Göran Sonesson
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: The Phenomenology of Semiosis: Approaches to the Gap between the Encyclopaedia and the Porphyrian Tree Spanned by Sedimentation
The Phenomenology of Semiosis: Approaches to the Gap between the Encyclopaedia and the Porphyrian Tree Spanned by Sedimentation Open
When putting semiotics and phenomenology in juxtaposition, the first task necessarily is to find out what a study of meaning, conceiving of itself as an empirical science, has to do with a philosophical school, the business of which it is …
View article: The Secrets of Plastic Language Revealed: Multimodality, Polysemiosis, and Iconicity
The Secrets of Plastic Language Revealed: Multimodality, Polysemiosis, and Iconicity Open
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine Abstract The notion of “plastic language” (or, as we will say in the following, the plastic layer) of the picture goes back to French structuralism, where it was supposed, just like “iconic …
View article: Dancing all the way to the stage by way of the stadium: on the iconicity and plasticity of actions
Dancing all the way to the stage by way of the stadium: on the iconicity and plasticity of actions Open
In the sense of phenomenology, actions are special cases of acts of consciousness. Within semiotics, first Jan Mukařovský and then A. J. Greimas have established, in different terms, a distinction between instrumental actions and actions w…
View article: Response to Brian Kemple. A reaction to Kemple's "Signs of Unmeaning"
Response to Brian Kemple. A reaction to Kemple's "Signs of Unmeaning" Open
Göran Sonesson's reaction to Brian Kemple's response to “What is Cognitive Semiotics?”, a lecture offered by Göran Sonesson as part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth…
View article: The Cognitive Semiotics of Pictorial Evolution and Development
The Cognitive Semiotics of Pictorial Evolution and Development Open
The study of meaningful artifacts, such as pictures, has traditionally been caught between the humanities, which only take an interest in a selection of individual pictures, and psychology, which attends more to the majority reaction to pi…
View article: Approximations to the Genuine Dialectics of the Enlightenment: On Husserl’s Europe, “Social Justice Theory”, and the Ethics of Semiosis
Approximations to the Genuine Dialectics of the Enlightenment: On Husserl’s Europe, “Social Justice Theory”, and the Ethics of Semiosis Open
In Krisis, and in many of the preparatory papers for his last published work, Edmund Husserl repeatedly declares his allegiance to the Enlightenment, but, at the same time, always expresses his misgivings about its concrete purport.Like Ho…
View article: Revisiting the life of things: A cognitive semiotic study of the agency of artefacts in Amazonia
Revisiting the life of things: A cognitive semiotic study of the agency of artefacts in Amazonia Open
Many contemporary scholars have recently defended the idea that the agency of things is symmetrical and equivalent to human agency. We propose an alternative approach to artefacts’ agency based on a field study concerned with contextually …
View article: Mirror, Peephole and Video – The Role of Contiguity in Children’s Perception of Reference in Iconic Signs
Mirror, Peephole and Video – The Role of Contiguity in Children’s Perception of Reference in Iconic Signs Open
The present study looked at the extent to which 2-year-old children benefited from information conveyed by viewing a hiding event through an opening in a cardboard screen, seeing it as live video, as pre-recorded video, or by way of a mirr…
View article: Introduction: The Making of Them and Us – Cultural encounters conveyed also through pictorial means
Introduction: The Making of Them and Us – Cultural encounters conveyed also through pictorial means Open
The Making of Them and Us" (MaTUs) was the name of a research project at Lund University which took place between the years 2014 and 2016, involving scholars from the Departments of Cognitive Semiotics and the History of Ideas, as well as …
View article: Homo pictor
Homo pictor Open
The mutual dialogue(s) between Archaeology and Bildwissenschaften has often been avoided as an issue in the discussion of Ancient Mesopotamian Art. In particular, pictures have too often been analysed out of their original context with bia…
View article: Translation as culture: The example of pictorial-verbal transposition in Sahagún’s <i>primeros memoriales</i> and <i>codex florentino</i>
Translation as culture: The example of pictorial-verbal transposition in Sahagún’s <i>primeros memoriales</i> and <i>codex florentino</i> Open
Many items of culture which are conveyed from one culture to another may take verbal form, and then constitute what Jakobson called “translation proper.” If such diffusions involve a co-occurrent change of semiotic systems, they are of suc…
View article: The publication of memory: From the Via Crucis to the terrorist memorial
The publication of memory: From the Via Crucis to the terrorist memorial Open
The notion of memory is ambiguous in multiple ways. It can be an event, an act of memory; or it can consist of a structure conserving and organizing a set of facts. In the first case, it may involve the automatic retention of the ‘just evo…
View article: New approaches to plastic language: Prolegomena to a computer-aided approach to pictorial semiotics
New approaches to plastic language: Prolegomena to a computer-aided approach to pictorial semiotics Open
In this paper we summarize observations bridging the declared aspirations of pictorial semiotics and its real achievements. Pictorial semiotics is here understood as the general study of pictures as signs and it constituted a fundamental s…
View article: Two models of metaphoricity and three dilemmas of metaphor research
Two models of metaphoricity and three dilemmas of metaphor research Open
Starting out from classical metaphor theory, I consider two models, the Overlap model and the Tension model — the difference between which may not have been spelled out in that tradition. Although the latter has an Aristotelian pedigree, i…
View article: Elements of Peircean phenomenology: From categories to signs by way of grounds
Elements of Peircean phenomenology: From categories to signs by way of grounds Open
It is curious facts that Peirce scholars tends to take the three Peircean categories for granted, whereas Peirce himself claimed they must be derived by means of phenomenology, later rebaptized phaneroscopy. As I have suggested elsewhere, …
View article: On Mimicry, Signs and Other Meaning-Making Acts. Further Studies in Iconicity
On Mimicry, Signs and Other Meaning-Making Acts. Further Studies in Iconicity Open
In an earlier paper, I set out to apply to animal mimicry the definition of the sign, and, more specifically, of the iconic sign, which I originally elaborated in the study of pictures, and which was then extended by myself and others to l…
View article: "The greatest story ever told": Semiosis emerging from mimesis and/or narrativity
"The greatest story ever told": Semiosis emerging from mimesis and/or narrativity Open
Language may emerge as one of several specializations out of mimesis, understood as whole-body communication.Starting out from the idea of a mimetic stage as the precursor to language as first posited by Donald, and building on the observa…
View article: Review article - Preliminaries to a taxonomy of intersemiosis
Review article - Preliminaries to a taxonomy of intersemiosis Open
The specificity of a semiotic approach to translation is often taken to reside in two dictums, separately, or more commonly compounded, one of then due to Roman Jakobson, and the other to Charles Sanders Peirce.The first shibboleth consist…
View article: Signata 10 / Image and Knowledge
Signata 10 / Image and Knowledge Open
This issue will explore the complex relations that link vision, image, and knowledge especially from two standpoints. The first one regards the processes of vision: What is specific about that which vision contributes to a knowledge which …
View article: Epistemological Prolegomena to the Cognitive Semiotics of Evolution and Development
Epistemological Prolegomena to the Cognitive Semiotics of Evolution and Development Open
Rather than being a model, a method, a philosophy, or an intellectual movement, semiotics is best considered a special perspective on the world of our experience, which, in ideal social circumstances, gives rise to a new scientific discipl…
View article: The Phenomenological Semiotics of Iconicity and Pictoriality—Including Some Replies to My Critics
The Phenomenological Semiotics of Iconicity and Pictoriality—Including Some Replies to My Critics Open
Article The Phenomenological Semiotics of Iconicity and Pictoriality—Including Some Replies to My Critics was published on June 1, 2016 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 2, issue 2).
View article: Meaning, mind and communication: Explorations in cognitive semiotics
Meaning, mind and communication: Explorations in cognitive semiotics Open
This volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics - the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics - from a …
View article: Meaning, Mind and Communication
Meaning, Mind and Communication Open
This chapter reveals and confirms the implicit association between space and lightness by looking at the correlation between these two domains in two narratives (Demian, by Hermann Hesse and The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Jim Sherman). I…
View article: The meanings of structuralism. Considerations on structures and Gestalten, with particular attention to the masks of Lèvi-Strauss
The meanings of structuralism. Considerations on structures and Gestalten, with particular attention to the masks of Lèvi-Strauss Open
Structuralism was once the fashion in semiotics, and then it was abandoned without its advantages and disadvantages having been properly assessed. Poststructuralism, imperceptibly merging with postmodernism, perpetuated many of the latter,…
View article: Phenomenology meets semiotics
Phenomenology meets semiotics Open
Semiotics is generally conceived as being opposed to phenomenology, but such an opposition can only result from taking too much for granted, about both phenomenology and semiotics. While recognising that semiotics and phenomenology are his…