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- Andrén, Mats
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The social world within reach: Intersubjective manifestations of action completion.
- 2012
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In: Cognitive Semiotics. - 2235-2066. ; 4:1, s. 139-166
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This is a study of the intersubjective recognizability of the “proper” accomplishment of children’s actions, and in particular of how the status of actions as properly completed is often actively made recognizable through speech and various modulations of bodily movement. In addition to analyzing how children do this in a number of cases, it is also argued that these manifestations of action completion often are strongly dependent on typified conventional knowledge, and that conventionality on the side of the signified is a neglected issue in research on gesture. The data consists of video recordings of four Swedish children between 24–30 months of age who interact with their parents at home. The analysis is framed in ideas about intersubjectivity and action drawn in particular from Alfred Schutz and Adam Kendon, but also others, and these theoretical syntheses are themselves a substantial part of the contribution of this paper.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Iconic semiosis and representational efficiency in the London Underground Diagram
- 2014
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In: Cognitive Semiotics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1662-1425 .- 2235-2066. ; 7:2, s. 177-190
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The icon is the type of sign connected to efficient representational features, and its manipulation reveals more information about its object. The London Underground Diagram (LUD) is an iconic artifact and a well-known example of representational efficiency, having been copied by urban transportation systems worldwide. This paper investigates the efficiency of the LUD in the light of different conceptions of iconicity. We stress that a specialized representation is an icon of the formal structure of the problem for which it has been specialized. By embedding such rules of action and behavior, the icon acts as a semiotic artifact distributing cognitive effort and participating in niche construction.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Multilevel poetry translation as a problem-solving task
- 2016
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In: Cognitive Semiotics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1662-1425 .- 2235-2066. ; 9:2, s. 139-147
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Poems are treated by translators as hierarchical multilevel systems. Here we propose the notion of 'multilevel poetry translation' to characterize such cases of poetry translation in terms of selection and rebuilding of a multilevel system of constraints across languages. Different levels of a poem correspond to different sets of components that asymmetrically constrain each other (e. g., grammar, lexicon, syntactic construction, prosody, rhythm, typography, etc.). This perspective allows a poem to be approached as a thinking-tool: an 'experimental lab' which submits language to unusual conditions and provides a scenario to observe the emergence of new patterns of semiotic behaviour as a result. We describe this operation as a problem-solving task, and exemplify with Augusto de Campos' Portuguese translation of John Donne's poem 'The Expiration.'
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- Larsson, Andreas, Ph.D, 1977-, et al.
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Analysing the elements of a scene : An integrative approach to metaphor identification in a naturalistic setting
- 2022
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In: Cognitive Semiotics. - Berlin/Boston : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1662-1425 .- 2235-2066. ; 15:2, s. 223-248
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Lenninger, Sara
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Foreword
- 2024
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In: Cognitive Semiotics. - : De Gruyter Open Ltd.. - 2235-2066. ; 17:1, s. 1-5
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Lenninger, Sara
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Psychologism in the study of children's semiotic development
- 2024
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In: Cognitive Semiotics. - : De Gruyter Open Ltd.. - 2235-2066. ; 17:1, s. 157-171
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This essay discusses the notion of 'semiotic development in child development' and highlights potential concerns for 'psychologism' when semiotics turns into cognitive semiotics. The notion of 'semiotic development in child development' indicates a transdisciplinary approach involving both semiotics, the general study of meaning and signs, and child psychology. This, however, invites the criticism of committing the fallacy of psychologism. Piaget was aware of this dilemma when developing his theory of the semiotic function as a united capacity in children's cognitive development. Sonesson's proposal of a general definition of signs in meaning-making is suggested to, at some points, meet the dilemma with psychologism in studies of children's semiotic development. Starting from a phenomenological point of view in semiotics and integrating Piaget's theory on cognitive development and meaning-making meet the study of subjectivity in intersubjectivity. On the one hand, the sign as a theoretical object is not reducible to any given psychological process or processes; on the other hand, sign meaning can only exist if there are beings (consciousnesses) capable of grasping and using signs.
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- Lenninger, Sara
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The metaphor and the iconic attitude
- 2019
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In: Cognitive semiotics. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 2235-2066. ; 12:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper discusses visual metaphors and aspects of similarity in relation to metaphors. The concept of metaphor should here be understood as a semiotic unit that is also a sign (cf. Ricœur, P. 1986. The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.). This implies that not all semiotic units are signs, but also that not all signs are typical metaphors. The metaphor is a particular kind of sign because of its making use of the openness present in similarity relations. Metaphorical meaning making is related to a quality of vagueness in iconic sign relations. Furthermore, a notion of iconic attitude is proposed as a designation of subjective and intersubjective perspectives that might be taken on meanings founded on similarity. The iconic attitude mirrors the flexibility of thought and responds to the potentiality of vagueness in iconic sign relations; but, at the same time, the iconic attitude works as a stabilizing factor for meaning. Moreover, this attitude is crucial for the specification of the similarity relation in an actual sign experience with an iconic ground.
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- Lenninger, Sara
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The metaphor and the iconic attitude
- 2019
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In: Cognitive Semiotics. - : De Gruyter Open Ltd.. - 2235-2066. ; 12:1, s. 1-11
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper discusses visual metaphors and aspects of similarity in relation to metaphors. The concept of metaphor should here be understood as a semiotic unit that is also a sign (cf. Ricœur, P. 1986. The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.). This implies that not all semiotic units are signs, but also that not all signs are typical metaphors. The metaphor is a particular kind of sign because of its making use of the openness present in similarity relations. Metaphorical meaning making is related to a quality of vagueness in iconic sign relations. Furthermore, a notion of iconic attitude is proposed as a designation of subjective and intersubjective perspectives that might be taken on meanings founded on similarity. The iconic attitude mirrors the flexibility of thought and responds to the potentiality of vagueness in iconic sign relations; but, at the same time, the iconic attitude works as a stabilizing factor for meaning. Moreover, this attitude is crucial for the specification of the similarity relation in an actual sign experience with an iconic ground.
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