Linguaggio, intelligenza, modularità
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Marco Mazzone
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/1
Language Italian Pages 10 P. 125-134 File size 273 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2010-001010
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Ferretti’s book, Perché non siamo speciali, aims at investigating the way language and intelligence contribute to define human nature. This is of course specific, Ferretti argues, but not "special": it has to be entirely accommodated into the framework of Darwinian evolutionism. Therefore, human language and intelligence have to be analyzed in the light of continuity with those of other species: according to the author we must "darwinize Chomsky". This general position is solidly argued. Nonetheless, it is disputable that Chosmky’s theory may go wholly undisturbed by this process and by the changes that are currently occurring in linguistics. Besides, by adopting a rigid modularist view, Ferretti is brought to reject the notion of general intelligence, which seems, though, very difficult to dispose of, and in fact plays a significant role in the strategy of the book.
Keywords: Evolutionism, Flexibility, Intelligence, Language, Modularity, Pragmatics.
Marco Mazzone, Linguaggio, intelligenza, modularità in "PARADIGMI" 1/2010, pp 125-134, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2010-001010