- Dr. Paul Cobley
Professor in Language and Media
School of Media and Performing Arts
Middlesex University
The Burroughs
London
NW4 4BT
United Kingdom
Paul Cobley
Middlesex University, Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Faculty Member
Festschrift to Donald Favareau. Includes essays by 18 semioticians and his annotated bibliography .
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Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs.
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Research Interests: Semiotics, Media Studies, Film Studies, Narrative, Genre, and 15 moreNarrative and interpretation, Narratology, Narrative Methods, Charles S. Peirce, Hermeneutics and Narrative, Narrative and Identity, Genre Theory, Narrative Analysis, Narrative Theory, Novel, Television, Narrative Inquiry, Peircean Semiotics, Film and Media Studies, and Fiction
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Semiotics, Social Theory, Philosophy Of Language, Ethics, and 15 moreHumanities, Languages and Linguistics, Marxism, Visual Culture, Cultural Theory, Biosemiotics, Zoosemiotics, Humanism, Humanism, Anti-Humanism, and Post-Humanism, Terrence Deacon, Thomas A. Sebeok, Humanities and Social Sciences, Codes, Jesper Hoffmeyer, and Visual Semiotiics
Without biosemiosis, there could be no human language. The volume presents international perspectives that have been inspired by this simple idea. The contributors open up new methods, directions and perspectives on both language in... more
Without biosemiosis, there could be no human language. The volume presents international perspectives that have been inspired by this simple idea. The contributors open up new methods, directions and perspectives on both language in general and specific human languages. Many commonplace notions (language, dialect, syntax, sign, text, dialogue, discourse, etc.) have to be rethought once due attention is given to the living roots of languages. Accordingly, the contributors unite “eternal” problems of the humanities (such as language and thought, origin of language, prelinguistic meaning- making, borders of human language and “marginal” linguistic phenomena) with new inspirations drawing from natural science. They do so with respect to issues such as: how biolinguistics relates to biosemiotics, the history and value of general linguistic and (bio)semiotic models, and how empirical work can link the study of language with biosemiotic phenomena. The volume thus begins to unify perspectives on language(s) and living systems. Biosemiotics connects the sciences with the humanities while offering a new challenge to autonomous linguistics by pointing towards new kinds of interdisciplinary fusion.
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Today, arguably more than at any time in the past, media are the key players in contributing to what defines reality for the citizens of Europe and beyond. This book provides an introduction to the way that the media occupy such a... more
Today, arguably more than at any time in the past, media are the key players in contributing to what defines reality for the citizens of Europe and beyond. This book provides an introduction to the way that the media occupy such a position of prominence in contemporary human existence.
This expanded and fully updated third edition of the bestselling The Media: An Introduction collects in one volume thirty-six specially commissioned essays to offer unrivalled breadth and depth for an introduction to the study of contemporary media. It addresses the fundamental questions about today's media – for example, digitisation and its effects, new distribution technologies, and the implications of convergence, all set against the backdrop of a period of profound social and economic change in Europe and globally.
Key features:
•Expert contributions on each topic
•Approachable, authoritative contributions provide a solid theoretical overview of the media industry and comprehensive empirical guide to the institutions that make up the media.
•Further Reading and related web-resource listings encourage further study.
New to this edition:
•New five part structure provides a broad and coherent approach to media: Part 1 Understanding the Media; Part 2 What Are the Media?; Part 3 The Media Environment; Part 4 Audiences, Influences and Effects; Part 5 Media Representations.
•Brand new chapters on: Approaches to Media; Media Form; Models of Media Institutions; The Media in Europe; Photography; Book Publishing; Newspapers; Magazines; Radio; Television; The Internet and the Web; News Media; Economics; Policy; Public Service Broadcasting in Europe; Censorship and Freedom of Speech; Audience Research; Sexualities; Gender; Social Class; Media and Religion; The Body, Health and Illness; Nationality and Sex Acts.
•Other chapter topics from the last edition fully updated
•A wider, more comparative focus on Europe.
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Media.html?id=PnnKUEIhrxQC&hl=en
This expanded and fully updated third edition of the bestselling The Media: An Introduction collects in one volume thirty-six specially commissioned essays to offer unrivalled breadth and depth for an introduction to the study of contemporary media. It addresses the fundamental questions about today's media – for example, digitisation and its effects, new distribution technologies, and the implications of convergence, all set against the backdrop of a period of profound social and economic change in Europe and globally.
Key features:
•Expert contributions on each topic
•Approachable, authoritative contributions provide a solid theoretical overview of the media industry and comprehensive empirical guide to the institutions that make up the media.
•Further Reading and related web-resource listings encourage further study.
New to this edition:
•New five part structure provides a broad and coherent approach to media: Part 1 Understanding the Media; Part 2 What Are the Media?; Part 3 The Media Environment; Part 4 Audiences, Influences and Effects; Part 5 Media Representations.
•Brand new chapters on: Approaches to Media; Media Form; Models of Media Institutions; The Media in Europe; Photography; Book Publishing; Newspapers; Magazines; Radio; Television; The Internet and the Web; News Media; Economics; Policy; Public Service Broadcasting in Europe; Censorship and Freedom of Speech; Audience Research; Sexualities; Gender; Social Class; Media and Religion; The Body, Health and Illness; Nationality and Sex Acts.
•Other chapter topics from the last edition fully updated
•A wider, more comparative focus on Europe.
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Media.html?id=PnnKUEIhrxQC&hl=en
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The book includes 80 articles, each focused on a concept used in biosemiotics, and commenting a particular quotation from Jesper Hoffmeyer's writings.
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(“This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to have an informed and up-to-date perspective on narrative” Studies in Communication Sciences 2 (2) p. 169 (2002); “Clear and precise language is Cobley’s forte, and he explicitly... more
(“This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to have an informed and up-to-date perspective on narrative” Studies in Communication Sciences 2 (2) p. 169 (2002); “Clear and precise language is Cobley’s forte, and he explicitly details his terms in a manner that neither assumes prior knowledge nor demands analytical leaps from the reader. This generally thorough review spans the social, anthropological, historical, and psychological manifestations of narrative, centering particularly on how humans make meaning and understand identity” Symploke 11 (1/2) p. 267 (2003))
(“the kind of well-informed theoretical book that can only help legitimize academic criticism of popular fiction” – Times Literary Supplement 24 August 2001 p. 29; “provocative and stimulating” – Textual Practice 16 (2002) p. 198; “well... more
(“the kind of well-informed theoretical book that can only help legitimize academic criticism of popular fiction” – Times Literary Supplement 24 August 2001 p. 29; “provocative and stimulating” – Textual Practice 16 (2002) p. 198; “well documented and argued in a persuasive, accessible way” The Lecturer June 2002 p. 18; “a timely and fascinating discussion of the thriller and the attendant theoretical issues to do with the concept of genre, reading and history” Media, Culture and Society 24 (2002) p. 141; “a well researched and written contribution to the field of genre. The author successfully combines textual analysis with a commentary on genre that is always interesting and often original. Although the mix of television, literature and film seems, on the surface, a heavy one, it has the ultimate effect of returning the reader continuously to the issue of genre that connects them all. In addition, the author provides extensive lists of further reading and viewing material for each chapter that should satisfy anyone wishing to research either the thriller or the issue of genre in greater depth” Intensities 1 (2001); “His readings are apt and accurate, and his agenda is, to my way of thinking, admirable" Studies in the Novel 35 (1) p. 116 (2003)).
“Crushing rival textbooks under its wheels, this wonderfully comprehensive and useful volume brings together an impressive array of writers on all the key subjects . . . Albertazzi and Cobley’s The Media looks set to be the must-buy text... more
“Crushing rival textbooks under its wheels, this wonderfully comprehensive and useful volume brings together an impressive array of writers on all the key subjects . . . Albertazzi and Cobley’s The Media looks set to be the must-buy text for media students to install next to their laptops.”
David Gauntlett, Professor of Media, University of Westminster
“Joining up-to-date information with an accessible format, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the media in their social and cultural contexts.”
Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen
David Gauntlett, Professor of Media, University of Westminster
“Joining up-to-date information with an accessible format, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the media in their social and cultural contexts.”
Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen
(“I imagine that if you were studying semiotics this book would be a godsend . . . Recommended” The Lecturer)
(“Paul Cobley is not only a leading figure in semiotics and communication theory, but also a strong promoter of interdisciplinarity in all domains of human scholarly endeavor . . . Semiotics and linguistics are vibrant, ever-changing... more
(“Paul Cobley is not only a leading figure in semiotics and communication theory, but also a strong promoter of interdisciplinarity in all domains of human scholarly endeavor . . . Semiotics and linguistics are vibrant, ever-changing sciences. But they are difficult ones to understand directly. This Companion will certainly help the reader learn much more about them in a concrete and highly intelligible fashion” Semiotica 141 (1/4) (2002): 351-376; “Paul Cobley, who provides the clear and informative introduction, previously edited Routledge’s Communication Theory Reader (for our review of this, see EJC, 12(3), 1997). He has put together a similarly interesting collection here, and students are likely to find it as useful as the earlier volume” European Journal of Communication 17 (1): 144 (2002)).
