Desplazarse en la ciudad: Un proceso de generación de sentido

Abstract

Throughout this work of degree it was demonstrated that to sail is a process of giving of sense in which the cognitive and conceptual conditions of the human being integrate with the spatial conditions of the environment to stabilize the processes of signification while they move by the geographic space of the city. In this perspective, the significance of the geographic space from the cognitive conditions of the subjects implies understanding that the animation, the situationality, the attention and the memory allow constructing conceptual categories of the environment, with which cognitive processes are carried out based on the information on the space of the city. On the other hand, conceptual conditions are entrenched in long-term memory, which for purposes of giving direction while moving around the city are activated by the operational memory in an online-ongoing way in order to establish meaning-giving purposes in the geographic space. It is necessary to distinguish that the conceptual conditions were outlined in this work from some theories proposed within cognitive linguistics, since they allow to give a horizon to the explanation on the navigation processes of the people. This is how IEs are a fundamental part of the structure of navigation, since a great number of processes occur in the medium arise from preconceptual categories, that is, they emerge from the sensorial and corporal experience of inhabiting a geographic space such as the city.