Cognitive Semiotics in Education

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film

Consciousness and Self in Language. a View from Cognitive Semiotics

Consciousness is a subjective experience. To science it matters little whether there is an agent behind conscious experience – things like holding a belief, making a decision, remembering a person, attend to an object, act in a situation –; science (in this case neuroscience) is instead concerned with describing what processes in the brain are responsible for that experience. And yet we believe...

Creativity and self-organization: contributions from cognitive science and semiotics

What sort of contribution has Cognitive Science to offer to the understanding of creativity? Is it appropriate to investigate creative processes from a mechanistic perspective or do they involve subjective elements which cannot in principle be investigated from such a perspective? These two basic questions will guide this paper which investigates creativity focusing on the nature of abductive r...

Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts

In this essay I propose a hermeneutic model of the higher level understanding during on-line ritual reading by devotees of their respective sacred literatures, using the instruments provided by cognitive sciences. The way a devotee reads a sacred text differs from the way he or she would read a common piece of literature or how a lay person might read the same sacred text. After providing an ov...

Semiotics in Digital Visualisation