The aim of this paper is to make a contribution to an important chapter of the modern semiotics by an epistemological and philological examination of the significs elaborated by Victoria, Lady Welby. The author's arguments are based upon Susan Petrilli's book, Signifying and Understanding. This work remarks that, when VLW began to focus on the study of significations, some european scholars attempted to construct the sciences of meaning. However, F.de Saussure was not recognized by VLW, because Saussure's ideas on language and meaning were not published in that time. There are two branches of the theories of the signification, the Peircian branche and the Saussurean one, represented by Bréal. This paper presents a history of reception of the ideas of VLW in the european context.
