Paul Cobley (born on 24 April 1963) is an eminent British semiotician and narratologist.
He has served as Professor of Semiotics and Communications at London Metropolitan University. Since 2013, he is Professor in Language and Media at Middlesex University, London.[1]
He is the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies since 2014.
He did pioneering work in applying Peircean approach to narratology. His important work involves the integration of different approaches and schools of semiotics.[2][3] He authored the most widely translated semiotics introductory book.[4]
He is a co-editor (together with Kalevi Kull of the leading book series of semiotics "Semiotics, Communication and Cognition"[5] (published by De Gruyter Mouton).
- ^ Chávez Barreto, E. Israel; Favareau, Donald 2023. Introducing Paul Cobley: a graphic guide. Chinese Semiotic Studies 19(1): 3–14.
- ^ Kull, Kalevi; Velmezova, Ekaterina 2023. How to develop semiotics: Paul Cobley. Sign Systems Studies 51(1): 195–227.
- ^ Kull, Kalevi 2023. Paul Cobley's impact on biosemiotics: Thomas Sebeok's next century. Chinese Semiotic Studies 19(1): 15–23.
- ^ Cobley, Paul; Jansz, Litza 1997. Semiotics for Beginners. Cambridge: Icon Books. [Other editions: – 2004. Introducing Semiotics. (Appignanesi, Richard, ed.) Royston: Icon Books. – 2005. Introducing Semiotics. (Appignanesi, Richard, ed.) New York: Totem Books. – 2007. Introducing Semiotics. Cambridge: Icon Books. – 2010. Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide. Cambridge: Icon Books.] Translated into Finnish (1998), Japanese (2000), Spanish (2001), Estonian (2002), Indonesian (2002), Korean (2002), Romanian (2004), Arabic (2005), Croatian (2006), Chinese (2009), etc.
- ^ Web pages for "Semiotics, Communication and Cognition".
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