The editorial board is pleased to announce the official publication of Vol. 4 No. 1 on 15 August 2012, on the theme of The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment. The issue is available for download below, either in whole or by individual paper. Many thanks to the guest editors: Riccardo Fusaroli,  Paolo Demuru, and Anna Borghi; and to the contributors: Colwyn Trevarthen,  Patrizia Violi, Michael Kimmel, Maurizio Gentilucci, Claudia Gianelli, Giovanna Cristina Campione, Francesca Ferri, Mats Andren, Liesbet Quaeghebeur, Paul Sambre, Leon de Bruin, and Sanneke de Haan.

The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment (complete volume)

Introduction: The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment / Fusaroli, Demuru & Borghi

Embodied Human Intersubjectivity: Imaginative Agency, To Share Meaning / Trevarthen

How Our Bodies Become Us: Embodiment, Semiosis, and Intersubjectivity /Violi

Intersubjectivity at Close Quarters: How Dancers of Tango Argentino Use Imagery for Interaction and Improvisation / Kimmel

Intersubjectivity and Embodied Communication Systems / Gentilucci, Gianelli, Campione & Ferri

The Social World Within Reach: Intersubjective Manifestations of Action Completion/ Andren

The ‘All-at-Onceness’ of Embodied, Face-to-Face Interaction / Quaeghebeur

Fleshing Out Language and Intersubjectivity: An Exploration of Merleau-Ponty’s Legacy to Cognitive Linguistics / Sambre

Enactivism and Social Cognition: In Search of the Whole Story / de Bruin & de Haan

 

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Issue #6: Tropes & Schemes

While we are all waiting on the next issue of the re-launched Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, here, then, is the final issue of the earlier version of the journal, available from the Peter Lang website.

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The Journal of Cognitive Semiotics proudly announces the members of its new editorial board:

• Peer Bundgaard, Centre for Semiotics, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Merlin Donald, professor emeritus, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
• Bruno Galantucci, Laboratory of Experimental Semiotics, Yeshiva University, New York City, USA
• Todd Oakley, professor and chair of cognitive science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Göran Sonesson, Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, University of Lund, Sweden

Peer Bundgaard is associate professor at the Center for Semiotics. His work divides into two major domains. First is the semiotics of aesthetic cognition: that is to say, the nature of aesthetic cognition in relation to plain cognition; second, the crossovers between phenomenology and cognitive semantics. In both domains, his focus is on the ontological and psychological constraints on human meaning making.

Merlin Donald is professor emeritus in the department of psychology and faculty of education at Queen’s University.  A cognitive neuroscientist with a background in philosophy, he is the author of numerous scientific papers and two influential books: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition and A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness.

Bruno Galantucci is associate professor in psychology at Yeshiva University, where he directs the Experimental Semiotics Laboratory. He is a research affiliate at Haskins Laboratories, where he has conducted research on the psychology of language — including speech perception, word recognition, and sentence processing. In recent years, he has focused on studying experimentally how humans establish and develop novel forms of communication, contributing to the foundation of Experimental Semiotics.

Todd Oakley is professor and chair of cognitive science. His areas of specialization include cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and rhetoric. Together, they provide the framework and methods for tracing the micro-cognitive and phenomenological bases of attention as they make their presence felt in the higher-order activities of social awareness, discourse, and persuasion. Human minds are “rhetoric machines.”

Göran Sonesson is professor of semiotics at Lund University, where he has directed the semiotics seminar since 1986. He is the head of the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics and the initiator of the doctoral program in semiotics. He was the first president of the Swedish Society for Semiotic Studies and is the current president of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, as well as secretary general of the International Association for Visual Semiotics.

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Issue #5: Aesthetic Cognition

Meanwhile, here is the Autumn 2009 issue on Aesthetic Cognition, available for order from the Peter Lang website.

• table of contents
• publicity flyer

Contributors: Jean Petitot, Peer F. Bundgaard, Wolfgang Wildgen, Ivan Darrault-Harris, Zoï Kapoula , Qing Yang, Marine Vernet, Maria-Pia Bucci, Alessandro Pignocchi, Ellen Dissanayake, Michael Kimmel.

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The Cognitive Semiotics journal is presently being re-launched, involving the creation of a new editorial committee and a Cognitive Semiotics Association.  This will be a collaborative project between the Centre for Semiotics in Århus, Denmark, and the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics in Lund, Sweden.  Meanwhile the delayed Issue #6 “Tropes and Schemes” will be available by the end of 2011 — watch this space for details.  This is expected to be the final issue with Peter Lang. Issue #7 “Intersubjectivity of Embodiment”  will be available early in 2012 as an electronic-only issue, as will Issue #8  “Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Thirty Years After”.  Both were formerly planned as electronic Companions. Issue #9 “Political Cognition” will be available later in 2012.

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Apart from being somewhat behind schedule on the 2009 volumes we’ve had some trouble with our website, resulting in a lack of updates. But things should be up and running again and this means we can finally officially announce the publication of Cognitive Semiotics #4 (Spring 2009): “Anthroposemiotics vs. Biosemiotics”, which in actuality took place in December last year. In any event we hope you will enjoy this collection of papers by Kalevi Kull, Søren Brier, Stephen Cowley, Alf Hornborg, Barend van Heusden, Göran Sonesson and Jordan Zlatev. Article abstracts, table of contents, and the editorial preface can be accessed via the links below.

Cognitive Semiotics #4 (Spring 2009). ISSN 1662-1425.

200 pages. Paperback. Art. No. 81608

Click here for: Table of Contents (pdf)

Click here for: Editorial Preface & article abstracts (pdf)

Finally, click here to: order online at peterlang.com (for print or electronic version. However, if you’re ONLY interested in the electronic version, here’s a direct link to the Metapress hosting site for that:
http://peterlang.metapress.com/content/120905).

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While we are waiting for #4 to leave press (it should be anytime now), we should announce that members of the editorial board will be presenting papers at the upcoming 34th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, taking place in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 15-18.

http://uwf.edu/tprewitt/ssa.htm

The editors of Cognitive Semiotics are scheduled for two sessions, both under the heading “Semiotics and Cognitive Studies”.

Session 1 is Friday 16 October: 14:00 -15:30

Session 2 is Saturday 17 October: 10:15 – 12:15

The full program can be viewed here:

http://www.uwf.edu/tprewitt/2009SSAprogram.htm

We hope to see some of you there!

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Cognitive Semiotics #3 (Fall 2008) is now available from our publisher, Peter Lang, and in its electronic form at Metapress. It has been aptly titled “Semiotics as a Cognitive Science” and contains seven diverse and wide-ranging contributions by Elmar Holenstein, Marcel Hénaff, Jesper Sørensen, Robert E. Haskell, Claudio Paolucci, Svend Østergaard and Peter Vuust & Andreas Roepstorff. Please click on the links below to access the table of contents as well as the editorial preface and article abstracts for the issue. Enjoy!

Cognitive Semiotics #3 (Fall 2008). ISSN 1662-1425

166 pages. Paperback. Art. No. 81606.

Click here for: Table of Contents (pdf)

Click here for: Editorial Preface & article abstracts (pdf)

Finally, click here to: order online at peterlang.com (for print or electronic version. However, if you’re ONLY interested in the electronic version, here’s a direct link to the Metapress hosting site for that:
http://peterlang.metapress.com/content/120905).

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As subscribers to the print edition of Cognitive Semiotics will know the second issue of our journal has been out for a couple of weeks already, but we had to wait for the publication of the electronic version to be able to announce it officially. Well, the wait is over and we’re happy to present Cognitive Semiotics #2 (Spring 2008): Cognitive Poetics! The links below provide access to the ordering page at our publisher’s website, as well as free-to-download pdf-versions of the table of contents and all article abstracts for the issue. Enjoy; and spread the word!

Cognitive Semiotics #2 (Spring 2008). ISSN 1662-1425

196 pages. Paperback. Art. No. 81605.

Click here for: Table of Contents (pdf)

Click here for: Editorial Preface & article abstracts (pdf)

Finally, click here to: order online at peterlang.com (for print or electronic version. However, if you’re ONLY interested in the electronic version, here’s a direct link to the Metapress hosting site for that:
http://peterlang.metapress.com/content/120905).

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