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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 2Suppl. / 2021  
         
  Article:   THE CONSTRAINTS OF EMBODIMENT AND LANGUAGE-THOUGHT RELATIONS.

Authors:  PRAKASH MONDAL.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.11
Published Online: 2021-10-30
pp. 153-163

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This paper aims to impugn the magnified role of specific natural languages in structuring and shaping cognition in the context of language-thought relations. Since language-thought interactions are being increasingly explored in different kinds of empirical studies showing or attempting to show context-specific or general influences of language over thought and thinking, there is reason to tame the excesses of language-specific influences over thought, thinking and cognition. In this regard, any context-specific influences of languages over thought and thinking in being grounded in certain modes/modalities of cognition must be governed by the constraints of body-world interactions that operate on modes/modalities of cognition. Thus, this paper will argue that language-specific influences over thought, thinking and cognition are possible to the extent that they are permitted by the constraints of embodiment.

Keywords: language; thought; thinking; embodiment; cognition
 
         
     
         
         
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