencia disponible solo respalda cierta versión filogénica de esta hipótesis. Más precisamente, que durante la evolución del lenguaje se habría “recableado” la cognición haciendo posible la capacidad de meta-representación, en tanto que durante la adquisición de una lengua no se produce una reconfiguración sustantiva de la arquitectura de la cognición.

  • English

    In the present article we look into the cognitive conception of language by investigating the “rewiring hypothesis” put forward by Bermúdez (2005), according to which the acquisition of language (in both ontogeny and phylogeny) involves a substantial reconfiguration of the architecture of cognition, making available new forms of thought and processing. To assess this hypothesis, we explore its ontogenic and phylogenic dimensions, concluding that the available evidence only supports certain phylogenic version of this hypothesis. More precisely, that during the evolution of language, cognition would have been “rewired” making available the capacity of meta-representation, while no further substantial reconfiguration of cognition takes place during the acquisition of language

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