El rol del lenguaje natural en la cognición: un análisis del neowhorfismo

Marina Ortega-Andrés

doi:10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v22i1.3422

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Marina Ortega-Andrés Universidad del País Vasco España

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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v22i1.3422

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RELATIVIDAD LINGÜÍSTICA, LENGUAJE NATURAL, CATEGORÍAS MENTALES, COGNICIÓN

Resumen

La tesis de que los hablantes de distintas lenguas presentan diferencias cognitivas ha sido defendida por lingu?istas, psicólogos y filósofos. Muchos resultados dan a entender que existe una correlación entre lenguaje y pensamiento, pero no hay una explicación teórica precisa sobre cómo influye el lenguaje a la cognición. El objetivo de estas páginas es estudiar qué mecanismos son más explicativos de los resultados empíricos. Para ello, se analizan algunos estudios empíricos y se extraen cinco requisitos que la explicación teórica del fenómeno debe cumplir. Se analizan cinco explicaciones y se argumenta a favor de la tesis de la re-representación.

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