Cognitive Semiotics: Phenomenology in Theory and Practice

Education facts

Code: SEMN03

<p>The course will introduce you to phenomenology: the systematic study of consciousness, in human beings but also in animals. And what can be more exciting that this? We will look at it both as philosophy and as amethodology for empirical research into lived experience.</p><p>The course will make you familiar with concepts that may at first sound challenging, but that will grow on you with time and help you understand yourself and the world around you in a richer way: consciousness, intentionality, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, lifeworld and embodiment. But rather than staying on the theoretical side of things, we also focus on the so-called “phenomenological method”, which is based on principles like epoché, phenomenological reduction, eidetic variation, as well as the cognitive semiotic contribution to the field: phenomenological triangulation and how it can be applied in specific phenomenological investigations, including in your own research projects.</p>

Entry requirements

To be admitted to the course, students must have 90 credits including 60 credits in relevant fields such as linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science and media studies, or corresponding knowledge, and English 6/B from Swedish upper secondary school.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Cognitive Semiotics: Phenomenology in Theory and Practice

  Lund University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %