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Professor, Professor Emeritus
- Cognitive Semiotics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail goran.sonessonsemiotik.luse
Phone +46 46 222 95 31
Room SOL:L608
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Professor emeritus of semiotics at Lund University, I initiated the Semiotics Seminar in 1986 and the Centre for cognitive semiotics in 2009. I created the doctorate in semiotics in 1998 which we later turned into cognitive semiotics.
I was president of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies 1992-2012, as well as Secretary General of the International Association for Visual Semiotics from 2001 and its president from 2015. I was one of the initiators of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics.
I hold a doctorate in general linguistics from Lund, and a doctorate in semiotics from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Between 1978 and 1981, I dedicated myself to the semiotics of gesture in Paris, and between 1981 and 1982, I conducted research in Mayan linguistics and semiotics in Mexico. Since my return to Lund, in 1982, I have mainly been concerned with pictorial and cultural semiotics, as well as the epistemology of (cognitive) semiotics.
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Professor, Professor Emeritus
- Cognitive Semiotics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail goran.sonessonsemiotik.luse
Phone +46 46 222 95 31
Room SOL:L608
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20