Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics
Ljudevit Fran Ježić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2431-8366
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ivana Lučića 3, HR–10000 Zagreb
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APA 6th Edition
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica, 32 (2), 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
MLA 8th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica 32, no. 2 (2017): 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Harvard
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). 'How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics', Synthesis philosophica, 32(2), pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Vancouver
Ježić LjF. How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2024 December 22];32(2):349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
IEEE
Lj.F. Ježić, "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics", Synthesis philosophica, vol.32, no. 2, pp. 349-369, 2017. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
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APA 6th Edition
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica, 32 (2), 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
MLA 8th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica 32, no. 2 (2017): 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Harvard
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). 'How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics', Synthesis philosophica, 32(2), pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Vancouver
Ježić LjF. How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2024 December 22];32(2):349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
IEEE
Lj.F. Ježić, "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics", Synthesis philosophica, vol.32, no. 2, pp. 349-369, 2017. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
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APA 6th Edition
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica, 32 (2), 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
MLA 8th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica 32, no. 2 (2017): 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Harvard
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). 'How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics', Synthesis philosophica, 32(2), pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Vancouver
Ježić LjF. How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2024 December 22];32(2):349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
IEEE
Lj.F. Ježić, "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics", Synthesis philosophica, vol.32, no. 2, pp. 349-369, 2017. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
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APA 6th Edition
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica, 32 (2), 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
MLA 8th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Ježić, Ljudevit Fran. "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics." Synthesis philosophica 32, no. 2 (2017): 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Harvard
Ježić, Lj.F. (2017). 'How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics', Synthesis philosophica, 32(2), pp. 349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Vancouver
Ježić LjF. How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2024 December 22];32(2):349-369. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
IEEE
Lj.F. Ježić, "How do Language and Thought Influence Each Other?. A Reconsideration of Their Relationship with Parallel References to the History of Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics", Synthesis philosophica, vol.32, no. 2, pp. 349-369, 2017. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32206
Abstract
The paper explores the relationship of language and thought with respect to their mutual determination or influence. Two questions are considered crucial: how do we learn the meanings of conventional linguistic signs, including those for abstract concepts, and how do we express our original insights, thoughts and feelings through not-yet conventional linguistic means. These are followed by succinct answers and extensive elaborations referring to opposite views and linguistic examples from the history of philosophy and cognitive linguistics. It is argued that linguistic expressions, including metaphors, mostly incorporate how people represent (or once represented) the world to themselves through imagination and present (or once presented) the world to others through language. Hence language neither directly shows how we conceive and understand the world nor how we construct it in our thoughts. On the other hand, symbolization through metaphor and metonymy, as well as innovative verbalization, enable our cognition to communicate novel as well as abstract and philosophically demanding meanings.
Keywords
language; thought; cognition; conceptual metaphor; verbalization; symbolic cognition; Aristotle; Immanuel Kant; philosophy of cognitive linguistics; George Lakoff; Marc Johnson
Hrčak ID:
200281
URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/200281
Publication date:
30.4.2018.
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