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Viktor Smith

Associate professor
Viktor Smith

Department of International Culture and Communication Studies

Dalgas Have 15, 2V.049
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 3267
Cell phone: +45 61465394
Fax:+45 3815 3293
E-mail: vs.ikk@cbs.dk

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Affiliated with Centre for Language, Cognition, and Mentality (LaCoMe) and Centre of European Studies

Leader of the cross-institutional FairSpeak Group (comprising researchers from 3 departments at CBS, Life Science at the University of Copenhagen and SenseLab at the Technical University of Denmark).

ACADEMIC INTERESTS:

“My focus is words... and what we can do with them.” To put it less simply: I investigate various properties and functions of the human lexicon (word stock) in its capacity as:

a key element in all known manifestations of the complex socio-cognitive mechanism called human language, and
a powerful and versatile tool for interacting with and shaping the world, e.g. when generating innovative product ideas, navigating through clashing and converging legal orders, e.g. in the EU, or crystallizing scientific paradigms and theories.

In recent research, I address words and language in the wider context of multimodal interplay with other carriers of communicational content (images, colours, sensory impressions), and the interface between intended communication and other forms of cognitive activity (perception, situated concept formation, sensory experience, action planning).

PROJECTS & NETWORKS:

FairSpeak

Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC)

RELINE Danish Network for Legal Linguistics

SugarTexts

European Integration and Diversity

BalticLaw Network

Primary research areas

Cognitive lexical semantics (including word formation, acquisition, and comprehension)
Multimodal communication
Legal linguistics, the law-language interface
In-store product-to-consumer communication
European legal cultures
Terminology management
Russian society & legal culture