The editorial board is pleased to announce the official publication of Vol. 4 No. 2 on 1 May 2013, on the theme Cognitive Narratology of Politics. Many thanks to the guest editors Per Aage Brandt and Patrick Colm Hogan; and to the other contributors: George Lakoff, Richard A. Gordon, Corinne Bancroft, and Joseph Darda. Download the complete issue via the link below, or select individual papers.

Cognitive Narratology of Politics (complete volume)

Introduction: Cognitive Narratology of Politics / Hogan

Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf / Lakoff

A Narrative of National Reform: Quanto vale ou é por quilo? (2005) / Gordon

Emplotting Immigration: The Rhetoric of Border Narratives / Bancroft

La Falange: The Structure of a Fascist Dream / Brandt

The Digital Subject: Ideological Mirroring in Social News Media / Darda

World Literature, Globalization, and The Loss Of Stories: On the Political Economy of Narrative Today / Hogan

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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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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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Welcome to the news blog for Cognitive Semiotics – a new peer-reviewed journal for international science and the humanities. Here we will provide information about the journal, its themes and publication progress, as well as offer information on future subscription offers and call for papers, and the like – so remember to check back regularly!

The first issue, due for publication in April 2007, bears the theme “Agency” and contains articles by Shaun Gallagher, Merlin Donald, Rick Grush, Søren Overgaard & Thor Grünbaum, Kristian Tylén, and Mikkel Holm Sørensen & Tom Ziemke.

This inaugural issue will in turn celebrate the successful transition from being a locally based endeavour at Aarhus University, Denmark to becoming a true international journal with prominent editorial board members positioned on both sides of the Atlantic; in Denmark at the University of Aarhus and the University of Copenhagen, and in the United States at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The latter will also serve as the official future home for the journal.

More info will follow as the journal and our international cooperation progresses. This is just a short welcome to let you know of our existence and, hopefully, to spark your interest in our journal!

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