Thought and language

Thought and language

1. Vygotsky

   • language is a source of unity of the communicative and representative functions of our environment.
     • for him
       • he language has a specific development with roots own in prelinguistic communication and that depends necessarily on cognitive development, but of the interaction with their environment.
         • and
           • the evolutionary process leads to beings humans to handle instruments (symbols), such as language, to adapt to your environment
             • so
               • human behavior is organized and controlled by both real intentions (of one's own individual) as per intentions attributed by others (from of interaction with others).
   • the development of thought is a social construction, which is made possible through interaction with the environment that surrounds us,
     • for later
       • to be processed through an egocentric language (that of the infants) and finally to constitute an internalized language.

2. Piaget

   • the language is one of the manifestations of symbolic function
     • notes that
       • the language plays a role fundamental in the process of the formation of the function symbolic
         • because
           • the language is already completely elaborated socially and provides, therefore, a set of Cognitive tools (relationships, classifications, etc.)
   • argues that the thought and language they are developed separately
     • as
       • the intelligence begins to develop from birth, before the Kidnable, so the child goes Learning to speak according to their development Cognitive reached the necessary level for it.