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Vol. 23:3 (2016) ► pp.305–335

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Processes and verbs of doing, in the brain

Theoretical implications for Systemic Functional Linguistics

 | Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 | National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Published online: 16 February 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.23.3.02gar
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has long been characterized by its openness towards contributions from other fields. However, it has remained virtually uninformed by neuroscience. Such a disconnection has become all the more unfortunate since SFL ventured into the cognitive domain (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999). Opening a new avenue of disciplinary interaction for SFL, this paper reviews experimental studies on the neurocognitive basis of processes and verbs of doing, highlighting their manifold implications for the theory. Available data corroborates the SFL assumptions that these processes and verbs are (i) conceptually different from participants and nouns, (ii) functionally distinguishable from other process and verb types, and (iii) non-arbitrarily related to each other. Moreover, the evidence shows that (at least some of) the conceptual distinctions within semantics are naturally grounded in more basic (motor and perceptual) neurocognitive distinctions. This, we propose, calls for an elaboration of the stratified SFL model via the inclusion of a sensorimotor stratum. More generally, the article seeks to foster an empirically sound and theoretically relevant dialogue between SFL and promising approaches within cognitive neuroscience.
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Ibáñez, Agustín & Adolfo M. García
2018. Context as Inter-domain Effects: The Hand-Action-Network Dynamic Language Embodiment Model. In Contextual Cognition [SpringerBriefs in Psychology, ], ► pp. 29 ff. DOI logo
Steeb, Brenda, Indira García-Cordero, Marjolein C. Huizing, Lucas Collazo, Geraldine Borovinsky, Jesica Ferrari, Macarena M. Cuitiño, Agustín Ibáñez, Lucas Sedeño & Adolfo M. García
2018. Progressive Compromise of Nouns and Action Verbs in Posterior Cortical Atrophy. Frontiers in Psychology 9 DOI logo
García, Adolfo M. & Agustín Ibáñez
2016. A touch with words: Dynamic synergies between manual actions and language. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 68 ► pp. 59 ff. DOI logo
García, Adolfo M. & Agustín Ibáñez
2016. Hands typing what hands do: Action–semantic integration dynamics throughout written verb production. Cognition 149 ► pp. 56 ff. DOI logo
García, Adolfo M. & Agustín Ibáñez
2018. When embodiment breaks down: Language deficits as novel avenues into movement disorders. Cortex 100 ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
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2019. The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting [Benjamins Translation Library, 147], DOI logo

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