Sune Vork Steffensen is associate professor of Interpersonal Communication and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark. Having written a PhD thesis in linguistics at University of Aarhus, he took up his current position at the University of Southern Denmark in 2008. In 2012, he was the founding director of the Centre for Human Interactivity, which investigates how language, social organisation, and cognition intersect in complex social and dialogical systems. His research interests include: interaction and interactivity; ecological, dialogical and distributed approaches to language and interaction; the functioning of cognitive ecosystems. He has pioneered the so-called Cognitive Event Analysis, a qualitative method for studying behavioural and sense-making processes in human ecosystems. He has co-edited volumes on dialectical ecolinguistics (Continuum, 2007), biosemiotics and health interaction (Braga University Press, 2010), the distributed dynamics of language (Language Sciences, 2012), and ecolinguistics (Language Sciences, 2014). Since July 2015, he has been acting as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Language Sciences.

Works:

1. Multiscale movement coordination dynamics in collaborative team problem solving Wiltshire, T. J., Steffensen, S. V. & Fiore, S. M., Aug 2018, In : Applied Ergonomics.  peer-review Published

2. An ecological perspective on insight problem solving Steffensen, S. V. & Vallée-Tourangeau, F., 2018, Insight: On the Origins of New Ideas. Vallee-Tourangeau, F. (ed.). Routledge, p. 169-190  (Current issues in Thinking and Reasoning). peer-review
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3. The microecological grounding of language: How linguistic symbolicity extends and transforms the human ecology
Steffensen, S. V., 2018, The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics. F. Fill, A. & Penz, H. (eds.). Routledge, p. 393-405.

4. Language Sciences: Half a century on the linguistic frontiers Steffensen, S. V., Fowler, C. & Trousdale, G., Jan 2017, In : Language Sciences. 59, p. A1-A4.

5. Examining Multiscale Movement Coordination in Collaborative Problem Solving Wiltshire, T. & Steffensen, S. V., 2017, 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017) : Computational Foundations of Cognition. Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 1, p. 1345-1350.

6. Human Interactivity: Problem-Finding, Problem-Solving, and Verbal Patterns in the Wild Steffensen, S. V., 2017, Cognition beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice. J. Cowley, S. & Vallée-Tourangeau, F. (eds.). 2. ed. Springer, p. 85-114.

7. The Ecology of Second Language Acquisition and Socialization Steffensen, S. V. & Kramsch, C., 2017, Language Socialization. Duff, P. A. & May, S. (eds.). 3 ed. Springer, p. 17-32 (Encyclopedia of Language and Education).

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