Language: between cognition and discourse

This article examines the role of language in the structure of cognition and discourse. More precisely, it seeks to investigate whether language structure is determined by general structures of cognition, or whether language may actually exist apart from discourse. It starts by resuming Saussure...

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Published in:Calidoscópio (São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), 2013-05, Vol.11 (2), p.214
Main Author: de Vogüé, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Cognition & reasoning
Dialectics
Language
Language thought relationship
Semantics
Terminology
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Summary:This article examines the role of language in the structure of cognition and discourse. More precisely, it seeks to investigate whether language structure is determined by general structures of cognition, or whether language may actually exist apart from discourse. It starts by resuming Saussure's linguistic autonomy, and moves on to establish a dialectic relation between language, discourse, and cognition. It exploits authors who argue that language determines discourse and builds knowledge where as it is also influenced by the same discourse and context, and the knowledge from which they arise. This dialecticis shown and questioned in utterances, which determine discourse and are by it determined, and even in words, which determine discourse and knowledge while being an effect of this very discourse and knowledge. This discussion will lead to interpret that terminology might also be within and external to language.
ISSN:1679-8740
2177-6202