Lothar Köster PhD

 

Address:	Warthestraße 49  12051 Berlin  Germany
Telephone:	+49 30 / 62845592
Fax:	+49 30 / 62845591
Email:	info@scimon.de
Website:	www.mediendynamik.de

Biography

• born 1957 in Essen
• studied music, psychology, linguistics, and semiotics in Hannover, Hildesheim and Berlin
• degree  in cultural education  at  Hildesheim University, Germany (1988)
• PHD 1994 an der TU Berlin, Fac.1, Linguistics
• 1997: Research at the TU Dresden, Germany, 'Sonderforschungsbereich' No. 537: "Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit", Part L
• software commissions 
• foundation of an online knowledge publishe (www.scimon.de).
• foundation of the company mediendynamik (www.mediendynamik.de) with the focus media advice/media concepts/web media design

Main areas of research

• the relation of semiotics and cognitive sciences/ neurobiology
• foundation of a theory of dynamic semiotics ('performatics')
• 'competence' and 'necessarity' in the context of semiotic argumentation
• semiotic model of the dynamics of media (focus on www)
• semiotic modelling of social structures and institutions

Publication

1996 "The emergence of the code-concept by studying higher brain functions" Lecture for the Interdisciplinary Semiotic Symposium 'The emergence of codes and intentions as a basis of sign processes', Odense/ Denmark in Oct. 1995, printed in unpublished anthology of same name 

1995 "Von Saussure zum Konnektionismus. Struktur und Kontinuität in der Lexemsemantik und der Musiksemiotik"; Dissertation, Fac.1,  Institute for Linguistics,  Technical University Berlin; Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag 

1994 "Tief ist der Brunnen der (Be-)Deutung...Gedanken zur linguistischen und konnektionistischen Perspektive auf Sprache" in Robering, Klaus (ed.) 'Zur Semiotik von Wort, Ton und Karte', Paper on Linguistics No.31; Berlin: Institut for Linguistics 

1988 "Zur Anwendbarkeit generativer Transformationsgrammatiken auf die Analyse von Musik"; Dissertation at Hildesheim University 

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