Victoria Welby (1837-1912) dedicated her research to the relationship between signs and values
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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
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Name and Subject Index