Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement

by Susan Petrilli

The theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311021850X
• ISBN13: 9783110218503
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 1068 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary