The document announces the launch of the first issue of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics. The journal aims to constitute a reference point for academic research in marketing semiotics by enhancing the relevance of semiotic theories and methodologies across the marketing mix. The first issue includes papers that use semiotic analysis to examine representations of children in food advertisements in Cyprus, IKEA's intercultural communications strategies in Germany, and the multimodal rhetorical structures of advertisements for top brands. It also features a practitioner article on using archetype analysis to develop brand positioning and an introduction to a semiomarketing technique for optimizing video communication. The document concludes with a call for papers for the second issue.
HANDBOOK OF BRAND SEMIOTICS
Semiotics has been making progressively inroads into marketing
research over the past thirty years. Despite the amply
demonstrated conceptual appeal and empirical pertinence of
semiotic perspectives in various marketing research streams,
spanning consumer research, brand communications, branding
and consumer cultural studies, there has been a marked deficit in
terms of consolidating semiotic brand-related research under a
coherent disciplinary umbrella with identifiable boundaries and
research agenda.
The Handbook of Brand Semiotics furnishes a compass for the
perplexed, a set of anchors for the inquisitive and a solid corpus
for scholars, while highlighting the conceptual richness and
methodological diversity of semiotic perspectives.
Written by a team of expert scholars in various semiotics and
branding related fields, such as John A. Bateman, David Machin,
Xavier Ruiz Collantes, Kay L. O’Halloran, Dario Mangano,
George Rossolatos, Merce Oliva, Per Ledin, Gianfranco
Marrone, Francesco Mangiapane, Jennie Mazur, Carlos Scolari,
Ilaria Ventura, and edited by George Rossolatos, Chief Editor of
the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics, the Handbook is
intended as a point of reference for scholars who wish to enter
the ‘House of Brand Semiotics’ and explore its marvels.
The Handbook of Brand Semiotics, actively geared towards an
inter-disciplinary dialogue between perspectives from the
marketing and semiotic literatures, features the state-of-the-art,
but also offers directions for future research in key streams, such
as:
- Analyzing and designing brand language across media
- Brand image, brand symbols, brand icons vs. iconicity
- The contribution of semiotics to transmedia storytelling
- Could transmedia storytelling turn out to be what IMC
forgot (i.e., the message)?
- Narrativity and rhetorical approaches to branding
- Semiotic roadmap for designing brand identity
- Semiotic roadmap for designing logos and packaging
- Comparative readings of structuralist, Peircean and
sociosemiotic approaches to brandcomms
- Sociosemiotic accounts of building brand identity online
- Multimodality and Multimodal critical discourse analysis
- Challenging the omnipotence of cognitivism in brandrelated
research
- Semiotics and (inter)cultural branding
- Brand equity semiotics
Advertising Message as an Object of Pragmatic Research in Linguisticsijtsrd
This article discusses the study of the pragmatic features of an advertising message. The advertising slogan has the function of providing information about a new product or service in the advertising text, as well as the functions of persuading and inviting the purchase of this product or service. Research shows that linguistic pragmatics studies the behavior of signs in real communication processes, taking into account the relationship between signs and their user. The levels of the speech act are considered, which are distinguished according to the pragmatic criterion the attitude of the consumer to the advertising message. Farida Oktamovna Egamberdieva | Shaxzoda Damirovna Egamberdieva "Advertising Message as an Object of Pragmatic Research in Linguistics" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-5 , August 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33218.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/journalism/33218/advertising-message-as-an-object-of-pragmatic-research-in-linguistics/farida-oktamovna-egamberdieva
HANDBOOK OF BRAND SEMIOTICS
Semiotics has been making progressively inroads into marketing
research over the past thirty years. Despite the amply
demonstrated conceptual appeal and empirical pertinence of
semiotic perspectives in various marketing research streams,
spanning consumer research, brand communications, branding
and consumer cultural studies, there has been a marked deficit in
terms of consolidating semiotic brand-related research under a
coherent disciplinary umbrella with identifiable boundaries and
research agenda.
The Handbook of Brand Semiotics furnishes a compass for the
perplexed, a set of anchors for the inquisitive and a solid corpus
for scholars, while highlighting the conceptual richness and
methodological diversity of semiotic perspectives.
Written by a team of expert scholars in various semiotics and
branding related fields, such as John A. Bateman, David Machin,
Xavier Ruiz Collantes, Kay L. O’Halloran, Dario Mangano,
George Rossolatos, Merce Oliva, Per Ledin, Gianfranco
Marrone, Francesco Mangiapane, Jennie Mazur, Carlos Scolari,
Ilaria Ventura, and edited by George Rossolatos, Chief Editor of
the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics, the Handbook is
intended as a point of reference for scholars who wish to enter
the ‘House of Brand Semiotics’ and explore its marvels.
The Handbook of Brand Semiotics, actively geared towards an
inter-disciplinary dialogue between perspectives from the
marketing and semiotic literatures, features the state-of-the-art,
but also offers directions for future research in key streams, such
as:
- Analyzing and designing brand language across media
- Brand image, brand symbols, brand icons vs. iconicity
- The contribution of semiotics to transmedia storytelling
- Could transmedia storytelling turn out to be what IMC
forgot (i.e., the message)?
- Narrativity and rhetorical approaches to branding
- Semiotic roadmap for designing brand identity
- Semiotic roadmap for designing logos and packaging
- Comparative readings of structuralist, Peircean and
sociosemiotic approaches to brandcomms
- Sociosemiotic accounts of building brand identity online
- Multimodality and Multimodal critical discourse analysis
- Challenging the omnipotence of cognitivism in brandrelated
research
- Semiotics and (inter)cultural branding
- Brand equity semiotics
Advertising Message as an Object of Pragmatic Research in Linguisticsijtsrd
This article discusses the study of the pragmatic features of an advertising message. The advertising slogan has the function of providing information about a new product or service in the advertising text, as well as the functions of persuading and inviting the purchase of this product or service. Research shows that linguistic pragmatics studies the behavior of signs in real communication processes, taking into account the relationship between signs and their user. The levels of the speech act are considered, which are distinguished according to the pragmatic criterion the attitude of the consumer to the advertising message. Farida Oktamovna Egamberdieva | Shaxzoda Damirovna Egamberdieva "Advertising Message as an Object of Pragmatic Research in Linguistics" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-5 , August 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33218.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/journalism/33218/advertising-message-as-an-object-of-pragmatic-research-in-linguistics/farida-oktamovna-egamberdieva
The year 2017 calls for the end of global brands, at least as we know them. The future looks much more incomprehensible, complex and blurred, which requires a much more granular, nuanced and tribal approach to designing brands & crafting their communication. Simple solutions are no longer enough. Simplicity needs to be applied on a complex level to spark relevancy and drive significance from bottom up. What does this mean for global brands? In this report, you'll find the 6 key dimensions global brands will need to understand to maximise their value growth and boost equity in 2017.
Semiotics, as an integrative discipline, combining knowledge from different realms, seems to be the most useful approach in managing brands and designing marketing communication. This presentation offers a glance overview of how brand can be seen from this perspective and shows how it can be beneficial for advertising agencies and PR companies while designing the brand communication.
Meet Generation Z: Forget Everything You Learned About Millennialssparks & honey
Marketers have been focused on Gen Y (a.k.a. Millennials) for more than a decade. In fact, Millennials are the most researched generation in history!
But Gen Z (born 1995 to present) is different from the Millennial generation. In many ways, Gen Zers are the opposites or extreme versions of Millennials and marketers need to adjust to them.
We are just beginning to understand Gen Z and its impact on the future, but this report explores what we know and foresee.
George Rossolatos interview with Stirling Marketing & Retail Division 4 July 2016
My favorite question: How do you choose the journals where you submit your articles for publication?
My answer (in part, as what I forgot to mention in full): Based on the editorial politics that determine the prospect of obtaining a fair review in the light of published precedents and relevant advances, meaning that for as long as Kleopatra Veloutsou is the editor of the Journal of Brand Management I will not even consider (again) the prospect of submitting a paper. This is what happens when someone who has contributed the least to a discipline, who can hardly write in English, and somehow has managed to survive, stifles truly innovative research due to a (massive, the size of her brain on the inverse) conflict of interests (of course, with the blessings of black’n’white freakmasonry). Now let’s see who will be…stopped.
Truly puzzling how come the mention of the word ‘politics’ resonates negatively with some… people. Only a baboon would believe that there are no interests (micro or macro political) in the production of academic output. You don’t really need to have read Feyerbend’s eloquent expose of the workings of academic communities to know this ‘fact of reason’.
Recordings available on request.
Insights cultural diversity and revolutionary change semiotics in emerging ma...LeapFrog Strategy
Well established academically across the human sciences, semiotics has recently achieved mainstream recognition and use in consumer insight and marketing consultancy. Some major client corporations such as P&G and Unilever, using tried and tested suppliers, have achieved considerable success in applying the methodology globally. Many clients and supplier agencies, however, still see semiotics as an optional extra rather than an essential part of a thought through research process. Nowhere is the role of semiotics more important than for international business units looking to learn about developing markets and the increasingly diverse and fluid cross-cultural patterns that characterize globalization today.
It's a presentation based on the paper for World congress of semiotics, Sofia, Sept. 2014, dedicated to the necessity of new perspectives on brand. It discusses the key role of people and socioculture in contemporary brand/ing practice. Semiotics is introduced as a convenient tool for development of new brand knowledge and new generation of brand managers.
The year 2017 calls for the end of global brands, at least as we know them. The future looks much more incomprehensible, complex and blurred, which requires a much more granular, nuanced and tribal approach to designing brands & crafting their communication. Simple solutions are no longer enough. Simplicity needs to be applied on a complex level to spark relevancy and drive significance from bottom up. What does this mean for global brands? In this report, you'll find the 6 key dimensions global brands will need to understand to maximise their value growth and boost equity in 2017.
Semiotics, as an integrative discipline, combining knowledge from different realms, seems to be the most useful approach in managing brands and designing marketing communication. This presentation offers a glance overview of how brand can be seen from this perspective and shows how it can be beneficial for advertising agencies and PR companies while designing the brand communication.
Meet Generation Z: Forget Everything You Learned About Millennialssparks & honey
Marketers have been focused on Gen Y (a.k.a. Millennials) for more than a decade. In fact, Millennials are the most researched generation in history!
But Gen Z (born 1995 to present) is different from the Millennial generation. In many ways, Gen Zers are the opposites or extreme versions of Millennials and marketers need to adjust to them.
We are just beginning to understand Gen Z and its impact on the future, but this report explores what we know and foresee.
George Rossolatos interview with Stirling Marketing & Retail Division 4 July 2016
My favorite question: How do you choose the journals where you submit your articles for publication?
My answer (in part, as what I forgot to mention in full): Based on the editorial politics that determine the prospect of obtaining a fair review in the light of published precedents and relevant advances, meaning that for as long as Kleopatra Veloutsou is the editor of the Journal of Brand Management I will not even consider (again) the prospect of submitting a paper. This is what happens when someone who has contributed the least to a discipline, who can hardly write in English, and somehow has managed to survive, stifles truly innovative research due to a (massive, the size of her brain on the inverse) conflict of interests (of course, with the blessings of black’n’white freakmasonry). Now let’s see who will be…stopped.
Truly puzzling how come the mention of the word ‘politics’ resonates negatively with some… people. Only a baboon would believe that there are no interests (micro or macro political) in the production of academic output. You don’t really need to have read Feyerbend’s eloquent expose of the workings of academic communities to know this ‘fact of reason’.
Recordings available on request.
Insights cultural diversity and revolutionary change semiotics in emerging ma...LeapFrog Strategy
Well established academically across the human sciences, semiotics has recently achieved mainstream recognition and use in consumer insight and marketing consultancy. Some major client corporations such as P&G and Unilever, using tried and tested suppliers, have achieved considerable success in applying the methodology globally. Many clients and supplier agencies, however, still see semiotics as an optional extra rather than an essential part of a thought through research process. Nowhere is the role of semiotics more important than for international business units looking to learn about developing markets and the increasingly diverse and fluid cross-cultural patterns that characterize globalization today.
It's a presentation based on the paper for World congress of semiotics, Sofia, Sept. 2014, dedicated to the necessity of new perspectives on brand. It discusses the key role of people and socioculture in contemporary brand/ing practice. Semiotics is introduced as a convenient tool for development of new brand knowledge and new generation of brand managers.
Exploring the rhetorical semiotic brand image structure of ad films with mult...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the applicability of multivariate
mapping techniques to the exploration of the rhetorical semiotic brand image
structure of ad films. By drawing on correspondence analysis and multidimen
sional scaling, two techniques that are amply used in corpus linguistics and in
marketing research, but also on the data reduction technique of factor analysis, it
will be displayed how a set of nuclear semes and classemes or an intended semic
structure that underlies ad filmic discursive structures may be projected along
side rhetorical figures by its internal stakeholders (i.e., a brand management
team, an account planning team or a marketing research team) with view to
attaining differential brand associations. The illustration of the exploratory ana
lytical methods takes place by recourse to a corpus of 62 ad filmic texts from 13
subbrands of the 3 major brands in the UK cereals market and 321 ad filmic seg
ments that resulted from the segmentation procedure. This paper seeks to con
tribute to advancements in the brand image and advertising rhetoric research
streams by addressing distinctive modes of advertising rhetorical configuration at
the level of the ad filmic text (as against print ads where the bulk of research on
advertising rhetoric has concentrated), and moreover on a segmentbysegment
level, rather than treating the ad film as a standalone unit of analysis, by adopt
ing a multimodal outlook to advertising configurations that takes into account
not only the verbal or the visual mode, but also interactions among modes, by
adopting a product categoryspecific approach to advertising/brand textuality
that draws on rhetorical semiotics and by employing exploratory statistical
methods against the background of content analytic output.
A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF MULTINATIONAL BRAND ADVERTISEMENTS IN PAKISTANFaiz Ullah
This study conducts a semiotic analysis of multinational brand advertisements in Pakistan to explore the role of
verbal and non-verbal signs in shaping consumer perceptions and behaviors. Utilizing Roland Barthes' semiotic
theory as a theoretical framework, the study examines ten prominent advertisements from multinational brands,
including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Surf Excel, Telenor, and others.
George rossolatos building strong brands with structuralist rhetorical semiot...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
George Rossolatos
Building strong brands with structuralist rhetorical semiotics
New Bulgaria University 19 9 2014
12th International Association for Semiotic Studies World Congress
Brand equity planning with structuralist operations and operations of rhetori...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
This paper furnishes a structuralist rhetorical semiotic conceptual framework for brand equity
planning. The main source of brand equity that is employed for exemplification purposes is the
advertising filmic text. The conceptual framework assumes as its general blueprint Greimas’s
generativist model of the trajectory of signification. Structuralist operations and operations of
rhetorical transformation are posited as the basis for the generation of superior brand associations.
The conceptual model put forward challenges the Greimasian assumption that
a
depth
semantic
structure is
reducible
to a binarist rationale, while adopting a connectionist approach
in
the form of associative networks. At the same time,
the
proposed
framework
deviates from
the
application of conceptual graphs in textual semiotics,
while
portraying in the form of
associative
networks how the three strata of a brand’s trajectory of signification interact with
view
to generating brand associations.
George rossolatos post doctoral application march 2014: For a semiotic model ...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
George rossolatos post doctoral application march 2014: For a semiotic model of cultural branding and the dynamic management of a brandosphere in the face of User Generated Advertising
George rossolatos seminar on branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models an...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
Seminar on Branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models and research methods
Tartu University, Estonia 13-14 May 2014
George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD
//disruptiVesemiOtics// email: georgerossolatos123@gmail.com
http://uni-kassel.academia.edu/georgerossolatos
George rossolatos seminar on branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models an...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
Seminar on Branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models and research methods
Tartu University, Estonia 13-14 May 2014
George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD
//disruptiVesemiOtics// email: georgerossolatos123@gmail.com
http://uni-kassel.academia.edu/georgerossolatos
George rossolatos seminar on branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models an...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
Seminar on Branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models and research methods
Tartu University, Estonia 13-14 May 2014
George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD
//disruptiVesemiOtics// email: georgerossolatos123@gmail.com
http://uni-kassel.academia.edu/georgerossolatos
George rossolatos seminar on branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models an...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
Seminar on Branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models and research methods
Tartu University, Estonia 13-14 May 2014
George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD
//disruptiVesemiOtics// email: georgerossolatos123@gmail.com
http://uni-kassel.academia.edu/georgerossolatos
George rossolatos seminar on branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models an...//disruptiVesemiOtics//
Seminar on Branding, brand equity, brand semiotic models and research methods
Tartu University, Estonia 13-14 May 2014
George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD
//disruptiVesemiOtics// email: georgerossolatos123@gmail.com
http://uni-kassel.academia.edu/georgerossolatos
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
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Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
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Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
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Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKETING SEMIOTICS VOL.I launch press release sep 2013
1. 1
www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com
PRESS RELEASE: LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKETING
SEMIOTICS (IJMS) VOL.I
We are pleased to announce the launch of the first issue of the International Journal of
Marketing Semiotics.
The mission of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics is to constitute a
reference point in state-of-the-art academic research in the field of marketing semiotics,
by enhancing the relevance of semiotic theories and methodologies across the entire
marketing mix, with a dual orientation towards furthering existing theory, while
safeguarding managerial saliency.
Marketing semiotics is currently a discipline in rapid development, with a recent, yet
resourceful scholarly history. The major challenge for marketing semiotics over the past
twenty years has been to prove its credentials amidst a heavily fragmented and multi-
perspectival landscape that is indicative of the current status of qualitative marketing
research. Confronted with the not necessarily conflicting agendas of disciplines that
have managed to make inroads into marketing theory and practice and which have been
catapulted to mainstream research streams, such as anthropology and ethnography,
semiotics has been faced with the challenge of proving its credentials and its ability to
furnish unique perspectives on existing marketing issues, while also unearthing latent
research needs.
2. 2
We consider the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics
as being foundational, with an intent to promote scholarly research in all of the 4 or 5
P’s, by drawing on the rich conceptual and methodological armory of various semiotic
schools of thought. We are not aiming at rewriting marketing in semiotic terms, but at
demonstrating how distinctive research areas and practices that have or have not as yet
been tackled by traditional marketing scholarship, may be thought through and
elaborated semiotically. At the same time, as the merits and the practical relevance of
marketing semiotics must be highlighted, we opted for hosting practitioners’ viewpoints
along with academically oriented papers in an attempt to demonstrate that marketing
semiotics may only thrive through a dynamic interplay between theory and practice.
In the light of the above, Göran Sonesson’s essay Two strands of rhetoric in advertising
discourse: A cultural semiotic account kicks off the issue with a sweeping account of the
cultural nuts and bolts of advertising discourse, by drawing on such divergent strategies
as those of Absolut Vodka and IKEA, while taking a detour through metaphorical
transfers between burgers and jeeps. By examining the various parts of rhetoric and how
they developed throughout the millennia, culminating in the two pillars of contemporary
rhetoric and rhetorical semiotics, that is Perelman and Olbrecht-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric
and Groupe μ’s rhetorical treatises, and by combining rhetorical with cultural analysis,
most notably the strand that derives from the Prague School of semiotics, the author
issues a plea for further research in cultural semiotics with view to deepening our
understanding about the often silent, yet resonant and occasionally conflicting
argumentative underpinnings of advertising discourse.
Cultural analysis of advertising messages continues in the paper by Evripides Zantides
and Evangelos Kourdis Representations of children in food advertisements in Cyprus: A
sociosemiotic perspective that furnishes an outlook on the structural components of
Cypriot print advertising targeted to children (and/or their parents), while showing how
local and global cultural values are reflected in the employed advertising executions by
local and multinational brands. By pursuing a largely sociosemiotic perspective, while
taking into account the relevant marketing literature and paying heed to inaugural
structuralist texts that spawned extensive cultural semiotic research, the authors delve
into how children are represented in print ads, while deconstructing salient facets of the
modes whereby representations of the intended target-audience are formed, from hair-
color to typographical features.
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Semiotic cultural analysis and interpretation of advertising messages is further expanded
by Jennie Mazur in her paper IKEA: Ego and its Alter in inter-cultural communications,
who adopts an inter-cultural perspective in marketing communications, while focusing on
how IKEA managed to take by storm its intended target-audience in the German market
by leveraging its concept of not necessarily Swedish swedishness. While drawing on
Sonesson’s model of Ego and Alter culture and on an extensive list of analytical
categories for dissecting ad texts, she demonstrates how the company’s indubitably
clever advertising strategy that built both on embedded cultural mores, but also on an
invented notion of Swedishness that brought forward novel stereotypes, attained to
consolidate in the existing consumer ethos through a humorous and occasionally self-
ironic discourse. An intensive analysis of 48 IKEA commercials spawned three
communicative territories that matched different phases of the deployment of the brand’s
communication strategy in the German market, while highlighting, most interestingly,
how the invented stereotypes in IKEA’s ad films not only managed to catapult the brand
to a leadership position in the German DIY market, but to create a whole new ethos,
including the adoption of the cultural practice of throwing Christmas trees off windows
during St. Knut’s day.
By further exploring the contribution of rhetoric in making sense of distinctive modes of
ad textual configuration, George Rossolatos in his paper An anatomy of the multimodal
rhetorical landscape of the world’s most valuable brands puts forward the //rhetor.dixit//
model, which aims at furnishing a concrete methodological platform for analyzing and
interpreting the multimodal rhetorical structure of ad filmic texts. Amidst the ongoing
dialogue as to whether rhetorical analysis in the light of multimodal texts should stop at
the level of rhetorical operations or drill down to individual figures, adapted in such a
manner as to account effectively for the particularities of the visual mode, but also for
verbo-visual interactions, //rhetor.dixit// follows the second route, while addressing the
needs of a largely viso-centric discourse. The propounded model that draws on an
extensive corpus of ad films from the world’s most valuable brands (based on BrandZ
2012), combines content analysis with the aid of atlas.ti with an interpretive approach.
The author puts forward three novel rhetorical figures (accolorance, reshaption,
pareikonopoeia) in an effort to account for the bespoke configuration modes of ad filmic
texts, while furnishing a novel methodology for conducting rhetorical analysis of
advertising filmic texts, by dissecting and coding ad films segment-by-segment,
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according to uniformly applicable criteria. In addition, the model provides a string of
useful statistics that emphasize the strength of co-occurrence of one or more figures in
the same filmic syntagm(s), while offering a coherent perspective that combines verbo-
visual rhetorical figures with argumentation strategies.
Moving on to the practitioners’ corner, Marcie Connan and Crystal Sarantoulias of the
DIGInsights semiotic agency guide us through how archetypical analysis of brand
personality may yield alternative and more credible positioning territories for brands, by
drawing on a case-study from the home repair market. By combining a brand storytelling
approach with actual consumer research that aimed at gauging consumers’ identification
of different design propositions with brand personality features, the company managed
to single out the most appropriate archetype for their client brand and reflect this
appropriately in their value proposition.
Last, but not least, Cinzia Ligas and Fausto Crepaldi of the Lux agency introduce the 8th
P through their Semiomarketing approach that aims at unlocking the unconscious
mechanisms whereby perceptions about fashion and luxury objects are formed. To this
end they recruit their ‘warpframe’, among others methods, which is intent on
dimensionalizing the narrative structures that are responsible for conditioning addresses’
perceptual mechanisms. Warpframe, a semiomarketing technique used to optimize
video communication, is made up of ten items that have to be taken into account before
producing a storyboard or writing a script, viz. identity, relationship, style, signs, codes,
figures, roots, roles, balance and sub-limen. The authors show how narrative structures
condition the 8th
P, perception, through an analysis of Regina’s advertising.
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