{"id":360,"date":"2011-09-26T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediosmejoresqueganenmas.org\/?p=360"},"modified":"2014-05-08T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T12:53:21","slug":"steven-pinker-sobre-el-lenguaje-y-el-pensamiento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/recursos-multimedia\/steven-pinker-sobre-el-lenguaje-y-el-pensamiento","title":{"rendered":"Steven Pinker: On language and thought, …AND THE PREEMINENCE OF CONTENTS IN MEDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2007 Steven Pinker, MIT-Harvard neurolinguist, published The Stuff of thought<\/em>, which complements his magnum The language instinct<\/em>. Anyone interested in understanding human language and thought, and the miracle of the human word, will enjoy these two books, as well as the present video.<\/p>\n

Here, Pinker examines the way our human languages work, how they express what happens in our minds, and how the words we choose communicate much more than what we realize we are telling.\u00a0 He also indicates that through analyzing human languages, we can come to understand both our species and our minds \u2013our nature.<\/p>\n

The price Pinker pays to stand for the universality of the human species \u2013for the existence of a series of common traits that are innate to us by nature,\u00a0 is ideological, as ideological is the opposition to his work, despite the fact that it is precisely this common human heritage which makes us all equal in dignity, no matter the demographic categories we may fall into (age, gender, race, income, location, etc.).<\/p>\n

That is why, he opens his talk by pronouncing himself against the concept of linguistic correction.\u00a0 Unintended pun, indeed, as this concept \u2013pervasive as few others, is also wired into our human neural networks …by nature.\u00a0 We cannot talk about diacronicity (the history and evolution of language), without talking about syncronicity (structured systematic variances of language<\/em> coexisting in a given place at a given moment, which are habitually related to the human groups with which we interrelate, and which are subject themselves to the natural dynamics of human groups).<\/p>\n

In the end, however, the key point of this talk for us in this web, is the public recognition by a top neurolinguist, that previous to the word \u2013previous to the form, shape and channel we may choose to transmit a message, there is a communicative intention \u2013the content we want to transmit, the message itself<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Everything else depends from it, and derives from it, as we will incredibly addapt any available means and resources, to achieve the transmission of our communicative goal: our message.<\/p>\n

What is accidental (in phylosophical terms), will always remain secondary to what is essential.\u00a0 Fireworks may shine bright and spectacularly, but what our memory holds to \u2013what it remembers, is the event we celebrated: a wedding, a national holiday, a sports victory.<\/p>\n

That is why the digital revolution is less relevant to media, than adequating their contents to the tastes, values, ideas and beliefs of their target audience<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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What interests us in this talk?. The public recognition by a top neurolinguist, that previous to the word \u2013previous to the form, shape and channel we may choose to transmit a message, there is a communicative intention \u2013the content we want to transmit, the message itself. Everything else depends from it, and derives from it, as we will incredibly addapt any available means and resources, to fulfill our communication goal, to transmit our message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,344],"tags":[50,124,123,121],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recursos-multimedia","category-utiles-para-creadores","category-videos","tag-autoregulacion-simbiotica-de-la-convivencia","tag-correccion-linguistica","tag-el-pensamiento","tag-steven-pinker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediosmejoresqueganenmas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}