Paul Cobley

Paul Cobley (born in 24 April 1963) is an English eminent 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.

He is the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies since 2014.

He has done a pioneering work on applying Peircean approach in narratology. His important work has been to integrate different approaches and schools in semiotics. He authored the most widely translated semiotics introductory book.

He is a co-editor (together with Kalevi Kull of the leading book series of semiotics Semiotics, Communication and Cognition (published by De Gruyter Mouton). Provided by Wikipedia