Contact Information

Jordan Zlatev
Professor
Linguistics and Phonetics
Centre for Languages and Literature

E-mail

Phone +46 (0)46 222 84 48

Fax +46 (0)46 222 32 11

Room H507a

Visiting Address
Helgonabacken 12

Postal Address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal Post Code 20

Jordan Zlatev

I am interested in the relation between language, thought/consciousness and other semiotic resources or systems like gestures and pictures. In particilar in an evolutionary and developmental perspective.
I have served as president of SALC (Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition), and am still on its board.
http://www.salc-sssk.org/

Research

Present projects
Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS) (research leader)In order to understand the specificity of human beings, we must consider the biological as well as historical process by means of which we were separated ...
Completed projects
Precursors of Sign Use in Intersubjectivity and Imitation (PSUII)In earlier work we have explored the human capacity to engage in sign use, comparing different semiotic resources with respect to their developmental ...