https://emsenn.net/tags/cognitive-science/ Recent content in Cognitive-Science on emsenn.net Hugo en Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/science/domains/linguistics/domains/semiotics/texts/cognitive-semiotics/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/science/domains/linguistics/domains/semiotics/texts/cognitive-semiotics/ <p>Cognitive semiotics is the transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind, and communication, combining concepts and methods from <a href="../index.md" class="link-internal">semiotics</a>, cognitive science, and linguistics. It studies how <a href="../terms/sign.md" class="link-internal">sign</a> processes work in minds and bodies — how meaning-making is grounded in perception, action, and social interaction rather than in abstract codes alone.</p> <h2 id="methods-and-approach"><a href="#methods-and-approach" class="heading-anchor" aria-label="Link to this section">¶</a>Methods and approach </h2> <p>Cognitive semiotics is distinguished from purely formal or structural approaches by its insistence that meaning-making is <strong>embodied</strong> and <strong>intersubjective</strong>. Signs do not operate in a vacuum of abstract relations but in living organisms that perceive, act, and communicate. The field draws on phenomenology (particularly Husserl and Merleau-Ponty) to ground its account of how signs are experienced, and on experimental methods from cognitive science to test claims about how sign processes work.</p>