Sonic semiotics - the role of music in marketing communications

Semiotic analyses have generally privileged visual over aural signs. This paper seeks to extend the boundaries of semiotics by recognising that sound and music also function as signs in culture and advertising.

Sonic semiotics – the role of music in marketing communications

Chris Arning and Alex Gordon Flamingo International, United Kingdom

INTRODUCTION

It was Aristotle who remarked that the eyes are the organs of temptation, but the ears are the organs of instruction....

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