RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The Real Way We Think What They Think: New Cognitive Poetics and Linguistics in the English Literature Studies (ELS) in Spain A1 Guerra, Juani A1 Nuez Placeres, Graciela de la A1 Martín Dueñas, Adán A1 Lema Quintana, María Pilar A1 Manteiga, Víctor A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Filología Inglesa AB Now that the new Cognitive Paradigm has strongly developed the hypothesis that language rests on the capacity of symbolic thought, we will theoretically reflect here on the need for a revision of the organization and particularly of the realistic management of English literary lessons in Spanish higher education. We will approach a possible solution to this need under a comprehensive prism on language that cognitive psychologist Christopher Sinha (2007:1287) poses as the basic proposition which unites many subscribers to the scientific program of 2nd generation Cognitive Studies of Language: "language can best be made sense of by recognizing that it is structurally and functionally continuous with, motivated by, and emergent from non-linguistic cognitive processes." On these basis, this paper aims at outlining a higher-educational overture where an initial realistic awareness of the disparities in the biocultural counterintuitive conceptual processes taking place at the pre-linguistic and pre-conceptual levels of backstage cognition in the minds of English authors and Spanish teachers and students, (as linguistically expressed in the original texts) can help us all to make our English Literature Studies (ELS) in the Spanish university a social activity successful in the end in the context of the European Higher Education. SN 0210-9689 YR 2009 FD 2009 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17371 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17371 LA spa NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2009, N.30, pags.85-104 DS UVaDOC RD 28-abr-2024