Professor of Cognitive Science
Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, USA
Per Aage Brandt worked as an Associate Professor at the Universities of Copenhagen and Roskilde between 1971 and 1975 and then as a Full Professor at the University of Aarhus, where he directed the Center for Semiotics. In 2005 he joined the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University as Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of the Center for Cognition and Culture.
He has collaborated as a guest lecturer with the Universities of Bologna, Harvard, Cambridge, Louvain, Berkeley and Urbino. He is the founding editor of the journal Cognitive Semiotics.
In 2002, he was awarded the Grand Prix de Philosophie by l'Académie Française and was made Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
As a scholar trained in Romance Philology (French and Spanish), he has worked his way through structural linguistics and structural semantics, and elaborated a series of models - in particular related to the technical and formal representations of textual phenomena such as enunciation, diegesis, and modal schematisms - for describing patterns of meaning in the framework of a discourse-oriented (Greimas) and later a formalized phenomenological (Thom, Petitot) and cognitively (Talmy) oriented semiotics.
Per Aage Brandt is Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of the Center for Cognition and Culture at Case Western Reserve University. He is editor-in-chief of the international peer reviewed journal Cognitive Semiotics.
Publications (selected):
Brandt, P. Aa. (forthcoming). What is culture? A grounding question for cognitive semiotics. In: Abrantes, A.M. & Hanenberg, P., eds. Cognition and Culture. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Bern: Peter Lang.
Brandt, P. Aa. (2008). Music and how we became human. In: Malloch, S. & Trevarthen, C., eds. Communicative Musicality. Exploring the basis of human companionship. Oxford University Press, 31-44.
Brandt, P. Aa. (2007). On consciousness and semiosis. Cognitive Semiotics, 1, 46-64.
Brandt, P. Aa. (2006). Form and meaning in art. In: Turner, M., ed. The Artful Mind. Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity. Oxford University Press, 171-188.
Brandt, P. Aa. (2004). Spaces, Domains, and Meaning. Essays in Cognitive Semiotics. Bern: Peter Lang.
Professor of Semiology and Rhetoric
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Liège, Belgium
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg received his Masters (1967) and his Doctorate (1971) in Romance Philology. He teaches language studies at the University of Liège, focusing on rhetoric and semiology. He also teaches French-language literature (particularly Belgian and Québecois). His professional activities focus on two areas: linguistics/semiotics and French-speaking cultures.
In the first area, he made his mark in the late 1960s by revitalizing the field of rhetoric as a member of the interdisciplinary team known as the μ Group. More recently, he has helped to steer semiotics in a social, cognitivist direction. His writings on semiotics and rhetoric have been translated into 15 languages.
In the second field, he has modernized the study of the arts in Belgium by casting them in a social and institutional light, an approach that can be readily transferred to the other French-speaking cultures he has studied (such as Quebec's) and by establishing inter-university research programs. He founded and chairs Belgium's Centre d'Études des Lettres Francophones.
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg is president of the International Association for Visual Semiotics.
Publications (selected):
Klinkenberg, J.-M. & Edeline, F. (2008). René Magritte. Il paradosso in pittura. In: Migliore, Tiziana (ed.) Argomentare il visibile. Esercizi di retorica dell’immagine. Bologna: Società Editrice Esculapio, Progetto Leonardo, 283-286.
Klinkenberg, J.-M., Badir, S., Brunetière, V. & Houdebine, A.-M., eds. (2008). Les aventures de l’Interprétation. Paris: Laboratoire DynaLang.
Klinkenberg, J.-M., Edeline, F. (2008). L’aventure des modèles interprétatifs, ou la gestion des résidus. In: Klinkenberg, J.-M., Badir, S., Brunetière, V. & Houdebine, A.-M., eds., Les aventures de l’Interprétation. Paris: Laboratoire DynaLang, 22-35.
Klinkenberg, J.-M. & Denis, B. (2005). La littérature belge. Précis d'histoire sociale. Bruxelles, Labor.
Klinkenberg, J.-M. & Gauvin, L. (1991). Écrivain cherche lecteur. L’écrivain francophone et ses publics. Montréal/Paris, V.L.B./Créaphis.
Klinkenberg, J.-M. (2000) [1996, Bruxelles, De Boeck]. Précis de sémiotique générale. Paris, Le Seuil.
Klinkenberg, J. M. & Groupe μ (1992). Traité du signe visuel. Pour une rhétorique de l'image. Paris, Le Seuil.
Post doc
Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
Søren Overgaard – PhD in Philosophy, University of Aarhus (2002) – is a post doctoral researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. Previous appointments include: RCUK Academic Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull (UK) (2006-2010) and post doctoral researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (2003-2006). Between 2003 and 2005 his research was funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation. Since 2007, he is member of the Editorial Committee of the international, peer-reviewed journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (Springer).
Publications (selected):
Overgaard, S. (2010). On the Looks of Things. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (forthcoming).
Overgaard, S. (2010). Ordinary Experience and the Epoché. Continental Philosophy Review 43 (forthcoming).
Overgaard, S. (2010). The Problem of Other Minds. In: Gallagher, S. & Schmicking, D., eds. Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 254-268.
Overgaard, S. & Zahavi, D. (2009). Phenomenological Sociology: The Subjectivity of Everyday Life. In: Jacobsen, M.H., ed. Encountering the Everyday: An Introduction to the Sociologies of the Unnoticed. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 93-115.
Overgaard, S. & Zahavi, D. (2009). Understanding (other) Minds: Wittgenstein’s Phenomenological Contribution. In: Zamuner, E. & Levy, D., eds., Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments. London: Routledge, 60-86.
Overgaard, S. (2008). How to Analyze Immediate Experience: Hintikka, Husserl, and the Idea of Phenomenology. Metaphilosophy 3, 282-304.
Overgaard, S. (2007). Wittgenstein and Other Minds: Rethinking Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity with Wittgenstein, Levinas, and Husserl. New York: Routledge.
Overgaard, S. (2005). Rethinking Other Minds. Inquiry 48, 249-274.
Overgaard, S. (2004). Exposing the Conjuring Trick. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3, 263-286.
Overgaard, S. (2004). Husserl and Heidegger on Being in the World. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Professor for Applied Cognitive Science and Technical Communication
Department for Knowledge and Communication Management
Danube University Krems, Austria
Hanna Risku is full professor for Applied Cognitive Science and Technical Communication, and Head of the Department for Knowledge and Communication Management at the Danube University Krems, Austria. Previous positions: Lecturer at the University of Tampere/Finland, University of Vienna, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, University of Skövde/Sweden, University of Granada/Spain and Danube University Krems. Further studies of Open and Distance Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. President of the European Society for Technical Communication (TCeurope), Head of International Relations at tekom e.V., Subst. General Secretary of the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science (ASoCS), Member of the scientific committee of the Institut für Wissensorganisation (IWO). Jury member and reviewer at different national and international journals, conferences, federal awards, funds and universities. Research areas: Cognitive Scientific foundations of communication, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Usability, Knowledge Management and Transcultural Communication.
Publications (selected):
Risku, H. (2002). Situatedness in translation studies. Cognitive systems research, 3, 523-533.
Risku, H. (22009). Translationsmanagement. Interkulturelle Fachkommunikation im Informationszeitalter [Translation management. Intercultural professional communication in the information age]. 2nd revised edition. Tübingen: Narr.
Risku, H. (in press). A cognitive scientific view on technical communication and translation: Do embodiment and situatedness really make a difference? TARGET, 22(1).
Risku, H., Mayr, E., & Smuc, M. (2009). Situated interaction and cognition in the wild, wild, world: Unleashing the power of users as innovators. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 5, 287-300.
Risku, H. & Pircher, R. (2008). Visual aspects of intercultural technical communication: A cognitive scientific and semiotic point of view. Meta: Translators' Journal, 53, 154-166.
Post.doc, PhD, Center for Semiotics & Center for Funtionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Kristian Tylén is holding a post doc position at the Center for Semiotics and Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Aarhus as part of “the Cognitive and Phenomenological Aesthetics Project”, funded by the Velux Research Foundation. He is originally trained in Russian linguistics and literary studies from the Slavonic Department, University of Aarhus. In 2003, he completed his Master in Cognitive Semiotics at the Center for Semiotics, University of Aarhus and his thesis on cognitive approaches to narratology was awarded the University’s gold medal. In 2009 he obtained a PhD degree in Linguistics from the Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark after which he worked as a research assistant at the Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, partly affiliated with the EUROCORES program BASIC (Brain, Agency, Subjectivity, Intentionality, Consciousness). Kristian Tylén is currently member of the board of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, SALC (http://www.salc-sssk.org/), member of the international network Distributed Language Group (http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/dlg/), and member of the research unit the Interacting Minds Group (http://www.interacting-minds.net). His research interests include cognitive and experimental semiotics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive aesthetics, neurolinguistics, gesture studies, and intersubjectivity.
Publications (selected):
Tylén, K., Weed, E., Wallentin, M., Roepstorff, A., Frith, C.D. (2010). Language as a tool for interacting minds. Mind & Language, 25 (1),
Tylén, K., Wallentin, M. & Roepstorff, A. (2009). Say it with flowers! An fMRI study of object mediated communication. Brain and Language 108 (3), 150-166.
Tylén, K. (2009). Roses, Icebergs, Hoovers and all that language, PhD dissertation, SDU.
Tylén, K., Allen, M. (2009). Interactive Sense-Making in the Brain. Enacting Intersubjectivity, 224-241.
Tylén, K., Philipsen, J.S., Weed, E. (2009). Taking the Language Stance in a Material World. Pragmatics & Cognition, 17 (3), 573-595.
Tylén, K. (2007). When Agents Get Expressive: towards a theory of semiotic agency, Cognitive Semiotics, 0: 84-101.
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Center for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden
Jordan Zlatev is Associate Professor at the Centre for Languages and Literature of Lund University. He is one of the two coordinators of the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS), a multidisciplinary research program, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), which studies the biological and historical conditions that led to the unique cognitive evolution of human beings in comparison to other species. His research concerns, in most broad terms, the relationship between language and consciousness, in its various forms, including emotional experience. Previous positions include lecturer appointments at Thammasat University (Bangkok), Umeå University (Sweden) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark).
Publications (selected):
Zlatev, J., Blomberg, J. and Magnusson, U. (in press). Metaphor and subjective experience: A study of motion-emotion metaphors in English, Swedish, Bulgarian and Thai. In A. Foolen, U. Luedke, J. Zlatev and T. Racine (Eds.) Moving Ourselves, Moving Others, Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Zlatev, J. & Andrén, M. (2009). Stages and transitions in children’s semiotic development. In Zlatev, J., Andrén, M., Lundmark, C. Johansson, M., (Eds.) Studies in Language and Cognition. London: Cambridge Scholars.
Zlatev, J. (2009). The Semiotic Hierarchy: Life, Consciousness, Signs and Language, Cognitive Semiotics, #4, 169-200.
Zlatev, J. (2008). From proto-mimesis to language: Evidence from primatology and social neuroscience. Journal of Physiology, 102 (1-3), 137-151.
Zlatev, J. (2008). The dependence of language on consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15(6), 34-62.
Zlatev, J. (2008). Stages in the development of perceptual intersubjectivity. In: Morganti, F. Carassa, A. & Riva G., eds. (2008). Enacting Intersubjectivity: A cognitive and Social Perspective of the Study of Interaction. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Zlatev, J., Racine, T., Sinha, C. & Itkonen, E., eds. (2008). The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Zlatev, J. (2007) Language, embodiment and mimesis. In Body, Language and Mind. Vol 1. Embodiment, Ziemke, T., Zlatev, J. and R. Frank (eds.), 297-337. Berlin: Mouton.
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