Signifying and Understanding

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Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition)
By Susan Petrilli




&#8226ublisher:  De Gruyter Mouton
•Number Of Pages:  1048
&#8226ublication Date:  2009-12-12
•ISBN-10 / ASIN:  311021850X
•ISBN-13 / EAN:  9783110218503


Product Description:

The theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act theory, and pragmatics are largely found with Victoria Lady Welby. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say, in addition, that Welby is the \"\"founding mother\"\" of semiotics. Some of Peirce's most innovative writings - for example, those on existential graphs - are effectively letters to Lady Welby. She was an esteemed correspondent of scholars such as Bertrand Russell, Charles K. Ogden, Herbert G. Wells, Ferdinand S. C. Schiller, Michel Br谩?l, Andr谩