dc.contributor.author | Cowley, S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-02T16:05:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-02T16:05:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cowley , S 2004 , ' Simulating others : the basis of human cognition? ' , Language Sciences , vol. 26 , no. 3 , pp. 273-299 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2003.08.005 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0388-0001 | |
dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/5281 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5281 | |
dc.description | Original article can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com Copyright Elsevier Ltd. [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA] | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Language Sciences | |
dc.subject | Cognition | |
dc.subject | language acquisition | |
dc.subject | Tomasello, M. | |
dc.title | Simulating others : the basis of human cognition? | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Psychology | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1016/j.langsci.2003.08.005 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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