A biologia da linguagem e a formação linguística : propondo o caminho da biologia do conhecer

Abstract

In this final course work, I propose to investigate the presence of biological approaches to language in linguistics undergraduate courses and postgraduate programs at Brazilian universities, as well as to offer an alternative approach based on the conceptual and theoretical framework of the Chilean school known as Biology of Knowing. To this end, I present a general overview of the relationships between biology and language in various fields of knowledge, and a research on academic works, disciplines and research groups in the context of linguistic studies, seeking to understand the theoretical and epistemological implications of the approaches adopted. The research revealed a relatively low concern for the topic, and the prevalence of representationalist or dualist approaches, establishing a contradiction between the biological and the social, to which I propose, as an alternative, the explanatory path of the Biology of Knowing.