International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences Vol. 10(3), pp. 384 - 395
DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100304
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Analysis of Verbal Language from the Theory of Human Movement as a Complex System

Julio Ernesto Pérez-Parra ^1,2,*, Alexandra Suaza-Restrepo ^1,3, Francia Restrepo-de-Mejía ^1,4
1 Doctorate in Cognitive Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia
² Department of Human Movement, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia
³ Language Institute, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia
⁴ Department of Basic Biological Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia

ABSTRACT

The objective of this manuscript is to carry out a conceptual analytical review of verbal language from the theory of Human Body Movement as a Complex System (HMCS). This theory is proposed by the Body-Movement Research Group from the Autonomous University of Manizales, Colombia. This model assumes that language production is essentially an embodied motor function. The analysis here presented involves postulates of both structural and functional theories of language, as well as cognitive linguistics, since the HMCS theory encompasses these multiple possibilities of approach. It is this conjecture of a holistic vision of language from its different approaches that leads to the proposition that, in effect, the different levels of linguistic analysis find several analogous components in the HMCS model. A conceptual analytical review is carried out, and structured in two main components. In the first part, the HMCS theory is exposed with its three levels of interaction: the objectified aspects of movement, the potentiality of movement and the external context of human movement. In the second part, an analysis of verbal language is carried out from this conceptual framework, also analyzed from the three levels of interaction: the objectified aspects of verbal language as a motor expression, the potentiality of verbal language and the context in the production of verbal language. Definitions, concepts, interactions and analogies are presented during the development of the article. In conclusion, body movement is language and language is, in essence, human movement. Both are intricate, integrated, indivisible, and inherently constitutive aspects of the same cognitive processes. The analogy achieved highlights the theory of the shared resource between motor control and cognitive control. In the same way that verbal language allows communication based on communicative intentions, body movement allows the exchange of information, constituting a bridge between cognition and the world.

KEYWORDS
Language Studies, Human Movement, Human Body, Systems Theory

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Julio Ernesto Pérez-Parra , Alexandra Suaza-Restrepo , Francia Restrepo-de-Mejía , "Analysis of Verbal Language from the Theory of Human Movement as a Complex System," International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 384 - 395, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100304.

(b). APA Format:
Julio Ernesto Pérez-Parra , Alexandra Suaza-Restrepo , Francia Restrepo-de-Mejía (2022). Analysis of Verbal Language from the Theory of Human Movement as a Complex System. International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences, 10(3), 384 - 395. DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100304.