Signs, Senses and Cognition: Lady Welby and Contemporary Semiotics

TY - JOUR

T1 - Signs, Senses and Cognition: Lady Welby and Contemporary Semiotics

AU - Cabak Rédei, Anna

N1 - Reviewed Work(s): Signifying and Understanding: Reading the works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement (by Susan Petrilli)

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Susan Petrilli discusses Victoria Welby (1837–1912) and the Signific movement in her book Signifying and Understanding. The disposition of the book is chronological and thematic, and Petrilli’s discussion connects Welby’s work with contemporary semiotics, as well as with the intellectual and scientific landscape of Welby’s own time. For instance, a selection of Welby’s vast correspondence with intellectuals, researchers and philosophers important to linguistics, semiotics, psychology and anthropology, to mention a few of her interests mirrored in the exchange of letters, is included in the book. The review aims at further connecting Welby’s work to semiotic research of the day, where phenomenological and modern cognitive influences are important.

AB - Susan Petrilli discusses Victoria Welby (1837–1912) and the Signific movement in her book Signifying and Understanding. The disposition of the book is chronological and thematic, and Petrilli’s discussion connects Welby’s work with contemporary semiotics, as well as with the intellectual and scientific landscape of Welby’s own time. For instance, a selection of Welby’s vast correspondence with intellectuals, researchers and philosophers important to linguistics, semiotics, psychology and anthropology, to mention a few of her interests mirrored in the exchange of letters, is included in the book. The review aims at further connecting Welby’s work to semiotic research of the day, where phenomenological and modern cognitive influences are important.

KW - Victoria Welby

KW - Signific Movement

KW - semiotics

KW - psychology

KW - sign

KW - meaning.

U2 - 10.1515/sem-2013-0054

DO - 10.1515/sem-2013-0054

M3 - Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)

VL - 196

SP - 185

EP - 195

JO - Semiotica

JF - Semiotica

SN - 0037-1998

ER -