Abstract
Welby's significs found official recognition in the spheres of semiotic and philosophical research as the nineteenth century gradually turned into the twentieth. Such recognition was expressed through a series of editorial initiatives including the publication of dictionary and encyclopedia entries. Moreover, it was extended to the Signific Movement in the Netherlands, which was originally influenced by Welby's research and which developed internationally and independently of Welby across the first half of the twentieth century.
About the author
Susan Petrilli (b. 1954) is an associate professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro 〈susan.petrilli@gmail.com〉. Her research interests include meaning, language, communication, ideology and subjectivity. Her publications include Signifying and Understanding. Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement (2009); Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective. Essays by Susan Petrilli, 7th SSA Sebeok Fellow. The American Journal of Semiotics, Volume 24.4 (2008, now available in book form, 2010); Expression and Interpretation in Language (2012); and The Self as a Sign, the World and the Other (2013).
©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
