NASS CONFERENCE

The Eighth Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS):

Sign evolution on multiple time scales

Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark
May 29-31, 2013

More information here (external link)

SEMINARS

The Seminars,
spring 2013

 

Seminar Calendar   Seminar Descriptions

 

RESEARCH SEMINAR, SPRING 2013

7. February        
Frederik Nielbo, Ph.D. student, AU
Investigating soundscape affordances through activity appropriateness

21. February
Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Director, DSL Copenhagen
Towards a Poetics of the Welfare State

7. March
Kalevi Kull, Semiotics, Tartu University
Meronomy versus taxonomy of signs

21. March
Peer Bundgaard, associate professor, AU
From Feeling to Meaning: a critical assessment of the neuroaesthetics of beauty

4. April
Vincent Hendricks, professor, KU
Bubbles

18. April
Mikkel Wallentin, CFIN, AU
title to be announced

2. May
Sebastian Wallot, CFIN, AU
What predicts text comprehension in children? Taking a look from the perspective of complex systems.

16. May
Steen Rasmussen, Center for Fundamental Living Technology, SDU
From artificial life to living technologies

 

NEW PUBLICATIONS

semioticaHvordan styres videnssamfundet?
Demokrati, ledelse og organisering

Redigeret af Jan Faye og
David Budtz Pedersen

400 sider | 398 kr.

ISBN: 978-87-768-3026-7
1. udgave 2012

Forlaget Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne

Bestil bogen hos forlaget

Debatten om ledelse og styring af landets universiteter kører på fuldt blus i disse dage. Der er fokus på, hvad de nye krav til forskere og studerende betyder for universiteterne og deres evne til at skabe viden. Men hvordan skal vi forholde os til debatten, og hvor fører den hen? Det giver denne bog nogle fagligt funderede bud på.

 

 

semioticaNarrative Theory and Poetics:
5 Questions

Edited by Peer Bundgaard, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Frederik Stjernfelt

Automatic Press / VIP, 2011
ISBN 9788792130426

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Excerpt from the book's preface:

In the present interview book, Narrative Theory and Poetics: 5 Questions, eminent narratologists, literary scholars, poeticians, stylisticians and philosophers answer five simple and broad questions. As is generally the case in the 5 Questions Series, the questions are intended to give the authors an occasion to outline their intellectual biography -- in whatever detail they find necessary, with or without the anecdotes of life -- as well as to lay down their idea of the state of the art of the domain of research to which they have devoted their work including the future challenges and unsolved issues it is still ripe with ...

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semioticaSpecial issue on "Diagrammatology"
in Zeitschrift für Semiotik

Zeitschrift für Semiotik Band 31, Heft 3-4 is published October 2011 as a special issue with the thema "Diagrammatische Zeichen".

The contributions to the issue "have all been written in response to Frederik Stjernfelt's book Diagrammatology (2007)" (Roland Posner's introduction).

The issue contains papers by Roland Posner, John Michael Krois, Michael Hoffmann, Bernd Mahr and Klaus Robering, Claus Schlaberg, Martin Brunner, and Frithjof Dau.

 

 

semioticaSEMIOTICA

Frederik Stjernfelt, together with Joao Queiroz, are guest editors of the newest issue of SEMIOTICA.

The publication is a Special Issue on Diagrammatic Reasoning and Peircean Logic Representations.

Read abstracts and/or subscribe to SEMIOTICA here.

 

 

KRITIK 200

KRITIK 200 (redigeret af Lasse Horne Kjældgaard og Frederik Stjernfelt) er et jubilæumsnummer om kritikbegrebet.

Med bidrag af en lang række internationale og danske skribenter undersøger det kritikbegrebet i filosofi, politik og æstetik.

KRITIK 200, Gyldendal, 216 sider, bidrag af Tzvetan Todorov, Jonathan Israel, Susan Haack, Sverre Raffnsøe, Stefan Collini, Per Stig Møller, Chantal Mouffe, Rainer Forst, Henrik Dahl, Vincent Hendricks, David Budtz Pedersen, Anker Brink Lund, Gitte Meyer, Rune Lykkeberg, Horace Engdahl, Einar Már Gudmundsson, Martin Zerlang, Dennis Meyhoff, Torben Brostrøm, Olga Ravn, Katrine Marie Guldager, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Hans Ulrik Rosengård og Olafur Eliasson.

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COGNITIVE SEMIOTICS

Master Degrees

The Elite Graduate Programme in Cognitive Semiotics

Read more about the programme here:
Master’s Degree Programme in Cognitive Semiotics

Information on admission and general study guides:
Admission Requirements

 

Academic Regulations / Studieordninger

Supplementary subject in Cognitive Semiotics (2007)
Suppleringsfag i Kognitiv Semiotik (2007)

Bachelor's supplementary subject in Cognitive Semiotics (2010)
Bachelortilvalg i Kognitiv Semiotik (2010)

Master’s degree in Cognitive Semiotics (2007)
Master’s degree in Cognitive Semiotics (2009)

Kandidatuddannelse i Kognitiv Semiotik (2007)
Kandidatuddannelsei Kognitiv Semiotik (2009)

PUBLICATIONS

readings in semiotics

Jens-Martin Eriksen & Frederik Stjernfelt

The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism

Les pièges de la culture. Les contradictions démocratiques du multiculturalisme

English and French editions, now available at Amazon.com

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readings in semioticsSemiotics

Edited by Peer F. Bundgaard & Frederik Stjernfelt

4 volumes, 1,824 pages.
Published by Routledge, UK.

Published as a part of the series Critical Concepts in Language Studies, this new Routledge collection helps to make sense of the subject’s huge interdisciplinary corpus of scholarly literature and brings together the best and most influential materials from ‘the first phase’, neo-classics from the institutionalization of semiotics in the 1960s, and contemporary works illustrating the ongoing development of semiotics and its widening applications (for example, in the natural sciences).

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readings in semiotics

Frederik Stjernfelt:

Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics

Paperback edition, now available at Amazon.com for USD 56.20

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Traktat om de
tre bedragere

Moses, Jesus, Muhammed

Anonymt skrift præsenteret af Frederik Stjernfelt
Oversat fra fransk af Claus Bratt Østergaard

176 sider
DKK 199.00
Informations Forlag

Farligt religionskritisk urskrift for første gang på dansk

Traktat om de tre bedragere er det mest udbredte og berygtede blandt den tidlige oplysnings hemmelige undergrundsskrifter og et af de første eksempler på ateistisk religionskritik.

Rygterne om bogen svirrede allerede i 1200-tallet, og teksten florerede senere længe kun i det skjulte som afskrifter. At eje eller blive sat i forbindelse med skriftet var forbundet med en betydelig risiko. I 1719 tryktes bogen for første gang.

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Peer Bundgaard and Frederik Stjernfelt(eds.):
SIGNS AND MEANING
5 questions

Signs and Meaning: 5 Questions is an interview book which collects the answers to five broad and simple questions given by outstanding semioticians, linguists and philosophers of language. As in the other issues of the 5 Question Series the questions are set up as to allow each contributor both to sketch his or her own intellectual biography — in more or less detail, in a more or less pronounced memoir-genre way — and to outline his or her conception of the state of the art of the field as well as of the theoretical challenges of the future. Contributors have been free to answer the questions poin by point or to write a full essay on the basis of the questionaire.

Contributors: Per Aage Brandt, Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Johnson, John Searle, Len Talmy, Eleanor Rosch, Jean Petitot, Frederik Stjernfelt

Price: DKK 187,50 including VAT

Order book: http://www.vince-inc.com/contact.html

 

Kognitiv poetik
Moderne litteraturteori

Redigeret af Line Brandt og Frank Kjørup

Kognitiv poetik er en nyere litteraturvidenskabelig metode, som især bygger på fænomenologi og gestaltpsykologi – men også trækker på datalogi, matematik, neurofysiologi, lingvistik, filosofi og antropologi.

Dens sigte er at sætte litteraturen i spil med vores viden om menneskelig erkendelse, viden, tænkning og problemløsning. Kognitive beskrivelser af, hvordan mennesket danner metaforer, danner eksempelvis grundlag for nye læsninger af kunstneriske tekster, ligesom den kognitive poetik baner vejen for nytænkning af versets lyriske funktion.

I denne antologi præsenteres en række såvel teoretisk som teorihistorisk væsentlige bidrag til den kognitive poetik – som den tænkes af George Lakoff, Yuri Lotman, Eve Sweetser, Reuven Tsur og Mark Turner.

Aarhus Universitetsforlag
236 sider
198,00 kr.

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Frederik Stjernfelt:
Admiral·Bitumen·Zodiak

Klaus Høeck, f. 1938, er Danmarks mest produktive, mest besynderlige, mest pragtelskende og vrisne digter.

Hans værk er een stor hyldest til denne verden, fra sommerfugle til kemi, fra musik til skove, fra mystik til politik, fra salt til skak, fra roser til logik.

Hans enorme værk kortlægges i denne lille encyklopædi med masser af citater og indviklede overvejelser. Nye læsere kan begynde her. Gamle kan undersøge, om gentagelsen er mulig.

Udkommer på Gyldendal
Hæftet,  216 sider. 199 kr.
ISBN: 9788702072389
Omslag: Morten Stræde

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Læs uddrag af Admiral.Bitumen.Zodiak - se de første fem opslag her

 

Jens-Martin Eriksen
& Frederik Stjernfelt:

Adskillelsens politik
Multikulturalisme – ideologi og virkelighed

Hvad taler vi om, når vi taler om multikulturalisme?

Er det alles ret til frit at vælge religion og kultur i et demokratisk samfund?

Eller er det tværtimod kulturernes ret til at leve beskyttet og upåvirket af det øvrige samfund?

Denne bog undersøger disse spørgsmål både i multikulturalismens virkelighed og dens ideologi.

Vi rejser til et multikulturalistisk land og undersøger, hvad der ligger bag dette omstridte begreb i virkeligheden. Hvad er fordele og ulemper ved den reelt existerende multikulturalisme?

Inden for de seneste tyve år er kulturbegrebet kommet på den politiske dagsorden, i en grad hvor “kultur” i sig selv er blevet en ideologi. Hvor kommer dette kulturbegreb egentlig fra? Hvilke rødder har det i antropologi, filosofi og politik? Hvad betyder det for vores måde at tænke på, når vi uafvidende overtager dette begreb?

Kontroversen om multikulturalisme har ændret de politiske fronter. Det synes som om venstrefløjen forsvarer respekten for mindretalskulturer – medens højrefløjen, især Dansk Folkeparti, står vagt om majoritetskulturen, den nationale kultur. Men er disse frontlinjer reelle? Er de to fronter virkelig så forskellige? Eller udgør de bare to varianter af en og samme måde at forstå kultur på?

Forfatterne opfordrer til et opgør med begge fløjes tendens til at spærre mennesker inde i deres kultur.

Lindhardt og Ringhof
496 sider, 299,95 kr.

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Læs uddrag af Adskillelsens politik – de første fem Interventioner

 

Frederik Stjernfelt:
Danish semiotics – an overview

Professor Frederik Stjernfelt has published a short history of semiotics trends and developments in Denmark in the international net bulletin SEMIOTIX.

Link to article here

Mikkel Wallentin:
Putative sex differences in verbal abilities and language cortex: A critical review

This review brings together evidence from a diverse field of methods for investigating sex differences in language processing. Differences are found in certain language-related deficits, such as stuttering, dyslexia, autism and schizophrenia. Common to these is that language problems may follow from, rather than cause the deficit.

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Cognitive Semiotics, issue #0

The very first issue of the new journal Cognitive Semiotics is available now. Announcing a publication schedule of two print issues a year, the journal is an initiative from the Center for Cognition and Culture, at the department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, and from a group of researchers trained at the Center for Semiotics, in Denmark, and based in Aarhus and Copenhagen.

www.cognitivesemiotics.com

Livstegn
Encyklopædi semiotik.dk

Første danske værk indeholdende de fleste
kendte semiotiske tankeretninger.

96 artikler fra A til Ø, fra antropologi til
økosemiotik, skrevet af 49 danske semiotikere.

Udkommet på forlaget Haase & Søn.

www.haase.dk

Ole Kühl
Musical Semantics

Contents:
Some preliminary considerations regarding a musical semantics – An ontogenetic perspective on musical cognition – A view from cognitive semantics – Neuromusicology and the musical mind – Emotion and music – The construction of musical meaning – Some musical elements and their cognitive responses – The embodiment of musical form – Signification in music.

Find the book at Peter Lang Verlag

 

Per Aage Brandt
Spaces, Domains, and Meaning

Essays in Cognitive Semiotics

The essays in this book develop a semiotic elaboration of the theory of mental spaces, a grounding hypothesis of semantic domains, and the methodologically necessary idea of a mental architecture corresponding to the neural organization of our brain, and compatible with the basic facts of human phenomenology.

Find the book at Peter Lang Verlag

 


 
     
Kognitiv Semiotik

Redigeret af P. F. Bundgård, J. Egholm & M. Skov.
København 2003: Haase & Søn  
www.haase.dk

Bogen indeholder en række oversættelser af nyklassiske tekster inden for kognitiv lingvistik og semiotik, samt nyskrevne bidrag fra danske semiotikere.

Artikler af: George Lakoff, Mark Turner & Gilles Fauconnier, Ronald Langacker, Leonard Talmy, Jean Petitot, René Thom, Per Aage Brandt, Frederik Stjernfelt og Svend Østergaard.

Bogens indledning, af P. F. Bundgaard, er en omfattende indføring i de emner, der behandles af bogens forfattere.

Hent indledning som PDF
 

KUNST - semiotiske beskrivelser af æstetisk betydning og oplevelse

Af Peer F. Bundgård
København 2004: Haase & Søn
www.haase.dk

Billed- og tekstanalyser med udgangspunkt i mange af de metoder og begreber, som i de seneste år er blevet udviklet inden for den kognitive semiotik.

Med udgangspunkt i malerier af El Greco, William Turner, Claude Monet og Vilhelm Hammershøi samt tekster af Ernst Cassirer, René Thom, Paul Valèry, Gaston Bachelard og Roman Ingarden tegnes omridset af en kunstværkets semiotik.

     

Bøgerne kan købes hos sekretær Tina Friis på Center for Semiotik, i boghandelen - eller ved henvendelse til forlaget: www.haase.dk

 

 

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OTHER PAPERS
& PUBLICATIONS

Program and abstracts from the seminar on Mind and Logic, october 2009
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Peer F. Bundgaard
Husserl and Language
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Peer F. Bundgaard, Svend Østergaard, Frederik Stjernfelt
Meaning construction in the production and interpretation of compounds is schema-driven
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Peer F. Bundgaard
Means of meaning making in literary art
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Peer F. Bundgaard, Frederik Stjernfelt
René Thom’s Semiotics and its Sources
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Peer F. Bundgaard
Sådan var det ikke i halvfemserne (hyldest til de nye tider)
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Per Aage Brandt
Letting, Making, and the Dynamics of Causation
A brief note
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Per Aage Brandt
What is culture? – A grounding question for cognitive semiotics
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Frederik Stjernfelt:
Authenticities and their conflicts. The genuine challenges of museology

Paper delivered at the Associaltion of Euopean Open Air Museums' conference "The Myth of Authenticity”, august 2009
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Danish semiotics – an overview
Professor Frederik Stjernfelt has published a short history of semiotics trends and developments in Denmark in the international net bulletin SEMIOTIX.
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Mikkel Wallentin, Andreas Roepstorff, Neil Burgess
Frontal eye fields involved in shifting frame of reference
within working memory for scenes

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Wallentin M.
Precuneus – hjernens sproglige rumcenter
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Wallentin M, Roepstorff A, Glover R, Burgess N.
Parallel memory systems for talking about location and age in precuneus, caudate and Broca's region.
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Peer F. Bundgård, Frederik Stjernfelt og Svend Østergaard
Waterproof Fire Stations?
Conceptual schemata and cognitive operations involved in compound constructions
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Ole Kühl
The Semiotic Gesture
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Peer F. Bundgård
Det myndige individs tænker. Ernst Casssirer (1874-1945)
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Peer F. Bundgård
The Grammar of Aesthetic Intuition – On Ernst Cassirer’s concept of symbolic form in the visual arts
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Peer F. Bundgård
Semiotik og fænomenologi
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Peer F. Bundgård
Kunst og semiotik
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Peer F. Bundgård
Glemselens semiotik
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Ole Kühl:
A Top-Down Approach to Musical Meaning
Working Paper, February 2006
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Line Brandt & Per Aage Brandt:
Making sense of a blend
Revised version, june 2005
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