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Language and Creation in Victoria Welby’s Significs and Semioethics
- Authors: Kiose M.I.1,2
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Institute of Linguistics RAS
- Issue: No 8(902) (2025)
- Pages: 69-76
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2542-2197/article/view/309472
- ID: 309472
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The study addresses the problem of ideas transfer in science and the women’s underestimated contribution to this transfer. It identifies the role of language in Victoria Welby’s philosophy of significs and semioethics considering its contribution to the processes of creation. The research data are six Welby’s most influential works published in 1881–1911 which show language as both creator and the created. Conducted within the research framework of spatial semantics, the study reveals the shifts in the agonist and antagonist roles of language as well as the differences in its components distribution attributed to the transformation of Welby’s earlier significs to semioethic views.
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Maria Ivanovna Kiose
Moscow State Linguistic University; Institute of Linguistics RAS
Author for correspondence.
Email: maria_kiose@mail.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Associate Professor, Chief Researcher at Centre for Sociocognitive discourse studies; Leading Researcher at Laboratory of Multichannel communication
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