: Susan Petrilli
: Signifying and Understanding Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110218510
: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.80
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
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This book introduces and provides commentary on a selection of published and unpublished works by Victoria Welby and exponents of the Signific Movement in the Netherlands. Beyond offering an important contribution to the reconstruction of a neglected phase in the history of ideas, it evidences the theoretical topicality of significs, in particular the focus on the relation of signs to value, meaning, and understanding, on verbal and nonverbal behavior, and on language and communication.



Susan Petrilli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.

Foreword7
Acknowledgments11
About this volume13
Contents15
Introduction21
Chapter 127
Welby’s intellectual development and writings27
The texts61
Chapter 2157
Moving towards What is Meaning? (1903)157
The texts217
Chapter 3273
A theory of meaning. Significs273
The texts322
Chapter 4371
Modelling signifying processes. Imagery, critique of language, education and temporality371
The texts427
Chapter 5537
Translation and meaning from a significal perspective537
The texts580
Chapter 6593
Mother-sense and subjectivity593
The texts637
Chapter 7751
Welby’s influence. Theories and movements751
The texts787
Chapter 8907
Review of the literature. Writings on Welby and significs907
The texts924
Appendices947
Bibliographies971
Name index1047
Subject index1057