Sobre la variedad de aproximaciones mentalistas al lenguaje.  Comparación de enfoques y perspectivas de encuentro: https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.51.2.2

Jaume  Mateu

Authors

Jaume Mateu Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4469-9944

Keywords:

Generative linguistics; cognitive linguistics; computation; Universal Grammar; general cognition.

Abstract

In this paper we deal with two mentalist approaches to the study of language: the generative and the cognitive approaches. First, we put forward the assumptions of generative linguistics, which is focused on the formal study of computational properties of language; and, second, we compare them with those of the alternative program of cognitive linguistics, according to which language is not to be analyzed as a specific computational property of the human mind but rather as a capacity based on general cognition principles. After having presented the different theoretical foundations of both approaches, some meeting points between them are offered. The present work concludes with an appeal to the need to establish some bridges between different approaches that allow them to face the challenges currently posed by different advances in language sciences and cognitive science in general.

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