Bakhtin Against the Darwinists and Cognitivists
This article begins with a critique of the language theory of cognitive scientists such as Steven Pinker (The Language Instinct), who describe in grammatical terms the complexity of human language. Their account of the pragmatics of language, however, is too simplistic, with Pinker seen as an ideali...
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2176-45732016000100173&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en |