Published since September 10, 2007

Cognitive Semiotics

ISSN: 2235-2066

Editor-in-chief: Peer F. Bundgaard

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Cognitive Semiotics is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal devoted to high-quality research, integrating perspectives, methods and insight from cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and semiotics, placing meaning-making into the broader context of cognitive, social, and neurobiological processes. The journal is a platform for the study of meaning-making writ large: in our interactions with the surroundings in all domains, in the natural as well as in the social world, in language and other sign vehicles, as well as in perception, and in action.

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Volume 15 Issue 2

November 2022

Publicly Available December 1, 2022

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November 23, 2022

Accommodating representation in the neuroscience of memory: a conceptual blending analysis of replay and preplay in hippocampal place cell research

Ben Berners-Lee

Page range: 175-196

Abstract

Neurons called place cells are selectively activated in correspondence with the location or place field that a rodent occupies. In a phenomenon that neuroscientists call replay, place cell activation sequences rapidly repeat during subsequent periods of rest and grooming. Replay has been theorized as a mechanism for reinforcement learning of the spatial trajectories represented by place cell coactivation. Preplay is a competing theory that suggests that these sequences also occur before a novel run and that sequences are not recordings of position made in real time, but rather pre-made repertoires that an organism selects from as it makes a trajectory through space. The preplay theory maintains the language of representation while breaking from the entailment of the conceptual metaphor “ MEMORIES ARE RECORDINGS” that recordings are produced simultaneously to the experiences that they represent. It does so through a conceptual blend that affords preplay researchers flexibility in their theorizing about memory without requiring a break from representationalism. Broadly, these findings demonstrate how the blending of conceptual metaphors is a viable approach for the implicit development and contestation of theories of representation in the neural and cognitive sciences.

Open Access October 17, 2022

Linguistic typology of motion events in visual narratives

Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn

Page range: 197-222

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Languages use different strategies to encode motion. Some use particles or “satellites” to describe a path of motion (Satellite-framed or S-languages like English), while others typically use the main verb to convey the path information (Verb-framed or V-languages like French). We here ask: might this linguistic variation lead to differences in the way paths are depicted in visual narratives like comics? We analyzed a corpus of 85 comics originally created by speakers of S-languages (comics from the United States, China, Germany) and V-languages (France, Japan, Korea) for both their depictions of path segments (source, route, and goal) and the visual cues signaling these paths and manner information (e.g., motion lines and postures). Panels from S-languages depicted more path segments overall, especially routes, than those from V-languages, but panels from V-languages more often isolated path segments into their own panels. Additionally, comics from S-languages depicted more motion cues than those from V-languages, and this linguistic typology also interacted with panel framing. Despite these differences across typological groups, analysis of individual countries’ comics showed more nuanced variation than a simple S–V dichotomy. These findings suggest a possible influence of spoken language structure on depicting motion events in visual narratives and their sequencing.

November 28, 2022

Analysing the elements of a scene – An integrative approach to metaphor identification in a naturalistic setting

Andreas Larsson, Karin Stolpe, Marlene Johansson Falck

Page range: 223-248

Abstract

This paper addresses the challenges of exploring metaphor use in a naturalistic environment. We employed an integrative approach to the analysis of metaphor in video-recorded classroom observations of a teacher lecturing on computer programming. The approach involved applying the Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS) and the Metaphor Identification Guidelines for Gesture (MIG-G) both individually and jointly. Our analysis of the data shows that the teacher primarily uses metaphors that evoke experiences of manipulating physical objects while using his hands to add spatiality to these ‘objects’. Furthermore, it indicates that specific gestures may serve as ’anchoring-points’ for larger scenes, enabling the speaker to form a scene in which to place smaller concepts. Throughout the analysis, our integrative approach to metaphor analysis provided opportunities to both support and refute results from each of the procedures employed. Moreover, the PIMS procedure has both served as an efficient tool for identifying central concepts of a scene and a way to validate the results of the gesture analysis. We suggest that this integrative approach to metaphor may be used to provide clues about the embodied motivation of a metaphor at an individual level.

November 22, 2022

Reading perspectives on feeling and the semiotics of emotion

Victoria Reeve

Page range: 249-267

Abstract

This interdisciplinary approach to the semiotics of emotion offers insights on emotion as a semantic category organising an array of feelings, thoughts and sensations into meaningful (communicable) terms. This is achieved via an exploration of the role of perspective-taking in making meanings that are felt rather than expressly articulated through words. Forming a semiotic system based on embodied experiences and their contexts, emotions, as semantic categories, are the first stage in processes of expression and communication. I lay the groundwork for an interdisciplinary semiotics of emotion in accordance with findings and stances taken in the fields of literary and cultural studies, neuroscience, and cognitive and comparative psychology. Narrative empathy (sometimes called narrative emotion), like emotion per se, stands upon processes of communication involving the interpretive capacities of feeling, cognitive processes of identification, and perspective-taking . Feeling, beginning as an interpretation of sensorial and neurologically driven values, intensifies through the cognitive-affectual interpretative processes of perspective-taking. With recursive (multi-perspectival) feeling resulting in intensifications of feeling we recognise as emotion, I define emotion as a complex recursive pattern of feeling and affect that calls attention to itself in terms that are readily identifiable with semantic categories such as love, hate, shame, sadness, and anger.

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Editorial

Editor-in-Chief

Peer F. Bundgaard
Aarhus University
Center for Semiotics
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7
8000 Aarhus
Denmark
Email: sempb@dac.au.dk

Associate Editors

Merlin Donald (Queen's University, Canada)
Bruno Galantucci (Yeshiva University, USA)
Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Göran Sonesson (Lund University, Sweden)

Editorial Board

Per Aage Brandt (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Seana Coulson (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Terrence W. Deacon (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis, USA)
Jean Petitot (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)
Frederik Stjernfelt (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
Evan Thompson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Patrizia Violi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Jordan Zlatev (Lund University, Sweden)

Advisory Board

Liliana Albertazzi (University of Trento, Italy)
Chiara Ambrosio (University College London, UK)
Juana Isabel Marin-Arrese (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Bernard Baars (The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA, USA)
Alexander Bergs (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
Luis Emilio Bruni (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Roberto Casati (Jean Nicod Institute, Paris, France)
Roberto Flores (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico)
Rick Grush (University of California, San Diego, USA)
David Herman (Ohio State University, USA)
Barend van Heusden (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Mark Johnson (University of Oregon, USA)
Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Jean Lassègue (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)
Ronald Langacker (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Michael Leyton (Rutgers University, USA)
Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Raymond A. Mar (York University, Canada)
Irene Mittelberg (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Frederic Nef (Jean Nicod Institute, Paris, France)
Douglas Niño (Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia)
Martina Plümacher (Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany)
Roberto Poli (University of Trento, Italy)
Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Chris Sinha (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Jesper Sørensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Mónica Tamariz (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Reuven Tsur (Tel Aviv University, Israel)†
Kristian Tylén (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Mikkel Wallentin (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Wolfgang Wildgen (University of Bremen, Germany)

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Online ISSN: 2235-2066
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: September 10, 2007
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
Keywords: semiotics; cognitive science; philosophy of mind; psychology; anthropology; aesthetics