Ciências & Cognição
On-line version ISSN 1806-5821
Abstract
TENUTA DE AZEVEDO, Adriana Maria and LEPESQUEUR, Marcus. Aspectos da afiliação epistemológica da Linguística Cognitiva à Psicologia da Gestalt: percepção e linguagemSome Aspects of the Epistemologica. Affiliatio. of Cognitive Linguistic. to Gestal. Psychology: perception and language. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2011, vol.16, n.2, pp.65-81. ISSN 1806-5821.
There is, in general, a significant relation between linguistics and psychology. Among the linguistic studies, Cognitive Linguistics has special interest in issues that are more prototypically linked to psychology. On the other hand, among the psychological models, the one that has most strongly influenced Cognitive Linguistics was the Gestalt Theory. This paper aims at making explicit some aspects of this epistemological affiliation, more specifically, the appropriation by Cognitive Linguistics, by means of concepts and notions, of the following Gestalt propositions: (a) perception is basic for other cognitive processes; (b) the parts are not primary to the perception of the whole and (c) perception is governed by the principle of selective attention. Therefore, this paper aims at making explicit some aspects of this epistemological affiliation. © Cien. Cogn. 2011; Vol. 16 (2): 065-081
Keywords : cognitive linguistics; Gestal. psychology; language; perception; figure and ground.