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 Breal,
Andre Lalande, the brothers Henry and William James, and Peirce, as
well as Frederik van Eeden, Mary Everst Boole, Ferdinand Toennies,
and Giovanni Vailati. Her writings directly inspired the Signific
Movement in the Netherlands, important for psycholinguistics,
linguistics and semantics and inaugurated by van Eeden and
developed by such authors as Gerrit Mannoury. This volume,
containing introductions and commentaries, presents a selection
from Welby's published and unpublished writings delineating the
whole course of her research through to developments with the
Significs Movement in the Netherlands and still other
ramifications, contemporary and subsequent to her. A selection of
essays by first-generation significians contributing to the
Signific Movement in the Netherlands completes the collection,
testifying to the progress of significs after Welby and even
independently from her. This volume contributes to the
reconstruction on both the historical and theoretical levels of an
important period in the history of ideas. The aim of the volume is
to convey a sense of the theoretical topicality of significs and
its developments, especially in semiotics, and in particular its
thematization of the question of values and the connection with
signs, meaning, and understanding, therefore with human verbal and
nonverbal behavior, language and communication.
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