Sarah B Trasmundi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5155324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah B Trasmundi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah B |
| FAMILY NAME | Trasmundi |
| SIGNATURE | TRASMUNDI S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1419-0450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking organisational communication through an ecological perspective
Purpose This article introduces an ecological perspective on organisational communication, offering a robust alternative to prevailing and representational theories. Responding to recent calls for theoretical renewal (Izak et al., 2024), it foregrounds the embodied, material and temporally extended aspects of communication that traditional models often overlook. Drawing on ecological psychology (Gibson, 1986), distributed cognition (Hutchins, 199…
Vittorini’s double realities in Conversations in Sicily
Readers, we argue, frequently engage with the events unfolding in literary texts without relying on symbolic representation. When immersing themselves in embodied and imaginative depictions of memories during reading, readers can directly experience and engage with these cognitive processes. We construct a theoretical framework rooted in an embodied-ecological view on language and reading to argue against the ‘code view’ where reading is seen as …
Timely Reading
This is a theoretical paper which presents a Distributed Cognition (DCog) perspective on reading that supplements existing approaches to account for phenomena that appear contradictory. The DCog approach moves understandings of reading beyond the individualistic, mental processing of text to a consideration of reading as situated, embodied material engagement that draws on multiple timescales. Drawing on the field of cognitive anthropology, the D…
Making a comic
In this article, we investigate how a process of creative and imaginative narration emerges from the interaction between an expert comic writer and his environment. Our argument is based on a cognitive video-ethnographic investigation of a critically acclaimed Norwegian comic author, Anders Kvammen. From the perspective of ecological psychology, we present a detailed analysis of a single concrete example to illustrate our argument, supported by b…
Expertise in Non-Well-Defined Task Domains
In this article, we discuss expertise by considering the activity of reading. Cognitive scientists have traditionally conceptualised reading as a single, well-defined task, namely the decoding of letter sequences into meaningful sequences of speech sounds. This definition captures a core feature of the reading activity at the computational level, but it is an overly narrow model of how reading behaviour occurs in the real world. We propose a more…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In this article, we offer an overview of the philosophical and psychological literatures on expertise. Work so far has failed to engage with recent work in embodied and encultured cognition--in particular the notions of interactivity and semiosis. We suggest how bringing these concepts on board reveals new areas of research concerning the philosophy and psychology of expertise. We conclude with a brief synopsis of each paper
The Aesthetic Dimension of Reading
This paper aims at integrating insights from ecological psychology, pragmatism, and embodied cognitive science to shed light on the aesthetic dimension underlying daily activities. For this purpose, we discuss conceptions of the aesthetic developed by authors from diverse traditions, including Dewey’s pragmatism, Carroll’s cognitivism, and Saito’s everyday aesthetics. We focus on the activity of reading, which has traditionally been conceived as …
Voices in reading literature
Building upon recent studies of historical reading practices and their insights into the bodily and cognitive nature of reading, this article explores the impact of silent and voiced reading on the diverse bodily, cognitive, and emotional engagements with a text. Our starting point is that language is not merely a tool for translating mental content but emerges from and shapes embodied ways of interacting with the world, in this case, a reading-w…
Dialogical cognition
In this article we review Per Linell's work within the last five decades that led to his dialogism framework, which he defines as a general epistemology of language, cognition and communication. We critically discuss how his contribution on the one hand, altered and qualified existent models within language, communication and cognitive science, because dialogism removed language and cognition from their abstract and mental seat in the brain, and …
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell
An Interview with Per Linell
Human Pacemakers and Experiential Reading
This paper applies an embodied perspective to the study of reading and has a two-fold aim: (i) to discuss how reading is best understood in terms of cultural-cognitive performance that involves living bodies who actively engage with reading materials, and (ii) to spark a dialogue with neighboring disciplines, such as multimodality studies and movement studies, which likewise pivot on how practices and performances involve moving bodies: life is s…
A dialogue between distributed language and reading disciplines
A distributed perspective on reading
Embodiments and co-actions
This paper is an empirically-based theoretical contribution to the field of research that investigates the function of trust and re-enactment in psychotherapeutic interaction. We use an ecological, embodied approach that pays attention to how human interaction is constrained by multiple timescales (past, present and future). The analysis sheds light on how trust, here in terms of a therapeutic alliance, is enabled, performed and maintained in int…
Gesture reuse as distributed embodied cognition
In this paper, we investigate the intimate link between hands and minds – or rather: How the hands are a means for exploring thoughts in collaboration with others. Specifically, this study investigates a series of locally occurring instances of gestural reuse in naturally occurring psychotherapeutic interaction. The repetition of gestural sequences and formats in interaction has been researched as serving pragmatic functions of building cohesion …
Insights and their emergence in everyday practices
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it is a theoretical and empirically based contribution to the branch of research that studies enabling conditions of human sense-making. It demonstrates the value of a coherent ecological framework, based on dialogism and interactivity for the study of sense-making, problem-solving and task performance in naturalistic contexts. Second, it presents a promising method for the analysis of cognitive activiti…
A distributed perspective on reading
A dialogue between distributed language and reading disciplines
Gesture reuse as distributed embodied cognition
In this paper, we investigate the intimate link between hands and minds – or rather: How the hands are a means for exploring thoughts in collaboration with others. Specifically, this study investigates a series of locally occurring instances of gestural reuse in naturally occurring psychotherapeutic interaction. The repetition of gestural sequences and formats in interaction has been researched as serving pragmatic functions of building cohesion …
Insights and their emergence in everyday practices
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it is a theoretical and empirically based contribution to the branch of research that studies enabling conditions of human sense-making. It demonstrates the value of a coherent ecological framework, based on dialogism and interactivity for the study of sense-making, problem-solving and task performance in naturalistic contexts. Second, it presents a promising method for the analysis of cognitive activiti…
Gesture reuse as distributed embodied cognition
In this paper, we investigate the intimate link between hands and minds – or rather: How the hands are a means for exploring thoughts in collaboration with others. Specifically, this study investigates a series of locally occurring instances of gestural reuse in naturally occurring psychotherapeutic interaction. The repetition of gestural sequences and formats in interaction has been researched as serving pragmatic functions of building cohesion …
Embodiments and co-actions
This paper is an empirically-based theoretical contribution to the field of research that investigates the function of trust and re-enactment in psychotherapeutic interaction. We use an ecological, embodied approach that pays attention to how human interaction is constrained by multiple timescales (past, present and future). The analysis sheds light on how trust, here in terms of a therapeutic alliance, is enabled, performed and maintained in int…
A dialogue between distributed language and reading disciplines
A distributed perspective on reading
Human Pacemakers and Experiential Reading
This paper applies an embodied perspective to the study of reading and has a two-fold aim: (i) to discuss how reading is best understood in terms of cultural-cognitive performance that involves living bodies who actively engage with reading materials, and (ii) to spark a dialogue with neighboring disciplines, such as multimodality studies and movement studies, which likewise pivot on how practices and performances involve moving bodies: life is s…
Expertise in Non-Well-Defined Task Domains
In this article, we discuss expertise by considering the activity of reading. Cognitive scientists have traditionally conceptualised reading as a single, well-defined task, namely the decoding of letter sequences into meaningful sequences of speech sounds. This definition captures a core feature of the reading activity at the computational level, but it is an overly narrow model of how reading behaviour occurs in the real world. We propose a more…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In this article, we offer an overview of the philosophical and psychological literatures on expertise. Work so far has failed to engage with recent work in embodied and encultured cognition--in particular the notions of interactivity and semiosis. We suggest how bringing these concepts on board reveals new areas of research concerning the philosophy and psychology of expertise. We conclude with a brief synopsis of each paper
The Aesthetic Dimension of Reading
This paper aims at integrating insights from ecological psychology, pragmatism, and embodied cognitive science to shed light on the aesthetic dimension underlying daily activities. For this purpose, we discuss conceptions of the aesthetic developed by authors from diverse traditions, including Dewey’s pragmatism, Carroll’s cognitivism, and Saito’s everyday aesthetics. We focus on the activity of reading, which has traditionally been conceived as …
Voices in reading literature
Building upon recent studies of historical reading practices and their insights into the bodily and cognitive nature of reading, this article explores the impact of silent and voiced reading on the diverse bodily, cognitive, and emotional engagements with a text. Our starting point is that language is not merely a tool for translating mental content but emerges from and shapes embodied ways of interacting with the world, in this case, a reading-w…
Dialogical cognition
In this article we review Per Linell's work within the last five decades that led to his dialogism framework, which he defines as a general epistemology of language, cognition and communication. We critically discuss how his contribution on the one hand, altered and qualified existent models within language, communication and cognitive science, because dialogism removed language and cognition from their abstract and mental seat in the brain, and …
Introduction to the Festschrift for Per Linell
An Interview with Per Linell
Timely Reading
This is a theoretical paper which presents a Distributed Cognition (DCog) perspective on reading that supplements existing approaches to account for phenomena that appear contradictory. The DCog approach moves understandings of reading beyond the individualistic, mental processing of text to a consideration of reading as situated, embodied material engagement that draws on multiple timescales. Drawing on the field of cognitive anthropology, the D…
Making a comic
In this article, we investigate how a process of creative and imaginative narration emerges from the interaction between an expert comic writer and his environment. Our argument is based on a cognitive video-ethnographic investigation of a critically acclaimed Norwegian comic author, Anders Kvammen. From the perspective of ecological psychology, we present a detailed analysis of a single concrete example to illustrate our argument, supported by b…
Rethinking organisational communication through an ecological perspective
Purpose This article introduces an ecological perspective on organisational communication, offering a robust alternative to prevailing and representational theories. Responding to recent calls for theoretical renewal (Izak et al., 2024), it foregrounds the embodied, material and temporally extended aspects of communication that traditional models often overlook. Drawing on ecological psychology (Gibson, 1986), distributed cognition (Hutchins, 199…
Vittorini’s double realities in Conversations in Sicily
Readers, we argue, frequently engage with the events unfolding in literary texts without relying on symbolic representation. When immersing themselves in embodied and imaginative depictions of memories during reading, readers can directly experience and engage with these cognitive processes. We construct a theoretical framework rooted in an embodied-ecological view on language and reading to argue against the ‘code view’ where reading is seen as …
Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Embodied cognition (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (5 works)