Reinterpreting the phenomenon of linguistic development from a dialogue between Systemic-Functional Theory and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
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Language Development, Piaget, Vygotsky, Systemic-Functional Theory, Extended Evolutionary SynthesisAbstract
This theoretical work aims to revisit Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology (Chiarottino, 2017) and Lev Vygotsky’s theories (Hasan, 2016) to provide a bio-sociogenetic dynamic explanation of linguistic development (i.e., language acquisition) in light of the theoretical developments of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (Pigliucci and Muller, 2010) in metadialogue (Hasan, 2009) with Systemic Functional Theory (Halliday, 1978, 2002, 2003, 2007; Hasan, 2002, 2004; Painter, 2004; Williams; Lukin, 2004). The works of Piaget and Vygotsky, reinterpreted through the lens of contemporary literature, show remarkable consonance with evolutionary biology and systemic-functional sociosemiotics. This paper presents a model centered on Niche Construction Theory, characterizing humans as semiotic niche constructors that develop from ecosemiotic inheritances (Laland, Odling-Smee; Feldman, 2000). It concludes that, in the human case, linguistic development and biological development are phenomena whose separation is only possible at certain levels of theoretical abstraction, yet inseparable in the practical analysis of their dynamics.
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