Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Advertising

Signs, symbols, icons and indexes are used prominently in advertising.

Semiotics provides the viewer of advertisements with a means to manipulate and manage language and non-verbal sign systems. Advertising works in conjunction with images to promote or to sell or to persuade consumers into changing their behavior.

Semiotics do the following:
(i) Read the text.
(ii) Read the culture.
(iii) Make connections between the two.

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