Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Most linguists have traditionally considered writing as a substitutive code. However, the modern evolution of linguistics has created a favourable background for the recognition of its autonomy and equality with spoken language. Despite this, its adaptive capacities and complex functioning have not still been studied in depth. The few authors who follow this line of research (eg Changizi and Shimojo 2005; Lock and Gers 2012) are not sufficiently based on linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches on the phenomenon of writing. Furthermore, cognitive and evolutionary linguistics seem to maintain a sceptical silence on this matter. This paper tries to pave the way for approaching its theoretical study as an adaptive system equipped with a semi-autonomous complex functioning -in conjunction with spoken language- on the basis of the knowledge that current linguistics holds on the phenomenon of writing.
Author: Pérez Rodríguez
Institution: Universidade de Vigo
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W633933403