Simulating others: the basis of human cognition?  

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Cowley, Stephen J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 26 no. 3 (2004), page 273-299.
Topik: Cognition; Language acquisition; Tomasello; M
Fulltext: Cowley_Stephen_J, p. 273-299.pdf (268.79KB)

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The paper critiques the argument of Michael Tomasello
s Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999). This culture-first theory is judged to be a good sketch of how nature predisposes humans for talk. Above all, this is because if language mediated perspective-taking
depends on cultural process, no innate linguistic representations are necessary in learning to talk. Unfortunately, the model is flawed by Tomasello
s claims for a putative species-specific competency. Rather than posit a simulation mechanism to link orthodox views of language with Gricean models of communication, I follow Dennett in treating intentions
as folk constructs. Talking, on this view, arises from encultured contextualizing. Situated, embodied activity turns infants into perspective-takers who, far from learning or acquiring forms
, slowly become persons. Gradually, the infant
s developing social capacities produce activity that invites others to attribute linguistic knowledge to the child.

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