PrintPerson
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 am involved in Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) and for International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS).
Research
Research groups
Completed projects
- Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS) (research leader)
- Phenomenology and Typology of Motion (research leader)
- Phenomenology and Typology of Motion (PATOM) (research leader)
- Precursors of Sign Use in Intersubjectivity and Imitation (PSUII)
- Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (research leader)
About the research
Currently, I am involved in the following types of research: (1) bodily mimesis and mimetic schemas as bases for language evolution and development: developmental and cross-species studies; (2) phenomenology and linguistic typology of space and motion; (3) methods and concepts of cognitive semiotics: a new transdisciplinary field for the study of meaning and mind.
Publications
Editorships (6)
- Zlatev, J., Sonesson, G. & Konderak, P. (2016). (Eds.) Meaning, mind and communication : Explorations in cognitive semiotics. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Foolen, A., Lüdtke, U. M., Racine, T. P. & Zlatev, J. (2012). (Eds.) Moving ourselves, moving others : motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language. Consciousness and Emotion, 6. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Sonesson, G. & Zlatev, J. (2009). (Eds.) Anthroposemiotics vs. Biosemiotics. Cognitive Semiotics, 4. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Zlatev, J., Andrén, M., Johansson Falck, M. & Lundmark, C. (2009). (Eds.) Studies in Language and Cognition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Zlatev, J. & Sinha, C. (2008). (Eds.) The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity. Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Ziemke, T., Zlatev, J. & Frank, R. (2007). (Eds.) Body, Language and Mind. Vol 1. Embodiment. Cognitive Linguistics Research, 35. Mouton de Gruyter.
Articles (38)
- Naidu, V., Zlatev, J., van de Weijer, J., Devylder, S., Duggirala, V. & Blomberg, J. (2018). Holistic spatial semantics and post-Talmian motion event typology : A case study of Thai and Telugu. Cognitive Semiotics, 11, 1-27. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Zlatev, J. (2018). Different kinds of parsimony : association-learning versus bodily mimesis. Journal of Language Evolution, 3, 45-46.
- Zlatev, J. (2018). Meaning making from life to language: The Semiotic Hierarchy and phenomenology. Cognitive Semiotics, 11. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Clement, J., Gidlöf, K., Smith, V., Zlatev, J. & van de Weijer, J. (2017). Assessing information on food packages. European Journal of Marketing, 51, 219-237. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Pleyer, M., Hartmann, S., Winters, J. & Zlatev, J. (2017). Interaction and iconicity in the evolution of language : Introduction to the special issue. Interaction Studies, 18, 303-313. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Zlatev, J., Wacewicz, S., Zywiczynski, P. & van de Weijer, J. (2017). Multimodal-first or pantomime-first? : Communicating events through pantomime with and without vocalization. Interaction Studies, 18, 465-488. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Vastenius, A., van de Weijer, J. & Zlatev, J. (2016). The influence of native language word order and cognitive biases in pictorial event representations. Cognitive Semiotics, 9, 45-77. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Zlatev, J. (2016). Turning back to experience in Cognitive Linguistics via phenomenology. Cognitive Linguistics, 27, 559-572. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Zlatev, J. & Blomberg, J. (2016). Embodied intersubjectivity, sedimentation and non-actual motion expressions. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 39, 185-208. Cambridge University Press.
- Blomberg, J. & Zlatev, J. (2015). Non-actual motion: phenomenological analysis and linguistic evidence. Cognitive Processing, 16, 153-157. Springer.
- McCune, L. & Zlatev, J. (2015). Dynamic systems in semiotic development: The transition to reference. Cognitive Development, 36, 161-170. Elsevier.
- Zlatev, J. & Blomberg, J. (2015). Language may indeed influence thought. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. Frontiers.
- Blomberg, J. & Zlatev, J. (2014). Actual and non-actual motion: why experientialist semantics needs phenomenology (and vice versa). Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 13, 395-418. Springer.
- Smith, V., Barratt, D. & Zlatev, J. (2014). Unpacking noun-noun compounds : interpreting novel and conventional food names in isolation and on food labels. Cognitive Linguistics, 25, 99-147. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Zlatev, J. (2014). Human uniqueness, bodily mimesis and the evolution of language. Humana.Mente. Humana.Mente.
- Zlatev, J. (2014). Image schemas, mimetic schemas, and children’s gestures. Cognitive Semiotics, 7, 3-29. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Johansson, N. & Zlatev, J. (2013). Motivations for Sound Symbolism in Spatial Deixis : A Typological Study of 101 Languages. The Public Journal of Semiotics, 5.
- Zlatev, J. (2013). Образные схемы, миметические схемы и жесты детей. Voprosy Kognitivnoj Lingvistiki, 1. RALK.
- Zlatev, J. (2013). The mimesis hierarchy of semiotic development: five stages of intersubjectivity in children. The Public Journal of Semiotics, 4, 47-73.
- Zlatev, J. & Blomberg, J. (2013). Die Möglichkeit sprachlichen Einflusses auf das Denken. Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 35, 63-83. Stauffenburg Verlag, Brigitte Narr Gmbh.
- 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.
- Zlatev, J. (2012). Cognitive semiotics: an emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning. The Public Journal of Semiotics, IV, 2-24.
- Zlatev, J. (2011). From cognitive to integral linguistics and back again. Intellectica, 56, 125-147. Association pour la Recherche Cognitive.
- Zlatev, J. (2011). What is cognitive semiotics?. Semiotix: a global information bulletin, 6.
- Ahlner, F. & Zlatev, J. (2010). Cross-modal iconicity: A cognitive semiotic approach to sound symbolism. Sign Systems Studies, 38, 298-348. Tartu University Press.
- Zlatev, J., Smith, V., van de Weijer, J. & Skydsgaard, K. (2010). Noun-noun compounds for fictive food products: Experimenting in the borderzone of semantics and pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 2799-2813. Elsevier.
- Zlatev, J. (2009). Levels of meaning embodiment and communication. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 16, 149-174. Imprint Academic.
- Zlatev, J. (2009). The semiotic hierarchy: life, consciousness, signs and language. Cognitive Semiotics, 4, 169-200. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Zlatev, J. (2008). From proto-mimesis to language: Evidence from primatology and social neuroscience. Journal of Physiology - Paris, 102, 137-151. Elsevier.
- Zlatev, J. (2008). The dependence of language on consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, 34-62. Imprint Academic.
- Zlatev, J. (2008). The dialectics of consciousness and language. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, 5-14. Imprint Academic.
- Zlatev, J. (2007). Intersubjectivity, mimetic schemas and the emergence of language. Intellectica, 46-47, 123-152. Association pour la Recherche Cognitive.
- Johansson, S., Zlatev, J. & Gärdenfors, P. (2006). Why don't chimps talk and humans sing like canaries?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 287-288. Cambridge University Press.
- Zlatev, J., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Bodily mimesisas “the missing link” in human cognitive evolution. LUCS: Lund University Cognitive Studies, 121. Lund University Cognitive Studies.
- Zlatev, J., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2005). Triadic bodily mimesis is the difference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 720-720. Cambridge University Press.
- Zlatev, J. & David, C. (2003). Motion event constructions in Swedish, French and Thai : Three language types?. Manusya, Journal of Humanities, 6, 18-42.
- Zlatev, J. (2002). Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning. Evolution of Communication, 4, 253-296. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Zlatev, J. (2001). The epigenesis of meaning in human beings, and possibly in robots. Minds and Machines, 11, 155-195.
Book chapters (25)
- Zlatev, J. (2017). Embodied intersubjectivity. In Dancygier, B. (Ed.) (pp. 172-187). Cambride University Press, Cambridge.
- Zlatev, J. (2016). Mimesis : The role of bodily mimesis for the evolution of human culture and language. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Zlatev, J. (2016). Prerequisites in human embodiment for the evolution of symbolic communication. Mohr Siebeck.
- Zlatev, J. (2015). Cognitive semiotics. In Trifonas, P. P. (Ed.) (pp. 1043-1067). Springer.
- Zlatev, J. (2015). The emergence of gestures. In MacWhinney, B. & O´Grady, W. (Eds.) Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics (pp. 458-477). Wiley-Blackwell.
- Zlatev, J. (2014). Bodily Mimesis and the Transition to Speech. In Pina, M. & Gontier, N. (Eds.) (pp. 165-178), 1. Springer.
- Zlatev, J. (2014). The co-evolution of human intersubjectivity, morality and language. In Dor, D., Knight, C. & Lewis, D. (Eds.) (pp. 249-266). OUP.
- Zlatev, J. & McCune, L. (2014). Toward and integrated model of semiotic development. In Chen, R. (Ed.) (pp. 59-76). Nova Science Publishers, Inc..
- 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.) (pp. 423-450). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Zlatev, J. (2010). Phenomenology and cognitive linguistics. In Gallagher, S. (Ed.) (pp. 415-446). Springer.
- Zlatev, J., Blomberg, J. & David, C. (2010). Translocation, language and the categorization of experience. In Evans, V. (Ed.) (pp. 389-418). Equinox.
- Zlatev, J. & Andrén, M. (2009). Stages and transitions in children’s semiotic development. In Zlatev, J., Andrén, M., Lundmark, C. & Johansson, M. (Eds.) (pp. 380-401). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Zlatev, J. (2008). The coevolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis. In Zlatev, J., Racine, T., Sinha, C. & Itkonen, E. (Eds.) Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research (pp. 215-244), 12. John Benjamins.
- Zlatev, J., Brinck, I. & Andrén, M. (2008). Stages in the development of perceptual intersubjectivity. IOS Press.
- Ikegami, T. & Zlatev, J. (2007). From pre-representational cognition to language. Cognitive Linguistics Research, 35, 197-240. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Zlatev, J. (2007). Embodiment, language and mimesis. In Ziemke, T., Zlatev, J. & Franck, R. (Eds.) (pp. 297-337). Mouton de Gruyter.
- Zlatev, J. (2007). Spatial semantics. In Geeraerts, D. & Cuyckens, H. (Eds.) (pp. 318-350). Oxford.
- Zlatev, J. (2005). What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language. De Gruyter.
- Tufvesson, S., Zlatev, J. & van de Weijer, J. (2004). Idiom-entrenchment and semantic priming. In Soares da Silva, A., Torres, A. & Gonçalves, M. (Eds.) (pp. 309-334), 1. Livraria Almedina Coimbra..
- Zlatev, J. & David, C. (2004). Three ways to travel: Motion events in French, Swedish and Thai. In Soares da Silva, A., Torres, A. & Gonçalves, M. (Eds.) (pp. 119-142), 2. Livraria Almedina Coimbra..
- Zlatev, J. & Yangklang, P. (2004). A third way to travel: The place of Thai in motion event typology. In Strömqvist, S. & Verhoeven, L. (Eds.) (pp. 159-190). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Zlatev, J. (2003). Holistic spatial semantics of Thai. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Zlatev, J. (2003). Polysemy or generality? Mu. In Cuyckens, H., Dirven, R. & Taylor, J. R. (Eds.) (pp. 447-494), 23. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Zlatev, J. & Yangklang, P. (2003). The acquisition of motion event constructions in Thai. Institutionen för nordiska språk, Lunds universitet.
- Zlatev, J. (2002). Beyond cognitive determination: Interactionism in the acquisition of spatial semantics. Kluwer.
Prefaces (2)
- Zlatev, J., Sonesson, G. & Konderak, P. (2016). Introduction : Cognitive semiotics comes of age. In Sonesson, G., Konderak, P. & Zlatev, J. (Eds.) (pp. 9-28). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Zlatev, J. (2012). Motion, Emotion and Mind Science. In Foolen, A., Luedtke, U., Racine, T. & Zlatev, J. (Eds.) (pp. 1-28). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Encyclopaedia entries (2)
- Zlatev, J. (2018). Mimesis theory, Learning, and Polysemiotic Communication. Springer.
- Zlatev, J. (2006). Semantics of spatial expressions. Elsevier.
Conference contributions (8)
- Louhema, K., Zlatev, J., Graziano, M. & van de Weijer, J. (2018). Translating from unisemiotic to polysemiotic narratives : A study of Finnish speech and gestures.
- 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). World Scientific.
- Zlatev, J., Persson, T. & Gärdenfors, P. (2004). Can Mimesis Provide the Missing Link to Language?.
- Zlatev, J. & Persson, T. (2003). Can Mimesis Provide the Missing Link to Language?.
Reports (1)
Reviews (1)
Supervision at Lund University (2)
- Blomberg, J. (2014). Motion in Language and Experience : Actual and Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai. Travaux de l'Institut de Linguistique de Lund, 53. The Faculties of Humanities and Theology. Dissertation.
- Andrén, M. (2010). Children's Gestures from 18 to 30 Months. Travaux de l'Institut de Linguistique de Lund, 50. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. Dissertation.
Research portal (Lund University)
Administrative
Tasks
- Manager of Research and Research Education at Cognitive Semiotics
Teaching
Print Apr. 19, 2019 of https://www.sol.lu.se/en/the-department/staff/person/JordanZlatev/
