Lecture 1: Language and Ecology: Perspectives andChallenges

Time: 10:00-11.30 a.m., November 23, 2016

Venue: Room 5A607, School of Foreign Studies, SCAU

Speaker: Guest Professor Sune Vork Steffensen

Lecture 2: The Cognitive Ecology of Language: ADistributed Perspective

Time: 3:00-4:30 a.m., November 23, 2016

Venue: Room 5A607, School of Foreign Studies, SCAU

Speaker: Guest Professor Sune Vork Steffensen

Introduction to the speaker: 
Sune Vork Steffensen is Associate Professor of Interpersonal Communication andCognition at the University of Southern Denmark. Having written a PhD inlinguistics at University of Aarhus, he took up his current position at theUniversity of Southern Denmark in 2008. In 2012 he became the founding directorof the Centre for Human Interactivity, which investigates how language, socialorganization, and cognition intersect in complex social and dialogical systems.His research interests include: interaction and interactivity; ecological,dialogical and distributed approaches to language and interaction; thefunctioning of cognitive ecosystems. He has pioneered the so-called CognitiveEvent Analysis, a qualitative method for studying distributed cognitiveprocesses in cognitive systems consisting of individuals, dyads or teams,working in complex social and material environments. In recent years, he hasco-edited volumes on dialectical linguistics (Continuum, 2007), biosemioticsand health interaction (Braga University Press, 2010), the distributed dynamicsof language (Language Sciences, 2012), and ecolinguistics (Language Sciences,2014). Since July 2015 he has been acting as Editor in Chief of the journalLanguage Sciences.