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Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold

  • Anne Henault

    Anne Hénault is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Sorbonne 〈anne.henault@beaurecueil.org〉. Her research interests include the history and epistemology of general semiotics. Her publications include Histoire de la Sémiotique (1997); Questions de sémiotique (2002); Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle (2004); and Les Enjeux de la Sémiotique (2012).

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Published/Copyright: August 23, 2013

Abstract

Susan Petrilli's work contributes to the history of world semiotics in so much as it allows one to measure the extraordinary and sometimes tragic efforts developed by Victoria, Lady Welby (Welby) in order to create a network of specialists of meaning. Thanks to Welby, the European and American streams of semiotics nearly came together at their very beginnings. However, if it is true that cognitive misunderstandings were not absent during that pioneering period, one may hope that, thanks to Susan Petrilli's volume, research will be able to deepen its epistemological requirements in a manner which will allow Peircean and Saussurian semiotics to cooperate in their investigations and to harmonize their results.

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Anne Henault

Anne Hénault is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Sorbonne 〈〉. Her research interests include the history and epistemology of general semiotics. Her publications include Histoire de la Sémiotique (1997); Questions de sémiotique (2002); Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle (2004); and Les Enjeux de la Sémiotique (2012).

Published Online: 2013-08-23
Published in Print: 2013-08-15

©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Masthead
  2. Introduction
  3. Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
  4. Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
  5. The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
  6. Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
  7. Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
  8. Science: The question of its limits
  9. Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
  10. The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
  11. Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
  12. Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
  13. Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
  14. Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
  15. Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
  16. Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
  17. Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
  18. The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
  19. Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
  20. Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
  21. Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
  22. The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
  23. Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
  24. Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
  25. On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
  26. Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
  27. Lady Welby and logic
  28. Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
  29. In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
  30. The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
  31. The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
  32. Applying significs
  33. Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
  34. Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
  35. Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
  36. Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
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