Cognitive Semiotics (original) (raw)

The recent emergence of cognitive semiotics as an international research nexus, or community of inquiry, spanned the course of two decades, from the mid-1990s through the mid-2010s, becoming well established during the past five to ten years through the launch of an international journal in 2007 (Cognitive Semiotics: with De Gruyter since 2014), the founding of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) in 2013, and the association’s launch of a biennial conference series in 2014. The first IACS conference was hosted by the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics at Lund University, Sweden. Since then, the association has held two additional conferences: IACS2-2016 in Lublin, Poland, and IACS3-2018 in Toronto, Canada. In celebration of the association’s first gathering in the Americas, and in solidarity with the movement itself, this thematic double issue of The American Journal of Semiotics is devoted to cognitive semiotics. Before introducing the papers and their relevance further, then, it will be helpful to offer those who happen to be unfamiliar with cognitive semiotics a better orientation to the movement and its purpose. [from the Introduction. Note pdf includes Covers, TOC, and Introduction only]