Göran Sonesson

Department of Semiotics

Cultural semiotics — Visual semiotics — Semiotic theory

Anna Cabak Rédei

Overview
Publications:

Monographies
Other scientific publications

Master of Arts at the University of Lund: 1. History; 2. Hungarian and East- and Central European cultural history. I am preparing a doctorate thesis in cultural semiotics, and the direction of Göran Sonesson

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Cultural semiotics deals with the encounter between cultures. Notions such as Ego-Culture, Extra-Culture and Non-Culture are essential in inquiries that aim at unveiling the self-image, or model, that a specific culture makes of itself in the encounter with another. The basic assumption is, thus, that a self-image of the Ego-Culture only emerges in the meeting with the Other. A parallel of this is to be found also on an individual level, then represented by personal pronouns within language. On an axis of conversation an "I" (Ego-Culture) speaks to a "Thou"(Extra-Culture) about a third person (Non-Culture) on the axis of reference. The non-person / non-Culture can mostly only be spoken about.
My PhD-project aims at confronting existing models within cultural semiotics with empirical data in order to develop new ones. For semiotical theoretical purposes, but on a second level also for reasons of historical writing, I have chosen to study Germaine de Staël's rich autobiographical travel accounts written in the beginning of the 19th century.

Publications

Monographies:

In preparation:

— Cultural semiotics and the modelling of the self: the example of Mme de Staël's autobiographic travel accounts.

Other scientific publications:

To be published in the near future:

— Madame de Staël and the quest for honour: a study in cultural semiotics. In Proceedings of the IASS/AIS international conference, Lyon, July 2004.

— The body as a sign, in Heterogenesis, May 2006.

2006:

— "Jagets" representationer i text och bild: exemplen Germaine de Staël och Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. Paper presented at the seminar of Semiotics the 8th of February 2006. The paper has also been presented at the seminar of Art history the 1st of December 2005.

2005:

— Mme de Staëls självbiografiska reseskildring från Tyskland:en 'jagets' genre? In: Kulturstudier i Sverige. Nationell forskarkonferens, 13–15 juni, 2005, Norrköping, Sweden, Bodil Axelsson och Johan Fornäs (eds.). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

2004:

— József Eötvös and the age of Hungarian reform, i Kerstin Sundberg, Tomas Germundsson, Kjell Hansen (red.) Modernisation and Tradition, 2004, Lund.

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