Intencionalidade racionalizada: como fatos simples se tornam uma fonte de perplexidade (Rationalized intentionality: How simple facts become a source of perplexity)

Joana Franco

doi:10.22481/el.v22.12699

Authors

Joana Franco Universidade de São Paulo (USP/ Brasil) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3130-2960

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v22.12699

Keywords:

intentionality; language acquisition; gestural theory; cooperative theory; Tomasello.

Abstract

Michael Tomasello's theory is renowned in the field of usage-based and interaction-based studies of language. In this article, I intend to show that it is based on contradictory assumptions, which compromise the gradualist precepts of an emergentist view of cognition. The concepts of intentional action and understanding (≈ intentionality) that underlie gestural theory are based on cognitive models that pressupose possession of propositional content and skills of logical reasoning. The deictic gestures and cooperative motives, which are central to the primitivism of joint/shared intentionality, work as theoretical devices that rationalize the communication of pre-linguistic children, aiming to preserve human uniqueness vis-à-vis other primates. The rationalization of the concept of intentionality, which can be mapped along a sequence of publications, demonstrates that it addresses problems which has more to do with an idealized conception of intentionality than with empirical facts.

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Author Biography

Joana Franco, Universidade de São Paulo (USP/ Brasil)

Joana Bortolini Franco é doutora em Linguística e Semiótica pelo Departamento de Linguística da Universidade de São Paulo, bacharel em Linguística/Português e mestra em Linguística pelo mesmo departamento. Há mais de dez anos investiga as potencialidades de diálogo entre a filosofia de Ludwig Wittgenstein e as teorias linguísticas cognitivas, com interesse nas discussões de caráter epistêmico-metodológico a respeito das bases naturalistas das ciências da linguagem.

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