Presupposing Authenticity Through Typographic Traits in Commercial Signs
Stefano Presutti
Abstract:This transdisciplinary study aims to investigate pragmatic and semantic aspects related to a still underexplored area of human communication; namely that involving paraverbal features of written language. In particular, it examines the construction and diffusion of meaning ascribed to traditional and pseudo-traditional typographic mimicry used in commercial signs present in two semiotic landscapes in central areas of Rome and Athens, the capital cities of Italy and Greece. According to previous studies, as wel… Show more
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