"All children learn to talk. This natural tendency to acquire language is a gift inscribed in the genetic inheritance that is ours by virtue of being human" - Boysson-Bardies (1999). How do people deal with language? What one knows about both cognitive and social processes that are involved on this relation? What is a comprehension and how one comprehends? This work has as aim to describe succinctly some perspectives through which different authors explain theirs ideas and research results. Particularly it was observed how to look the reading, writing and comprehension phenomena as a specific human capacity; the idea that an individual and an acquired ability is needed in order to control volunteer or unconsciously its own comprehension process. One basic aspect is presented as background: the relation between language and human cognition. It was concluded that further studies are needed for researchers to get a thorough understanding of the consequences of learning spoken and written language.
Language; cognition; comprehension