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In:Essays on Significs: Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)
Edited by H. Walter Schmitz
[Foundations of Semiotics 23] 1990
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1989

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Table of contents

Prefacei

H. Walter Schmitz

I. The Social and Literary Background: The Welby Family

Genealogy of Victoria, Lady Welby3

Some Account of the Literary Production of Lady Welby and her Family17

II. Signific Signposts at the Turn of the Century

Significs: The Analysis of Meaning as Critique of Modernist Culture63

Timothy J. Reiss

Anticipatory Themes in the Writings of Lady Welby83

III. Significs between Semantics and Semiotics: Comparative Analyses

French Semantics of the Late Nineteenth Century and Lady Welby's Significs105

Simone Delesalle

Victoria Lady Welby and Charles Sanders Peirce: Meaning and Signification133

Gérard Deledalle

Significs and F.C.S. Schiller's Critique of Formal Logic151

Johann Georg Juchem

Theory of Meaning and Theory of Knowledge: Vailati and Lady Welby165

Significs and C.K. Ogden: The Influence of Lady Welby179

W. Terrence Gordon

Sign and Meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A Confrontation197

IV. The Signific Movement in the Netherlands

Frederik van Eeden and the Introduction of Significs into the Netherlands: From Lady Welby to Mannoury219

H. Walter Schmitz

Relativism and Significs: Gerrit Mannoury on the Foundations of Mathematics247

V. The Scientific Remains of V. Lady Welby

A Note on the Papers of Victoria, Lady Welby in the York University Archives275

Hartwell Bowsfield

The Lady Welby Library at the University of London279

VI. Bibliography of Publications on Lady Welby and her Significs289

Index of Names303