On a link from the University of Jyväskylä, Jarkko Keränen will present this exciting research using concepts and methods from cognitive semiotics, recently published in the journal Cognitive Linguistics. The presentation will be in Finnish Sign Language, and will be interpreted to English. Welcome to the room or to the zoom link, from 15:00. The presentation will start as usual at 15:15.

Based on a recent paper (Keränen 2023), I will discuss cross-modal (i.e., across sensory modalities such as smell and sound) iconicity and indexicality in lexical sensory and emotional signs in Finnish Sign Language from an articulatory perspective. With the help of cognitive semiotics, I will describe the cross-modal patterns observed across 118 signs, including 60 sensory signs and 58 emotional signs. The analysis is framed within the theoretical model of the Semiotic Hierarchy (Zlatev 2018), which entails a non-reductionist view of meaning. In addition, a pheno-methodological triangulation will be applied: phenomenology (first-person method), literature of phenomenological and semiotic descriptions (second-person perspective) and experimental findings (third-person perspective).

Keränen, Jarkko. "Cross-modal iconicity and indexicality in the production of lexical sensory and emotional signs in Finnish Sign Language" Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 34, no. 3-4, 2023, pp. 333-369. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0070