Abstracts
Abstract
Biosemiotics and biolinguistics share some common origins in comparative psychology and ethology, both viewing language as a species-specific cognitive capacity whose main purpose is not communication but thought. From this perspective, biosemiotics should be at the center of cognitive science. However, biolinguistics and biosemiotics (or linguistics and semiotics) have been marginalized in the context of cognitive science and neuroscience; nonetheless there are currents in mainstream linguistics and cognitive science operating from a biosemiotic perspective without overtly articulating their research agendas as such. I believe that the future success of the biosemiotic movement will depend on recognizing and connecting with those research agendas.
Keywords:
- Biosemiotics,
- Biolinguistics,
- Psychology,
- Ethology,
- Umwelt
Résumé
La biosémiotique et la biolinguistique partagent des origines communes en psychologie comparative et en éthologie, deux disciplines qui considèrent le langage comme une capacité cognitive propre à une espèce et dont la finalité n’est pas la communication, mais la pensée. De cette perspective, la biosémiotique devrait se retrouver au centre des sciences cognitives. Toutefois, la biolinguistique et la biosémiotique (ou la linguistique et la sémiotique) ont été marginalisées par les sciences cognitives et les neurosciences. Il y a cependant des tendances dans la linguistique et les sciences cognitives conventionnelles d’opérationnaliser une perspective biosémiotique, sans pour autant le faire de façon explicite. Je crois que les succès à venir de la biosémiotique dépendront de son aptitude à reconnaître ces programmes de recherche et de s’y lier.
Mots-clés :
- Biosémiotique,
- biolinguistique,
- psychologie,
- éthologie,
- Umwelt
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