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Editorial Preface

Editorial Preface Wha t is the present State of semiotics in the age of cognitive science? Which dialogue can be established between semiotics and cognitive science? After three issues investigating specific topics (namely agency, consciousness and cognitive poetics), Cognitive Semiotics returns to this basic question on the occasion o f Claude Levi-Strauss' lOOth birthday - to celebrate it and the lasting influence of anthropologist's theorerical contributions to the issues here developed. Cognitive sciences reveal an increasing awareness of the role of semiotic systems and processes and of the concepts developed in their analysis. The importance of schematism (characterizing for example much of cognitive semantics), and the strong focus on the role of symbols and language for the development of human Cognition, in phylogenesis, ontogenesis and everyday Cognition are good evidences of this. The articles here coUected aim at further developing this dialogue in two closely interrelated directions. First, the relevance of semiotic approaches for contemporary cognitive sciences is explored: the focus on non-propositional forms of representation; the heuristic of certain structuralist insights, such as actantiality, transformations and communicative functions. Second, the Integration of semiotic structures in cognitive processes is argued for and displayed. E/mar Holens^ein — with a seminal paper from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cognitive Semiotics de Gruyter

Editorial Preface

Cognitive Semiotics , Volume 3 (s1): 2 – Sep 1, 2008
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2235-2066
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10.1515/cogsem.2008.3.fall2008.4
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Wha t is the present State of semiotics in the age of cognitive science? Which dialogue can be established between semiotics and cognitive science? After three issues investigating specific topics (namely agency, consciousness and cognitive poetics), Cognitive Semiotics returns to this basic question on the occasion o f Claude Levi-Strauss' lOOth birthday - to celebrate it and the lasting influence of anthropologist's theorerical contributions to the issues here developed. Cognitive sciences reveal an increasing awareness of the role of semiotic systems and processes and of the concepts developed in their analysis. The importance of schematism (characterizing for example much of cognitive semantics), and the strong focus on the role of symbols and language for the development of human Cognition, in phylogenesis, ontogenesis and everyday Cognition are good evidences of this. The articles here coUected aim at further developing this dialogue in two closely interrelated directions. First, the relevance of semiotic approaches for contemporary cognitive sciences is explored: the focus on non-propositional forms of representation; the heuristic of certain structuralist insights, such as actantiality, transformations and communicative functions. Second, the Integration of semiotic structures in cognitive processes is argued for and displayed. E/mar Holens^ein — with a seminal paper from

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