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1. Introduction: Sidelights 1. Introduction: Sidelights
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2. Significs: A Philosophy of Significance, Interpretation, and Translation 2. Significs: A Philosophy of Significance, Interpretation, and Translation
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3. The Question of Linguistic Ambiguity 3. The Question of Linguistic Ambiguity
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4. The Role of Definition 4. The Role of Definition
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5. Educating for Meaning 5. Educating for Meaning
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6. Intellectual Contexts, Historical Backlights, and Ongoing Developments 6. Intellectual Contexts, Historical Backlights, and Ongoing Developments
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References References
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Notes Notes
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Victoria Lady Welby: Significs as Philosophy of Language
Get accessSusan Petrilli is Full Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, Department of Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica (Research and Humanistic Innovation) (DIRIUM). She teaches Philosophy of Language, Semiotics, and Translation. She was installed as 7th Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America in 2008. As part of this honour, a volume of her essays was distributed as a Special Issue of The American Journal of Semiotics (TAJS 24.4). A major focus in her work is the relation between language, value and responsibility. With Augusto Ponzio she has introduced a related trend in sign studies known as “semioethics”. Victoria Welby and her significs have been at the centre of Petrilli’s research since the early 1980s. In addition to numerous essays and book chapters, she has dedicated four monographs to Welby, two in Italian and two in English, including Signifying and Understanding. Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement (Mouton 2009); and Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs (Transaction 2015) (also in Chinese, Sichuan University Press 2019). Her Italian translations of Welby’s writings include the collections Interpretare, comprendere, comunicare (Carocci 2010) and Senso, significato, significatività (Pensa MultiMedia 2021).
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Published:16 August 2023
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Abstract
Victoria Welby’s theory of meaning, significs, is a philosophy of significance, interpretation, translation. What is its relationship to other language sciences, particularly philosophy of language and semiotics? Significs is philosophy of language where “language” is not limited to verbal language. What contribution does significs make to sign, language, and communication studies? In addition to its interest in the history of ideas, is significs still valid in theoretical terms? Is it still topical? With “significs,” Welby differentiates her approach from others developing under such denominations as “semantics,” “sematology,” “semiology,” and “sem(e)iotic.” Significs transcends strictly linguistic and gnoseological-cognitive boundaries to study signs and language at the crossroads where signs, language and values, ultimately signification and behavior, unite and are scrutinized at the margins of different disciplines. The question, “What is meaning?” gave Welby’s 1903 book its title and inspired all her research.
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