Susan Petrilli is an associate professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is author of many books, including Expression and Interpretation in Language and The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other.

• Foreword, by Frank NuesselIntroduction: Prefigurations and Developments in theStudy of SignsPart I On Signs in the Direction of Significs1 Significs: A New Approach to Signs and Language1.1 The Scope of Significs, or "Semioethics"1.2 Problems of Language and Terminology1.3 Significs and Theory of Meaning1.4 Iconicity and Translative Processes in Language and Knowledge1.5 Geosemiosis, Heliosemiosis, Cosmosemiosis1.6 Mother-Sense, Love, and Subjectivity1.7 Interpretative Itineraries in the Relation between Religion, Philosophy, and Science2 Understanding and Misunderstanding2.1 Significs as the Critique of Bad Linguistic Usage2.2 Ambiguity of the Live Word and Sclerosis of Definition2.3 For a Significal Education2.4 Common Sense and Common Speech in Welby and Peirce2.5 Semantic Vagueness and Logical Abstraction3 Life Sciences and Human Sciences in Dialogue3.1 The Transdisciplinary Vocation of Significs3.2 The Problem of Sense, an Evolutionary Perspective3.3 A New Copernican Revolution743.4 The Development of Signifying Processes3.5 Similarity and the Figurative Nature of Meaning4 The Question of Translation4.1 Translation as Method4.2 Significance in Interpretative-Translative Processes4.3 Translation Theories: Welby, Peirce, Bakhtin, Wittgenstein1114.4 Translatability and Common Meaning4.5 Centrality of Translation in Sign Processes and Evolutionary DevelopmentPart II Among Masters of the Sign5 Victoria Welby and Charles S. Peirce: Significs, Semiotics, Semioethics5.1 The Welby Network5.2 From "Code Semiotics" to "Interpretation Semiotics"5.3 Sense, Meaning, and Significance5.4 Interpretation, Translation, and Value5.5 Significs, Semantics, Semiotics6 Victoria Welby and Giovanni Vailati: The Critique of Language6.1 An Intellectual Alliance6.2 Linguistic Ambiguity and Definition6.3 Figurative Speech, Analogy, and Communication7 Victoria Welby and Charles K. Ogden: What Does Meaning Mean?7.1 Welby, Ogden, and Others: A Communication Network7.2 The Correspondence between Victoria Welby and Charles K. Ogden7.3 Significs and "The Meaning of Meaning"7.4 Meaning, Referent, and Linguistic Production7.5 A Biobibliographical Study on Ogden8 Victoria Welby, Mary Everest Boole, and Susanne K. Langer: Humanizing Signs8.1 Victoria Welby and the Logic of Mother Sense8.2 Mary Everest Boole in Correspondence with Welby8.3 Susanne K. Langer on Signs, Symbols, and Significance9 Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Vitality of Meaning9.1 Intellectual Biographies: Difference and Encounter9.2 Language and Culture9.3 Identity and Otherness9.4 Ideology, Language, Consciousness9.5 Sign Theory in Welby, Peirce, Bakhtin10 Victoria Welby and Genevieve Vaughan: Gift-Giving and Communication10.1 Gift-Giving, Significs, Semioethics10.2 For the Quality of Life in the World of Global Communication10.3 Sensitivity to Otherness with Global Semiotics and Semioethics10.4 The Gift from a Semioethical Perspective10.5 To "Pull the Mother Back into Philosophy"10.6 Significs: FollowingReferencesName and Subject Index