Definition
Discipline that studies signs and their processes of signification — how something (signifier) represents something else (signified) for someone (interpreter). Applied to branding, semiotics makes it possible to deliberately analyze and design how the brand is formed (syntactics), what it means (semantics) and how it operates in contexts (pragmatics).
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