RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsВестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Теория языка. Семиотика. Семантика2313-22992411-1236Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2757710.22363/2313-2299-2021-12-3-875-887THEORY, METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS. SEMIOTICS AND LINGUOCULTUROLOGYТЕОРИЯ, ИСТОРИЯ И МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ ЛИНГВИСТИКИ. СЕМИОТИКА И ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРОЛОГИЯResearch ArticleThe History of Semiotic Ideas: Victoria Lady Welby’s SignificsИстория семиотических идей: сигнифика леди Виктории Уэлбиhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2150-1571SkripnikKonstantin D.СкрипникКонстантин Дмитриевич

DSc. in Philology, Full Professor, the Department of the History of Foreign and Domestic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, and Social and Political Sciences

доктор философских наук, профессор, профессор кафедры истории зарубежной и отечественной философии Института философии и социально-политических наук

skd53@mail.ruSouthern Federal UniversityЮжный федеральный университет03102021123Linguistic dominants of grammar and lexicsЛингвистические доминанты грамматики и словаря87588703102021Copyright ©; 2021, Skripnik K.D.Copyright ©; 2021, Скрипник К.Д.2021Skripnik K.D.Скрипник К.Д.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/27577

The purpose of this article is to characterize the basic ideas of the conception of significs, the original science of sign and meaning that emerged at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries in the works of Victoria Lady Welby (1837-1912). The article explains the features of significs, which considers the meaning of verbal and non-verbal signs as a complex hierarchical structure, the levels of which are sense, meaning, and significance. Significance includes the preceding levels and takes into account their relations with axiological characteristics. The author points out that the content of the structure of “sense-meaning-significance” can be represented in different ways, depending on metaphorical, terminological, social and communicative factors. The conception of significs thus becomes universal and fundamental. The article emphasizes that significs highlights the dynamic nature of meaning, considering changes, that take place on each of its levels. The author sees in this fact the connection of significs with the evolutionary ideas contained in linguistics and natural science, and traces the process of formation of significs, arguing that its foundations lie in the description of various examples of the use of language, undertaken by V. Welby at the early stages of her research. The article is based on the study and comparative analysis of both the works of V. Welby herself and the commentary literature. In conclusion the author specifizes the value of the conception of significs as an integral dynamic theory of sign, meaning, and significance, which incorporates the various aspects of sign issues - from the logical and linguistic to the axiological and pragmatic ones, and indicates the ways of explication the impact of significs on the subsequent development of semiotic, philosophical, and linguistic researches.

Цель данной статьи - охарактеризовать базовые идеи сигнифики, оригинальной науки о знаке и значении, возникшей на рубеже XIX-XX вв. в работах леди Виктории Уэлби (1837-1912). В статье выяснены особенности сигнифики, рассматривающей значение вербальных и невербальных знаков как сложную иерархизированную структуру, уровнями которой являются смысл (sense), значение (meaning) и значимость (significance). Значимость включает предшествующие уровни и учитывает их связь с аксиологическими характеристиками. Автор указывает, что структура «смысл-значение-значимость» может быть содержательно и формально репрезентирована по-разному в зависимости от метафорических, терминологических, социально-коммуникативных факторов. Концепция сигнифики приобретает тем самым универсальный и фундаментальный характер. В статье подчеркивается, что сигнифика акцентирует динамический характер значения, рассматривая изменения каждого его уровня. Автор видит в этом связь сигнифики с эволюционными идеями, содержащимися в лингвистике и естественной науке, и прослеживает процесс формирования сигнифики, подчеркивая, что ее основы лежат в описании различных примеров использования языка, предпринятом В. Уэлби на ранних этапах своего исследования. Статья основана на изучении и проведении компаративного анализа как работ самой В. Уэлби, так и комментаторской литературы. В заключении подчеркивается ценность концепции сигнифики как целостной динамической теории знака и значения, теории, интегрирующей различные аспекты изучения значения - от логико-лингвистических до аксиологических и практических, указываются направления экспликации влияния сигнифики на последующее развитие семиотических и философско-лингвистических исследований.

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