The group discusses the implications of language for human mental life, including higher cognitive processes, interpersonal communication, navigation of the social environment, creativity, and imagination.
From transdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and literature, we discuss the role of language in the acquisition, processing, storage, and use of information; in processes of perception and attention; in the production and activation of memory; and in the use of speech and writing for communication and the invention of alternative worlds.
We examine the role of language in performing tasks involving reasoning and logic, in producing sensory and affective effects in the processing of culturally embedded information, in the production and processing of metaphor and other forms of linguistic innovation, in the construction of narratives, and in the enactment of the sensations, movements, perceptions, and feelings of their characters.
From the epistemic and artistic implications of contextually specific uses of language to their implications for the ontology of the social world, all suggestions are welcome.
Students
- Ayla Batistela
- Beatriz Bueno Guimarães
- Carlos Eduardo Melo
- Giovanna Araújo
- José Gustavo de Araújo Lima
- Leonardo Araújo
- Leticia Oliveira
- Maria Fernanda Coca
- Sabrina Dauer