Centre for Language, Cognition and Mentality

Centre for Language, Cognition and Mentality (LaCoMe)

The LaCoMe-Centre was established January 1st, 2007, as a strategic, multidisciplinary research group within the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies ( IKK ). Under the general heading of “culture and area studies”, the LaCoMe-Centre will focus on the interaction of language, cognition and mentality within the scope of comparative studies of regions and countries of particular interest to Danish business.

LaCoMe

Per Durst-Andersen og Søren Brier will give lectures at the international conference Great Expectations - the plasticity of the brain and the neurosciences at the threshold: nature and nurture - and beyond…The theme is the great expectations currently surrounding the neuro-sciences and what the impact of this is for other fields of knowledge. The conference takes place on 3-5 February 2010 and is organised by the Research center GNOSIS, DPU, University of Aarhus in cooperation with LaCoMe. Read more here: www.dpu.dk/greatexpectations .

Semiotic Strategies of Advertising
D. 27.01.2010 at 13.00 - 16.00 in SV071 Dalgas Have

Lucia Santaella "Semiotic in the mix of marketing research" and Winfried Nöth "Adding values: A semiotic strategy in advertising". Read more about the seminar:

Semiotic Strategies of Advertising

In December, Roland Posner (Technische Universität Berlin) gave a lecture on Eight Historical Paradigms of Cultural Studies and Their Semiotic Explication,
Read more about the lecture here: Eight Historical Paradigms

The New Semiotics - a conference
The center hosted a one-day conference on November 25th, 2009. See the programme and read more about the conference The New Semiotics.

On Tuesday November 24th Torkild Thellefsen defended his doctoral dissertation: Fundamental Signs and Significance-effects – A Semiotic outline of Fundamental Signs, Significance-effects, Knowledge Profiling and their use in Knowledge Organization and Branding. Read more (in Danish) about the Doktorforsvar: Torkild Leo Thellefsen

For further information on past and future events, please contact Søren Brier, sb.ikk@cbs.dk, phone 3815 3132.

Connected to the LaCoMe center is the journal CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics. Read more .

Centre for Language, Cognition and Mentality (LaCoMe),
Copenhagen Business School,
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg

Director of the centre: Per Durst-Andersen

Last updated by Linda Støckel 18/01/2010