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From: Riccardo Fusaroli [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:40 AM
To: Peirce Discussion Forum
Subject: [peirce-l] Call for papers - Cognitive Semiotics Issue on "the
intersubjectivity of embodiment"
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Cognitive Semiotics - The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment
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Cognitive semiotics takes phenomenological meaning seriously as the
primary data around which its theories are built. The ontogenesis,
philogenesis and daily enactment of cognition happens always in an
already meaningful environment. Where other theoretical approaches
focus on material, evolutionary, neurological, or other extra-semiotic
factors to understand human experience, cognitive semiotics urges us
to integrate the intersubjective dimension and grounding of meaning as
constituting coherent systems of significance available to direct
investigation. Thus cognitive semiotics seeks to uncover this cultural
phenomenology - that support human culture as such - in its dialogic
relation with cognitive processes.
In this perspective, how does intersubjectivity shape embodiment? To
adopt an embodied approach to cognition means to ground cognitive
processes in bodily structures. Due to its astounding success, these
approaches has undergone a rapid expansion of their fields of
application. Soon enough, there has been a projection of its models
and methodologies to the realm of social phenomena. Thus, there is
finally the possibility for a more polyphonic dialogue, in which more
socially oriented approaches (anthropology, semiotics, sociology,
etc.) are contributing the study of cognitive phenomena and viceversa.
This dialogue is highlighting how the bodily grounding of cognition
emerges in a socio-cultural environment that shapes the development of
the individual (and of the species). Thus, bodily schemas (e.g. image
schemas) have to be conceived as depending on socially shared
practices. To adopt an embodied approach becomes grounding cognition
in bodily interactions, in a basic layer of intersubjectivity.
The aim of this issue is to collect a number of papers from different
theoretical perspectives (antropology, psychology, neurosciences,
semiotics, computational approaches) that explore how social practices
and interactions deeply inform cognitive structures and processes.
This will be a collection that will contribute to the emerging
dialogue which tries to go beyond both individual and merely dyadic
relations and attempts to capture the relations that run from
cognition to society and culture and from society and culture to
cognition.
This special volume of Cognitive Semiotics asks how semiotic or
cognitive approaches to embodiment can highlight the dynamic and
constitutively intersubjective interactions through which embodied
grounding emerges. Some of the following questions might be addressed:
b" What is intersubjectivity? are there different levels of
intersubjectivity? In which way do they shape the ontogenesis and
daily use of bodily skills and capabilities?
b" In which way nurturing practices and material artifacts
interact in the development of an embodied ground for cognition?
b" Which is the relation between an intersubjective memory - socially
enacted - and the emergence of bodily habits?
b" Bodily schemas and images are enacted through social practices. How
to describe the reciprocal interaction between power structures and
discourses on one side and body and intersubjectivity on the other?
b" Bodily practices are continuously described and interpreted
through linguistic and mediatic productions. What is the role of these
descriptions in shaping bodily practices and performances (and
viceversa)?
Deadlines:
1. Mandatory Abstract and title submission: 15 August 2009
2. Notification of Acceptance for the peer review process:
15 September 2009
3. Paper Submission: 15 December 2009
4. Peer Review: 15 February 2010
5. Re-submission: 30 Marzo 2010
6. Publication: Summer 2010
Address for electronic submissions: [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
THE EDITORS
Special issue editors of Cognitive Semiotics are:
Paolo Demuru is a PhD Candidate in Semiotics at the University of
Bologna and at the Departement of Linguistic of the University of SC#o
Paulo (Brazil). His research aims at developing a dialogue among
semiotics, anthropology and cultural history, especially focusing on
the construction of the negro and mulatto bodies in Brazil in the XX
Century. E-mail: [email protected]
Riccardo Fusaroli is a PhD Candidate in Semiotics at the University of
Bologna and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Semiotics in
Crhus. His research involves the development of a pragmati(ci)st and
morphosemantic contribution to cognitive semantics, focusing on the
concepts of habit and diagrammatic reasoning. E-mail:
[email protected]
Anna Borghi is associate professor in Psychology at the University of
Bologna and associate researcher at the Laboratory of Autonomous
Robotics and Artificial Life (LARAL) (http://laral.istc.cnr.it) at CNR
in Rome. She obtained her PhD in Psychology with a dissertation on the
role of perception and action in categorization. She is currently
coordinator of a recently started FP7 project ROSSI (Emergence of
communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction).
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact any of the editors in
advance of submission. Submitted publications should follow the style
instructions for Cognitive Semiotics
(http://www.cognitivesemiotics.com).
ABOUT COGNITIVE SEMIOTICS
The first of its kind, Cognitive Semiotics is a multidisciplinary
journal devoted to high quality research, integrating methods and
theories developed in the disciplines of cognitive science with
methods and theories developed in semiotics and the humanities, with
the ultimate aim of providing new insights into the realm of human
signification and its manifestation in cultural practices.
Accordingly, readers will have the opportunity to engage with ideas
from the European and American traditions of cognitive science and
semiotics, and to follow developments in the study of meaning b both
in a cognitive and in a semiotic sense b as they unfold
internationally. The initiative to create a transatlantically based
journal comes from the Center for Cognition and Culture at the
department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University
(Cleveland), and from a group of researchers, based in Aarhus and
Copenhagen, trained in cognitive semiotics at the Center for Semiotics
at the University of Aarhus, and in language and literature at the
University of Copenhagen. By bringing together scholars from multiple
disciplines, the editors hope to provide a revitalized perspective on
the semiotic field.
Further details of the journal, including a free-to-download Issue 0,
can be found at http://www.cognitivesemiotics.com/.
Cognitive Semiotics is published internationally twice a year, in fall
and in spring, by Peter Lang Publishing Group (www.peterlang.com).
ISSN 1662-1425
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Riccardo Fusaroli
PhD Student in Semiotics (Bologna-Aarhus)
Editor of Cognitive Semiotics (www.cognitivesemiotics.com)
www.semioticamente.it/?q=node/9
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