Resumen de Linguistic inter-understanding gives evidence in favor of the mental models theory: Induction and comprehension

Miguel López Astorga

• español

  La intercomprensión lingüística es un fenómeno comunicativo bastante conocido y que ha sido estudiado detenidamente. Básicamente, consiste en el hecho de que un individuo que habla una lengua sea capaz de entender a otra persona que se comunica en un idioma diferente, y ello sin conocer en profundidad este último idioma ni ser capaz de expresarse en él. El fenómeno, que es especialmente frecuente en el caso de lenguas muy semejantes, se da a causa de procesos inferenciales que tienen lugar en la mente humana cuando los individuos tratan de interpretar la información que se halla en un idioma distinto. De esta manera, el principal objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar cómo tales procesos son bastante similares a algunos de los que la teoría de los modelos mentales atribuye a la capacidad de razonamiento humana, y, por tanto, que la intercomprensión lingüística puede ser considerada como una evidencia de que esta última teoría es, al menos, parcialmente, correcta.

• English

  Linguistic inter­understanding is a communicative phenomenon that is well known and that has been studied in detail. It basically consists of the fact that an individual speaking a language is able to understand another person speaking a different language, and this without deeply knowing this last language or being able to express himself/herself in it. The phenomenon, which is especially frequent in the case of very similar languages, occurs because of certain inferential processes that can happen in the human mind when people try to interpret information in a distinct language. In this way, the main aim of this paper is to show how such processes are very akin to some of those that the mental models theory attributes to the human reasoning ability, and that hence linguistic inter­understanding can be considered as evidence that this last theory is, at least partially, correct.

• português

  Linguistic inter-understanding is a communicative phenomenon that is well known and that has been studied in detail. It basically consists of the fact that an individual speaking a language is able to understand another person speaking a different language, and this without deeply knowing this last language or being able to express himself/herself in it. The phenomenon, which is especially frequent in the case of very similar languages, occurs because of certain inferential processes that can happen in the human mind when people try to interpret information in a distinct language. In this way, the main aim of this paper is to show how such processes are very akin to some of those that the mental models theory attributes to the human reasoning ability, and that hence linguistic inter-understanding can be considered as evidence that this last theory is, at least partially, correct.