Sociolingüística cognitiva: Proposiciones, escolios y debates

• Published in: Language in society 2013, Vol.42 (5), p.582-585
• Main Authors: Cuevas-Alonso, Miguel, Bleorƫu, Cristina
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics
• ISSN: 0047-4045; 1469-8013
• DOI: 10.1017/S0047404513000687

In Moreno's opinion, the study of linguistic phenomena must be based on interaction in particular contexts, to overcome the duality of langue/parole and explanations based merely on the perception of communicative intentions, in order to account for linguistic negotiation, founded on the notion of cooperative behavior; the multiplicity of agents; the concomitance of linguistic and extralinguistic factors; the emergence of interactional, experiential, and cognitive patterns and their accumulation; and embodied linguistic use, all of which are highly relevant in embodied cognition (Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999; Varela, Thompson, & Rosch 1992; Clark 1997; Damasio 1999; Gallagher 2005). Not only must social and linguistic constraints on linguistic variables be considered on an equal footing with cognitive ones, but we also need to be conscious of the importance of the speaker's capacity to pay attention to his or her own discourse and to modify it, consciously applying the knowledge (linguistic, interactional, social, cultural, etc.) that monitors communicative behavior. The third chapter offers a cognitive vision of speakers' world representation, a mental construction inside a sociocultural surrounding and a part of the cognitive subconscious, discourse, and its social dimension and the locus that the speaker occupies in society. In Ch. 6, Moreno pleads for a more integrated approach, defending the idea that grammatical variation cannot be explained and understood without its relationships with the context and discourse, communicative interaction, and the speaker's experience and perception.