Abstract
Susan Petrilli's work contributes to the history of world semiotics in so much as it allows one to measure the extraordinary and sometimes tragic efforts developed by Victoria, Lady Welby (Welby) in order to create a network of specialists of meaning. Thanks to Welby, the European and American streams of semiotics nearly came together at their very beginnings. However, if it is true that cognitive misunderstandings were not absent during that pioneering period, one may hope that, thanks to Susan Petrilli's volume, research will be able to deepen its epistemological requirements in a manner which will allow Peircean and Saussurian semiotics to cooperate in their investigations and to harmonize their results.
About the author
Anne Hénault is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Sorbonne 〈anne.henault@beaurecueil.org〉. Her research interests include the history and epistemology of general semiotics. Her publications include Histoire de la Sémiotique (1997); Questions de sémiotique (2002); Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle (2004); and Les Enjeux de la Sémiotique (2012).
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