The Neurobiological Basis of Semogenesis: A Perspective of Neural Darwinism

XIE Chui-ping

Jun. 2021

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XIE Chui-ping. The Neurobiological Basis of Semogenesis: A Perspective of Neural Darwinism[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(4): 49-55.

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XIE Chui-ping. The Neurobiological Basis of Semogenesis: A Perspective of Neural Darwinism[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(4): 49-55.

XIE Chui-ping. The Neurobiological Basis of Semogenesis: A Perspective of Neural Darwinism[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(4): 49-55.

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The Neurobiological Basis of Semogenesis: A Perspective of Neural Darwinism

XIE Chui-ping

School of Foreign Languages, Sichuan Normal Uiversity, Chengdu 610000, China

Received Date: 2017-11-09
Available Online: 2021-06-01

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This paper firstly traces the sociobiological acountability of semogenesis and then interprets the tenets of neural Darwinism,with an aim to explore the neurobiological basis of semogenesis and language cognition from the perspective of SFL and thus illuminate the relationship between SFL and neurobiological science,holding that semogenesis is a new direction in relating the two disciplines.The interpretation of semogenesis from the perspective of neural Darwinism highlights the dialectical materialistic view of language evolution in SFL.The association between SFL and neural cognitive sciences indicates that SFL covers both inter-organic(i.e.social)and intra-organic(i.e.neuro-biological)aspects of language.This may help to clarify the misconception that SFL ignores the intra-organic factors.Due to the latest development of SFL,a coherent language-processing model has been constructed for the neurobiological study of language,which in turn provides a solid intra-organic basis for SFL.It is then argued that the complexity science should be adopted into the study of SFL,which will be a new direction in the transdisciplinary research of SFL.
- SFL,
- semogenesis,
- neural Darwinism

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