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Jordan Zlatev

Jordan Zlatev

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
5424
World Ranking
5995
National Ranking
79

Overview

Jordan Zlatev is a researcher affiliated with Lund University in Sweden, specializing in the fields of psychology and the arts and humanities. Their work spans a variety of subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, language and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics addressed in Zlatev's research include language, metaphor, and cognition; action observation and synchronization; categorization, perception, and language; hearing impairment and communication; language, discourse, and communication strategies; embodied and extended cognition; and linguistics and terminology studies.

Zlatev's recent publications demonstrate a focus on language evolution, cognition, and semiotics. Notable papers include:

  • "Pantomime as the original human-specific communicative system" (2020, Journal of Language Evolution)
  • "Motion event descriptions in Swedish, French, Thai and Telugu: a study in post-Talmian motion event typology" (2021, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia)
  • "Analyzing polysemiosis: language, gesture, and depiction in two cultural practices with sand drawing" (2023, Semiotica)

Zlatev frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors in their work include Joost van de Weijer, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Simon Devylder, Kalina Moskaluk, and Alexandra Mouratidou.

Zlatev's research outputs are published across several venues, with multiple contributions to Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Journal of Language Evolution, Semiotica, Cognitive Semiotics, and Biosemiotics.

Best Publications

  • What's in a schema? Bodily mimesis and the grounding of language

    Jordan Zlatev

  • The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity

    Jordan Zlatev;Chris Sinha

  • A third way to travel: The place of Thai in motion event typology.

    Jordan Zlatev;Peerapat Yangklang

  • Embodiment, language and mimesis

    Jordan Zlatev

  • Cross-modal iconicity: A cognitive semiotic approach to sound symbolism

    Felix Ahlner;Jordan Zlatev

  • Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning

    Jordan Zlatev

  • The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis

    Jordan Zlatev

  • Situated Embodiment : Studies in the emergence of spatial meaning

    Jordan Zlatev

  • The semiotic hierarchy: life, consciousness, signs and language

    Jordan Zlatev

  • From proto-mimesis to language: evidence from primatology and social neuroscience.

    Jordan Zlatev

  • Cognitive Semiotics: An emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning

    Jordan Zlatev

  • The Epigenesis of Meaning in Human Beings, and Possibly in Robots

    Jordan Zlatev

  • Phenomenology and Cognitive Linguistics

    Jordan Zlatev

  • Actual and non-actual motion: why experientialist semantics needs phenomenology (and vice versa)

    Johan Blomberg;Jordan Zlatev

  • Bodily mimesisas “the missing link” in human cognitive evolution

    Jordan Zlatev;Tomas Persson;Peter Gärdenfors

  • The dialectics of consciousness and language

    Jordan Zlatev

  • Translocation, language and the categorization of experience

    Caroline David;Jordan Zlatev;Johan Blomberg

  • Pantomime as the original human-specific communicative system

    Jordan Zlatev;Przemysław ywiczyński;Sławomir Wacewicz

  • Motivations for Sound Symbolism in Spatial Deixis: A Typological Study of 101 Languages

    Niklas Johansson;Jordan Zlatev

  • Language may indeed influence thought.

    Jordan Zlatev;Johan Blomberg;Johan Blomberg

  • Embodied intersubjectivity, sedimentation and non-actual motion expressions

    Jordan Zlatev;Johan Blomberg

  • Intersubjectivity, mimetic schemas and the emergence of language

    Jordan Zlatev

  • Moving Ourselves, Moving Others. Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language

    Ad Foolen;Ulrike M. Lüdtke;Timothy P. Racine;Jordan Zlatev

  • Studies in Language and Cognition

    Jordan Zlatev;Mats Andrén;Marlene Johansson Falck;Carita Lundmark

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Gärdenfors
Peter Gärdenfors Lund University

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