摘要
语言与认知、脑的关系是认知心理学和认知神经科学的核心问题。20世纪50年代,。沃尔夫(Whorf,B.L.)就语言与认知关系提出了语言关联性假设。这一假设刺激了大量研究,引起广泛争论。本文综述了与这一假设有关的新证据,并扩展了这一假设。作者提出,语言是认知的中介或工具,语言影响认知的方式、过程、策略、难易和结果;语言塑造大脑,而经过语言塑造的大脑反过来又影响语言和认知。
The relations among Language,cognition and brain are a core issue of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In the 1950s,B.L.Whorf,an America linguist,put forward the theory of linguistic reality to clarify the relation between language and cognition. This hypothesis irritated a large number of researches,stimulated widespread debates,and led to many important finds. But this hypothesis can not summarize the finds of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience in recent years,requires further elaborating and breakthrough of the former theory frame. In this paper,the authors extend the theory of linguistic reality and claim that language is a medium or an instrument of understanding the world by humanbeings.Language may affect the styles,processes,strategies,difficulties and results of cognition. Language shapes humanbeings’ brain also,and the shaped brain may further affect language and cognition in turn.
出处
《语言科学》
2005年第3期42-56,共15页
Linguistic Sciences
基金
国家社会科学基金资助(项目号:04BYY007)。
关键词
语言关联性
证据
看法
linguistic reality evidence view
