Mikołaj Domaradzki a Comment on Wittgenstein’s Account of Language Learning Process
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The paper confronts the account of language learning process that emerg‐ es from the works of Wittgenstein with a more cognitively oriented one. It shows that an exclusive focus on the social dimension of language learning process cannot explain the miracle of acquiring a language that radically differs from one’s mother tongue. Thus, the article aims to make a case for the effectiveness of incorporating our cogni‐ 75 A Comment on Wittgenstein’s Account of Language Learning Process tive capacities into a language theory by highlighting two important issues. Firstly, the process of learning a radically different language is significantly facilitated by tracking down any commonalities and, secondly, if genetically unrelated languages exhibit the same mechanisms, then the development appears rather to be motivated than arbitrary. Both issues point to the usefulness of heeding general cognitive mechanisms which are responsible for the commonalities and the similar development.
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