讣告｜沉痛悼念索内松教授
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约伦·索内松（Göran Sonesson，1951-2023）
我们沉痛地通知各位同仁，我们的同事兼朋友约伦·索内松（Göran Sonesson）在因病于2023年3月17日去世。索内松1951年出生于瑞典马尔默市（Malmö），在隆德大学学习语言学，并于1978年获得博士学位。他坚信，人类的意义创造包括语言，但不止于语言。他于巴黎高等社会科学学院（École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales）学习符号学，并在1978年获得第二个博士学位。在巴黎的博士后工作中，他致力于手势的符号学研究。1981年至1982年，他定居与墨西哥，在那里从事玛雅语言和文化符号学研究。正是在此，他邂逅并迎娶了他的终身伴侣安娜·塔杰拉·索内森（Ana Tajera Sonesson）。
1983年，索内松回到瑞典，为瑞典的符号学建设做出了巨大贡献。1986年，他在隆德大学艺术史系发起了符号学研讨会。多年来，包括贡纳尔·桑丁(Gunnar Sandin)在内的一小群致力于符号学的人，每隔一个星期三聚集在一起，阅读、讨论经典和新研究。2000年，索内松成为瑞典第一个，也是迄今为止唯一一个专攻符号学的教授。
除瑞典语外，他精通西班牙语、法语、德语和英语。他以这些语言出版论著并在国际上享有盛誉。1989年，他作为创始人之一，参与了位于布卢瓦的国际视觉协会(IASV)的创立，并曾多次担任该学会主席。他还参与了国际符号学会(IASS-AIS)，并于2004-2009年担任副秘书长，兼作为执委会瑞典代表数十年。在1992-2012年担任北欧符号学研究协会(NASS)会长期间，他不忘致力于推动瑞典符号学发展，自1991年起担任瑞典符号学会(SFFS) 会长。
在他生命的最后二十年里，索内松结合了符号学、语言学和认知科学的概念、方法，为认知符号学这门新学科的建立做出了重大贡献。2002-2004年，他与认知科学的加登福斯（Peter Gärdenfors）和语言学的兹拉特夫（Jordan Zlatev）共同领导了“符号学发展中的语言、手势和图片”项目，并共同参与了欧盟第六计划项目“符号使用的进化和发展阶段”(SEDSU) 2005-2008。上述成果促成隆德大学创建了跨学科的“认知符号学中心”(CCS)。索内松在2009-2014年担任该中心的研究主任。2013年间，他为国际认知符号学会(IACS)的成立发挥了关键作用，并长期担任学会委员。此外，他还是《认知符号学》杂志的三位编辑之一。
在漫长的学术生涯中，约伦·索内松发表了大量文章和两部专著。其中，内容宏富的《图像观念》（Pictorial Concepts）(1989)作为现代符号学的奠基之作，广受国际认可。瑞典语的专著《图像的含义》(1992)则堪称第一本视觉符号学综合教程。他与大卫·杜纳（David Dunér）合作发表了《人类生活世界：文化演化认知符号学》（Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution ）(2016)。 他与克里斯·辛哈（Chris Sinha）、萨拉·伦宁格（Sara Lenninger）等共同编撰了多部重要的论著，如《符号学百科全书》（Encyclopaedia of Semiotics）(1998)、《认知发展》（Cognitive Development）杂志(2015)的“人类发展中的符号学和认知”特刊，以及与兹拉特夫（Jordan Zlatev）、康德拉克（Piotr Konderak）合著的《意义、心灵与交流：认知符号学探索》（Meaning, Mind and Communication: Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics）(2016)。
索内松教授执着于理论内在统一，常常挑战符号学理论，内心则充满人文主义情怀。对他而言，从来都不是“索绪尔或者皮尔斯”，而是兼收并蓄，并广泛吸纳胡塞尔等其他学者的理论精髓。他执着于理论与经验的联系，展现了符号与人类意义的密切关联。正如他曾贴切地说，“凡我所为，皆关生活世界。”他关于符号和意义的论著，尤其是在图像领域的研究无疑将具有深远而持久的影响。
索内松教授不仅是一位卓越的学者，也是一位深受爱戴的导师。他直到最近还指导了门多萨-科拉佐斯（Juan Carlos Mendoza-Collazos）认知符号学方面的博士论文，并且是安雷德（Anna Cabak Rédei）和伦宁格（Sara Lenninger）博士论文的主要指导者，他们目前都是已成为认知符号学的副教授（讲师）。约伦·索内松教授将被同仁和学生所深切怀念，他留下了无法填补的空白，也留下了令我们引以为豪和继续前行的宝贵财富。
作者：Sara Lenninger & Jordan Zlatev
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Obituary for Göran Sonesson (1951-2023)
We have the sad duty to inform the community that our colleague and friend Göran Sonesson passed away on March 17, 2023, after a prolonged illness. Göran was born in 1951 in Malmö, Sweden, and studied linguistics at Lund University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1978. Guided by the conviction that human meaning making includes language but is larger than it, he studied semiotics at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and received a second doctorate in that subject, also in 1978. In his postdoctoral research in Paris, he worked on the semiotics of gestures. After that, 1981-1982, he lived in Mexico, where he did research in Mayan languages and cultural semiotics. This is also where he met and married his life partner, Ana Tajera Sonesson.
After returning to Sweden in 1983, Göran did much to establish the field of semiotics in the country. In 1986 he initiated the Semiotic Seminar at the Department of Art History at Lund University. For many years a small group of people devoted to semiotics, including Gunnar Sandin, gathered every second Wednesday to read and discuss both classical and new texts. In 2000 Göran became this first, and so far only, Professor of Semiotics in Sweden.
Being proficient in Spanish, French, German and English, he published in all these languages, apart from Swedish, and was highly internationally renowned. He was one of the founders of the Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle (IASV) in Blois in 1989, and served as its President during several periods. He was also engaged in the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS), as its Vice-Secretary General 2004-2009 and representative for Sweden in the Executive committee for several decades. At the same time, he did not forget the home front and was President of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) 1992-2012 and since 1991 also the President of Svenska Föreningen för Semiotik (SFFS).
During the last two decades of his life, Göran contributed immensely to the establishment of the new discipline of cognitive semiotics, combing concepts and methods from semiotics, linguistics and cognitive science. In 2002-2004, he co-led the project “Language, Gestures and Pictures in Semiotic Development” together with Peter Gärdenfors from cognitive science, and Jordan Zlatev from linguistics, and together with these researchers participated in the EU 6th Program project “Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use” (SEDSU) 2005-2008. These achievements led to the establishment of the interdisciplinary “Centre for Cognitive Semiotics” (CCS) at Lund University, where Göran served as Research Director 2009-2014. In 2013, he was pivotal for the establishment of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) and served on it board for several periods. He was also one of the three editors of the journal Cognitive Semiotics.
During his long career, Göran Sonesson published many articles and two books. The extensive “Pictorial Concepts” (1989) has received international recognition as a fundamental work in modern semiotics. “Bildbetydser” (1992) in Swedish is the first comprehensive textbook (in any language) in visual semiotics. Together with David Dunér he published “Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution” (2016). He has been the co-editor of a number of important volumes such as “Encyclopaedia of Semiotics” (1998), the special issue on “Semiotics and Cognition in Human Development” in the journal Cognitive Development (2015), together with Chris Sinha and Sara Lenninger, and the volume “Meaning, Mind and Communication: Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics” (2016) with Jordan Zlatev and Piotr Konderak.
By craving for theoretical consistency, Göran often challenged semiotic theory, always remaining a humanist at heart. For him, it was never “either Saussure or Peirce”, but rather both, and many others, importantly Husserl. With a tenacity to never lose the connection to experience, Göran brought out the relevance of signs and other meanings for human beings. “There is always an aspect of the lifeworld in whatever I do”, he once very appropriately said. His writings on signs and other meanings, in particular with respect to pictures, will without doubt remain influential in the field.
Göran was a much-appreciated teacher and supervisor. He recently co-supervised the PhD thesis in cognitive semiotics by Juan Carlos Mendoza-Collazos and was the main supervisor of the PhD theses of Anna Cabak Rédei and Sara Lenninger, both of whom are currently Associate Professor (Docent) in cognitive semiotics. He will be deeply missed by his colleagues and students, leaving a gap that is impossible to fill in. But also a legacy which we are proud to carry on.
Sara Lenninger & Jordan Zlatev
