Paul Cobley (born on 24 April 1963) is an eminent British

semiotician Semiotics ( ) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as anything that communicates intentional and unintentional meaning or feelings to the sign's interpreter. Semiosis is an ...

and narratologist. He has served as Professor of Semiotics and Communications at

London Metropolitan University London Metropolitan University, commonly known as London Met, is a public university, public research university in London, England. The University of North London and London Guildhall University merged in 2002 to create the university. The Un ...

. Since 2013, he is Professor in Language and Media at

Middlesex University Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated to MDX) is a public research university based in Hendon, northwest London, England. The university also has campuses in Dubai and Mauritius. The name of the university is ...

, London. He is the President of the

International Association for Semiotic Studies International Association for Semiotic Studies (''Association Internationale de Sémiotique'', IASS-AIS) is the major world organisation of semioticians, established in 1969. Founding members of the association include Algirdas Julien Greimas, Rom ...

since 2014. He did pioneering work in applying Peircean approaches to narratology. His important work involves the integration of different approaches and schools of semiotics. He authored the most widely translated semiotics introductory book. He is a co-editor (together with

Kalevi Kull Kalevi Kull (born 12 August 1952, Tartu) is a biosemiotics professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1975. His earlier work dealt with ethology and field ecology. He has studied the mechanisms of ...

) of the leading book series of semiotics "Semiotics, Communication and Cognition" (published by

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Books

*Cobley, Paul (ed.) 1996. ''The Communication Theory Reader''. London: Routledge. *Cobley, Paul; Jansz, Litza 1997. ''Semiotics for Beginners''. Cambridge: Icon Books. *Briggs, Adam; Cobley, Paul (eds.) 1998. ''The Media: An Introduction''. Harlow: Pearson Education. Deely, John; Kull, Kalevi">John Deely">Deely, John; Kull, Kalevi; Susan Petrilli">Petrilli, Susan (eds.) 2011. ''Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs''. (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 7.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. *Thellefsen, Torkild; Sørensen, Bent; Cobley, Paul (eds.) 2011. ''From First to Third via Cybersemiotics: A Festschrift Honouring Professor Søren Brier on the occasion of his 60th Birthday''. Frederiksberg: Scandinavian Book. *Cobley, Paul; Schulz, Peter J. (eds.) 2013. ''Theories and Models of Communication''. (Handbooks in Communication Science 1.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. *Favareau, Donald; Cobley, Paul; Kull, Kalevi (eds.) 2012. ''A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer''. (Tartu Semiotics Library 10.) Tartu: Tartu University Press. *Cobley, Paul 2016. ''Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics''. (Biosemiotics 15.) Berlin: Springer. *Kull, Kalevi; Cobley, Paul (eds.) 2017. ''Biosemiotics in the community: Essays in honour of Donald Favareau''. Tartu: University of Tartu Press.

Honors

*In 2014, he received the highest honour in semiotics – Thomas A. Sebeok award.Sebeok fellow award.
/ref> *Festschrift for Paul Cobley's 60th birthday: special issue of ''Chinese Semiotic Studies'' 19(1), 2023.

References

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