THE CONSTRAINTS OF EMBODIMENT AND LANGUAGE-THOUGHT RELATIONS
THE CONSTRAINTS OF EMBODIMENT AND LANGUAGE-THOUGHT RELATIONS
Author(s): Prakash MondalSubject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Psychology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: language; thought; thinking; embodiment; cognition;
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to impugn the magnified role of specific natural languages in structuring and shaping cognition in the context of language-thought relations. Since language-thought interactions are being increasingly explored in different kinds of empirical studies showing or attempting to show context-specific or general influences of language over thought and thinking, there is reason to tame the excesses of language-specific influences over thought, thinking and cognition. In this regard, any context-specific influences of languages over thought and thinking in being grounded in certain modes/modalities of cognition must be governed by the constraints of body-world interactions that operate on modes/modalities of cognition. Thus, this paper will argue that language-specific influences over thought, thinking and cognition are possible to the extent that they are permitted by the constraints of embodiment.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philosophia
- Issue Year: 66/2021
- Issue No: 2 Suppl.
- Page Range: 153-163
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English