Göran Sonesson, Lund University

2008-2015

The major goal of the research program Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS) has been to establish a research field focusing on meaning, combining concepts and methods from semiotic theory, linguistics and cognitive science. Empirical methods and phenomenological analysis are employed to illuminate the theoretical issues resulting from this encounter. The main question has been: what is specifically human meaning-making? To answer, we have investigated the biological and historical processes that made us different from other animals.
From the point of view of institutionalization, the program has been a distinct success. Since 2013, Cognitive Semiotics is one of a PhD subject at Lund University, as well as a specialization within the MA in language and linguistics. After the 2011 conference "Towards Cognitive Semiotics" of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), CCS took the lead to establishing the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) in 2013, Zlatev becoming its first president. Sonesson is a member of the five person editorial board of the journal Cognitive Semiotics (deGruyter), and Sonesson and Zlatev are series editors of Advances in Cognitive Semiotics, to be published by Peter Lang. In September 2014 we organized the first international IACS conference, with over 140 participants from 29 countries, ranging from Japan and Taiwan in the East, to Columbia and Mexico in the West. CCS also organized a number of international workshops on cognitive semiotics development (2012) as well as on linguistic typology and cognition (2013).
Originally, we proposed two general hypotheses: (a) the cognitive-semiotic specificity of mankind is not found in language alone, but in the means of conveying meaning more generally; (b) there are both biological adaptations and historical evolution that underlie this. Our research has to a large extent confirmed these hypotheses. We have showed that many linguistic categories are grounded in phenomenological experience, e.g. with respect to space and movement, and we have provided evidence that gesture and pictures are as specific to human beings as language. The role of cultural evolution is highlighted in a forthcoming volume on mimesis, language, pictures, religion, urbanity and cultural encounters (Dunér & Sonesson, in press). Moreover, our seminars and our publications have contributed to the development of cognitive semiotics as a field, as well as to the integration of phenomenological and experimental methods. Research within CCS has taken place as planned within five interconnected themes:
Theme 1 addressed the topics language evolution, evolution of concepts, emotional synchronisation and non-human sign use. The comparison with other species is a common way to reconstruct ancestral features in human beings. For these purposes previous collaborations with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Sonesson) and Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik (Persson) have been employed, together with newly developed collaborations with the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (Madsen). The overlap of staff and interests made it natural to integrate the evolutionary Theme 1 and the ontogenetic Theme 2 in the two final years of the program. We performed experiments with non-human primates and children, focusing on the roles of imitation and intersubjectivity in the development of sign use. Several of these studies have been published, and more are submitted or in preparation. Our major joint paper (Zlatev et al. 2013) was a landmark in showing the application of the "conceptual-empirical spiral" of cognitive semiotics.
Theme 2 concerned research on the development of cognitive-semiotic abilities in children involving language, gestures, pictures, and other kinds of semiotic resources. A main question was: how do these relate to each other and to general cognitive and representational capacities? This integrative way of looking at development -- not just of one semiotic capacity at a time -- has been a major focus of CCS. It was important to establish the term "semiotic development" to refer to precisely this integrative study of many different kinds of semiotic skills and capacities in children. This theme has been a showcase for the integration of semiotic theory and empirical research, all the studies and papers having been concerned with notions such as "sign", "meaning", "representation", "communicative intentions", "indexicality", "iconicity", "conventionality/normativity", "intersubjectivity" and/or "compositionality" (all of which were mentioned in the grant application).
Apart from the research together with Theme 1, Theme 2 had three sub-projects focusing on language and gesture, pictorial competence, and theories of semiotic development. The study of gesture and speech development in Thai and Swedish children, based on a longitudinal video corpus of naturalistic interactions, has resulted in several publications, as well as in an internationally acclaimed PhD thesis (2010) by Mats Andrén, who is now board member of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Sara Lenninger defended her PhD thesis on pictorial development in 2013. Together with Lenninger, Persson and Sonesson compared children's understanding of what they see when looking at things through a window, in a direct video, in a pre-recorded video, and in a mirror, suggesting that the first two cases are almost equally easy, and the second pair is almost equally difficult. This study is original in integrating mirror image understanding into the interpretation of pictures, not exclusively relating it to the concept of self.
Theme 3 investigated universal human characteristics that are not exclusively biological, trying to delineate how they have evolved. Semiotics of culture was used to connect the study of history with studies in ontogeny and phylogeny, accounting for the emergence of culture as a memory device. Many individual contributions could be mentioned here, but the major deliverable is Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution (in press, Peter Lang, 330pp), divided into ten chapters dedicated to evolutionary cultural semiotics, mimesis, language, religion, urbanity, picture, art, narrativity, science, and cultural encounters. Moreover, it resulted in in three successful spin-offs: the Amazonas project, investigating language, culture and identity (now with its own financing) and the Cultural Encounters project (now financed by the Wallenberg foundation), and the Narratology project.
The research in Theme 4 focused on linguistic typology from a cognitive semiotic perspective, involving the explanation of recurrent semantic features of language from panhuman features of consciousness and cognition. Grammar is conventionalized verbal communication, constrained by properties of the medium, including cognitive and physiological limitations. A cognitive-semiotic perspective on language implied questioning the "Saussurean dogma" of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign investigating the phenomenon of sound symbolism. Apart from numerous articles, this research is exemplified by Johan Blomberg's PhD thesis in 2014, which provides a theoretical and empirical account of actual and non-actual motion, using phenomenological analysis to delineate how they are conventionalized in Swedish, French and Thai. Ahlner & Zlatev (2010) provide a cognitive-semiotic explication of sound symbolism and an innovative empirical study showing a role for both vowels and consonants in establishing the iconic ground b/n signifier and signified. No substantial changes of the theme took place, apart from the research on parallels between language and music being branched off to an independent project (headed by Håkan Lundström, Malmö Music Academy).
Our intention with Theme 5 was to build on the brain imaging methods of neurolinguistics and to extend these methods to other semiotic systems. Since our collaborators with the most expertise in this field (Horne and Roll) found independent funding for their neurolinguistic studies, we decided to shift the focus to experimental visual semiotics, involving still pictures (drawings and photographs); moving pictures (film); non-verbal forms of human communication (facial expressions); verbal and visual narratives; and semantic/pragmatic levels of interpretation (in e.g., food packages). An eye-tracking study investigating the impact of emotional contexts on the viewer's interpretation of an actor's facial expressions (Barratt, Cabak Rédei, Innes-Ker, & van de Weijer, submitted) showed the potential of cognitive semiotics for film studies. In another study on pictorial narrativity, conducted by Michael Ranta, participants were shown artworks with either accurate or inaccurate titles, which resulted in different gaze patterns. In collaboration with Copenhagen Business School, Zlatev and Barrett realised a number of published studies concerning the interpretation of noun-noun compounds (denoting real and fictive food products) presented either in isolation, in sentences, or in verbo-visual contexts.
As intended, we have created a database containing a corpus of data concerning the use of language and other semiotic resources, including video documentation, which is transcribed and tagged. However, partly due to the heterogeneity of the legal status of different sets of data, and partly to the fact that no long term financing is available for future maintenance of such a website, we chose not to make this database publicly accessible.
A direct spin-off from the work in Theme 1 and 2 was the VR-funded project "The chameleon effect as a facilitator of intra- and cross-species imitation" headed by Elainie Madsen and including in total three members from CCS. The study of nonhuman understanding of semiotic resources other than symbols/language has spurred several new research questions and some new collaboration, notably with Julianne Kaminski at University of Portsmouth for extending our study of mirror image interpretation as signs to chimpanzees at Ngamba Island, Uganda. The collaboration with Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary has continued after CCS. The potential for eye tracking in semiotic studies on animals has also been discovered during the time of CCS, and will be further developed in the future. We are at present looking for financing for a project pursuing the developmental aspect of pictorial semiotics, as a direct sequel to Theme 2.
The cultural semiotic approach to cultural encounters within Theme 3 led to the project, entitled "The Making of Them and Us (MaTUs)", funded by The Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, 2014-2016, which will increase our knowledge concerning the cognitive and semiotic mechanisms of images depicting the other and self of cultures, in particular in the historical periods of early modernity and current times. Our research has also contributed to a deeper understanding of narratives in human cognitive processes, particularly narrativity conveyed by pictures, but we are still in search of financing for this extension of the program.
The results of our study of iconicity in Theme 4 show that linguistic sound symbolism is both more widely spread, and more psychologically efficacious (e.g. in language acquisition) than previously thought, and should be investigated further. This ties in naturally with the study of iconicity in gestures and pictures (studied in Themes 1 and 2 from the point of view of development) and in signed languages. Furthermore, the theme has opened up ways of looking at grammar from a combined functional-formal perspective, in that some of the basic axioms of formalist syntax (binarity, hierarchical structure, endocentricity) are shown to be derivable from functional or cognitive principles of economy, allowing us to salvage several empirical generalizations captured by formalist syntax without invoking the concept of innateness.
As mentioned at the start, the CCS program has been instrumental in fomenting the international research community, bringing together researchers interested in these issues in the International Association of Cognitive Semiotics. Many foreign scholars have given invited talks at our seminar, and many of us have also been invited to other research centres and as plenary lecturers at conferences. Moreover, we have realised empirical studies in collaboration with linguists in Paris, cognitive scientists in Lublin and Torun, primatologists in Leipzig, psychologists in Copenhagen and Portsmouth, and so on. At other levels, we have had collaborations with semioticians in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Tartu, and Liège. We have also had visiting scholars for extended periods from China, Poland and Romania. Finally, Sonesson and Zlatev taught the course "Introduction to Cognitive Semiotics" at the cognitive science department in Lublin, Poland in May 2014, and will do so again during 2015.
Our Theme 1 study of contagious yawning from humans to dogs (Madsen & Persson, 2013) and chimpanzees (Madsen et al, 2013) generated big media interest, the first becoming one of 10 most downloaded papers in Animal Cognition in 2012, and the second resulting in the YouTube news piece produced by Lund University being included in Yahoo News!'s roundup of the 10 most viral news that week.
The CCS program has resulted in numerous articles, listed in the appendix according to the five themes and their subprojects. Three doctoral dissertations have been finished by students affiliated to the program: Andrén (2010); Lenninger (2012); Blomberg (2014). All three became subsequently members of CCS. Apart from that, we would like to point to a set of publications as showcases for what we mean by the term cognitive semiotics, since they are experimental and, at the same time, fully theoretically informed, and make use of concepts derived from semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science, and psychology: Zlatev, Madsen, Lenninger, Persson, Sayehli, Sonesson, & Weijer, (2013); Hribar, Call, & Sonesson, (2014); Lenninger, Persson, & Sonesson (submitted); Sonesson & Lenninger (in press).
When the program was initiated in 2009, Open Access publication was not well-established, so it was never a question of applying for financing for it. Nevertheless, one of our publications (Madsen et al. 2013) was an open access publication, and several have appeared in the open-access journal Public Journal of Semiotics (PJOS). We have all made our papers publicly available on the Internet in other ways, most of them on the webpage of the program (http://projekt.ht.lu.se/en/ccs/publications/), at the Lund University publication website, and/or at our individual websites at ResearchGate or Academia.edu. Otherwise, our papers have appeared in well-known peer-reviewed publications within semiotics, cognitive science, linguistics and psychology.

Publications

Theme 1. Evolution

Human cognitive-semiotic evolution
Brinck, I. (2010) Contexts of language diversity. In Smith, A.D.M., Schouwstra, M., de Boer, B. & Smith, K. (eds.), The Evolution of Language (373-374).
Gärdenfors, P., Brinck, I. & Osvath, M. (2012) The tripod effect: Evolutionary perspectives on cooperation, cognition and communication. In Schilhab, T., Stjernfelt, F. & Deacon, T. (eds.), The Symbolic Species Evolved (193-222).
Sinha, C. (2014) Niche construction and semiosis: Biocultural and social dynamics. In Dor, D., Knight, C. & Lewis, J. (eds.), The Social Origins of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sinha, C. (2013) Niche construction, too, unifies praxis and symbolization. Commentary on Michael Arbib: How the brain got language. Language and Cognition.
Sinha, C. (2013) Meaning and materiality: How language grounds symbolic cognitive artefacts (in translation). In Moro, C. & Muller Mirza, N. (Eds.) Psychologie du développement, sémiotique et culture. Paris: Presses du Septentrion.
Sinha, C. (2012) Commentary on Joao Queiroz.  The semiotic evolution of toolmaking: The role of symbols for work towards delayed reward. Intellectica 2012/2(58): 295-296
Sonesson, G. (2012) Anthroposemiotics. In Favareau, D., Cobley, P. & Kull, K. (eds.), A More Developed Sign (25-28). Tartu, Finland: Tartu University Press.
Sonesson, G. (2012) Semiosis beyond signs: On two or three missing links on the way to human beings. In Schilhab, T., Stjernfelt, S. & Deacon, T. (eds.), The Symbolic Species Evolved (81-96). Dordrecht: Springer.
Sonesson, G. (2010) From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: Reflections on a general theory of iconicity, Sign Systems Studies 38(1/4): 18-66.
Sonesson, G. (2009) Here comes the semiotic species: Reflections on the semiotic turn in the cognitive sciences. In Wagoner, B. (ed.), Symbolic transformations: The mind in movement through culture and society (38-58). Routledge: London.
Sonesson, G. (in press) The mirror and the virtual world. From hominisation to digitalization. To appear in the acts of Segundo congreso mundial de semiótica y comunicacion. Monterrey, Mexico, Octubre 19 a 22, 2006.
Sonesson, G. (in press) The Eternal Return of the New. From Cultural Semiotics to Evolutionary Theory and Back Again. To be published in Proceedings of 10th International Conference of the Greek society of Semiotics, Volos, October 4-6, 2013.
Toyota, J. (2009) On the evolutionary history of 'yes' and 'no'. In Zlatev, J., Andrén, M., Johansson Falck, M. & Lundmark, C. (eds.), Studies in Language and Cognition (504-517). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Zlatev, J. (2009) The semiotic hierarchy: Life, consciousness, signs and language, Cognitive Semiotics, 4: 169-200.
Zlatev, J. (2009) Levels of meaning embodiment and communication. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 16(3-4): 149-174.
Zlatev, J. (2014). Bodily Mimesis and the Transition to Speech. In M. Pina and N. Gontier (eds.), The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates, Interdisciplinary Evolution Research 1
Zlatev, J. (2014) The coevolution of language, intersubjectivity and morality. In Dor, D., Knight, C. & Lewis, J. (eds.), The Social Origins of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zlatev, J. (2014). Human Uniqueness, Bodily Mimesis and the Evolution of Language HUMANA.MENTE - Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27.


Evolution of concepts
Ranta, M. (in press). Art, Aesthetic Value, and Beauty : On the Evolutionary Foundations of ‘Narrative Resemblance Concepts’. I Wilkoszewska, K. & Chudoba, E. (Red.) Proceedings of 19th International Congress of Aesthetics 2013, Krakow: Naturalizing Aesthetics. Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
Parthemore, J. (2015, in press), The case for protoconcepts: Why concepts, language, and protolanguage All need protoconcepts. Theoria et Historia Scientarum. 
Parthemore, J. (2013) The unified conceptual space theory: An enactive theory of concepts. Adaptive Behavior 21: 168-177

Emotional synchronisation
Madsen, E. A., Persson, T. (in prep) Contagious yawning in human socialised grey wolves (Canis lupus lupus): A test of the social domestication hypothesis and the effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on low-level imitation in wolves.
Madsen, E. A., Persson, T. (in prep) A test of the effect of social group-living the inclination to low level imitation: contagious yawning in tigers (Panthera tigris), lions (Panthera leo) and cougars (Felis concolor)
Madsen, E. A., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., Lenninger, S., & Sonesson, G. (2013). Chimpanzees show a developmental increase in susceptibility to contagious yawning: A test of the effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on yawn contagion. PloS one, 8(10), e76266.
Madsen, E. & Persson, T. (2012) Contagious yawning in domestic dog puppies (Canis lupus familiaris): the effect of ontogeny and emotional closeness on low-level imitation in dogs. Animal Cognition, 6(2): 233-24.

Non-human sign-use
Hribar, A., Call, J. & Sonesson, G  (2014). From sign to action. Studies in chimpanzee pictorial competence. In Semiotica, 198, 205-240
Persson, T. (2011) Do animals have imagination? Using pictures to study the representational abilities of great apes. The Irish Times (4 September 2011), El Pais (13 September 2011), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (23 September 2011)
Persson, T. (2009) Tests of true pictorial competence in chimpanzees: The case of drawings. In Zlatev, J., Andrén, M., Johansson Falck, M. & Lundmark, C. (eds.) Studies in Language and Cognition (73-90). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
Sonesson, G. (2013) The picture between mirror and mind. From phenomenology to empirical studies in pictorial semiotics. Origins of Pictures - Anthropological Discourses in Image Science, Chemnitz, March 30 - April 1, 2011. Sachs-Hombach, Klaus, & Schirra, Jörg R.J. (eds)., 270-210
Sonesson, G. (2009) New considerations on the proper study of man – and, marginally, some other animals, Cognitive Semiotics, 4 (Spring 2009); also in Sonesson, G. & Zlatev, J. (eds.), Anthroposemiotics vs. Biosemiotics (133-168).
Zlatev, J., Madsen, E.A., Lenninger, S., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., Sonesson, G. & Weijer, J.v.d. (2013) Understanding communicative intentions and semiotic vehicles by children and chimpanzees. Cognitive Development 28: 312-329

Theme 2. Development
A general theory of semiotic development
Brinck, I. & Liljenfors, R. (2009) Metacognitive development in early infancy. In Carassa, A., Morganti, F. & Riva, G. (eds.), Enacting Intersubjectivity: Paving the way for a Dialogue between Cognitive Science, Social Cognition and Neuroscience (17-18). Como, Italy: Larioprint.
Brinck, I. & Liljenfors, R. (2012) The developmental origin of metacognition. Infant and Child Development, 22(1), 85–101.
Brinck, I. (2014). Developing an understanding of social norms and games: Emotional engagement, nonverbal agreement and conversation. Theory & Psychology, 1-18. Published online before print October 31, 2014.
Lenninger, Sara (2012). When Similarity Qualifies as a Sign: A Study in Picture Understanding and Semiotic Development in Young Children. Doctoral dissertation in semiotics, Lund University, Sweden.
McCune,. L. & Zlatev, J (in press).  Dynamic systems in semiotic development: The transition to reference. Cognitive Development.
Sinha, C. (2009). Objects in a storied world: materiality, narrativity and normativity. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16 (6-8): 167-190
Sinha, C. (2012). (Dis-)Continuity, (inter-)corporeality and conventionality in dialogical development. In Bertau, M.-C., Gonçalves, M. & Raggatt, P. (Eds.) Dialogic formations: investigations into the origins and development of the dialogical self (pp. 145-153). Information Age Publishing.
Sinha, C. (2014). Signification et matérialité: Le langage au fondement des artefacts symboliques. In Moro, C. & Muller Mirza, N. Psychologie du développement, sémiotique et culture. Paris: Presses du Septentrion.
Sonesson, Göran (2009) Prologomena to a general theory of iconicity. Considerations on language, gesture, and pictures. In Naturalness and Iconicity in Language. Willems, Klaus, & De Cuypere, Ludovic, eds. 47-72. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Sonesson, Göran (2013)  From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: Reflections on a general theory of iconicity. In Sign Systems Studies 38(1/4), 2010, 18-66.
Sonesson, G. & Lenninger, S., (in press)  From the window to the movie by way of the mirror. Accepted for publication i Cognitive Development
Zlatev, J., Madsen, E.A., Lenninger, S., Persson, T., Sayehli, S., Sonesson, G. & Weijer, J.v.d. (2013) Understanding communicative intentions and semiotic vehicles by children and chimpanzees. Cognitive Development 28: 312-329.
Zlatev, J. (2013) The mimesis hierarchy of semiotic development: Five stages of intersubjectivity in children, Public Journal of Semiotics 4(2): 47-70.
Zlatev, J. and McCune, L. (2014). Toward and integrated model of semiotic development. Cognitive Development: Theories, Stages, Processes and Challenges, R. Chen (ed.), 59-76. New York: Nova Publishers.

Gesture and its connection to language
Andrén, Mats (2010). Children's Gestures Between 18 and 30 Months. Doctoral dissertation. Centre for Languages and Literature: Lund University.
Andrén, Mats (2011). The organization of children’s pointing stroke endpoints. In: Gale Stam & Mika Ishino (Eds.), Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 153-162.
Andrén, Mats (2012). The social world within reach: Intersubjective manifestations of action completion. Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, 4(1), 139–166.
Andrén, Mats (2014). Book Review: Gesture and multimodal development: John Benjamins (2012). First Language, 34(3), 292–295.
Andrén, Mats (2014). Children's Gestures in Sweden. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (Eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 1282–1289.
Andrén, Mats (2014). On the lower limit of gesture. In: Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Gullberg, Marianne (Eds.), From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 153–174.
Andrén, Mats (in press). Multimodal constructions in children: Is the headshake part of language? Gesture.
Sonesson, Göran (2014)  Some issues in the semiotics of gesture. The perspective of comparative semiotics. In Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., Ledewig, S., McNeill, D., & Bressem, J., (Eds). Body - language – communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Communication. Volume 2, 1989-1999. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Zlatev, Jordan & Andrén, Mats (2009). Stages and transitions in children’s semiotic development. In: Jordan Zlatev, Mats Andrén, Carita Lundmark & Marlene Johansson Falck (Eds.), Studies in Language and Cognition. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 380–401.
Zlatev, J. (2014). Image schemas, mimetic schemas, and children’s gestures. Cognitive Semiotics, 7(1): 3-29.
Zlatev, J. (in press). The emergence of gestures. In B. MacWhinney and W. O’Grady (Eds.) The Handbook of Language Emergence. Malden, MA.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing


Development of pictorial competence
Lenninger (2009). In search of differentiations in the development the picture sign, in Tarasti, E. (ed.) Communication: Understanding/Misunderstanding, Volume 2, Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the IASS/AIS 2007 (893-952). Helsinki: Acta Semiotica Fennica.
Lenninger, Sara (2012). When Similarity Qualifies as a Sign: A Study in Picture Understanding and Semiotic Development in Young Children. Doctoral dissertation in semiotics, Lund University, Sweden.
Lenninger, Sara (2012) Pictoriality in early picture comprehension, Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of Semiotics (AISS-AIS), A Coruna 2009.
Lenninger, Sara, Persson, Tomas, & Sonesson, Göran (submitted). Do two year old children use information from video and mirror images to find a hidden object? The factor of contiguity in young children’s perception of reference in primary iconic signs. In preparation.
Sonesson, G. (2013) Aspects of ‘physiognomic depiction’ in pictures. From macchia to microgenesis. In Culture & Psychology 19, 4: Special issue on Werner and Kaplan’s Symbol formation. 533-547. Sage Online Editions. cab.sagepub.com/content/vol19/issue4/
Sonesson, Göran (2013) The picture between mirror and mind. From phenomenology to empirical studies in pictorial semiotics. Origins of Pictures - Anthropological Discourses in Image Science, Chemnitz, March 30 - April 1, 2011. Sachs-Hombach, Klaus, & Schirra, Jörg R.J. (eds)., 270-210.
Sonesson, Göran & Lenninger, Sara, (in press) From the window to the movie by way of the mirror. Accepted for publication in Cognitive Development.

Theme 3. History/Culture
Book project: D. Dunér and G. Sonesson (eds.), Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution. Peter Lang: Berne and Pieterlen.
Göran Sonesson & David Dunér Introduction
1.    Göran Sonesson: Theory. Human History as the Continuation of Evolution by Other Means
2.    Jordan Zlatev: Mimesis. Bodily Mimesis and the Evolution of Human Culture and Language
3.    Gerd Carling: Language. From Mimetic to Mythic to Theoretic: The Role of Culture
4.    Sara Lenninger: Picture. The Picture and the Subsidiary Awareness of a Communicator
5.    Michael Ranta: Art. On the Evolutionary Foundations of Art and Aesthetics
6.    Anna Cabak Rédei & Michael Ranta: Narrativity. Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Aspects of Narrativity
7.     Andreas Nordlander: Religion. The Semiotics of the Axial Age
8.    Göran Sonesson & Gunnar Sandin. Urbanity. The City as the Specifically Human Niche
9.    David Dunér: Science. The Structure of Scientific Evolutions
10.     David Dunér & Göran Sonesson: Encounters. The Discovery of the Unknown

Historical linguistics
Carling, G. (submitted). Proto-language or proto-language? Bridges and deadlocks in reconstructing language evolution in prehistory.
Carling, G. (submitted). Language mixing and linguistic structure: Grammatical morphology, gender and animacy in Scandinavian Romani.
Johansson, N. (2014). Tracking Linguistic Primitives: The Phonosemantic Realization of Fundamental Oppositional Pairs (Master thesis). Lund: Lund University.
Johansson, N. and Carling, G. (2015). The De-Iconization and Rebuilding of Iconicity in Spatial Deixis: An Indo-European Case Study. Acta Linguistic Hafniensia 47.1.
Zlatev, J. (in press). Bodily mimesis and the evolution of human culture and language. In Dunér, D. and Sonesson, G. (eds.), Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution. Berne and Pieterlen: Peter Lang.

Visual communication
Björgvinsson, E. and Sandin, G., 2015 (in press). Patients making place: A photography-based intervention about appropriation of hospital spaces. In ARCH14 Conference proceedings. Helsinki: Aalto University Press.
Kärrholm, M. and Sandin, G. (2011). Waiting Places as Temporal Interstices and Agents of Change. In TRANS, Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, no 18/2011, http://www.inst.at/trans/18Nr/II-1/kaerrholm_sandin18.htm.
Lawaczeck-Körner, K., Johansson M. and Sandin, G. (2012). A pedestrian-oriented view of the built environment: A Vista Observation Analysis (VOA) of urban form. In Environmental Psychology Monographs, no 23, Architecture and Built Environment Faculty of Engineering, Lund University.
Petersson, A., Sandin G. and Liljas Stålhandske, M. (accepted). Room of Silence: an Arena for Existential Meaning-Making. In Mortality. London: Routledge.
Ranta, M. (2010). Report: The XVIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics – ‘Diversities in Aesthetics’ (Peking University, Beijing, China, 9–13 August 2010). In Contemporary Aesthetics 8.
Ranta, M. (2010). Narrativity and Historicism in National Socialist Art. In Kunsttexte.de, Politische Ikonographie 3.
Ranta, M. (2011). Stories in Pictures (and Non-Pictorial Objects) – A Narratological and Cognitive Psychological Approach. In Contemporary Aesthetics 9.
Ranta, M. (2012). An Exploratory Pilot Study on Pictorial Narrativity and Eye Scan Patterns. In J. Chan (ed.). National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)/ International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA), 66–87.
Ranta, M. (2013a). (Re-)Creating Order: Narrativity and Implied World Views in Pictures. In D. Herman (ed.). Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 5:1–30, University of Nebraska Press.
Ranta, M. (2013b). Narrativity and Fiction in Pictures. In L. Stansbie and A. Borlescu (eds.), Reflections on Narrative: Interdisciplinary Storytelling. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 85–97.
Ranta, M. (2013c). Stories in Pictures (and Non-Pictorial Objects) – A Narratological and Cognitive Psychological Approach. In L. Ye, J. Gao and F. Peng (eds.), Diversities in Aesthetics – Selected Papers of the 18th Congress of International Aesthetics. Peking University, 678–698.
Ranta, M. (2014). Iconography, Narrativity, and Tellability in Pictures. In H. Klinke (ed.), Art Theory as Visual Epistemology. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Ranta, M. (in press). Art, Aesthetic Value, and Beauty: On the Evolutionary Foundations of ‘Narrative Resemblance Concepts’. In K. Wilkoszewska and E. Chudoba (eds.), Proceedings of 19th ICA 2013. Krakow: Naturalizing Aesthetics. Kraków: Jagiellonian University.
Ranta, M. and Erzen, J. (2013). Report on the XIXth International Congress of Aesthetics: ‘Aesthetics in Action’, Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland 21–27 July 2013. In A. Berleant (ed.), Contemporary Aesthetics 11.
Sandin, G. (2008). Keys to heterotopia: An actantial approach to landfills as societal mirrors. In P. Bille (ed.), Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 2.
Sandin, G. (2009). Spatial negotiations: An actant analysis model for the interpretation of land use. In LEXIA, Semiotic Journal of CIRCE, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication, no. 3 (Theme: Actants, actors, agents: a comparison between languages and theories of action), University of Torino.
Sandin G. (2009). Shift of communicational context as a measure of originality. In Proceedings IASS 10th World Congress, A Coruna.
Sandin, G. (2010). Plats, politik och poetik. In Konst, politik och poetik. Lund: Museum of Sketches.
Sandin, G. and Ståhl, L.-H. (2009). Building on Iconic ground: Extra-cultural influences in Architecture and Urban Design. In Proceedings from Nanjing International Symposium on Semiotic Studies, nov 2008.
Sandin, G. and Ståhl, L.-H. (2010). Placebo: Aesthetic replacement strategies. In Proceedings from Nordic Research Conference on Healthcare Architecture 20–21 Jan 2010.
Sandin, G. and Ståhl, L.-H. (2011). Aesthetic replacement strategies in hospitals. In Ambience11: where art, technology and design meet. Proceedings conference 2011. Borås: The Swedish School of Textiles.
Sandin, G. (2011). Confessions on Land: The poetics of hasty mapping. In Hellström Reimer, M., Wilson, R., and Green, N. (ed.). Land Use Poetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture.
Sandin, G. (2011). De övergivna platsernas retorik. In Ord & Bild: Dokument Dokumentär Dokumentation, 5:2010.
Sandin, G. (2011). Bedömning av kreativitet: Om kontextens betydelse vid kritikgenomgångar i konstnärlig utbildning. In Lärande i LTH, Genombrottet blad 16 December 2011.
Sandin, G. (2012). The Construct of Emptiness in Augé’s Anthropology of ’Non-places’. In Toyota J., Hallonsten P. and Shchepetunina M. (eds.), Sense of Emptiness: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 112–127.
Sandin, G. (2013). Democracy on the Margin: Architectural Means of Appropriation in Governmental Alteration of Space. In Architectural Theory Review 18:2. London: Routledge, 234–250.
Sandin, G. (2014). Modes of transgression in institutional critique. In Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture. London: Routledge.
Sandin, G. (in press). Den evolutionära periferin: Arkitektonisk visualisering av affordance i urbana periferier. In Vetenskapsrådets årsbok för konstnärlig forskning. Stockholm: Vetenskapsrådet.
Sandin, G. (in press). Temporal Merging of Actantial Models of Space. In A Matter of Design: Making Society through Science and Technology, STS Italia Conference proceedings. Milano: Politechnico.
Sonesson, G. (2013) Spaces of urbanity revisted; From the boulevard to the mobile phone network. Acts of the European Regional Conference of the IAVS, Lisbon, 26-28 September 2011. In Degrés, 153, e1-e16.
Sonesson, G. (2013) New Rules for the Spaces of Urbanity. Published online in International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. DOI 10.1007/s11196-013-9312-2.
Ståhl, L.-H. and Sandin, G. (2011). Grounds for Cultural Influence: Visual and non-visual presence of Americanness in contemporary Architecture. In T. Migliore (a cura di), Retorica del visibile. Strategie dell’immagine tra significazione e comunicazione. 3. Contributi scelti 5. Riflessi. Collana di Semiotica dell’arte. Roma: Aracne Editrice.
Ståhl, L.-H. and Sandin, G. (2012). Modes of communication in artistic research: on Americanness and Architectural Influence on semiotic grounds. In Cantero, P. C., Veloso, G. E., Passeri, A., and Paz Gago, J. M. (eds.), Culture of communication/Communication of culture – Comunicación de la cultura/Cultura de la comunicación. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS), Universidade de Coruña, 1089–1100.

Cultural semiotics and cognitive history
Cabak Rédei, A. 2014. Review: Signifying and Understanding. Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement, Semiotic Review of Books.
Dunér, D. (2012). Tankemaskinen: Polhems huvudvärk och andra studier i tänkandets historia. Nora: Nya Doxa.
Dunér, D., ed. (2012). The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology. Special Collection: ”The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology”, Astrobiology 12(10):901–1016.
Dunér, D. (2012). Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology. In Dunér, D. (ed.), Special Collection: ”The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology”, Astrobiology 12(10):901–905.
Dunér, D. (2013). The Natural Philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg: A Study in the Conceptual Metaphors of the Mechanistic World-View. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.
Dunér, D. (2013). The Language of Cosmos: The Cosmopolitan Endeavour of Universal Languages. In Rydén, G. (ed.), Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World – Provincial Cosmopolitans. Farnham: Ashgate.
Dunér, D. (2013). Venusians: The Planet Venus in the Eighteenth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate. In The Journal of Astronomical Data 19(1):145–167.
Dunér, D. (2013). Introduction: Extraterrestrial Life and the Human Mind. In Dunér, D., Parthemore, J., et al. (eds.), The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life and the Human Mind. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dunér, D. (2013). Spheres and Bubbles: Emanuel Swedenborg’s Theory of Matter and the Metaphors of the Mind. In Grandin, K. (ed.), Emanuel Swedenborg—Exploring a “World Memory”. Context, Content, Contribution. Stockholm: The Center for History of Science.
Dunér, D. (2013). Den kognitiva vändningen: Idéhistoria och det mänskliga tänkandets historia. In Slagmark. Tidsskrift for idéhistorie 67, special issues ”Ny Idéhistorie”, eds. J. Bek-Thomsen and F. Beck Lassen, 49–76.
Dunér, D. (2014). Interstellar Intersubjectvity: The Significance of Shared Cognition for Communication, Empathy, and Altruism in Space. In Vakoch, D. A. (ed.), Extraterrestrial Altruism: Evolution and Ethics in the Cosmos. Heidelberg: Springer.
Dunér, D. (2014). Conceptual Metaphors of Science: Prolegomena to a Cognitive History of Science. In Akbarov, A. (ed.), Applying Intercultural Linguistic Competence to Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, FLTAL ’14. Sarajevo: International Burch University, 518–525.
Dunér, D., Parthemore, J., et al., eds. (2013). The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives of Extraterrestrial Life and the Human Mind. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dunér, D. and Sonesson, G. (in press). The Discovery of the Unknown: A History of Cultural Encounters. In Dunér, D. and Sonesson, G. (eds.), Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution. Berne and Pieterlen: Peter Lang.
Sonesson, G. (2012). Between homeworld and alienworld: A primer of cultural semiotics, in Sign Culture – Zeichen. Kultur Festschrift for Roland Posner. Hess-Lüttich, Ernest W.B. (ed.), 315–328. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Sonesson, G. (2012). The meanings of structuralism: Considerations on structures and Gestalten, with particular attention to the masks of Levi-Strauss. In Segni e comprensione, XXVI(78): 84–101.
Sonesson, G. (2012) Between homeworld and alienworld: A primer of cultural semiotics, in Sign Culture – Zeichen Kultur. Festschrift for Roland Posner. Hess-Lüttich, Ernest W.B. (ed.), 315-328. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Sonesson, G. (2013) Preparations for discussing constructivism with a Martian (the second coming), in The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on the Human Mind and Extraterrestrial Life. David Dunér, ed., 185-200. Cambridge Scholars: Nycastel upon Tyne.
Sonesson, G. (2013) Divagations on alterity. In Writing, voice, text: Festschrift for Augusto Ponzio. Petrilli, Susan, ed., 137-142.
Sonesson, Göran (2014) Translation as a double act of communication. A perspective from the semiotics of culture. In Our World: a Kaleidoscopic Semiotic Network. Acts of the 11th World Congress of Semiotics of IASS in Nanjing, October 5 – 9, 2012, Vol. 3, Wang, Yongxiang, & JI, Haihong (eds.), 83-101. Nanjing: Hohai University Press.
Sonesson, G. (2014) Translation and other acts of meaning: In between cognitive semiotics and semiotics of culture. In Cognitive Semiotics 7(2), 249-280

Theme 4. Cognitive semiotic typology
Interactions between cognition/consciousness and language
Blomberg, J. & Zlatev, J. (2009) Linguistic relativity, mediation and the categorization of motion. In Zlatev, J., Andrén, M., Johansson Falck, M. & Lundmark, C. (eds.) Studies in Language and Cognition (46-61). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
Blomberg, J. (2014). Motion in Language and Experience. Actual and Non-actual Motion in Swedish, French and Thai. PhD Thesis, Lund University
Blomberg, J. & Zlatev, J. (2014) Actual and non-actual motion: Why experimental semantics needs phenomenology (and vice versa). Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences 13(3), 395-418.
Brandt, L. & Pascual, E. (to be published in 2015). Imagined dialogue in advertising: The you-say-it-you-buy-it marketing strategy. In E. Pascual & S. Sandler (eds.), The Conversation Frame: Forms and Functions of Fictive Interaction. John Benjamins
Fagard, B, Zlatev, J., Kopecka, A, Cerruti, M & Blomberg, B.(in press). The Expression of Motion Events: A Quantitative Study of Six Typologically Varied Languages. Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Holmer, A. (2013) Greetings Earthlings! On possible features of exolanguage. In Dunér, D. (ed.). The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life and the Human Mind. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (157-184).
Zlatev, J, Blomberg, J., David, C. (2010) Translocation, language and the categorization of experience. In Evans, V. & Chilton, P. (eds.), Space in Language and Cognition: The State of the Art and New Directions (389-418). London: Equinox.
Zlatev, J, Blomberg, J. and Magnusson, U. (2012). Metaphors and subjective experience: motion-emotion metaphors in English, Swedish, Bulgarian and Thai. In Foolen, Luedke, Racine and Zlatev, J. (eds.) Moving Ourselves - Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Consciousness, Intersubjectivity and Language. Amsterdam: Benjamins
Zlatev, J and Blomberg, J. (2014). Die Möglichkeit sprachlichen Einflusses auf das Denken. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 35 (1-2), 63-84. (a)
Blomberg, J. (submitted). Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai. Submitted to Cognitive Linguistics.

Explanatory factors in linguistic typology
Burenhult, N., Holmer, A., Karlsson, A., Lundström, H. & Svantesson, J-O. (2012). Humanities of the lesser-known: an overview, Language Documentation and Description 10: 5–11
Holmer, A. (2011) Formosanska språk, relativisering och språktypologi. In Årsbok, Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund (37 - 58).
Holmer, A. (2012). Evidence from Formosan for a unified theory of adverb ordering, Lingua 122.8: 902–921
Holmer, A. (2013). Lexical clues on music and speech: the view from Seediq muuyas. In Berry, P. (ed.) If I were a drongo bird. Festschrift for Håkan Lundström. Musikhögskolan i Malmö (37–40).
Holmer, A. (2013). Parallel grammars: on being separated by a common language. In Norrby, C. & Flyman Mattsson, A. (eds.). Language Acquisition and Use in Multilingual Contexts. Travaux de l'institut de linguistique de Lund 52 (50 – 59).
Holmer, A. & Billings, L. (2014). Clitic pronouns in Seediq. In I Wayan Arka and N. L. K. Mas Indrawati (eds.). Argument realisations and related constructions in Austronesian languages : papers from 12-ICAL. Volume 2. ANU, Asia-Pacific Linguistics (111-139).
Karlsson, A. and Holmer, A. (2011). Interaction between word order, information structure and intonation in Puyuma. In Papers in Austroasiatic and Austronesian Linguistics, Mitsuaki Endo (ed.), pp. 28-38
Svantesson, J-O & Holmer, A. (in press). Kammu. To appear in Jenny, M. & Sidwell, P. (eds.). Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages. Brill.
Toyota, J. (2009) On the evolutionary history of 'yes' and 'no'. In Zlatev, J., Andrén, M., Johansson Falck, M. & Lundmark, C. (eds.), Studies in Language and Cognition (504-517). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Toyota, J. (2009) The history of Indo-European languages: alignment change as a clue. In Loudova, Katerina (ed.): Old Indo-European languages from modern perspectives. Brno: Brno university press, 286-294.
Toyota, J. (2009) ‘Evidentiality without direct translation: language contact under occupation.’ Lakić, Igor and Nataša Koštić (eds.) Language and culture in contact. Podgorica: Institute za strane jzike, 117-123.
Toyota, J. (2010) ‘Development of transitivity in Indo-European languages in terms of binary features.’ In Souleimanova, Olga (ed.): Language and Cognition: traditions and new approaches. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 400-412.
Toyota, J., Hallonsten, P. & Kovacevic, B. (2012) Counting time and classifier/non-classifier languages. In Toyota, J., Hallonsten, P. & Shchepetunina, M. (eds.) Sense of Emptiness: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (128-143), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
Toyota, J. (2012) Future tense and emptiness. In Toyota, J., Hallonsten, P. & Shchepetunina, M. (eds.) Sense of Emptiness: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (187-208), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
Toyota, J., Hallonsten P., Shchepetunina M. (2012) Prospects on emptiness. In J. Toyota, P. Hallonsten and M. Shchepetunina (eds.) Sense of Emptiness: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (210-215), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Sound symbolism and iconicity in language
Alhner, F & Zlatev, J. (2010) Cross-modal iconicity: A cognitive semiotic approach to sound symbolism. Sign System Studies, 38(1/4): 298-348. (c)
Johansson, J. & Zlatev, J. (2013). Motivations for Sound Symbolism in Spatial Deixis: A Typological Study of 101 Languages, Public Journal of Semiotics, 5(1): 3-20.
Carling, Gerd & Niklas Johansson (in press). Motivated language change: processes involved in the growth and conventionalization of onomatopoeia and sound symbolism. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 46 (2).
Carling, Gerd (to appear). Etymology and iconicity in onomatopoeia and sound symbolism. A Germanic case study. In Birgit Anette Olsen (ed.): Etymology and the European Lexicon, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
Zlatev, J. (2014). Human Uniqueness, Bodily Mimesis and the Evolution of Language HUMANA.MENTE - Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27.

Theme 5. Experimental semiotics
Experimental approaches to film (and cognitive film theory)
Barratt, D., Cabak Rédei, A., Innes-Ker, Å., & van de Weijer, J. (in review). Does the Kuleshov effect really exist? Revisiting a classic film experiment on facial expressions and emotional contexts. Target journal: Perception.
Barratt, D. (2014). The geography of film viewing: What are the implications of cultural-cognitive differences for cognitive film theory? In T. Nannicelli & P. Taberham (Eds.), Routledge/AFI Film Reader in Cognitive Media Theory (pp. 62-82). New York: Routledge.
Cabak Rédei, A. (2014). Review of Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship. In M. A. Arbib (Ed.). Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 24:3.
Cabak Rédei, A. (2014). Cognition and stereotypes in Guess Who is Coming to Dinner: A semiotic and social psychological perspective. Southern Semiotic Review.
Cabak Rédei, A. (in press). Film, music and experimental psychology: Reflections and further directions. In (Ed.), Music and the Moving Image. University of Illinois Press.
Cabak Rédei, A. (in press). Cognitive and semiotic aspects of endings in self-narration: The example of Germaine de Staël. Signata - Annales des sémiotiques.

Experimental approaches to verbal and visual narratives
Ranta, M. (2012). An exploratory pilot study on pictorial narrativity and eye scan patterns. Proceedings for the 22nd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA), 22-25 August 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.

Visual attention and emotion
Barratt, D., & Bundesen, C. (2012). Attentional capture by emotional faces is contingent on attentional control settings. Cognition and Emotion, 26(7), 1223-1237.
Sørensen, T. A., & Barratt, D. (2014). Is threat the only modulator of attentional selectivity? Redefining the Easterbrook hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(1020). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01020.

Experimental studies on the semantics/pragmatics border
Zlatev, J., Smith. V., van de Weijer, J., & Skydsgaard, K. (2010). Noun-noun compounds for fictive food products: Experimenting in the borderzone of semantics and pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(10), 2799–2813.
Smith, V., Barratt, D., & Zlatev, J. (2014). Unpacking noun-noun compounds: Interpreting novel and conventional food names in isolation and on food labels. Cognitive Linguistics, 25(1), 99-147.

Empirical investigations in unified conceptual spaces theory (UCST)
Parthemore, J. (2013, in press). The unified conceptual space theory: An enactive theory of concepts. Adaptive Behavior, 21, 168-177. Special issue on “Foundations of Enactive Cognitive Science”.
Parthemore, J. (2014, in review). Specification of the unified conceptual space, for purposes of empirical investigation. [Paper in preparation for collected volume of papers from the Conceptual Spaces conference, Lund, May 2012 – to be published by Springer.]

Amazonas Project
Goergens, Anne. (2011) Stability and Change in Alignment Systems: A study of agreement patterns in Arawakan languages. B.A. thesis.
Carling, G., Eriksen, L., Holmer, A., & van de Weijer, J. (2013). Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model: GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages. In Borin. L., & Saxena, A. (eds). Approaches to measuring linguistic differences. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Theory and Methods
Handbook contributions
Sonesson, G. (2010) Pictorial semiotics in  Sebeok, T.A. & Danesi, M. (eds.), Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics (third revised and updated edition). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Sonesson, G. (2014) The psychology and semiotics of the picture sign, in Handbook of Visual communication. Machin, D. (ed.), 23-50. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Sonesson, G. (2014) Some issues in the semiotics of gesture. The perspective of comparative semiotics. In Body - language – communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Communication. Volume 2. Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., Ledewig, S., McNeill, D., & Bressem, J., (eds) 1989-1999. Berlin: DeGuyter
Sonesson, G. (in press) Semiotics of photography: The state of the art. In Trifonas, P. (ed.), International Handbook of Semiotics. Springer.
Zlatev, J. (in press) Cognitive Semiotics. In Trifonas, P. (ed.), International Handbook of Semiotics. Springer.
Zlatev, J. (in press). The emergence of gestures. In B. MacWhinney and W. O’Grady (Eds.) The Handbook of Language Emergence. Malden, MA.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

Theory and methods of cognitive semiotics
Blomberg, J. & Zlatev, J. (2013) Actual and non-actual motion: Why experimental semantics needs phenomenology (and vice versa). Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, 10.1007/s11097-013-9299-x.
Parthemore, J. (2013) The unified conceptual space theory: An enactive theory of concepts. Adaptive Behavior 21: 168-177
Sonesson, G. (2009) The view from Husserl’s lectern: Considerations on the role of phenomenology in cognitive semiotics, Cybernetics and Human Knowing. 16(3-4): 107-148.
Sonesson, G. (2009) Here comes the semiotic species: Reflections on the semiotic turn in the cognitive sciences. In Wagoner, B. (ed.), Symbolic transformations: The mind in movement through culture and society (38-58). Routledge: London.
Sonesson, G. (2009) Göran Sonesson, in Bundgaard, P. & Stjernfelt, F. (eds.), Signs and meaning: Five questions (207-218). Automatic Press: Milton Keynes, UK.
Sonesson, G. (2010) Semiotics of art, life, and thought: Three scenarios for (post)modernity, Semiotica 183(1/4): 219-242.
Sonesson, G. (2010). Semiosis and the Elusive Final Interpretant of Understanding, Semiotica 179(1/4): 145-258.
Sonesson, G. (2012) The meanings of structuralism: Considerations on structures and Gestalten, with particular attention to the masks of Levi-Strauss, Segni e comprensione, XXVI(78): 84-101.
Sonesson, G. (2012) The foundation of cognitive semiotics in the phenomenology of signs and meanings, Intellectica,212/2, 58, 207-239
Sonesson, G. (2012). Semiotics inside-out and/or outside-in: How to understand everything and (with luck) influence people. Signata (2): 315-348.
Sonesson, G. (2013) The Natural History of Branching: Approaches to the Phenomenology of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In Signs and Society 1,2, 297-326.
Sonesson, G. (2012) The Phenomenological Road to Cognitive Semiotics. In Culture of communication/Communication of culture – Comunicación de la cultura/Cultura de la comunicación. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS). Pilar Couto Cantero, Gonzalo Enríquez Veloso, Alberta Passeri, José María Paz Gago (eds.), 855-866. Universidade de Coruña, 2012.
Sonesson, G. (2012) A Final Move in Chess. Beyond the Picture Sign in Visual Semiotics. In Culture of communication/Communication of culture – Comunicación de la cultura/Cultura de la comunicación. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS). Pilar Couto Cantero, Gonzalo Enríquez Veloso, Alberta Passeri, José María Paz Gago (Eds.), 1397-1408. Universidade de Coruña, 2012.
Sonesson, G. (2013) La imagen dentro de la evolución semiótica. In Semióticas de la imagen. De Rugeriis, Romina, Galavís, Edgar, & González, Angélica (eds.): 13-27. Universidad de Zulia: Maracaíbo.
Sonesson, G. (2014) Still do not block the line on inquiry: On the Pericean way to cognitive semiotics. In Cognitive Semiotics 7(2), 281-296
Sonesson, G. (2015) From Remembering to Memory by Way of Culture. A Study in Cognitive Semiotics. In Southern Journal of Semiotics – Special issue: “Memory as a Representational Phenomenon”. 5 (1): 25-52
Sonesson, G. (in press) Le jeu de la valeur et du sens. À paraître dans La valeur en sémiotique. Biglari, Amir (éd.)
Sonesson, Göran (in press) Phenomenology meets Semiotics: Two Not So Very Strange Bedfellows at the End of their Cinderella Sleep. To appear in Metodo.
Zlatev, J. (2009) Levels of meaning, embodiment, and communication. Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Vol 16, 3-4: 149-174.
Zlatev, J. (2010) Phenomenology and cognitive linguistics. In: Shaun Gallagher and Dan Schmicking (eds) Handbook on Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, 415-446. Dordrecht: Springer.
Zlatev, J. (2011) What is cognitive semiotics?, Semiotix: A Global Information Bulletin, XN-6.
Zlatev, J. (2011) From cognitive to integral linguistics and back again. Intellectica, 56: 125-147.
Zlatev, J. (2012) Cognitive semiotics: An emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning, Public Journal of Semiotics, 4(1): 2-24.
Zlatev, J., (2012). Motion, Emotion and Mind Science. In: A. Foolen, J. Zlatev, U. Luedke, and T. Racine (eds.) Moving Ourselves - Moving Others. Motion and emotion in consiousness, intersubjectivity and language. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Zlatev, J. and Blomberg, J. (2014). Die Möglichkeit sprachlichen Einflusses auf das Denken (The possibility of linguistic influence on thought) In Zietschrift für Semiotik. Die Neo-Whorfian Theorie: Das Wiedererstarken des linguistischen Relativitätsprinzips, Band 35, Heft 1-2/2013.


Theory of iconicity and pictoriality
Sonesson, G. (2010) Iconicity strikes back : the third generation — or why Eco still is wrong (plenary peech at the Sixth Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Quebec City, Quebec, October 14-21, 2001). In Costantini, M. (ed.), La sémiotique visuelle: nouveaux paradigmes. Bibliotèque VISIO 1 (247-270). L'Harmattan: Paris.
Sonesson, G. (2010) From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: Reflections on a general theory of iconicity, Sign Systems Studies 38(1/4): 18-66.
Sonesson, G. (2011) Iconicity in the ecology of semiosis. Reprinted in Semiotics. Critical Concepts in Language Studies. Volume III: Text and Image. Frederik Stjernfelt and Peer F Bundgaard, (eds.), 333-353. London & New York: Routledge.
Sonesson, G. (2011) The mind in the picture and the picture in the mind: A phenomenological approach to cognitive semiotics, Lexia - Rivista di Semiotica, 07/08: 167-182.
Sonesson, Göran (in press) The mirror in-between picture and mind. A phenomenologically inspired approach to cognitive semiotics. To appear in Chinese Semiotic Studies.
Sonesson, Göran (in press)  Signs and Gestalten. From Visual Thinking to Pictorial Concepts. To appear in Gestalt Theory

Visual rhetoric
Sonesson, G. (2009) Au-délà du language de la dance: Les significations du corps, Degres-Revue de Synthese à Orientation Semiologique (139-40): C1-C25.
Sonesson, G. (2010) Bildens yta och djup: Grunder för en bildsemiotik, Signs Scandinavian Section, 1: 115-162.
Sonesson, G. (2010) Rhetoric from the standpoint of the Lifeworld, Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques [en ligne]. Actes de colloques, 2008, Le Groupe μ. Quarante ans de rhétorique – Trente-trois ans de sémiotique visuelle.
Sonesson, G. (2011) La rhétorique des transformations homogènes. Ou l'argumentation fondée sur la structure de la réalité, plenary speech at the 9th Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Venise, 13-16 April 2010. In Migliori, T. (ed.), Retorica del Visibili (309-320). Roma: Aracne Editrice.
Sonesson, G. (2013) Two strands of rhetoric in advertising discourse. In International Journal of Marketing Semiotics, I, 6-24.
Sonesson, G. (in press) Necker’s Cube, Rubin’s Vase, the Devil’s Turning Fork, the Duck/Rabbit and the Cat/Coffee Pot Revisited. On Pseudo-Dilemmas of the Lifeworld and the Picture. Plenary speech at the 10th Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Buenos Aires, September 4 to 8, 2012.