Members

Sarah Bro Trasmundi (née Pedersen) is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. She has been a visiting scholar at (i) Department of Education, Gothenburg University, where she worked together with Professor Per Linell, (ii) Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, hosted by Professor David Kirsh, (iii) Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University, hosted by Professor Michael L. Anderson, (iv) Department of German, University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Professor Claire Kramsch, (v) Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London, where she worked with Professor Mark Bishop.

She is the co-director of Centre for Human Interactivity (CHI) and works with cognitive ethnography and embodied interaction on a large research project "The Ecology of Psychotherapy: Integrating Cognition, Language, and Emotion" (EPICLE). Futhermore, she is currently the P.I. of the research project "How do University Students Read? A Cognitive Ethnography Study", and the director of the Advanced Cognitive Ethnography Lab at Department of Language and Communication.

Selected publications

Trasmundi, S.B. (2020). Errors and Interaction: A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Trasmundi, S. B. & Cowley, S. J. (2020). Reading: How Readers Beget Imagining. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, [531682].

Loaiza, J. M., Trasmundi, S. B. & Steffensen, S. V. (2020). Multiscalar Temporality in Human Behaviour: A Case Study of Constraint Interdependence in Psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, [1685].

For more than a decade, Professor Sune Vork Steffensen has contributed to the development of ecological linguistics through numerous publications. His current research combines interaction analysis, ecological linguistics and situated, distributed and systemic approaches in cognitive science. He is one of the pioneers of Cognitive Event Analysis, i.e. the study of how short-scale interbodily dynamics, constrained by large-scale sociocultural patterns, enable agents and systems to achieve results. His main empirical interest is interactivity in organizational settings (primarily within the health sector), e.g. expertise, decision making, and problem solving in complex sociocultural environments. He is currently the Co-Director of the Centre of the Human Interactivity, PI on a large project on The Ecology of Psychotherapy: Integrating Cognition, Languge, and Emotion (EPICLE). Further, Sune Vork Steffensen is treasurer of the International Society for Interactivity, Language and Cognition.

Selected publications

Steffensen, S. V. (2011). Beyond mind: an extended ecology of languaging. In S. J. Cowley (Ed.), Distributed language (pp. 185-210). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Steffensen, S. V. (2013). Human interactivity: Problem-solving, solution-probing and verbal patterns in the wild. In S. J. Cowley & F. Vallée-Tourangeau (Eds.). Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice (pp. 195-221). Dordrecht: Springer. 

Steffensen, S. V., & Fill, A. (2014). Ecolinguistics: the state of the art and future horizons. Language Sciences, 41, Part A, 6-25.

Steffensen, S. V. (2015). Distributed Language and Dialogism: notes on non-locality, sense-making and interactivity. Language Sciences, 50, 105-119.

Steffensen, S. V., Vallée-Tourangeau, F., & Vallée-Tourangeau, G. (2016). Cognitive events in a problem-solving task: a qualitative method for investigating interactivity in the 17 Animals problem. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28(1), 79-105.

Originally a scholar of multimodal social semiotics with special interest in corporate logos and corporate identity design, over the past decade Christian Mosbæk Johannessen has ventured ever deeper into the intersection between semiotics, media studies, materiality studies, ecological psychology and cognitive science. His main empirical interest is our embodied experience of graphic traces. He has recently published a co-edited book (with Theo van Leeuwen) entitled The materiality of Writing. A Trace Making Perspective.

Selected publications

Johannessen, C. M. (2016). Experiental meaning potential in the Topaz Energy logo: A framework for graphemic and graphetic analysis of graphic logo design. Social Semiotics, 1-20.

Johannessen, C. M. (2017). The Challenge of Simple Graphics for Multimodal Studies. Articulation and Time Scales in Fuel Retail Logos.  Visual Communication, 16(4).

Johannessen, C. M. & van Leeuwen, T. (2017). (Ir)regulatiry. In C. M. Johannessen & T. van Leeuwen (Eds.), The Materiality of Writing. A Trace Making Perspective. (pp. 175-193). London: Routledge.

Johannessen, C. M. & van Leeuwen, T. (Eds. (2017). The Materiality of Writing. A trace Making Perspective. Routledge Series in Multimodality. London: Routledge.

Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing and Management at the University of Southern Denmark. His areas of research include phenomenology, languaging, distributed cognition and theories about social organizing. His Ph.D.-thesis outlines a theory about social organizing based on an epistemologically clarified phenomenological outset as well as a critique of the analytical concept of context. He is currently working on how drones affect organizational routines and outcomes

Selected publications

Gahrn-Andersen, R. (2017). But language too is material! Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Gahrn-Andersen, R. (2018). Biological simplexity and cognitive heteronomy. Language Sciences.

Gahrn-Andersen, R., & Cowley, S. (2017). Phenomenology & Sociality: How Extended Normative Perturbations Give Rise to Social Agency. Intellectica, (67), 379-398.