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 16 Issue 1

May 2023

Publicly Available June 26, 2023

Frontmatter

Page range: i-ii

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Miscellaneous

May 22, 2023

Eulogy for Göran Sonesson (17 October 1951 – 17 March 2023)

Page range: 1-2

Articles

June 5, 2023

The cognitive advantages of the notebook

Pablo Fernandez-Velasco, Jade Nijman, Roberto Casati

Page range: 3-21

Abstract

Notebooks are widely used in a large number of professional and everyday life contexts. The notebook has been widely mentioned in the context of distributed cognition, the extended mind hypothesis and the study of cognitive artefacts. Despite its ubiquity and almost paradigmatic status, to date, there is no dedicated analysis of the notebook qua cognitive artefact, to explain its success and its resilience. Our aim is to fill this gap in the literature by studying a set of cognitive advantages of the notebook. For our analysis, we employ the methodological framework of distributed cognition. Using this framework, we find a series of cognitive advantages at both an individual and at a group level. At an individual level, these include external non-biological memory, the consolidation of long-term biological memory encoding, effects on attention modulation, an enhancement in metacognition and the graphication of thought. At the group level, the cognitive advantages include collaboration, the transference of content from one user to another, group-level metacognition, coordination, and the transformation of the overall epistemological setting in which notebook use takes place.

May 19, 2023

Managing abductions in working memory: the influence of percepts

Donna E. West

Page range: 23-43

Abstract

This inquiry addresses how working memory underpins abductive inferences, given their means to objectify meanings. Binding experiences in WM: integrates features with objects, makes obvious object situatedness, and determines impingement of objects upon other objects. These meaning chunks verify how events affect consequences, tracing episodic profiles. WM binding is essential to the evolution of sign meanings, when hatching inferences about which objects/events should be included in the same image, illustrating how WM bindings are implicated in constructing Percepts. Percepts mark the starting point when new meanings are attributed to objects (7.671). These new meanings materialize consequent to implied predicative alterations. WM chunks consist in locative and/or descriptive predicates; they can be implicit in Terms, or explicit in Propositions (1908: 8.373). As Terms with implied predicates, percepts provide the building blocks to attribute new meanings to event profiles, complying with Peirce’s proviso that interpretants “have to be much widened” (1906: 4.538).

May 12, 2023

Mnemonics as signs of memory: semiotics and agency

Joel West

Page range: 45-67

Abstract

This paper engages the question of the extended mind hypothesis, specifically in terms of memory and mnemonics. I use the case of an external object which is set to trigger a memory internally, but is not the memory, to explore the idea of extension versus distribution. I use the example of tzitzit, which is a garment worn by observant Jewish men, where is states in scripture that seeing the tassels attached to the garment are supposed to trigger a specific memory. The point of the essay is that extension is merely a metaphysical commitment, and that this commitment leads to some ethical issues.

June 5, 2023

In the fold of the manifold: a reflection on Bloomsbury Semiotics

Ľudmila Lacková

Page range: 69-89

Abstract

This is a short overview of the newly published four-volume anthology edited by Jamin Pelkey et al. titled Bloomsbury Semiotics , with a critical reflection upon the disciplinary status of general semiotics today. The paper proposes methods and principles for future semiotic research and observes the overall trajectory of semiotics during the age of the business model of university life and the marginalization of the humanities. The paper supports the major position of Bloomsbury Semiotics , which is to conceive of semiotics as the most effective platform for revitalizing the humanities in cooperation with hard science, and the reintegration of Peirce and Saussure as the theoretical bedrock of general semiotics.

Volume 16 (2023)

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CiteScore	2.5	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.201	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
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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, Kingston, Canada)
Bruno Galantucci (Yeshiva University, New York, USA)
Sara Lenninger (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)
Göran Sonesson† (Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Editorial Board

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

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