Domínio linguístico e sistemas sociais multiespécies

Abstract

Linguists have always debated the ontology of human linguistic diversity, whether it is the superficial product of a common biological or psychological capacity, or whether it is inherent to the communicational needs and sociocultural experiences of our species. In both cases, the linguistic code is privileged as a locusof investigation, a model in which language is generated by human physiology or cognition, separating the linguistic (factors internal to the code) from the non-linguistic (external, social, psychological, environmental). In the explanatory path of the Biology of Knowing, behavior guides structural changes, and not the other way around. The human lineage is constituted in the historical (evolutionary and ontogenic) drift of coordination of actions, a behavioral linguistic domain in which the human ontogenic phenotype is preserved. This alternative way of seeing the relationship between behavior and physiology allows us to consider historically not only the establishment of linguistic domains, but the formation of social systems, human or not, including ontogenic co-drift, which involve relationships between humans and other organisms, in multispecies socialities.

Keywords

• linguistic domain
• biology of knowing
• social systems