Essays on significs : papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby, 1837-1912 / edited by H. Walter Schmitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmitz, H. Walter.

Welby, Victoria, Lady, 1837-1912.

Series:

Foundations of semiotics ; v. 23.

Foundations of semiotics, 0168-2555 ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Welby, Victoria, Lady, 1837-1912.

Welby, Victoria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Significs is one of those (by no means exclusively) sign theoretically relevant movements which arose at the turn of the century. It established a philosophical tradition which, from its very inception, was interlaced with widely varying movements ranging, for example, from Breal's semantics to Carnap's and Neurath's logical empiricism. In this volume, an international group of well-known scholars from various disciplines undertakes a broad re-evaluation of significs and its development which promises also to yield a better knowledge of research approaches in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy

Contents:

ESSAYS ON SIGNIFICS PAPERS PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF VICTORIA LADY WELBY (1837-1912); Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; REFERENCES; I. THE SOCIAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND: THE WELBY FAMILY; GENEALOGY OF VICTORIA, LADY WELBY; SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF LADY WELBY AND HER FAMILY; References; Books by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley; Books by Nina Cust; II. SIGNIFIC SIGNPOSTS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY; SIGNIFICS: THE ANALYSIS OF MEANING AS CRITIQUE OF MODERNIST CULTURE; 1) The Question of ""Nomenclature""

2) Language and Mind 3) The Self and Its Conceptualization; 4) World and Society; NOTES; ANTICIPATORY THEMES IN THE WRITINGS OF LADY WELBY; NOTES; REFERENCES; III. SIGNIFICS BETWEEN SEMANTICS AND SEMIOTICS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES; FRENCH SEMANTICS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND LADY WELBY'S SIGNIFICS; 1. Failure of a Relationship; 2. The French Origin of Semantics; 3. Two Paradigms; NOTES; REFERENCES; VICTORIA LADY WELBY AND CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE: MEANING AND SIGNIFICATION; Ethics of Terminology: Meaning and Metaphor; Signifies and Pragmaticism; Significs and Semeiotic

The Philosophy behind Significs and Semeiotic Conclusion; REFERENCES; SIGNIFICS AND F.C.S. SCHILLER'S CRITIQUE OF FORMAL LOGIC; REFERENCES; THEORY OF MEANING AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE: VAILATI AND LADY WELBY; REFERENCES; SIGNIFICS AND C.K. OGDEN: THE INFLUENCE OF LADY WELBY; Introduction; The Ogden-Welby Correspondence; Ogden's 'Significs' Manuscript; The Meaning of Meaning; Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; SIGN AND MEANING IN VICTORIA WELBY AND MIKHAIL BAKHTIN: A CONFRONTATION; REFERENCES; IV. THE SIGNIFIC MOVEMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS

FREDERIK VAN EEDEN AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SIGNIFICS INTO THE NETHERLANDS: FROM LADY WELBY TO MANNOURY 1. A Sketch of the Signific Movement in the Netherlands; 2. Van Eeden's Contact with Lady Welby and the Creation of His Treatise on ""Logical Basis of Mutual Understanding""; 3. Van Eeden Propagates Significs; 4. Summary; NOTES; REFERENCES; RELATIVISM AND SIGNIFICS: GERRIT MANNOURY ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS; Introduction; 1. Relatrvistic Foundations; Formalism and symbolic logic; Relativism; Unity and Plurality; Definition of Number; Finite and Infinite; Another Definition of Numbe

Complete Induction Mathematical Existence; Logic; Consistency; 2. Signific Foundations; The Signifie Method; Language Levels; Significs and Mathematics; Negation; Concluding Remarks: The Nature of Mathematics; NOTES; REFERENCES; V. THE SCIENTIFIC REMAINS OF V. LADY WELBY; A NOTE ON THE PAPERS OF VICTORIA, LADY WELBY IN THE YORK UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES; THE LADY WELBY LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON; NOTES; VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS ON LADY WELBY AND HER SIGNIFICS; INDEX OF NAMES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-35877-8

9786613358776

90-272-7844-X

OCLC:

769342048