Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS)
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Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS)
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 from other animals. Two hypotheses are unique to our research: not verbal language alone, but the means of conveying meaning more generally is specific; and it may have emerged in part in history, without any specific biological foundation.
Research leader
Göran Sonesson, Semiotics
Jordan Zlatev, Linguistics and Phonetics
Researcher
Joel Parthemore, Semiotics
Junichi Toyota, Linguistics and Phonetics
Elainie Alenkaer Madsen, Cognitive Science
Mats Andrén, Linguistics and Phonetics
Johan Blomberg, Linguistics and Phonetics
Ingar Brinck, Theoretical Philosophy
Anna Cabak Rédei, Semiotics
Gerd Carling, Linguistics and Phonetics
Lars-Åke Henningsson, Linguistics and Phonetics
Arthur Holmer, Linguistics and Phonetics
Gisela Håkansson, Linguistics and Phonetics
Anastasia Karlsson, Linguistics and Phonetics
Lars Kopp, Semiotics
Sara Lenninger, Semiotics
Tomas Persson, Cognitive Science
Susan Sayehli, Linguistics and Phonetics
Teresa Strandviken, Linguistics and Phonetics
Damrong Tayanin, Linguistics and Phonetics
Alf Hornborg, Human Ecology
Gunnar Sandin, Theoretical & Applied Aesthetics, Architecture
Status: Present (2009–2014)
Subjects: Allmän språkvetenskap, Humanekologi, Kognitionsvetenskap, Semiotik
Department: Centre for Languages and Literature
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Publications
Books (2)
Editorship (2)
- Dunér, D., Parthemore, J., Holmberg, G. & Persson, E. (in press). (Eds.) The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on the Human Mind and Extraterrestrial Life.
- Foolen, A., Lüdtke, U., Racine, T. & Zlatev, J. (2012). (Eds.) Moving ourselves, moving others : motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language. Consciousness and Emotion, 6. John Benjamins.
Articles (16)
- Blomberg, J. & Zlatev, J. (in press). Actual and non-actual motion: why experientialist semantics needs phenomenology (and vice versa). Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Springer.
- Parthemore, J. & Whitby, B. (in press). When is any agent a moral agent?: reflections on machine consciousness and moral agency. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 5.
- Ranta, M. (in press). (Re-)Creating Order: Narrativity and Implied World Views in Pictures. Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies. University of Nebraska Press.
- Ranta, M. (in press). I Riemenschneiders fotspår. Kulturens värld. Göran Hassler.
- Andrén, M. (2012). The social world within reach: Intersubjective manifestations of action completion. Cognitive Semiotics, 4, 139-166. Peter Lang.
- Madsen, E. & Persson, T. (2012). Contagious yawning in domestic dog puppies (Canis lupus familiaris): The effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on low-level imitation in dogs. Animal Cognition. Springer.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). Semiotics inside-out and/or outside-in: how to understand everything and (with luck) influence people. Signata, 315-348.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). The foundation of cognitive semiotics in the phenomenology of signs and meanings. Intellectica, 58, 207-239.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). The meanings of structuralism: considerations on structures and Gestalten, with particular attention to the masks of Levi-Strauss. Segni e comprensione, XXVI, 84-101.
- Zlatev, J. (2012). Cognitive semiotics: an emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning. Public Journal of Semiotics, IV, 2-24.
- Parthemore, J. (2011). Of boundaries and metaphysical starting points: why the extended mind cannot be so lightly dismissed. Teorema, 30, 79-94.
- Ranta, M. (2011). Landskap som ur en sagobok. Kulturens värld, 34-41. Göran Hassler.
- Sonesson, G. (2011). Semiotics of Art, Life, and Thought: three scenarios for (Post)Modernity. Semiotica, 183, 219-241. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2011). The Mind in the Picture and the Picture in the Mind: A Phenomenological Approach to Cognitive Semiotics. Lexia. Rivista di semiotica 07/08,, 167-182.
- Zlatev, J. (2011). From cognitive to integral linguistics and back again. Intellectica, 56, 125-147.
- Sonesson, G. (2010). From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: reflections on a general theory of iconicity. Sign System Studies, 38, 18-66. Tartu University.
Book chapters (8)
- Parthemore, J. (in press). The 'final frontier' as metaphor for mind: opportunities to re-conceptualize what it means to be human. In Duner, D., Parthemore, J., Holmberg, G. & Persson, E. (Eds.) The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on the Human Mind and Extraterrestrial Life.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). Anthroposemiotics. In Favareau, D., Cobley, P. & Kull, K. (Eds.) A More Developed Sign (pp. 25-28). Tartu University Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). Between homeworld and alienworld: a primer of cultural semiotics. In Hess-Lüttich, E. (Eds.) Sign Culture: Zeichen Kultur: Festschrift for Roland Posner (pp. 315-328). Königshausen & Neumann.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). Semiosis beyond signs: on two or three missing links on the way to human beings. In Schilhab, T., Stjernfelt, F. & Deacon, T. (Eds.) The Symbolic Species Evolved (pp. 81-96). Springer.
- Zlatev, J. (2012). Motion, Emotion and Mind Science. In Foolen, A., Luedtke, U., Racine, T. & Zlatev, J. (Eds.) Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Language (pp. 1-28). John Benjamins.
- Zlatev, J., Blomberg, J. & Magnusson, U. (2012). Metaphors and subjective experience: motion-emotion metaphors in English, Swedish, Bulgarian and Thai. In Foolen, A., Luedtke, U., Racine, T. & Zlatev, J. (Eds.) Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in consiousness, intersubjectivity and language (pp. 423-450). John Benjamins.
- Sonesson, G. (2011). La rhétorique des transformations homogènes. Ou l'argumentation fondée sur la structure de la réalité. In Migliore, T. (Ed.) Retorica del visibili. Plenary speech at the 9th Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Venise, April 13 to 16, 2010. (pp. 309-320), I. Aracne editrice.
- Sonesson, G. (2010). Pictorial semiotics. In Sebeok, T. & Danesi, M. (Eds.) Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics. De Gruyter Mouton: Berlin & New York. 3. rev. and updated ed.
Conference papers (9)
- Sonesson, G. (submitted). The picture between mirror and mind. From phenomenology to empirical studies in pictorial semiotics. Origins of Pictures - Anthropological Discourses in Image Science, Chemnitz, March 30 - April 1, 2011..
- Parthemore, J. (in press). Representations, symbols, icons, concepts... and why there are no mental representations.
- Cabak Rédei, A. & Kopp, L. (in press). Visual Perception—a matter of “filling in” the gaps. In Sonesson, G. (Ed.) Proceedings: Towards Cognitive Semiotics, Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, 6–8 May, 2011,Lund.
- Sonesson, G. (in press). Semiosis beyond Signs. On Two or Three Missing Links on the Way to Human Beings. Springer.
- Parthemore, J. & Whitby, B. (2012). Moral agency, moral responsibility, and artefacts. In Gunkel, D., Bryson, J. & Torrance, S. (Eds.) (pp. 8-17). The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.
- Ranta, M. (2012). An Exploratory Pilot Study on Pictorial Narrativity and Eye Scan Patterns. In Chan, J. (Ed.) (pp. 66-87). National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)/ Intternational Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA).
- Sonesson, G. (2012). A Final Move in Chess: Beyond the Picture Sign in Visual Semiotics. In Couto Cantero, P., Enríquez Veloso, G., Passeri, A. & Paz Gago, J. (Eds.) Culture of communication/Communication of culture – Comunicación de la cultura/Cultura de la comunicación. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS) (pp. 1397-1408). Universidade de Coruña.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). The Phenomenological Road to Cognitive Semiotics. In Couto Cantero, P., Enríquez Veloso, G., Passeri, A. & Paz Gago, J. (Eds.) Culture of communication/Communication of culture – Comunicación de la cultura/Cultura de la comunicación. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS) (pp. 855-866). Universidade de Coruña.
- Karlsson, A. & Holmer, A. (2011). Interaction between word order, information structure and intonation in Puyuma. In Endo, M. (Ed.) Linguistic Circle for the Study of Eastern Eurasian Languages (pp. 28-38).
Reviews (3)
- Cabak Rédei, A. (submitted). Signs, Senses and Cognition: Lady Welby and Contemporary Semiotics. In Danesi, M. & Petrilli, S. (Eds.) Semiotica. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Cabak Rédei, A. (2011). Kristina Fjelkestam, Det sublimas politik: emancipatorisk estetik i 1800-talets konstnärsromaner. In Dunér, D. (Eds.) Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 307-314). Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, In cooperation with The Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Norwegian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
- Cabak Rédei, A. (2011). Time and Translation. In Gary, G. (Ed.) The Semiotic Review of Books (pp. 5-8), 19.3, 2010. Department of Sociology, Lakehead University, Canada..
Project description
In order to understand what is specific to humanity, we need to consider the process, which is both biological and historical in nature, by means of which human beings were separated from other animal species. Scholars within philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science, human ecology, architecture, and the study of theatre and music have here been united under one theoretical umbrella, cognitive semiotics, having the purpose to integrate the theoretical and empirical results of both cognitive science and semiotics (the study of meaning), at the same time as it profits from ideas coming from the traditional humanities. Two hypotheses are unique to our research environment: that the peculiarity of mankind is not found in verbal language alone, but in the means of conveying meaning more generally; and that part of the specificity may were will have emerged in historical time, without any specific biological foundation. We divide research within CCS into 5 themes: (a) Evolution of cognition and semiosis ("meaning-making"), (b) Ontogenetic development of cognition and semiosis, (c) Historical development of cognition and semiosis, (d) Typology beyond language, (e) Neurosemiotics. Theoretical studies and systematic collection of empirical data will serve to connect the themes. In addition to existing infrastructure, CCS will further develop the Primate Field Station at Furuvik, and an Infant research unit.
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