Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs
Subtitle: Significs, Semiotics, Philosophy of Language
By: Susan Petrilli
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781351296007
Subjects: Semiotics; Semantics (Philosophy); Linguistics; Philosophy; Iconicity (Linguistics); Sémantique (Philosophie); Linguistique; Philosophie; Iconicité
Description: "Victoria Welby (1837-1912) dedicated her research to the relationship between signs and values. She exchanged ideas with important exponents of the language and sign sciences, such as Charles S. Peirce and Charles S. Ogden. She examined themes she believed crucially important both in the use of signs and in reflection on signs. But Welby's research can also be understood in ideal dialogue with authors she could never have met in real life, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Susanne Langer, and Genevieve Vaughan. Welby contends that signifying cannot be constrained to any one system, type of sign, language, field of discourse, or area of experience. On the contrary, it is ever more developed, enhanced, and rigorous, the more it develops across different fields, disciplines, and areas of experience. For example, to understand meaning, Welby evidences the advantage of translating it into another word even from the same language or resorting to metaphor to express what would otherwise be difficult to conceive. Welby aims for full awareness of the expressive potential of signifying resources. Her reflections make an important contribution to problems connected with communication, expression, interpretation, translation, and creativity."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I On Signs in the Direction of Significs  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 1 Significs: A New Approach to Signs and Language  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 2 Understanding and Misunderstanding  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 3 Life Sciences and Human Sciences in Dialogue  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 4 The Question of Translation  -- Frank Nuessel; title: part, II Among Masters of the Sign  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 5 Victoria Welby and Charles S. Peirce: Significs, Semiotics, Semioethics  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 6 Victoria Welby and Giovanni Vailati: The Critique of Language  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 7 Victoria Welby and Charles K. Ogden: What Does Meaning Mean?  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 8 Victoria Welby, Mary Everest Boole, and Susanne K. Langer: Humanizing Signs  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 9 Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Vitality of Meaning  -- Frank Nuessel; title: chapter 10 Victoria Welby and Genevieve Vaughan: Gift-Giving and Communication -- Frank Nuessel.