Person
goran.sonessonsemiotik.luse |
2021-01-26
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.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (European Commission)
- Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (RJ) (research leader)
- Precursors of Sign Use in Intersubjectivity and Imitation (PSUII) (research leader)
- The Making of Them and Us (MaTUS) (research leader)
- The Making of Them and Us (MaTUs) Cultural encounters conveyed through pictorial narrative (research leader)
Books (4)
- Sonesson, G. (1992). Bildbetydelser. Inledning till bildsemiotiken som vetenskap. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Sonesson, G. (1989). Pictorial concepts. Inquiries into the semiotic heritage and its relevance for the analysis of the visual world. ARIS Nova Series. Lund University Press.
- Sonesson, G. (1978). Tecken och handling. Från språkhandlingen till handlingens språk. Doxa. Dissertation.
- Sonesson, G. (1978). Une machine a signifier : Essai sur la sémiologie de l'acte et la grammaire de l'énonciation. Dissertation.
Editorships (5)
- Sonesson, G., Lenninger, S. & Rédei, A. C. (2020). (Eds.) Special Issue : The Making of Them and Us - Cultural encounters conveyed also through pictorial means. Semiotica, 2020. De Gruyter.
- Dunér, D. & Sonesson, G. (2016). (Eds.) Human Lifeworlds : The cognitive semiotics of cultural evolution. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Zlatev, J., Sonesson, G. & Konderak, P. (2016). (Eds.) Meaning, mind and communication : Explorations in cognitive semiotics. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sonesson, G. & Dondero, M. G. (2010). (Eds.) Le Groupe μ. Quarante ans de rhétorique – Trente-trois ans de sémiotique visuelle Sous la direction de Maria Giulia Dondero et Göran Sonesson. Nouveaux actes sémiotiques.
- Sonesson, G. & Zlatev, J. (2009). (Eds.) Anthroposemiotics vs. Biosemiotics. Cognitive Semiotics, 4. De Gruyter.
Articles (87)
- Sonesson, G. (accepted/in press). On the feasibility of pictorial statements : Prolegomena to a computer-aided approach to pictorial semiotics. Signata: Annals of Semiotics. Presses Universitaires de Liège.
- Sonesson, G. (2022). Dancing all the way to the stage by way of the stadium : on the iconicity and plasticity of actions. Semiotica, 2022, 321-349. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2022). The Secrets of Plastic Language Revealed : Multimodality, Polysemiosis, and Iconicity. Art Style. Art and Culture International Magazine, 10, 49-68.
- Sonesson, G. H. (2022). The Phenomenology of Semiosis : Approaches to the Gap between the Encyclopaedia and the Porphyrian Tree Spanned by Sedimentation. Philosophies, 7. MDPI AG.
- Mendoza-Collazos, J. C. & Sonesson, G. (2021). Revisiting the life of things : A cognitive semiotic study of the agency of artefacts in Amazonia. The Public Journal of Semiotics, 9, 30-52. Open Semiotics Resource Center.
- Sonesson, G. (2021). Approximations to the Genuine Dialectics of the Enlightenment : On Husserl’s Europe, “Social Justice Theory”, and the Ethics of Semiosis. Language and Semiotic Studies, 7, 6-31.
- Sonesson, G. (2021). Nothing human is foreign to me - except some of it : From the semiotic tradition to cognitive semiotic by the way of phenomenology. Degrés, 1-23. Degrés, Bruxelles.
- Lenninger, S., Persson, T., van de Weijer, J. & Sonesson, G. (2020). Mirror, peephole and video - The role of contiguity in children's perception of reference in iconic signs. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Sonesson, G. (2020). Translation as culture : The example of pictorial-verbal transposition in Sahagún's primeros memoriales and codex florentino. Semiotica, 2020, 5-39. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2020). What Is Social and What Is Mediated in “Social Media”? : Further Considerations on the Cognitive Semiotics of Lifeworld Mediations. International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric, 4. IGI Global.
- Sonesson, G., Lenninger, S. & Rédei, A. C. (2020). Introduction : The Making of Them and Us - Cultural encounters conveyed also through pictorial means. Semiotica, 2020, 1-4. De Gruyter.
- Bundgaard, P. & Sonesson, G. (2019). The rhetoric of contemporary metaphor theory. Cognitive Semiotics, 12. De Gruyter.
- Reyes, E. & Sonesson, G. (2019). New approaches to plastic language : Prolegomena to a computer-aided approach to pictorial semiotics. Semiotica, 71-95. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). Elements of Peircean phenomenology : From categories to signs by way of grounds. Semiotica, 2019, 259-285. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). La traducción como acto doble de comunicación. Entre semiótica cognoscitiva y semiótica de la cultura. : Parte II: De la traducción a la transposición91-106. Interpretatio. Revista de Hermenéutica, 4, 91-106.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). On Mimicry, Signs and Other Meaning-Making Acts. : Further Studies in Iconicity. Biosemiotics, 12, 99-114. Springer.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). Semiosis in History : The Emergence of Alter-Culture. Filozofia i nauka/Philosophy and science, 7, 13-34.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). The Psammetichus Syndrome and Beyond : Five Experimental Approaches to Meaning-Making. American Journal of Semiotics, 35, 11-32. Philosophy Documentation Center.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). The publication of memory – from the Via crucis to the terrorist memorial. Punctum, 5, 11-28. Hellenic Semiotic Society.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). Three visits to the earthly city of the Enlightenment philosophers. Lychnos: Lärdomshistoriska samfundets årsbok, 2019, 247-255. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). Two models of metaphoricity and three dilemmas of metaphor research. Cognitive Semiotics, 12. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2018). La traducción como acto doble de comunicación : Entre semiótica cognoscitiva y semiótica de la cultura. Parte I: De la comunicación a la traducción. Interpretatio. Revista de Hermenéutica, 3, 159-187.
- Sonesson, G. (2018). Meaning redefined : Reflections on the scholastic heritage conveyed by john deely to contemporary semiotics. American Journal of Semiotics, 34, 65-86. Philosophy Documentation Center.
- Sonesson, G. (2018). No more faith in fakes : A natural history of counterfeiting. Versus, 127, 259-274. Societa Editrice Il Mulino.
- Sonesson, G. (2017). Beyond the "Tragedy of culture" : In-between epistemology and communication. American Journal of Semiotics, 33, 141-180. Philosophy Documentation Center.
- Sonesson, G. (2017). Greimasean phenomenology and beyond : From isotopy to time consciousness. Semiotica, 2017, 93-113. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2017). Preliminaries to a Taxonomy of Intersemiosis. Punctum, 3, 119-131. Hellenic Semiotic Society.
- Sonesson, G. (2017). Suède : Semiotics in Sweden 2015-2016. Signata: Annals of Semiotics. Presses Universitaires de Liège.
- Sonesson, G. (2016). 'Curiouser and Curiouser', said Ellen (or was it Viktor?) : Art in-between Modernism and Prehistory. Punctum, 2, 69-89. Hellenic Semiotic Society.
- Sonesson, G. (2016). Epistemological Prolegomena to the Cognitive Semiotics of Evolution and Development. Language and Semiotic Studies, 2, 46-99.
- Sonesson, G. (2016). The phenomenological semiotics of iconicity and pictoriality - including some replies to my critics. Language and Semiotic Studies, 2, 1-73.
- Lenninger, S., Sinha, C. & Sonesson, G. (2015). Special Section: Semiotics and Cognition in Human Development Introduction. Cognitive Development, 36, 127-129. Elsevier.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). Bats out of the belfry : The nature of metaphor, with special attention to pictorial metaphors. Signs and media, 11, 74-104. Brill.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). From Remembering to Memory by Way of Culture : A Study in Cognitive Semiotics. Southern Semiotic Review, 5, 25-52. Playscript.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). Phenomenology meets Semiotics : Two Not So Very Strange Bedfellows at the End of their Cinderella Sleep. Metodo, 3, 41-62. Svdig Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). Signs and Gestalten : From Visual Thinking to Pictorial Concepts. Gestalt Theory, 37, 257-272.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). The elusory kingdoms of the mind : Glosses on José Luis Caivano's paper. Cognitive Semiotics, 8, 141-153. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). The mirror in-between picture and mind : A phenomenologically inspired approach to cognitive semiotics. Chinese Semiotic Studies, 11, 159-180. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. & Lenninger, S. (2015). The psychological development of semiotic competence : from the window to the movie by way of the mirror. Cognitive Psychology, 36, 191-201. Elsevier.
- Sonesson, G. (2014). Translation and other acts of meaning : In between cognitive semiotics and semiotics of culture. Cognitive Semiotics, 7, 249-280. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G., Hribar, A. & Call, J. (2014). From sign to action : studies in chimpanzee pictorial competence. : Studies in chimpanzee pictorial competence. Semiotica, 198, 205-240. De Gruyter.
- Madsen, E., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., Lenninger, S. & Sonesson, G. (2013). Chimpanzees show a developmental increase in susceptibility to contagious yawning: A test of the effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on yawn contagion. PLoS ONE, 8. Public Library of Science (PLoS).
- Sonesson, G. (2013). Aspects of ‘physiognomic depiction’ in pictures : from macchia to microgenesis. Culture & Psychology, 19, 533-547. SAGE Publications.
- Sonesson, G. (2013). New rules for the spaces of urbanity. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 10.1007. Springer.
- Sonesson, G. (2013). Spaces of urbanity revisited : from the boulevard to the mobile phone network. Degrés, 41, 1-16. Degrés, Bruxelles.
- Sonesson, G. (2013). The natural history of branching : approaches to the phenomenology of firstness, secondness, and thirdness. Signs and Society, 1, 297-326. University of Chicago Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2013). Two strands of rhetoric in advertising discourse. International Journal of Marketing Semiotics, 1, 6-24. University of Kassel.
- Zlatev, J., Madsen, E., Lenninger, S., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., van de Weijer, J. & Sonesson, G. (2013). Understanding communicative intentions and semiotic vehicles by children and chimpanzees. Cognitive Development, 28, 312-329. Elsevier.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). The foundation of cognitive semiotics in the phenomenology of signs and meanings. Intellectica, 58, 207-239. Association pour la Recherche Cognitive.
- 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.
- Sonesson, G. (2011). Semiotics inside-out and/or outside-in : how to understand everything and (with luck) influence people. Signata: Annals of Semiotics, 315-348. Presses Universitaires de Liège.
- Sonesson, G. (2011). Semiotics of Art, Life, and Thought: three scenarios for (Post)Modernity. Semiotica, 183, 219-241. 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, 167-182. Aracne Editrice.
- Sonesson, G. (2010). Bildens yta och djup. Grunder för en bildsemiotik. Signs: International Journal of Semiotics, 1, 115-162. Copenhagen University.
- Sonesson, G. (2010). From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: reflections on a general theory of iconicity. Sign Systems Studies, 38, 18-66. Tartu University Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2010). Semiosis and the elusive final interpretant of understanding. Semiotica, 179, 145-258. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2009). Au-délà du language de la dance: Les significations du corps. Degrés, 1-25. Degrés, Bruxelles.
- Sonesson, G. (2009). Au-delà du langage de la danse : Les significations du corps. Quelques considérations au sujet d'une sémiotique de la danse. Degres, 139-140, 1-25. Degrés, Bruxelles.
- Sonesson, G. (2009). New considerations on the proper study of Man - And, marginally, some other animals. Cognitive Semiotics, 4, 133-168. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2009). New considerations on the proper study of man – and, marginally, some other animals. Cognitive Semiotics, Spring 2009, 133-168. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2009). The view from Husserl’s lectern : considerations on the role of phenomenology in cognitive semiotics. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 16, 107-148. Imprint Academic.
- Sonesson, G. (2008). Beyond methods and models. Semiotics as a distinctive discipline and an intellectual tradition. Signs. University of Chicago Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2008). Current issues in pictorial semiotics. Lecture five: the last dilution of the panzani soup. Going beyond the Barthesian heritage. Semiotics Institute Online, october.
- Sonesson, G. (2008). On the monitor, darkly : from mediation to media by way of reality. Spiel. Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft, 2006, 73-88. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sonesson, G. (2006). The meaning of meaning in biology and cognitive science. A semiotic reconstruction. Trudy po znakyvym sistemam — Sign Systems Studies, 34, 135-214. Tartu University Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2005). Current issues in pictorial semiotics. Lecture two: The Psychology and Archaeology of Semiosis. Preprint without journal information. Manne Siegbahn Institute.
- Sonesson, G. (2005). De la métaphore à l’allégorie dans la sémiotique écologique. Protée, 33, 77-92. Université de Chicoutimi, Quebec.
- Sonesson, G. (2005). El Ego conoce al Alter. El significado de la otredad en la semiótica cultural. Potlatch. Revista de antropología y de semiótica, 2, 2005., 67-87. Underground Nerds Editora.
- Sonesson, G. (2005). La semiosfera y el domino de la alteridad. Entretextos: Revista Electronica Semestral de Estudios Semióticos de la Cultura. Manuel Cáceres Sánchez Universidad de Granada.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). Espacios de urbanidad. De la plaza aldeana al bulevar. Potlatch. Revista de antropología y de semiótica., 1.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). Les images de la main et les images de la machine. Degrés, 118, 1-30. Degrés, Bruxelles.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). Retour sur la matière du sens à l’ére de la production digitale. Visio, 9, 215-234. Association internationale de sémiotique visuelle.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). The Globalisation of Ego and Alter. An essay in Cultural Semiotics. Semiotica, 148, 153-173. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2003). La fotografía – entre el dibujo y la virtualidad. Significação, 20, 81-132. Anna Blume editora, São Paulo.
- Sonesson, G. (2003). La iconicidad en un marco ecológico. DeSignis, 4, 45-60. Universidad del Rosario.
- Sonesson, G. (2003). On metaphors in images. Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 25, 25-37. Stauffenburg Verlag.
- Sonesson, G. (2003). Uber die Möglichkeit von bildhaften Metaphern. Zeitschrift für Semiotik: Metaphern in Bild und Film, Gestik, Theater und Musik, 5, 25-38. Stauffenburg Verlag.
- Sonesson, G. (2002). Au délà du montage, la rhétorique du cinéma. Visio, 7, 155-170. Association internationale de sémiotique visuelle.
- Sonesson, G. (2002). Dos modelos de la globalización. Criterion, 33, 107-134. Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba..
- Sonesson, G. (2002). The act of interpretation. A view form semiotics. Galáxia, 67-99. PUC.SP.
- Sonesson, G. (2002). The Life of Culture – and other Signs – in Nature – and Vice-Versa. Athanor, 8, 93-106. Meltemi editore, Roma.
- Sonesson, G. (2001). The pencils of nature and culture : New light on - and in - the Lifeworld. Semiotica, 136, 27-53. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2000). Ego meets Alter : The meaning of otherness in cultural semiotics. Semiotica, 128, 537-560. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (1996). An essay concerning images : From rhetoric to semiotics by way of ecologićal physics. Semiotica, 109, 41-140. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (1994). Pictorial semiotics, Gestalt theory, and the ecology of perception. Semiotica, 99, 319-440. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (1994). Prolegomena to the semiotic analysis of prehistoric visual displays. Semiotica, 100, 267-332. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (1992). In search of the Swedish model in semiotics : Considerations on a body of literature in the process of constitution. Semiotica, 90, 31-124. De Gruyter.
Book chapters (57)
- Sonesson, G. (2023). The Cognitive Semiotics of Pictorial Evolution and Development. In Rezaei, N. (Ed.) Integrated Science, Integrated Education and Learning (pp. 17-36). Springer Cham.
- Lenninger, S. & Sonesson, G. (2022). Semiotics in Picture and Image Studies. In Pelkey, J. (Ed.) Bloomsbury semiotics, Bloomsbury semiotics Volume 3 : Semiotics in the arts and social sciences (pp. 149-168). Bloomsbury Academic.
- Sonesson, G. (2022). Cognitive Science and Semiotics. In Pelkey, J. (Ed.) Bloomsbury semiotics, Bloomsbury semiotics Volume 4 : Semiotic movements (pp. 293-312). Bloomsbury Academic.
- Sonesson, G. (2022). Iconicity and Semiosis. In Pelkey, J. (Ed.) Bloomsbury semiotics, Bloomsbury semiotics Volume 1 : History and semiosis (pp. 193-214). Bloomsbury Academic.
- Sonesson, G. (2022). On The Borders of Metaphorology : Creativity beyond and ahead of Metaphors. In Faur, E., Feurdean, D. & Pop, I. (Eds.) LA IZVOARELE IMAGINAŢIEI CREATOARE : Studii si evocări în onoarea profesorului MIRCEA BORCILĂ (pp. 247-276). Argonaut & Eikon.
- Sonesson, G. (2022). The intricate dialectics of iconization and structuration. In Lenninger, S., Fischer, O., Ljungberg, C. & Tabakowska, E. (Eds.) Iconicity in Language and Literature, Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems (pp. 11-26), 18. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Mendoza-Collazos, J., Zlatev, J. & Sonesson, G. (2021). The Origins and Evolution of Design : A Stage-Based Model. In Pagni, E. & Theisen Simanke, R. (Eds.) Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, Biosemiotics and Evolution : The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism (pp. 161-173), 6. Springer Nature.
- Sonesson, G. (2021). Considerations on the subtle art of integrating linguistics (and/or semiotics). In Willems, K. & Munteanu, C. (Eds.) Eugenio Coseriu : Past, Present and Future (pp. 151-164). De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2021). The relevance of the encyclopaedia : From semiosis to sedimentation and back again. In Drăgan, N.-S. (Eds.) Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC], Differences, Similarities and Meanings : Semiotic Investigations of Contemporary Communication Phenomena (pp. 97-120), 30. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2020). Homo Pictor Redux : The Cognitive Semiotics of Temporally and/or Spatially Distant Objects. In Bracker, J. (Ed.) Freiburger Studien zur Archäologie und visuellen Kultur, Homo Pictor : Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue (pp. 173-194), 2. Propylaeum.
- Sonesson, G. (2020). That there is More to the Medium than the Message : Further Considerations on the Cognitive Semiotics of Lifeworld Mediations. In Grabbe, L., Rupert-Kruse, P. & Schmitz, N. (Eds.) Bildgestalten : Topographien medialer Visualität (pp. 39-56). Büchner-Verlag eG.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). La sémiotique cognitive : le même et l’autre de la sémiotique structurale. In Biglari, A. & Roelens, N. (Eds.) La Sémiotique et son autre (pp. 147-160). L'Harmattan.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). Pour une rhétorique des lieux de mémoire : Approches sémiotiques. In Beyaert-Geslin, A., Chatenet, L. & Okala, F. (Eds.) Monuments, (de)monumentalisation : Approches sémiotiques (pp. 37-54). PULIM.
- Sonesson, G. (2019). The evolution of thinking : Cognitive semiotics in between deep history and the history of mentalities. In Dunér, D. & Ahlberger, C. (Eds.) Cognitive History : Mind, Space, and Time (pp. 35-72). De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2018). New Reflections on the Problem(s) of Relevance. In Strassheim, J. & Nasu, H. (Eds.) Relevance and Irrelevance : Theories, Factors and Challenges (pp. 21-50). De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2017). Images on the Move - and Others that Stay Put : The Cognitive Semiotics of Lifeworld Mediations. In Grabbe, L., Rupert-Kruse, P. & Schmitz, N. M. (Eds.) Bildverstehen : Spielarten und Ausprägungen der Verarbeitung multimodaler Bildmedien (pp. 62-92). Büchner-Verlag eG.
- Sonesson, G. (2017). Mastering phenomenological semiotics with Husserl and Peirce. In Bankov, K. & Cobley, P. (Eds.) Semiotics, Communication and Cognition, Semiotics and its masters : Volume 1 (pp. 83-102), 18. De Gruyter.
- Dunér, D. & Sonesson, G. (2016). Encounters : The discovery of the unknown. Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution, 267-300. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sandin, G. & Sonesson, G. (2016). Urbanity: The City as the Specifically Human Niche. In Dunér, D. & Sonesson, G. (Eds.) Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution (pp. 191-228). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sonesson, G. (2016). Cultural evolution : Human History as the continuation of evolution by (partially) other means. Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution, 301-335. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sonesson, G. (2016). Lifeworlds : The cognitive semiotics of culture. Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution, 23-62. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sonesson, G. (2016). Thirdness as the observer observed : From habit to law by way of Habitus. In West, D. E. & Anderson, M. (Eds.) Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (pp. 283-295), 31. Springer International Publishing.
- Sonesson, G. & Dunér, D. (2016). The cognitive semiotics of cultural evolution. Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution, 7-21. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). Le jeu de la valeur et du sens. In Biglari, A. (Ed.) Valeur. Aux fondements de la sémiotique (pp. 85-100). L'Harmattan.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). Semiotics of photography : The state of the art. In Trifonas, P. (Ed.) International Handbook of Semiotics (pp. 417-483). Springer.
- Sonesson, G. (2014). Some issues in the semiotics of gesture : The perspective of comparative semiotics. Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK), Body - language - communication : An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Communication, 38, 1989-1999. De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2014). The cognitive semiotics of the picture sign. In Machin, D. (Ed.) Visual Communication (pp. 23-50). De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2013). Divagations on alterity. In Petrilli, S. (Ed.) Writing, voice, text: festschrift for Augusto Ponzio. (pp. 137-242).
- Sonesson, G. (2013). La imagen dentro de la evolución semiótica. Colección Latinoamericana de Semiótica, Semióticas de la imagen, 10, 13-27. Universidad de Zulia.
- Sonesson, G. (2013). Preparations for discussing constructivism with a Martian (the second coming). In Dunér, D. (Eds.) The history and philosophy of astrobiology : perspectives on the human mind and extraterrestrial Life. David Dunér, ed., 185-200. : Newcastle upon Tyne. (pp. 185-200). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Sonesson, G. (2013). The picture between mirror and mind : from phenomenology to empirical studies in pictorial semiotics. In Sachs-Hombach, K. & Jörg, S. (Eds.) Origins of pictures : anthropological discourses in image science, Acts of the conference in Chemnitz, March 30 - April 1, 2011 (pp. 270-311). Halem Verlag.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). Anthroposemiotics. In Favareau, D., Cobley, P. & Kull, K. (Eds.) A more developed sign : interpreting the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer (pp. 25-28), 10. Tartu University Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2012). Between homeworld and alienworld : a primer of cultural semiotics. In Hess-Lüttich, E. W. (Eds.) Sign Culture = Zeichen Kultur (pp. 315-328). Verlag 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.
- 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). Iconicity strikes back : the third generation — or why Eco still is wrong. In Michel, C. (Ed.) La sémiotique visuelle: nouveaux paradigmes. (pp. 247-270). L'Harmattan.
- Sonesson, G. (2010). Pictorial semiotics. In Sebeok, T. A. & Danesi, M. (Eds.) Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2010). Rhetoric from the standpoint of the Lifeworld. In Sonesson, G. & Dondero, M. G. (Eds.) "Le Groupe Mu. Quarante ans de recherche collective". Nouveaux actes sémiotiques.
- Sonesson, G. (2009). Göran Sonesson. In Bundgaard, P. & Stjernfelt, F. (Eds.) Signs and meaning. 5 questions. (pp. 207-218). Automatic Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2009). Here comes the semiotic species : reflections on the semiotic turn in the cognitive sciences. In Wagoner, B. (Ed.) Symbolic transformations : the mind in movement through culture and society. (pp. 38-58). Routledge.
- Sonesson, G. (2008). From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning : A study in phenomenological selDiotics. In Zienke, T., Zlatev, J. & Frank, R. M. (Eds.) Cognitive Linguistics Research, Body, Language and Mind : Volume 1: Embodiment (pp. 85-128), 35.1. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2008). La rhétorique de la perception. Recherche de méthode. In Sémir, B. & Jean-Marie, K. (Eds.) Figures de la figure (pp. 103-132). PULIM.
- Sonesson, G. (2008). Prologomena to a general theory of iconicity : considerations on language, gesture, and pictures. In Willems, K. & De Cuypere, L. (Eds.) Naturalness and Iconicity in Language. Willems, Klaus, & De Cuypere, Ludovic, eds. 47-72. (pp. 47-72). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). Den allra nyaste Laokoon. Lessing i ljuset av modern semiotik. In Sonesson, G. H. & Rossholm, G. (Eds.) Konstverk och konstverkan. Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning. In Jordan, Z., Tom, Z. & R, F. (Eds.) Body, Language and Mind. Vol 1. Embodiment (pp. 85-128), I. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). The extensions of man revisited: From primary to tertiary embodiment. In Krois, J. M., Rosengren, M., Steidele, A. & Westerkamp, D. (Eds.) Embodiment in Cognition and Culture (pp. 27-56). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Sonesson, G. (2005). La semiótica de imágenes — de la reproducción mecánica a la producción digital. In Espinoza, P. (Ed.) Semiótica de los Mass-media: Discurso de la comunicación visual.. Monterrey, México: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León..
- Sonesson, G. (2005). Semiotiska perspektiv på perspektiv. In Hellberg, S. & Rossholm, G. (Eds.) Att anlägga perspektiv, 225-247. Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). Bildflödet i den levda världen. In Nikula, K., Alanen, K. & Lönnroth, H. (Eds.) Text, bild, samhälle. TAJU, Tammerfors.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). La signification de l’espace dans la sémiotique écologique. In Sobieszczanski, M. & Lacroix, C. (Eds.) Spatialisation en art et sciences humaines. Peeters Publishers.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). Perspective from a semiotical perspective. In Rossholm, G. (Ed.) Essays on fiction and perspective. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). Rhétorique du monde de la vie. In Henault, A. & Beyaert, A. (Eds.) Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle. PUF, Paris.
- Sonesson, G. (2003). Resurserna i bildens och språkets semiotik. Från Lessing to Kress & van Leeuwen. In Lönnroth, H. (Eds.) Från Närpesdialekt till EU-svenska. Festskrift till Kristina Nikula. Tampere Univesity Press.
- Sonesson, G. (2003). Spaces of urbanity. From the village square to the boulevard. In Sarapik, V. & Tüür, K. (Eds.) Place and location III: The city — topias and reflection. Estonian Academy of Arts.
- Sonesson, G. (2003). Three scenarios for globalisation. A view from cultural semiotics. In Petrilli, S. & Calefato, P. (Eds.) Logica, dialogica, ideologica. I segni tra funzionalità ed eccedenza. Mimesis Edizioni.
- Sonesson, G. (1997). The multimediation of the lifeworld. In Nöth, W. (Eds.) Semiotics of the Media : State of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives (pp. 61-77). De Gruyter.
- Sonesson, G. (1994). On pictorality : The impact of the perceptual model in the development of pictorial semiotics. In Sebeok, T. A. & Umiker-Sebeok, J. (Eds.) Approaches to Semiotics, Advances in Visual Semiotics : The Semiotic Web 1992-93 (pp. 67-105). De Gruyter.
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Conference contributions (24)
- Sonesson, G. (accepted/in press). Pour une rhétorique des lieux de mémoire. Monuments, (dé)monumentalisation : approches sémiotiques. Presses universitaires de Limoges.
- Sonesson, G. (accepted/in press). Necker’s Cube, Rubin’s Vase, the Devil’s Turning Fork, the Duck/Rabbit and the Cat/Coffee Pot Revisited. : On Pseudo-Dilemmas of the Lifeworld and the Picture. Proceedings of 10th Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Buenos Aires, September 4 to 8, 2012.
- Sonesson, G. (2018). “The greatest story ever told” : Semiosis emerging from mimesis and/or narrativity. In Cuskley, C., Little, H., Ravignani, A., Flaherty, M., McCrohon, L. & Verhoef, T. (Eds.) The evolution of language : Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang 12) (pp. 478-488). Evolang 12 Organizing Committee.
- Sonesson, G. (2017). The rhetorical act in-between translation and seduction. In Zantides, E. (Ed.) Semiotics of Visual Communication II: Culture of Seduction (pp. 32-53). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Sonesson, G. (2016). The Eternal Return of the New : From Cultural Semiotics to Evolutionary Theory and Back Again. In Deltsou, E. & Papadopoulou, M. (Eds.) Changing Worlds & Signs of the Times. Selected Proceedings from the 10th International Conference of the Hellenic Semiotics Society (pp. 68-87). The Hellenic Semiotics Society.
- Sonesson, G. (2014). Translation as a double act of communication : A perspective from the semiotics of culture. In Wang, Y. & Ji, H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th World Congress of Semiotics of the IASS in Nanjing, October 5-9, 2012, vol. 3 : Our World: a Kaleidoscopic Semiotic Network (pp. 83-101). Hohai University Press.
- Sonesson, G., Lenninger, S., Persson, T. & van de Weijer, J. (2013). The mirror image, the video clip, and the real world.
- 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. M. (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. M. (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.
- Zlatev, J., Lenninger, S., Madsen, E., Persson, T., Sayehli, S. & Sonesson, G. (2012). Understanding Communicative Signs by Children and Chimpanzees.
- Madsen, E., Zlatev, J., Persson, T., Lenninger, S., Sayehli, S. & Sonesson, G. (2011). A Developmental Increase in Susceptibility to Contagious Yawning in Chimpanzees: An Expression of Empathy?.
- Zlatev, J., Lenninger, S., Sayehli, S., Madsen, E., Sonesson, G. & Persson, T. (2011). Understanding Communicative Signs by Children and Chimpanzees.
- Zlatev, J., Sonesson, G., Persson, T., Lenninger, S., Sayehli, S. & Madsen, E. (2011). Intersubjectivity and Sign Use in Children and Chimpanzees.
- Zlatev, J., Donald, M. & Sonesson, G. (2010). From body to mouth (and body). Evolution Of Language, Proceedings, 527-528. World Scientific Publishing.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). A semiosfera e o domínio da alteridade. In Machado, I. (Ed.) Semiótica da cultura e semiosfera (pp. 81-95). São Paulo: Annablume.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). How visual is visual culture. In Üstünipek, M. (Ed.) Semio Istanbul 2007. VIIIth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Istanbul, May 29 - June 2, 2007, Volume I. (pp. 111-122), Volume I. Istanbul Kültur University.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). Preparations for discussing constructivism with a Martian.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). The place of the picture in the development of human beings.
- Sonesson, G. (2007). THE PRONOMINALISATION OF CULTURE. DYADIC AND TRIADIC MODELS OF INTERCULTURALITY.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). Does Ego meet Alter — in the Global Village? A View from Cultural Semiotics. Cultural identity in transition/Identitate culturalã în transitie, Proceedings of the 1st Semotics of Culture conference, Univesitatea din Bacâu, Romania, November 1 - 4, 2001, 95-119. Universitatee Bacãu, Romania.
- Sonesson, G. (2004). El grado uno bajo cero de la retórica. La imagen como memoria y transformación. Ver y Saber/Voir et savoir.. Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus de la Cuidad de Mexico..
- Sonesson, G. (2003). Why the mirror is a sign — and why the television picture is no mirror. Two episodes in the critique of the iconicity critique. Proceedings of the 5th International Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Austrian Society for Semiotic Studies "Picture Language - Visualization – Diagrammatics: Iconicity/Das 5. Wiener Symposium 'Bildsprache - Visualisierung - Diagrammatik: Ikonizität, 15, 217-232. Institute for Soci-Semiotic Studies, Vienna.
- Sonesson, G. (2002). Beyond indexicality in the semiotics of photography. In Seyide, P., Konca, Y. & Nilifür, Y. (Eds.) Acts of the colloquium Analytical approaches to visual communication (pp. 7-66). Ege University, Izmir.
- Sonesson, G. (1999). Global and local constraints in picture production. Sign Processes in Complex Systems. Proceedings of the 7th Internationall Congress of the IASS..
Reports (2)
- Sonesson, G. (2019). 认知符号学 : 自然、文化与意义的现象学路径. Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing PRC.
- Sonesson, G. (2015). Kognitiv semiotik : Slutrapport från ett forskningsprogram. RJ:s skriftserie. Riksbankens jubileumsfond.
Working papers (7)
- Sonesson, G. (2006). Current issues in pictorial semiotics. Lecture four: On Semiotic Ecology. Indexicality and Structure in Pictures and the Perceptual World. Semiotics Institute Online.
- Sonesson, G. (2006). Current issues in pictorial semiotics. Lecture one: The Quadrature of the Hermeneutic Circle. Semiotics Institute Online.
- Sonesson, G. (2006). Current issues in pictorial semiotics. Lecture three: From the Critique of the Iconicity Critique to Pictorality. Semiotics Institute Online.
- Sonesson, G. (2006). Current issues in pictorial semiotics. Lecture two: The Psychology and Archaeology of Semiosis. Semiotics Institute Online.
- Sonesson, G. (1989). Semiotics of photography - On tracing the index.
- Sonesson, G. (1988). Methods and models in pictorial semiotics.
- Sonesson, G. (1987). Bildbetydelser i informationssamhället några preciseringar till grundbegreppen.
Reviews (2)
- Sonesson, G. (2019). Rationality and rights : Second approximation to the true dialectics of the Enlightenment. Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2019, 301-306. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Sonesson, G. (2014). Still Do Not Block the Line of Inquiry : On the Peircean Way to Cognitive Semiotics. Cognitive Semiotics, 7, 281-296. De Gruyter.
Supervision at Lund University (4)
- Mendoza-Collazos, J. (2022). Agency and Artefacts : A cognitive semiotic exploration of design. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Widoff, A. (2018). Hermeneutik och grammatik : Fenomenologiska undersökningar av språket som tal och teknik. Dissertation.
- Lenninger, S. (2012). When Similarity Qualifies as a Sign : A Study in Picture Understanding and Semiotic Development in Young Children. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Cabak Rédei, A. (2007). An Inquiry into Cultural Semiotics: Germaine de Staël's Autobiographical Travel Accounts. Lund University Div. of Semiotics Department of Art History and Musicology Box 117 SE-221 00 LUND. Dissertation.
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