O presente trabalho se desdobra em duas questões: uma gramatical, a concordância em língua estrangeira; no nosso caso especificamente o espanhol; e o processamento lingüístico desse item da gramática por parte dos alunos adultos, que têm como língua materna o português brasileiro (PB). Partindo de um corpus constituído por nós de produção não-nativa, selecionamos para análise oito fenômenos. Nossa análise dos dados se apóia, essencialmente: na teoria de aquisição de língua estrangeira de base gerativista, em particular na linha de Liceras (1996) e Baralo (1999); nos estudos de interlíngua e na análise de erros, fundamentalmente na linha de Fernández (1997), Vázquez (1999), Santos Gargallo (1993); e na Psicolingüística, na linha de Anula Rebollo (1998) e Manchón Ruiz (1999). Além disso, fizemos uma breve incursão nos trabalhos de Mclaughin (1993), sobre os tipos de processamento; nos de Segalowitz e Lane (2000), que estudam o acesso lexical e o processamento; e nos de França (2005), os quais trazem resultados de testes neurofisiológicos igualmente voltados ao acesso lexical, mostrou-nos importantes aspectos sobre a concordância. A avaliação dos fenômenos revelou que a concordância ultrapassa os limites das regras gramaticais que a regem, um descompasso do qual nem mesmo a língua materna está isenta e que, na língua estrangeira, tem o seu potencial maximizado. / This dissertation has focused on two topics: one is a grammatical one, the verb agreement in a foreign language; and the linguistic processing of this grammatical item by grow-up students, who have as first language the Brazilian Portuguese. Starting from a corpus we constituted by collecting non-native productions, eight different fenomena were selected to be analysed. Our analysis is essentially supported by a second language acquisition theory with a generative approach, focusing specially on Liceras´(1996) and Baralo´s (1999) investigations. In addition to Liceras´research, Fernandez´(1997), Vasquez´(1999) and Santos Gargallo´s (1993) studies on interlanguage and error analysis have also served as guidelines. Regarding Psycholinguistics, we have adopted Anulla Rebollo´s (1998) and Manchón Ruiz´research. Besides that, we have analysed types of linguistic processing in light of Mclaughin´s (1993) work and lexical acess and linguistic processing in light of Segalowits´and Lane´s(2000). Concerning neurophysiological tests, we have used the results obtained by França (2005), who studying lexical acess as well, has shown important aspects about verb agreement. The phenomenon investigation has revelead that verb agreement goes beyond the limits established by grammatical rules, a discord that not ven the mother language is able to avoid, but whose proportions are highly maximized in the second language

El objetivo principal de esta investigación se centra en comparar el nivel de los procesos lectores de niños que habitan en la zona de Huaycán, donde gran parte de la población es de origen provinciano. Para esta comparación se consideró el lugar de procedencia de los padres y de las madres, ya sean migrantes del ande o procedentes de la costa. El enfoque de la investigación es mixto, de tipo descriptivo comparativo. Participaron 153 niños de 5to y 6to grado, de los cuales 38 son hijos de madre de origen andino y 37 de madres originarias de la costa; respecto del lugar de procedencia de los padres, 42 son provenientes del ande y 28 de la costa. Se aplicó a los niños de la muestra el Test PROLEC-R y se analizaron los puntajes obtenidos según cinco sub-clasificaciones formadas de acuerdo con el lugar de procedencia de los padres. Los resultados confirmaron la hipótesis general al haber hallado diferencias significativas en cuatro de las cinco sub-clasificaciones analizadas. En el análisis a nivel del índice de precisión lectora, los hijos de migrantes andinos obtuvieron mejores resultados. Por el contrario, los hijos de padres costeños obtuvieron resultados más favorables en velocidad lectora. / The main purpose of this research is to compare the level of the reading processes of children living in the area of Huaycán, where much of the population has come from provinces. For this comparison, we have considered the place of birth of the parents, whether they have migrated from the Andes or they were born in the Coast. This is a mixed method research, with descriptive and comparative design. 153 children from 5th y 6th grade were examined, of which 38 have mothers of Andean origin, and 37 have mothers born in the Coast; with regard to the fathers, 42 were born in the Andes and 28 are from the Coast. The children were evaluated with the Test PROLEC-R and the scores were analyzed in relation to five subclassifications made according to their parents’ place of origin. The results confirmed the main hypothesis, having found significative differences in four of the five subclassifications analyzed. When analyzing the reading accuracy, the children of Andean migrants outperformed. On the other hand, children of parents born in the Coast obtained better results in reading speed. / Tesis

El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar los mecanismos pragmáticos-comunicativos que subyacen a la comunicación que se establece entre el humorista o creador de la viñeta cómica (en adelante VC) y el lector de la misma. Con el fin de alcanzar este objetivo se han marcado una serie de pasos, o sub-objetivos, que a su vez constituyen las fases en las que se ha estructurado la investigación. Estos sub-objetivos son los siguientes: -Analizar y describir la comunicación humorística en general; -Analizar y describir el humor en las VC; -Describir desde un aperspectiva pragmática la comunicación humorística-lector que se produce en las VC. Este trabajo tiene también un segundo objetivo, teórica y metodológicamente separado del principal. Este objetivo es el siguiente: - Analizar los problemas que un estudiante de español de lengua extranjera (en adelante, ELE) podría tener al enfrentarse con la lectura y comprensión de las VC, y proporcionarle las herramientas para facilitar la resolución de estos problemas. / The main objetive of this work was to analyze the pragmatic and communicative mechanisms underlying the communication between the humorist, or creator of the comic cartoon, and the reader of the same cartoon. To accomplish this goal, this research has been structured in series of subsequent steps, wicht simultaneosly represent the different sections of the dissertation. These steps consist of: -Analyze and describe the humorous communication in general. -Analyze and describe the humor in comic cartoons. -Describe, from a pragmatic perspective, the communication between the humorist and the reader of the comic cartoon. The second objetive of this work consists of the following: -Analyze the problem that Spanish as a Foreing Language students could have when faced with the comprehension of Spanish comic cartoons, and create some learning materials that will teach them how to overcome these obstacles.

El presente artículo aborda la relación entre la intención comunicativa y la prosodia de las vocalizaciones producidas por infantes de entre 16 y 24 meses de edad. Los resultados muestran que (1) las vocalizaciones comunicativas y no comunicativas no se diferencian de forma significativa a partir de su contorno entonativo final (ascendente, descendente o suspensivo), (2) aunque sí a partir de su frecuencia fundamental, más alta en el caso de las vocalizaciones comunicativas; y que (3) las funciones comunicativas tempranas (declarativa, imperativa, expresiva, mímica, guía de acción y “relleno” conversacional) se diferencian por su contorno entonativo final y, también, más marcadamente, (4) por su frecuencia fundamental, más alta en los imperativos (y vocalizaciones expresivas) que en los declarativos.Palabras clave: intención comunicativa, función comunicativa, prosodia, adquisición del lenguajeAbstractThis paper deals with the relation between communicative intention and prosody in vocalizations uttered by infants 16 to 24 months-old. Results show that (1) communicative and non-communicative vocalizations are not significantly different based on pitch final contour (rising, falling and flat), (2) but show significantly different fundamental frequency values, which are higher in communicative vocalizations; and that (3) early communicative functions (declarative, imperative, emotive, mimic, action guide, and conversational “filling”) can be differentiated based on their final pitch contour and, more clearly, (4) on their fundamental frequency, which is overall higher in imperatives (and emotive vocalizations) than in declaratives.Keywords: communicative intention, communicative function, prosody, language acquisition

El Trastorno por Déficit Atencional e Hiperactividad (TDAH), se caracteriza por presentar una tríada de síntomas: impulsividad, inatención e hiperactividad y constituye el principal motivo de consulta en los servicios de psiquiatría y salud mental infantil durante la edad escolar en nuestro país. Las investigaciones indican que las causas del TDAH se deben principalmente a problemas en las funciones ejecutivas, indispensables para el desarrollo de las habilidades psicolingüísticas; sin embargo, la relación entre estas habilidades y el TDAH poco estudiado en el ámbito fonoaudiológico. Por esta razón, el propósito de esta investigación es caracterizar un perfil psicolingüístico de niños diagnosticados con TDAH y compararlo con un perfil de niños sin TDAH y desarrollo típico del lenguaje utilizando el Test Illinois de Habilidades Psicolingüísticas (ITPA). Para esto se evaluó a 17 niños del grupo de estudio y 17 niños del grupo de comparación de entre 6 años a 9 años 11 meses asistentes a escuelas regulares de la Región Metropolitana. Los resultados muestran que los niños del grupo en estudio obtuvieron resultados más bajos que el grupo en comparación, en relación a las medianas en 5 de las 10 subpruebas del ITPA, presentando solo en el ítem de asociación auditiva diferencias significativas. En relación al desempeño general, el grupo con TDAH mostró un rendimiento levemente inferior al grupo de comparación. Se concluye de la presente investigación que las habilidades psicolingüísticas en los niños con TDAH no difieren en gran medida a las de los niños sin TDAH y desarrollo típico del lenguaje ni en la norma establecida por el ITPA. / Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is characterized by a triad of symptoms: impulsiveness, inattention and hyperactivity; it is also the main reason for consultation in psychiatric and child mental health services during school age in our country. Research indicates that the causes of ADHD are mainly due to executive functions problems, essential for the development of psycholinguistic abilities; but the relationship between these skills and ADHD has not been exhaustively studied in the speech language therapy field. For this reason, the purpose of the present study is to characterize a psycholinguistic profile of children with ADHD and compare it with a profile of children without ADHD and typical language development, using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). For that purpose, 17 children of the study group and 17 children of the comparison group, from 6 years to 9 years and 11 months, were evaluated. All children attend regular schools in the Metropolitan Region. The results show that the children of the study group obtained lower results than the comparison group, based on the medians in 5 of the 10 subtests of the ITPA, presenting only significant differences in the auditory association item. In terms of general performance, the ADHD group showed results slightly inferior to the comparison group. It is concluded from this research that psycholinguistic abilities in children with ADHD do not differ greatly from those of children without ADHD and typical language development or the norm set by the ITPA.

O presente trabalho se desdobra em duas questões: uma gramatical, a concordância em língua estrangeira; no nosso caso especificamente o espanhol; e o processamento lingüístico desse item da gramática por parte dos alunos adultos, que têm como língua materna o português brasileiro (PB). Partindo de um corpus constituído por nós de produção não-nativa, selecionamos para análise oito fenômenos. Nossa análise dos dados se apóia, essencialmente: na teoria de aquisição de língua estrangeira de base gerativista, em particular na linha de Liceras (1996) e Baralo (1999); nos estudos de interlíngua e na análise de erros, fundamentalmente na linha de Fernández (1997), Vázquez (1999), Santos Gargallo (1993); e na Psicolingüística, na linha de Anula Rebollo (1998) e Manchón Ruiz (1999). Além disso, fizemos uma breve incursão nos trabalhos de Mclaughin (1993), sobre os tipos de processamento; nos de Segalowitz e Lane (2000), que estudam o acesso lexical e o processamento; e nos de França (2005), os quais trazem resultados de testes neurofisiológicos igualmente voltados ao acesso lexical, mostrou-nos importantes aspectos sobre a concordância. A avaliação dos fenômenos revelou que a concordância ultrapassa os limites das regras gramaticais que a regem, um descompasso do qual nem mesmo a língua materna está isenta e que, na língua estrangeira, tem o seu potencial maximizado. / This dissertation has focused on two topics: one is a grammatical one, the verb agreement in a foreign language; and the linguistic processing of this grammatical item by grow-up students, who have as first language the Brazilian Portuguese. Starting from a corpus we constituted by collecting non-native productions, eight different fenomena were selected to be analysed. Our analysis is essentially supported by a second language acquisition theory with a generative approach, focusing specially on Liceras´(1996) and Baralo´s (1999) investigations. In addition to Liceras´research, Fernandez´(1997), Vasquez´(1999) and Santos Gargallo´s (1993) studies on interlanguage and error analysis have also served as guidelines. Regarding Psycholinguistics, we have adopted Anulla Rebollo´s (1998) and Manchón Ruiz´research. Besides that, we have analysed types of linguistic processing in light of Mclaughin´s (1993) work and lexical acess and linguistic processing in light of Segalowits´and Lane´s(2000). Concerning neurophysiological tests, we have used the results obtained by França (2005), who studying lexical acess as well, has shown important aspects about verb agreement. The phenomenon investigation has revelead that verb agreement goes beyond the limits established by grammatical rules, a discord that not ven the mother language is able to avoid, but whose proportions are highly maximized in the second language

Busca aportar en el conocimiento de las diferencias psicolingüísticas y neuropsicológicas en alumnos universitarios de distintas zonas del Perú, tomando en cuenta su diversa realidad socio lingüística. Se tomó como base el modelo de la Teoría informacional sobre el lenguaje y el habla personal, el enfoque socio cultural e histórico de Vigotksi y Luria, los avances en las neurociencias del lenguaje y el enfoque de psicolingüística social desarrollado por Bruner y Gonzáles Moreyra. Fue un estudio descriptivo y comparativo, en el cual se examinó a 66 estudiantes de universidades públicas de Lima, Arequipa y Huancavelica, hablantes del castellano con sus variaciones dialectales (incluía a los bilingües: incipientes y avanzados). Se emplearon el Test breve de bilingüismo quechua- castellano de Escobar, la Batería Luria- DNA. Diagnóstico neuropsicológico de adultos (Manga, D. y Ramos, F.), así como procedimientos y técnicas experimentales para la evaluación de los procesos del lenguaje para universitarios EPROLEN (Canales, Velarde, 2014). Se hallaron diferencias significativas en el desarrollo del lenguaje oral y el habla en comprensión oral y en producción oral a favor de los alumnos de Lima. En las funciones neuropsicológicas, se hallaron diferencias significativas en los sub test 2 (Orientación espacial), sub test 3 (Habla receptiva), sub test 5 (Memoria inmediata) y sub test 6 (Memoria lógica) a favor de los estudiantes de Lima y Arequipa. También se halló asociación entre las habilidades lingüísticas y las funciones neuropsicológicas. / Tesis

La idea que per entendre alguna cosa hem d'entendre el procés pel qual s'ha produït va ser assumida des de l'origen de l'estudi "La construcció de la identitat nacional com a procés de desenvolupament des de la infància a l'adolescència a Catalunya". Per tal d'estudiar el procés de desenvolupament relacionat amb la construcció de la identitat nacional, no és suficient considerar-lo en el seu context social, sinó que és necessari considerar la seva construcció social.Tres objectius principals van orientar el nostre estudi . Primer, indagar si els processos de categorització, identificació, coneixement, imatge, avaluació i afecte són també elements implicats en la construcció de la identitat nacional des de la infància a l'adolescència. Segon investigar el procés de desenvolupament d'aquests elements des dels 6 anys fins als 15 anys per contribuir amb dades a I'explicació sobre com es desenvolupa del coneixement social. Tres són les explicacions principals; la primera que es basa en processos cognitius d'inclusió-decentració; la segona, si aquest desenvolupament es dóna en cercles concèntrics des de I'interior (contextos quotidians) fins a l'exterior (amb intercanvis més amples i una educació formal envers la vida social); i la tercera, si el desenvolupament del coneixement social d'allò més immediat i directe es reorganitzat i adquireix nous significats per la integració dels elements més generals i abstractes. Tercer, donat el fet que el 50% de les famílies tenen el català com a llengua materna, hem estudiat la influència de la llengua o llengües utilitzades en el context familiar en el procés de construcció de la identitat nacional.Es va dissenyar una entrevista individual seguint una estructura amb les parts següents: identificació subjectiva i identificació nacional; coneixement dels països; estereotips, avaluació i sentiments, i entorn social. La mostra del present estudi va estar formada per 495 nens i adolescents de 6, 9, 12 i 15 anys d'edat. Es va utilitzar per cada grup un número similar de nens i nenes. La mostra es va dividir en tres grups segons la o les llengües utilitzades pel nen o nena en el seu context familiar.Tres van ser les categones lingüístiques utilitzades: castellà, nens que només utilitzin el castellà a casa; català, nens que només usen el català en el context familiar; i bilingües, nens que utilitzin tots dos idiomes a casa. Aquestes categories lingüístiques s'han utilitzat com a indicador dels contextos familiars.Dues conclusions principals es poden extreure d'aquest estudi. Primer, I'ús de categories nacionals no és una conseqüència del procés cognitiu d'inclusió-decentració ni en cercles concentrics (concret/abstracte). La idea d'un procés del món en paral·lel, d'un coneixement que integra simultàniament creences i sentiments de l'ambient concret o proper i de l'abstracte o llunyà pot explicar millor els nostres resultats. Els nens aprenen i pensen sobre la vida quotidara, les característiques de l'ambient, la informació circulant en el seu entom social i la importància o els diferents nivells de coneixement depenent del context. Els nens integren la informació que està circulant en el seu ambient i construeixen un món que necessàriament no ha de coincidir amb el món deis adults, però que els ajuda a comunicar-se i a entendre les situacions en les quals estan immersos. Els nens més joves són capaços d'utilitzar categories nacionals de manera similar als adolescents.Segon, la identitat nacional a Catalunya es construeix al voltant del nucli de la llengua parlada a casa. A través de tot I'estudi es pot veure un resultat consistent i reiterat. Els infants d'un entom familiar en què s'usa només el castellà s'identifiquen com a pertanyents a tots dos grups nacionals, Espanyol i Català. Els infants d'un entom familiar que utilitzen només el català s'identifiquen com a pertanyents només al grup Català. Aquestes identificacions guien com aquests nens avaluen i senten envers el propi grup nacional i els altres. A més, sembla que el context sòcio-polític és un vehicle important en la transmissió de les estructures de semblances i que I'estructura d'afecte es transmet principalment a través de I'entom familiar. / The study "The construction of national identity as a developmental process from childhood to adolescence in Catalonia" has been carried out within a European study entitled "Children's beliefs and feelings about their own and other national groups in Europe". The idea that to understand something we have to understand the process through which it has been produced it was assumed in the origin of the study. That is, we have to grasp its developmental construction. To study the developmental processes related to the construction of identity, it is not enough to consider them in their social social context, but it is necessary consider their social constructionThree main objectives have oriented our study. First, to ascertain if categorisation process, identification, knowledge, image evaluation and affect are also elements implied in the construction of nacional identity from childhood to adolescence.Second, to assess the developmental process of these elements from 6 to 15 years old in order to contribute to explain if development of social knowledge is related to inclusion and decentration cognitive processes, or in concentric circles from the inner, where the experience with the social object is in the majority at home and in everyday contexts, to the outer, where compromise, wide exchanges and a formal education about social life exist, or children's knowledge of the most immediate and direct is reorganised and acquires new meanings from the integration of more general and abstract elements.Third, knowing that Catalan language has been assumed from several sociological discourse as one of principal characteristics, maybe the most important, that configures the Catalan identity, the influence of the language or languages spoken in the family context in the process of the construction of national identity has been studied, due to the fact that 50% of families have Catalan as a mother tongue.An individual interview was designed with the following structure, eight parts that were grouped into four sections: subjective identification and national identification; knowledge of the countries; stereotypes, evaluation and feelings; and social background.The sample of the present study consisted of 495 children aged 6, 9, 12 and 15 years old. Similar numbers of boys and girls were present in each age group, The sample was broken down by the languages that the children spoke in their family environment. Three linguistic home situation categories were used: Castilian, children who speak only Castilian (Spanish) at home; Catalan, children who speak only Catalan at home; and bilingual, children who speak both languages at home.As first conclusion of this study it can been suggested that children belong to several social groups, and their participation in all them develops their social identity. This social identity is not just singular, on the contrary, it is multiple in nature and the salience of a particular identity depends on context. This idea can explain results showed in chapter six, where 6 years old children used national categories to describe themselves. The context of the subjective identification task created by the rest of the cards presented to the child was clearly national (the majority of the cards had a national category). Children younger than 10-11 years old can use national categories to describe themselves if the national dimension is salient in the context of the interview. So, it can be said that the use of national categories is neither a consequence of the cognitive processes of inclusion-decentration nor concentric circles (concrete/abstract).Also, results reported in chapter show how even youger children, choose the card to describe themselves depending on the social family context where they are growing up. And how they are able to choose a card in the coomparative national identificaton task (i.e. Catalan vs. Spanish), with all the complexity implied.So, the idea of a process of a parallel construction of the world, of simultaneously integrated knowledge, beliefs and feelings of the concrete or closer environment, and of the abstract or far away world, can better explain our data. Children learn and think about everyday life, about the characteristics of our environment, the information circulating in our social context, and the importance or otherwise of the different levels of knowledge, depending on the context. Children integrate the information that is circulating in their environment and they construct a world that does not necessarily coincide with the adult world, but which helps the children to communicate and to understand the situations in which they are immersed. Children of younger ages are able to use nacional categories in the same way adolescents.As second main point it can be concluded that national identity in Catalonia is constructed around the nucleus of the language that children speak at home. Through all the study a consistent result can be seen, Castilian speaking children identify themselves as belonging to both national groups, that is Spanish and Catalan, and Catalan speakers identify themselves as only belonging to the Catalan group and how evatuate and feel about the own group and the other. Results reported in chapter 8 show that the language spoken at home seems not to be an impotant vehicle of transmission of the structure of similarities as the socio-political context, on the contrary the affect structure is transmited by the family environment.To know the contents and meanings of these national categories used by the children and how these rneanings and contents change with age needs more research m the future.

El trabajo posee cinco capítulos, en los cuales se desarrolla el objetivo de esta investigación que consiste en comprobar la relación directa entre el desarrollo morfosintáctico y la edad cronológica, para lo cual se emplea la longitud media de emisiones, como instrumento de medida. En el primer capítulo, se presenta el estado del tema, el planteamiento del problema de la investigación, los objetivos, la justificación, la hipótesis y el tipo de la investigación. En el segundo capítulo, se presenta, en primer lugar, algunos antecedentes al estudio del desarrollo morfosintáctico; en segundo lugar, los lineamientos generales de las propuestas teóricas que se utilizó para dar cuenta de la adquisición del lenguaje, el desarrollo morfosintáctico, la morfología y la longitud media de enunciados. Como se verá más adelante, a partir de esto ha sido posible desagregar las categorías más usadas, según la edad. Y por último, se desarrolla los detalles sobre la metodología empleada en este trabajo, así como la descripción del método empleado y cómo se realizó la aplicación del test La hora del juego lingüística. También se describe la muestra, el procedimiento, los materiales empleados y la población a estudiar. En el tercer capítulo, se desarrolla una propuesta para dar cuenta de la estructura morfológica y la proyección sintáctica de los enunciados. Para comenzar, se desarrolla el análisis de la muestra de cada niño, esto se realiza mediante la descomposición en morfemas de cada palabra del enunciado transcrito, es decir, se identifican las raíces y los sufijos, y estos a las vez deben ser clasificados y contabilizados; y, finalmente, se aplica la fórmula para obtener la longitud media de enunciados. En el cuarto capítulo, se presenta una interpretación de los resultados obtenidos en el proceso de evaluación y recolección de las muestras de lenguaje. A partir de ello, se establecerá un cuadro resumen comparativo de acuerdo al grupo etáreo.Finalmente, dado que en el transcurso de la investigación se constató la relación directa entre el desarrollo morfosintáctico y la edad, se presentan las conclusiones y recomendaciones a las cuales se llegó en el presente trabajo de investigación.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_IntencionalidadeLinguagemAnalise.pdf: 645297 bytes, checksum: 7808e7973bd4229c9ec9c08b428cd27a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / As abordagens analítico-comportamentais da linguagem ainda não conseguiram fornecer um tratamento conceitual e empírico adequado dos comportamentos verbais complexos. Uma proposta funcionalista recente que vem abordando repertórios complexos na aquisição e no desenvolvimento da linguagem é a teoria da aquisição da linguagem baseada no uso, de Tomasello e cols. Esta teoria vem se desenvolvendo no interior de uma análise mais ampla de Tomasello e cols. sobre a evolução da cognição humana. Nesta proposta, a compreensão e o compartilhamento da intencionalidade são elementos-chave para o desenvolvimento cognitivo e linguístico humano. E é justamente o uso do conceito de intencionalidade o que tem produzido as principais críticas a esta proposta, principalmente, enquanto possibilidade de representar um retorno às propostas mentalistas sobre cognição e linguagem. Com base nisso, o presente trabalho procurou: (1) analisar a proposta de Tomasello e cols. sobre a evolução da cognição humana e a relação entre essa proposta e a aquisição e o desenvolvimento da linguagem – analisando, especificamente, o papel do conceito de intencionalidade nessa proposta e a relação entre intencionalidade e linguagem; (2) analisar o tratamento do conceito de intencionalidade nos trabalhos de John R. Searle e de Daniel C. Dennett, comparando-o com o proposto por Tomasello e cols., segundo os critérios de (a) definição de intencionalidade e (b) relação entre intencionalidade e linguagem; e (3) analisar o tratamento que o conceito de intencionalidade tem recebido na Análise do Comportamento, comparandoo com o proposto por Tomasello e cols, segundo os mesmos critérios (a) e (b). Esperava-se que estas análises permitissem um maior esclarecimento sobre o uso do conceito de intencionalidade na proposta de Tomasello e cols. e uma aproximação dessa proposta com um referencial analítico-comportamental, i.e., sem recorrer a entidades mentais como elementos explicativos da cognição e da linguagem. Tomasello e cols. propõem que a cognição humana é um tipo de cognição primata, derivada de adaptações biológicas característica dos primatas em geral para compreender os outros intencionalmente, em termos de ações, percepções, estados emocionais e objetivos, além de uma motivação exclusivamente humana para compartilhar intencionalidade com os outros. A partir dessas características, os humanos se tornaram capazes de se engajar em atividades de colaboração relacionadas à cognição cultural (envolvendo a criação e o uso de símbolos lingüísticos e matemáticos, artefatos culturais, tecnologias, práticas culturais e instituições sociais), que alteraram profundamente os modos de interação social da espécie humana, permitindo a ela acumular e modificar conhecimentos ao longo da história e transmitir esses conhecimentos para as gerações posteriores. Considerando a análise dos usos do conceito de intencionalidade nas propostas de Tomasello e cols, Searle, Dennett e da Análise do Comportamento, foi possível estabelecer uma relação entre as propostas de Tomasello e cols. e de Dennett, ambas caracterizando a intencionalidade como um conjunto de habilidades cognitivo-comportamentais dos organismos, resultante da história evolutiva das espécies. Contudo, foi possível relacionar o uso do o conceito de intencionalidade nas propostas de Searle e da Análise do Comportamento com o conceito de intencional na proposta de Tomasello e cols., ambos significando uma propriedade referencial (i.e., estar relacionado com) de certos fenômenos em relação a aspectos do mundo. No que concerne à relação entre intencionalidade e linguagem, as propostas de Tomasello e cols., Searle e de Dennett destacam a importância da interação da intencionalidade com a linguagem para a evolução da cognição humana propriamente dita. Contudo, Tomasello e cols. se aproximam mais do modelo de Searle, ao sugerirem que a linguagem simbólica é uma habilidade comportamental humana derivada da intencionalidade. Dennett, por outro lado, se contrapõe a essa hipótese, afirmando que intencionalidade e linguagem simbólica são dois fenômenos comportamentais distintos que co-evoluíram e passaram a interagir em certo momento da história evolutiva da espécie humana. Em geral, o presente trabalho sugere que os principais conceitos utilizados na proposta de Tomasello e cols. sobre a evolução da cognição humana e, especificamente, na teoria da aquisição da linguagem baseada no uso, são compatíveis com alguns conceitos aplicados em outras áreas do conhecimento, como a filosofia da mente e as ciências do comportamento. Em adição, o presente trabalho também possibilitou uma aproximação da proposta de Tomasello e cols. com um referencial analíticocomportamental. Sugere-se que (i) a adoção de um vocabulário analítico-comportamental pode contribuir para abordar os fenômenos contemplados na proposta de Tomasello e cols., evitando a recorrência a pressupostos mentalistas; e, (ii) a proposta de Tomasello e cols. pode oferecer relevantes contribuições para a Análise do Comportamento, no que se refere à investigação de processos simbólicos, principalmente, a aquisição e o desenvolvimento da linguagem simbólica, na medida em que esta proposta tem investigado processos simbólicos mais complexos do que aqueles tradicionalmente investigados na Análise do Comportamento. / Behavioral theories of language did not offer until this moment an adequate conceptual and empirical treatment for complex verbal behaviors. A contemporary functionalist proposal concerning complex repertoires in language acquisition and development is the usage-based theory of language acquisition, by Tomasello and colleagues. This theory has been developed in the context of Tomasello and colleagues’ wider analysis about the evolution of human cognition. In this proposal, comprehending and sharing intentionality are key aspects to human cognitive and linguistic development. The concept of intentionality, however, has led to several critics to this proposal, mainly because of a possible comeback of mentalist proposals about cognition and language. Thus, the present paper aimed: (1) to analyze Tomasello and colleagues’ proposal about the evolution of human cognition and the relation between this proposal and the acquisition/development of language – analyzing specifically the role of the concept of intentionality in this proposal and the relation between intentionality and language; (2) to analyze the treatment of this concept in John R. Searle and Daniel C. Dennett’s papers, comparing it to Tomasello and colleagues’ one, based on the criteria of: (i) definition of intentionality and (ii) relation between intentionality and language; (3) to analyze the treatment of the concept of intentionality in Behavior Analysis, comparing it to Tomasello and colleagues’ one, based on the same (i) and (ii) criteria. It was expected that these analyses would allow a better clarification about the usage of the concept of intentionality in Tomasello and colleagues’ proposal and would allow an interlocution between Tomasello and colleagues’ proposal and Behavior Analysis, i.e., one approach to cognition and language without references to mental entities as explicative aspects. Tomasello and colleagues propose that human cognition is a sort of primate cognition, derived from primate biological adaptations to comprehend the others intentionally, in terms of actions, perceptions, emotional states and objectives, and a exclusively human motivation to share intentionality with others. From these characteristics, human beings became able to engage in collaboration activities related to cultural cognition (involving the creation and usage of linguistic and mathematic symbols, cultural artifacts, technologies, cultural practices, and social institutions), that changed considerably human species’ social interactions, allowing it to accumulate and modify the knowledge throughout history and to transmit this knowledge to further generations. Considering analyses of the usage of the concept of intentionality in Tomasello and coleagues, Searle, Dennett and Behavior Analysis’ proposals, it was established a relation between Tomasello and colleagues’ and Dennett’s proposals, both of them defining intentionality as a set of cognitive-behavior skills of organisms, derived from species’ evolutionary history. Furthermore, it was established a relation between the concept of intentionality in Searle’s and Behavior Analysis’ proposals and the concept of intentional in Tomasello and colleagues’ one, both of them meaning a referential property (i.e., to be related to) of certain phenomena according to objects and state of affairs. Concerning to the relation between intentionality and language, Tomasello and colleagues’, Searle’s and Dennett’s proposals emphasize the importance of the interaction between intentionality and language to the evolution of the so-called human cognition. However, Tomasello and colleagues are more related to Searle’s model because both of them suggest symbolic language is an intentionalityderived human behavioral skill. Dennett rejects this hypothesis, considering intentionality and symbolic language as two different behavior phenomena that co-evolved and started to interact from a certain moment in human species’ evolutionary history. In general, the present paper suggests that the main concepts used in Tomasello and colleagues’ proposal about the evolution of human cognition and, specifically, in the usage-based theory of language acquisition, are compatible to some concepts used in others knowledge’s areas, like the philosophy of mind and behavioral sciences. In addition, the present paper also allowed an interlocution between Tomasello and colleagues’ proposal and Behavior Analysis. It is suggested that (a) adopting behavioral vocabulary may contribute to investigate the phenomena in Tomasello and colleagues’ proposal, rejecting references to mentalists hypotheses; and (b) Tomasello and colleagues’ proposal may offer relevant contributions to Behavior Analysis, concerning to the investigation of symbolic processes, specially symbolic language acquisition and development, since this proposal has investigated more complex symbolic processes than those traditionally investigated by Behavior Analysis.