Essays on Significs
Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)
Editor
Significs is one of those (by no means exclusively) sign theoretically relevant movements which arose at the turn of the century. It established a philosophical tradition which, from its very inception, was interlaced with widely varying movements ranging, for example, from Breal's semantics to Carnap's and Neurath's logical empiricism. In this volume, an international group of well-known scholars from various disciplines undertakes a broad re-evaluation of significs and its development which promises also to yield a better knowledge of research approaches in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, and psychology with which significs was related or vied for acceptance.
Contributions deal with Lady Welby's biography and socio-cultural background, the intellectual context of the signific movement at the turn of the century and the relationships between Welby's semiotic and philosophical ideas on the one hand and those of her contemporaries (Breal, Peirce, Schiller, Vailati etc.) and followers (Ogden, Van Eeden, Mannoury etc.) on the other. Descriptions of the historiographically most important archive materials, a bibliography of publications on Lady Welby and her significs and an index of names conclude the volume.
[Foundations of Semiotics, 23] 1990. xv, 313 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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PrefaceH. Walter Schmitz | p. i
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I. The Social and Literary Background: The Welby Family
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Genealogy of Victoria, Lady WelbyDavid Hughes | p. 3
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Some Account of the Literary Production of Lady Welby and her FamilyPaul Chipchase | p. 17
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II. Signific Signposts at the Turn of the Century
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Significs: The Analysis of Meaning as Critique of Modernist CultureTimothy J. Reiss | p. 63
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Anticipatory Themes in the Writings of Lady WelbyRita Nolan | p. 83
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III. Significs between Semantics and Semiotics: Comparative Analyses
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French Semantics of the Late Nineteenth Century and Lady Welby's SignificsSylvian Auroux and Simone Delesalle | p. 105
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Victoria Lady Welby and Charles Sanders Peirce: Meaning and SignificationGérard Deledalle | p. 133
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Significs and F.C.S. Schiller's Critique of Formal LogicJohann Georg Juchem | p. 151
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Theory of Meaning and Theory of Knowledge: Vailati and Lady WelbyAugusto Ponzio | p. 165
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Significs and C.K. Ogden: The Influence of Lady WelbyW. Terrence Gordon | p. 179
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Sign and Meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A ConfrontationSusan Petrilli | p. 197
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IV. The Signific Movement in the Netherlands
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Frederik van Eeden and the Introduction of Significs into the Netherlands: From Lady Welby to MannouryH. Walter Schmitz | p. 219
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Relativism and Significs: Gerrit Mannoury on the Foundations of MathematicsErik Heijerman | p. 247
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V. The Scientific Remains of V. Lady Welby
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A Note on the Papers of Victoria, Lady Welby in the York University ArchivesHartwell Bowsfield | p. 275
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The Lady Welby Library at the University of LondonP.M. Baker | p. 279
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Index of Names | p. 303
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BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General