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Author:   Susan Petrilli
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.840kg
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9781412854924

ISBN 10:   141285492
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword, by Frank Nuessel Introduction: Prefigurations and Developments in the Study of Signs Part I On Signs in the Direction of Significs 1 Significs: A New Approach to Signs and Language 1.1 The Scope of Significs, or ""Semioethics"" 1.2 Problems of Language and Terminology 1.3 Significs and Theory of Meaning 1.4 Iconicity and Translative Processes in Language and Knowledge 1.5 Geosemiosis, Heliosemiosis, Cosmosemiosis 1.6 Mother-Sense, Love, and Subjectivity 1.7 Interpretative Itineraries in the Relation between Religion, Philosophy, and Science 2 Understanding and Misunderstanding 2.1 Significs as the Critique of Bad Linguistic Usage 2.2 Ambiguity of the Live Word and Sclerosis of Definition 2.3 For a Significal Education 2.4 Common Sense and Common Speech in Welby and Peirce 2.5 Semantic Vagueness and Logical Abstraction 3 Life Sciences and Human Sciences in Dialogue 3.1 The Transdisciplinary Vocation of Significs 3.2 The Problem of Sense, an Evolutionary Perspective 3.3 A New Copernican Revolution74 3.4 The Development of Signifying Processes 3.5 Similarity and the Figurative Nature of Meaning 4 The Question of Translation 4.1 Translation as Method 4.2 Significance in Interpretative-Translative Processes 4.3 Translation Theories: Welby, Peirce, Bakhtin, Wittgenstein111 4.4 Translatability and Common Meaning 4.5 Centrality of Translation in Sign Processes and Evolutionary Development Part II Among Masters of the Sign 5 Victoria Welby and Charles S. Peirce: Significs, Semiotics, Semioethics 5.1 The Welby Network 5.2 From ""Code Semiotics"" to ""Interpretation Semiotics"" 5.3 Sense, Meaning, and Significance 5.4 Interpretation, Translation, and Value 5.5 Significs, Semantics, Semiotics 6 Victoria Welby and Giovanni Vailati: The Critique of Language 6.1 An Intellectual Alliance 6.2 Linguistic Ambiguity and Definition 6.3 Figurative Speech, Analogy, and Communication 7 Victoria Welby and Charles K. Ogden: What Does Meaning Mean? 7.1 Welby, Ogden, and Others: A Communication Network 7.2 The Correspondence between Victoria Welby and Charles K. Ogden 7.3 Significs and ""The Meaning of Meaning"" 7.4 Meaning, Referent, and Linguistic Production 7.5 A Biobibliographical Study on Ogden 8 Victoria Welby, Mary Everest Boole, and Susanne K. Langer: Humanizing Signs 8.1 Victoria Welby and the Logic of Mother Sense 8.2 Mary Everest Boole in Correspondence with Welby 8.3 Susanne K. Langer on Signs, Symbols, and Significance 9 Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Vitality of Meaning 9.1 Intellectual Biographies: Difference and Encounter 9.2 Language and Culture 9.3 Identity and Otherness 9.4 Ideology, Language, Consciousness 9.5 Sign Theory in Welby, Peirce, Bakhtin 10 Victoria Welby and Genevieve Vaughan: Gift-Giving and Communication 10.1 Gift-Giving, Significs, Semioethics 10.2 For the Quality of Life in the World of Global Communication 10.3 Sensitivity to Otherness with Global Semiotics and Semioethics 10.4 The Gift from a Semioethical Perspective 10.5 To ""Pull the Mother Back into Philosophy"" 10.6 Significs: Following References Name and Subject Index"

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The 'science of signs, ' semiotics, gained its footing in intellectual culture at large in the latter half of the 20th century, principally under the editorial, organizational, and intellectual leadership of Thomas A. Sebeok, a close colleague of Susan Petrilli. In the 20th century's first half, the flame of interest in semiotics was called 'semiology' in honor of the work and influence of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). Sebeok it was who maneuvered to the center stage Charles Peirce (1839-1914), where Lady Welby (1837-1912) also appeared as Peirce's lonely companion in the larger project of 'semiotic, ' as Peirce called it--in the larger whole of which, Sebeok demonstrated, Saussure's proposal formed only a part. But it was Susan Petrilli's 1,000 page + Signifying and Understanding book of 2009 that for the first time revealed Lady Welby to all as 'not just Peirce's interlocutor' but every bit a 'mother of semiotics' alongside Augustine, Poinsot, and Peirce as 'fathers.' Now, in this book, Susan Petrilli emerges in her own right, alongside Sebeok and alongside Peirce, as 'setting the stage' for the 21st century development of semiotic consciousness--bound to succeed by reason of providing the first and only inherently interdisciplinary perspective on the scientific developments which have brought us to the present stage of university life and the dawn of a global intellectual culture--in showing that Lady Welby along with Peirce needs to be drawn upon for semiotics to realize not only its speculative import but its ethical import as well. Petrilli in this book provides us with a key to the semiotics of the 22nd century. --John N. Deely, University of St. Thomas; managing editor, The American Journal of Semiotics Step by step, Susan Petrilli is methodically building an accurate and admirable understanding of the science of signs, as elaborated by Lady Welby through her long scientific dialogue with Charles S. Peirce. Thus, Victoria Welby finds her right place in the Semiotics of the twenty-first century. --Anne Henault, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) France

The 'science of signs, ' semiotics, gained its footing in intellectual culture at large in the latter half of the 20th century, principally under the editorial, organizational, and intellectual leadership of Thomas A. Sebeok, a close colleague of Susan Petrilli. In the 20th century's first half, the flame of interest in semiotics was called 'semiology' in honor of the work and influence of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). Sebeok it was who maneuvered to the center stage Charles Peirce (1839-1914), where Lady Welby (1837-1912) also appeared as Peirce's lonely companion in the larger project of 'semiotic, ' as Peirce called it--in the larger whole of which, Sebeok demonstrated, Saussure's proposal formed only a part. But it was Susan Petrilli's 1,000 page + <em>Signifying and Understanding</em> book of 2009 that for the first time revealed Lady Welby to all as 'not just Peirce's interlocutor' but every bit a 'mother of semiotics' alongside Augustine, Poinsot, and Peirce as 'fathers.' Now, in this book, Susan Petrilli emerges in her own right, alongside Sebeok and alongside Peirce, as 'setting the stage' for the 21st century development of semiotic consciousness--bound to succeed by reason of providing the first and only <em>inherently</em> interdisciplinary perspective on the scientific developments which have brought us to the present stage of university life and the dawn of a global intellectual culture--in showing that <em>Lady Welby along with Peirce</em> needs to be drawn upon for semiotics to realize not only its speculative import but its ethical import as well. Petrilli in this book provides us with a key to the semiotics of the 22nd century. </p> --John N. Deely, University of St. Thomas; managing editor, <em> The American Journal of Semiotics</em></p> Step by step, Susan Petrilli is methodically building an accurate and admirable understanding of the science of signs, as elaborated by Lady Welby through her long scientific dialogue with Charles S. Peirce. Thus, Victoria Welby finds her right place in the Semiotics of the twenty-first century. </p> --Anne Henault, UniversitE de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) France</p>

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Susan Petrilli is an associate professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is author of many books, including Expression and Interpretation in Language and The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other.

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