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    The Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics.Paul Cobley - 2010 - Biosemiotics 3 (2):225-244.
    This article focuses on the cultural implications of biosemiotics, considering the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an “epistemological break” with modern modes of conceptualizing the world. To some extent, the article offers a series of footnotes to points made in the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer. However, it is argued that the move towards ‘agency’ represented in biosemiotics needs to be approached with caution in light of problems of translation between the humanities and the sciences. Notwithstanding these problems, biosemiotics is found (...)
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  2. How Can the Study of the Humanities Inform the Study of Biosemiotics?Donald Favareau, Kalevi Kull, Gerald Ostdiek, Timo Maran, Louise Westling, Paul Cobley, Frederik Stjernfelt, Myrdene Anderson, Morten Tønnessen & Wendy Wheeler - 2017 - Biosemiotics 10 (1):9-31.
    This essay – a collection of contributions from 10 scholars working in the field of biosemiotics and the humanities – considers nature in culture. It frames this by asking the question ‘Why does biosemiotics need the humanities?’. Each author writes from the background of their own disciplinary perspective in order to throw light upon their interdisciplinary engagement with biosemiotics. We start with Donald Favareau, whose originary disciplinary home is ethnomethodology and linguistics, and then move on to Paul Cobley’s contribution on (...)
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    Introduction.Tim Ireland & Paul Cobley - 2022 - Biosemiotics 15 (2):187-192.
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    Introduction: What is sociosemiotics?Paul Cobley & Anti Randviir - 2009 - Semiotica 2009 (173):1-39.
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    Scaffolding Development and the Human Condition.Paul Cobley & Frederik Stjernfelt - 2015 - Biosemiotics 8 (2):291-304.
    This paper addresses the concept of semiotic scaffolding by considering it in light of questions arising from the contemporary challenge to the humanities. This challenge comes from a mixture of scientistic demands, opportunism on the part of Western governments in thrall to neo-liberalism, along with crass economic utilitarianism. In this paper we attempt to outline what a theory of semiotic scaffolding may offer to an understanding of the humanities’ contemporary role, as well as what the humanities might offer to the (...)
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    The communicative wheel: Symptom, signal, and model in multimodal communication.Per Durst-Andersen & Paul Cobley - 2018 - Semiotica 2018 (225):77-102.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2018 Heft: 225 Seiten: 77-102.
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    Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader.Paul Cobley (ed.) - 2009 - University of Scranton Press.
    _Realism for the 21st Century_ is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely—a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely’s development as a pragmatic realist, featuring his early essays on our relation to the world after Darwinism; crucial articles on logic, semiotics, and objectivity; overviews of philosophy after modernity; and a new essay on “purely objective reality.”.
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    Peirce’s diagrammatic reasoning and the cinema: Image, diagram, and narrative in The Shape of Water.Paul Cobley & Yunhee Lee - 2020 - Semiotica 2020 (236-237):29-46.
    This article aims to examine the relationship between image and narrative by means of Peirce’s first trichotomy of qualisign-sinsign-legisign or, for the purposes of the current argument, image-diagram-metaphor. It is argued that narrative, as an extended metaphor, can be examined in three modes: in the image; schematically, in the imagination; and allegorically or in a thought experiment, through hypothetic interpretation. The article outlines two kinds of diagrammatic reasoning emphasized by Peirce: corollarial deduction in which the image is ‘literally seen’ and (...)
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    Ethical food packaging and designed encounters with distant and exotic others.David Machin & Paul Cobley - 2020 - Semiotica 2020 (232):251-271.
    There has been criticism of how Fair-Trade products represent workers in remote parts of the world where packaging offers an encounter with distant others which romanticizes and homogenizes them as a pre-modern form of ethnicity. Such workers are shown as always engaged in authentic, simple, honest decontextualized manual labor. And they are depicted as highly appreciative of, and empowered by, the act of ethical shopping. This paper shows that a close social semiotic analysis of Fair-Trade packaging reveals a different set (...)
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    “I’ll Show You Differences”: Skills, Creativity and Meaning.Johan Siebers & Paul Cobley - 2024 - Social Epistemology 38 (1):28-37.
    This article arises out of critical contemplation of ‘skills’ in relation to Higher Education pedagogy as it relates to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. As the emphasis on skills dominates more and more of the discourse about pedagogy in Higher Education, the article aims to make some critical comments about the reductionist approach to education that easily becomes part of skills discourse. In addition to criticising instrumentalist deployment of ‘skills’ in Higher Education policy, the article also considers the supposedly (...)
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    John Deely, from the Point of View of Biosemiotics.Paul Cobley, Donald Favareau & Kalevi Kull - 2017 - Biosemiotics 10 (1):1-4.
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    Preface.Paul Cobley - 2009 - Semiotica 2009 (173).
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    Codes and coding: Sebeok's zoosemiotics and the dismantling of the fixed-code fallacy.Paul Cobley - 2014 - Semiotica 2014 (198):33-45.
    The concept of code has a long and varied history across the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. In the interdisciplinary field of biosemiotics it has been foundational through the idea of code duality (Hoffmeyer and Emmeche 1991); yet it has not been free from controversy and questions of definition (see, for example, Barbieri 2010). One reason why code has been so central to modern semiotics is not simply a matter of the linguistic heritage of semiology and the work (...)
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    Analysing narrative genres.Paul Cobley - 2001 - Sign Systems Studies 29 (2):479-502.
    There can be little doubt that human consciousness is now suffused with narrative. In the West, narrative is the focus of a number of lucrative industries and narratives proliferate as never before. The importance of popular genres in current narrative is an index of the demise of authorship in the face of new media and has necessitated the renewal of the term "genre" in narrative analysis over the last hundred years or so. However. this article attempts to make clear that (...)
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    Farewell to brass tacks.Paul Cobley - 2003 - Semiotica 2003 (147).
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    Identikits.Paul Cobley - 2003 - Semiotica 2003 (146).
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    Motivation and Interest.Paul Cobley - 2010 - American Journal of Semiotics 26 (1-4):3-15.
    In place of an abstract. Jeff Bernard was not afraid of complexity. The last essay of his that I read and published was ‘10 theses on perception in terms of work. A Rossi-Landian/Wittgensteinian point of view’, a title which promised thinking of some considerable sophistication — and delivered with dividends. It was accompanied by a figure in a pdf file that my co-editor and me struggled to understand until well after a few readings and close re-readings of the essay. Away (...)
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    Marketing the glocal in narratives of national identity.Paul Cobley - 2004 - Semiotica 2004 (150):197-225.
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    Narratiivsete žanrite analüüs. Kokkuvõte.Paul Cobley - 2001 - Sign Systems Studies 29 (2):502-502.
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    Objectivity and Immanence in Genre Theory.Paul Cobley & Garin Dowd - 2006 - In Garin Dowd, Lesley Stevenson & Jeremy Strong (eds.), Genre Matters. Intellect. pp. 41--53.
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    Semiotics, Closure and Technologies of Narrative Communication.Paul Cobley - 2002 - Semiotics:259-287.
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    Seeking other routes.Paul Cobley - 2008 - Semiotica 2008 (169):249-252.
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  23. The drama Hollywood puzzle film. Re-viewing vantage point.Paul Cobley - 2014 - In Warren Buckland (ed.), Hollywood puzzle films. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Time, Feeling and Abduction.Paul Cobley - 2008 - Semiotics:858-868.
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    The semiotics of paranoia: The thriller, abduction, and the self.Paul Cobley - 2004 - Semiotica 2004 (148).
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    Vistas for organized global semiotics.Paul Cobley & Kristian Bankov - 2016 - Semiotica 2016 (211):9-18.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Heft: Ahead of print.
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    Introduction to Biosemiotics. [REVIEW]Paul Cobley - 2008 - American Journal of Semiotics 24 (1-3):201-204.
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