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(2015) International handbook of semiotics, Dordrecht, Springer.
Welby introduced the term 'significs' for her special approach to the study of signs and meaning towards the end of the nineteenth century. This term was completely free from technical associations and was suitable to describe her focus on sign and meaning in relation to values and sense. Significs transcends pure descriptivism and analyzes signifying processes beyond logical-cognitive boundaries to explore the ethical, aesthetic and pragmatic dimensions of sign activity. Welby exchanged ideas with numerous personalities of the day, in some cases influencing the course of their research as in the case of Charles Peirce during the last decade of his life or Charles Ogden in his early student days. Her work inspired the Signific Movement in the Netherlands which flourished across the first half of the twentieth century thanks to mediation of the Dutch poet and psychiatrist F. van Eeden.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9404-6_8
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Petrilli, S. (2015)., Welby's significs, its developments and international ramifications, in , International handbook of semiotics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 217-235.
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