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Significs and Language
With an introduction by H.W. Schmitz
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This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby’s very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author’s hands, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’ (reprinted from The Monist 3:4, 1893), and ‘Sense, Meaning and Interpretation’ (reprinted from Mind 5:17 and 18, 1896), and a selection of several noteworthy and unpublished essays. In the introduction to this volume the editor H. Walter Schmitz exemplifies how Lady Welby developed her significs in discussion and cooperation with numerous highly divergent scientists and scholars of her times; how her ideas influenced other scholars in Europe and the US; and how significs sank to near oblivion and was finally recovered.
[Foundations of Semiotics, 5] 1985. (ii)cclxvii, 170 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 November 2011
Published online on 7 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–vi
- Table of contents | pp. iii–iv
- Preface | pp. v–viii
- 1. The Rediscovery: A First Approach to Lady Welby and Her Significs | pp. ix–xv
- 2. The Origins and Development of Significs: A Biographical and Bibliographical Sketch of Lady Welby's Course of Thoughts | pp. xvi–lxxv
- 2.1 The Sources of This Study
- 2.2 The Development of an Independent Mind
- 2.3 The Search for a Contemporary Interpretation of the Christian Doctrine
- 2.4 The Evolution of the Human Mind and the Neglected Problem of Meaning
- 2.5 Significs: A New Science
- 2.6 The Failure to Institutionalize Significs
- 3. Significs as a Communication Oriented Theory of Signs | pp. lxxvi–cvii
- 3.1 Lady Welby's Critique of Language and Terminology
- 3.2 “Translation” and the Unity of Science
- 3.3 “Sense”, “Meaning” and “Significance”
- 4. Lady Welby's Influence on Some of Her Contemporaries | pp. cviii–clxxxviii
- 4.1 André Lalande and the Terminology Critical Movement in France
- 4.2 From F. Tönnies to the Vienna Circle
- 4.3 George Frederick Stout
- 4.4 J. M. Baldwin and His Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology
- 4.5 Some Comments and ‘New’ Documents on the Correspondence between C. S. Peirce and Lady Welby
- 4.6 Bertrand Russell
- 4.7 F. C. S. Schiller and “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’ ”
- 4.8 Giovanni Vailati
- 4.9 C. K: Ogden's ‘Apprenticeship’ with Lady Welby
- 4.10 Lady Welby and Significs in the Novels of H. G. Wells: Some Remarks
- 5. Notes | pp. clxxxix–ccvii
- 6. Bibliography | pp. ccviii–ccxxxvi
- Thus Far Unpublished Essays by V. Lady Welby | pp. ccxxxvii–ccxxxviii
- I Primal Sense and Significs
- II June 30th. 1908
- III F. C. S. Schiller on “Mother-Sense” (From a letter to Lady Welby dated Oct. 2, 1907)
- IV V. Lady Welby's Reply to F. C. S. Schiller (From an undated letter)
- V The Social Value of Expression
- VI Notes
- Victoria Lady Welby's Significs: The Origin of the Signific MovementH. Walter Schmitz
- Victoria Welby: Meaning and Metaphor (Reprinted from The Monist 3:4 (1893) 510-525) | pp. 510–525
- V. Welby: Sense, Meaning and Interpretation (Reprinted from Mind 5:17 and 18 (1896) 24–37, 186–202) | pp. 24–202
- V. Welby: Significs and Language: The Articulate Form of Our Expressive and Interpretative Resources Facsimile of the edition of 1911 x, 105 pp. | pp. 1–105
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