Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
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Frank Nuessel
Frank Nuessel (b. 1943) is a Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Program in Linguistics at the University of Louisville 〈fhnues01@louisville.edu 〉. He is also University Scholar (University of Louisville, 2008–). His research interests include Italian studies, Hispanic linguistics, gerontology, onomastics, and semiotics. He is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America (2002–), and the International Communicology Institute (2005–). He received the Robert A. Miller Diversity Award (2004) and the Educator Achievement Award from the Kentucky Association for Gerontology (2003). He is President of the Semiotic Society of America (2011) and Vice-President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (2010–2011). He is Editor ofNAMES: A Journal of Onomastics (2008–) and Review Editor ofLanguage Problems and Language Planning (1983–).
Abstract
In carrying out her archival research of Victoria Welby's collected scholarly documents and personal correspondence, Susan Petrilli has engaged in a demanding type of academic inquiry that requires critical and analytical skills of the highest order. The present essay focuses on this aspect of Petrilli's research, which culminated in her opus magnum Signifying and Understanding. It also addresses the need to continue to extract additional materials from these important documents, many of which are located at York University (Ontario, Canada). This will enable scholars to have easier access to them in order to facilitate future research on significs and Victoria Welby's role in its ideological development.
About the author
Frank Nuessel (b. 1943) is a Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Program in Linguistics at the University of Louisville 〈fhnues01@louisville.edu〉. He is also University Scholar (University of Louisville, 2008–). His research interests include Italian studies, Hispanic linguistics, gerontology, onomastics, and semiotics. He is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America (2002–), and the International Communicology Institute (2005–). He received the Robert A. Miller Diversity Award (2004) and the Educator Achievement Award from the Kentucky Association for Gerontology (2003). He is President of the Semiotic Society of America (2011) and Vice-President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (2010–2011). He is Editor of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics (2008–) and Review Editor of Language Problems and Language Planning (1983–).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
