Victoria Lady Welby
Victoria, Lady Welby - Gregory, Victoria was born Alexandrina Maria Louisa Stuart - Wortley - Mackenzie (* April 27, 1837, † March 29, 1912 ), was an English philosopher. She is known for her work on the theory of linguistic meaning and the justification for the significs.
Life and work
Welby was the daughter of the English nobility belonging politician Charles Stuart - Wortley - Mackenzie and Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley -. 1863 she married Sir William Earle Welby - Gregory, also a politician. One of her daughters, Emmeline Mary Elizabeth Welby - Gregory, wife of Henry Cockayne -Cust was.
In the self-study to Welby, who had just enjoyed a slight training, brought the foundations of their education and expertise in theology and philosophy at and eventually won access to the most important philosophical journals of England. There she began speaking philosophical works to publish, in their first language- philosophical book, What Is Meaning? (1903), led and laid the basis for further investigations on the various modes of use of linguistic expressions and the subject of the speaker 's intentions in linguistic communication. Your guiding question and theoretical elaborations she made to a philosophy of language -understood as a basic science theory project named " significs " together. This makes it next to Peirce, one of the founding figures of the philosophy of language pragmatics.
The review of What Is Meaning? by Charles S. Peirce led to a detailed, especially problems of Peircean semiotics treated correspondence. The two thinkers share not only the interest in the broadest sense the philosophy of language issues both took from each different reasons a marginal position in the philosophical discourse of the time. By Welby, Peirce's work was well known in England, and gave also about Charles K. Ogden acquaintance with the works of the American philosopher who were for Ogden's book The Meaning of Meaning as important as the Welby's writings. Direct Welby's approach has referred, founded in 1917 " Nederlandsche Signifische Beweging " ( "Dutch Significs Group" ) by Frederik van Eeden, which included among other things, Gerrit Mannoury and LEJ Brouwer.
Writings
- What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. . London 1903 ( reprint with an introductory essay by Gerrit Mannoury and a preface by Achim Eschbach John Benjamins, Amsterdam [ua ] 1983.. [= Foundations of semiotics; 2 ] )
- Significs and Language. The Articulate Form of Our Expressive and Interpretive Resources.. London, 1911 (Reprint edited by H. Walter Schmitz, John Benjamins, Amsterdam [ua ] 1985. [= Foundations of semiotics; 5 ] )
- Semiotic and Significs. The Correspondence in between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby. Edited by Charles S. Hardwick and James Cook. Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington ( and others) in 1977.