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Extending Cognitive Pragmatics: Social Mechanisms of Mind Transformation

Authors: Daniel Żuromski ORCID
UMK w Toruniu

Anita Pacholik-Żuromska ORCID
UMK w Toruniu

Adam Fedyniuk ORCID
UMK w Toruniu
Keywords: Cognitive Pragmatics mechanism-based explanation transformation metacognition
Whole issue publication date:2022
Page range:27 (65-91)
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Abstract

Abstract. In this article we propose an extended approach in terms of Cognitive Pragmatics (CP) to the explanation of the development of the higher cognitive processes. Therefore, we explain in terms of CP how linguistic and pre-linguistic social practices shape the mind. CP, as we understand it here presents a broader transdisciplinary position covering developmental psychology, primatology, comparative psychology, cultural psychology, anthropology and philosophy. We present an argumentation for the thesis that CP provides an explanation to the origins and developmental mechanisms of some of higher mental functions unique to humans. Thus, we want to extend the notion of CP beyond its standard definition by emphasizing the transformative component of communicative acts. In our approach, CP first and foremost examines the cognitive mechanisms underlying social pre-linguistic and linguistic communication. Secondly, it explores how this communication reorganizes and transforms cognitive abilities and processes. We would like to extend the tasks of CP as well, because its goal is to not only describe cognitive processes that enable communication, but also to explain the social mechanisms of transformation of mind and cognition. We provide an example of said mechanisms of development of higher cognitive functions through the account of metacognition.
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