Language And Actions, The Body-Specificity Hypothesis

Language and Action
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For a long time, language and action have been perceived to be separate and independent modules. However, recent researches on various human behaviors, cognitive abilities, neuroscience, and philosophical have presented overwhelming data proving the two topics have a close correlation as they are reciprocally connected to each other. In a neuroscience perspective, the association of language and action transpires in a strewn neuronal assemblies. For example, some action words such as ‘kneel,’ ‘cry,' ‘pick,’ ‘kick.’ and ‘click’ bare semantic relationship with parts of the body, and the comprehension, and imagination of these words automatically sparkles the brains' motor system in a somatotapic manner. In addition, individuals think differently but in a certain way depending on the differences on their body and on how they interact with the physical environment using their particular bodies. The human body parts influence the perception and interpretation of the mind in various ways such as that the habits of some body parts represent the cognitive patterns of the human mind. Although other factors apart from the body may influence the human thinking and judgment, still the body remains the primary tool which shapes the human mind, thus having pervasive influences on human's neuro-cognitive activities that constitute our thoughts. Therefore, in respect to linguistic, cultural and bodily observations and investigations, the relationship between language and action facilitates individuals' mental lives as well as generating habits of thinking, feeling, communicating, and making decisions.
How all the body parts conducts itself determines the cognitive aspect of individuals. According to Plato, the physical experiences on ears, eyes and other body parts are responsible for individuals' ordinary thoughts since they are always changing. In addition, Plato suggests that the changes on the body parts help people to realize their inborn knowledge. The modern cognitive science offers a more advanced view citing that the body actions, essential ideas, and ordinary thoughts can either be categorized as concept or instantiations cognitive responses. Concepts are perceived to be constant and stable across individuals and time while instantiations vary over time. However, there is limited literature to back the general perception on concepts and Instantiations are universal. Another different view of the substantial evidence is that the differences in human bodies are responsible for the varying patterns of neurocognitive activities such as thinking. The neurocognitive variation is known not only caused by physical differences but also social experience. For this, reason, humans tend to conceptualize their original thoughts idiosyncratically instead of constructing it from pre-season concepts to respond to both social and physical contextual demand.
According to the body-specificity hypothesis, human bodies are inseparable from action words as it involves the mind, hence influencing the ideas, thoughts, and actions they tend to form or perform. Therefore, it is logical and predictable to expect p...