Essays on Significs

Essays on Significs
Author: H. Walter Schmitz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027232954

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, and psychology with which significs was related or vied for acceptance. Contributions deal with Lady Welby's biography and socio-cultural background, the intellectual context of the signific movement at the turn of the century and the relationships between Welby's semiotic and philosophical ideas on the one hand and those of her contemporaries (Breal, Peirce, Schiller, Vailati etc.) and followers (Ogden, Van Eeden, Mannoury etc.) on the other. Descriptions of the historiographically most important archive materials, a bibliography of publications on Lady Welby and her significs and an index of names conclude the volume.

Signifying and Understanding

Signifying and Understanding
Author: Susan Petrilli
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1069
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311021850X

This book introduces and provides commentary on a selection of published and unpublished works by Victoria Welby and exponents of the Signific Movement in the Netherlands. Beyond offering an important contribution to the reconstruction of a neglected phase in the history of ideas, it evidences the theoretical topicality of significs, in particular the focus on the relation of signs to value, meaning, and understanding, on verbal and nonverbal behavior, and on language and communication.

International Handbook of Semiotics

International Handbook of Semiotics
Author: Peter Pericles Trifonas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1282
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401794049

This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics—also known as structuralism—is one of the major theoretical movements of the 20th century and its influence as a way to conduct analyses of cultural products and human practices has been immense. This is a comprehensive volume that brings together many otherwise fragmented academic disciplines and currents, uniting them in the framework of semiotics. Addressing a longstanding need, it provides a global perspective on recent and ongoing semiotic research across a broad range of disciplines. The handbook is intended for all researchers interested in applying semiotics as a critical lens for inquiry across diverse disciplines.

Sign Studies and Semioethics

Sign Studies and Semioethics
Author: Susan Petrilli
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614515220

This book examines the issues surrounding the problematic perpetuation of dominant sign systems through the framework of ‘semioethics’. Semioethics is concerned with using semiotics as a powerful tool to critique the status quo and move beyond the reproduction of the dominant order of communication. The aim is to present semioethics as a method to engage semiotics in an active rethink of our ability as humans to affect change.

Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs

Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs
Author: Susan Petrilli
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1412855373

Victoria Welby (1837–1912) dedicated her research to the relationship between signs and values. She exchanged ideas with important exponents of the language and sign sciences, such as Charles S. Peirce and Charles S. Ogden. She examined themes she believed crucially important both in the use of signs and in reflection on signs. But Welby’s research can also be understood in ideal dialogue with authors she could never have met in real life, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Susanne Langer, and Genevieve Vaughan. Welby contends that signifying cannot be constrained to any one system, type of sign, language, field of discourse, or area of experience. On the contrary, it is ever more developed, enhanced, and rigorous, the more it develops across different fields, disciplines, and areas of experience. For example, to understand meaning, Welby evidences the advantage of translating it into another word even from the same language or resorting to metaphor to express what would otherwise be difficult to conceive. Welby aims for full awareness of the expressive potential of signifying resources. Her reflections make an important contribution to problems connected with communication, expression, interpretation, translation, and creativity.

Lexicon Grammaticorum

Lexicon Grammaticorum
Author: Harro Stammerjohann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1728
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3484971126

Lexicon Grammaticorum is a biographical and bibliographical reference work on the history of all the world's traditions of linguistics. Each article consists of a short definition, details of the life, work and influence of the subject and a primary and secondary bibliography. The authors include some of the most renowned linguistic scholars alive today. For the second edition, twenty co-editors were commissioned to propose articles and authors for their areas of expertise. Thus this edition contains some 500 new articles by more than 400 authors from 25 countries in addition to the completely revised 1.500 articles from the first edition. Attention has been paid to making the articles more reader-friendly, in particular by resolving abbreviations in the textual sections. Key features: essential reference book for linguists worldwide 500 new articles over 400 contributors of 25 countries

The Semiotic Web 1987

The Semiotic Web 1987
Author: Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 869
Release: 2010-10-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110868385

The Semiotic Web 1987 (Approaches to Semiotics).

Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes

Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes
Author: Gérard Deledalle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1794
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110854570

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A History of Women Philosophers

A History of Women Philosophers
Author: M.E. Waithe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401111146

Like their predecessors, and like their male counterparts, most women philosophers of the 20th century have significant expertise in several specialities. Moreover, their work represents the gamut of 20th century philosophy's interests in moral pragmatism, logical positivism, philosophy of mathematics, of psychology, and of mind. Their writings include feminist philosophy, classical moral theory reevaluated in light of Kant, Mill, and the 19th century feminist and abolitionist movements, and issues in logic and perception. Included in the fourth volume of the series are discussions of L. Susan Stebbing, Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad Martius, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Mary Whiton Calkins, Gerda Walther, and others. While pre-20th century women philosophers were usually self-educated, those of the 20th century had greater access to academic preparation in philosophy. Yet, for all the advances made by women philosophers over two and a half millennia, the philosophers discussed in this volume were sometimes excluded from full participation in academic life, and sometimes denied full professional academic status.

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics
Author: Paul Cobley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2005-11-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134545479

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics opens up the world of semiotics and linguistics for newcomers to the discipline, and provides a useful ready-reference for the more advanced student.