Sobre a linguagem: considerações sobre a atividade verbal a partir da Psicologia Histórico-Cultural

Abstract

This work consists in a literature review article. Are explored some inter-relationships between the cog- nitive and communicative functions of the human verbal activity, from Historical-Cultural Psychology perspective. Its used the bibliographical research technique. The objective consists of understanding the phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of human language by the analysis of the main psycho- logical functions performed and provided by the language itself. According to the adopted theoretical referential, the emergence of the language in phylogenesis is linked to the work process. The work gives rise to the human need for objective communication, endowed with social signifi cance. Yet in the ontogenesis, child language is initially characterized as pre-intellectual, being dissociated of thinking. However, through interactive social processes, thinking and language come across. Thereby, the lan- guage gains complex intellectual properties, becoming an important tool for psychic regulation under which new cognitive possibilities emerge for the humanization of man himself. This is possible by the