COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS ESTABLISHED BY CHOMSKY AND BAKHTIN ABOUT LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN HUMAN BEINGS

Abstract

The article presents two opposing epistemological bases concerning the development of human language: Noam Chomsky's generativism and Mikhail Bakhtin's discursive enunciative theory. Generativism conceives of the development of language from the innate point of view and presents arguments for doing so; according to Chomsky, there is a genetic predisposition in the human organism that triggers the linguistic constitution. Bakhtin, on the other hand, argues that human language is a product of the social environment, ideologically constituted in the interactions of subjects among themselves, being the basis of power relations in life in society. The objective is to confront the two theories, establishing main differences, while highlighting that both are densely constructed, based on solid and coherent arguments. The last stage of the article establishes a comparison between these epistemological bases to facilitate the understanding of the differences. The methodology of production of this text was bibliographic, using deductive research based on readings and textual interpretations.