Analele Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași. Secțiunea IIIe. Lingvistică, LVII, Section Perspective teoretice actuale, p. 107-121
p-ISSN:
1221-8448
Publisher:
Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”
Place:
Iași
Year:
2011
Abstract:
Chomsky believed that lying beneath the astonishing linguistic abilities of humans is a universal grammar, represented by deep generative structures that nobody really knows how they got to be there, i.e. in their own modules within the brain and developing, largely autonomously, from human cognition. Then came Gerald Edelman, a neuroscientist, who believed that meaning does not reside in one site of the human brain, “but is typically a dynamic and variable pattern of connections over many elements”(Turner); our subjective experience of thought and sensation arise from the simultaneous activation of many different overlapping systems of neurons, called maps, which influence and reinforce one another. And then came Mark Turner, who uses the second author, Edelman, to tell Chomsky that he was simply wrong, and that it is not grammar which inhabits the deepest region of the mind’s linguistic capacities, but parable and the ability to tell stories.
Key words:
cognitive science, Herbert Simon, Chomsky, creativity, computers
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