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"Everything is or can be significant and worthy of our time."
Making Sense
What makes semioticians tick? We asked members of the international community of semiotic practitioners to answer 10 questions…
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"The real power of semiotics lies in understanding how consumers create their own meaning systems."
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"We're all semioticians — we all 'decode' as part of our everyday lives."
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"You need to be comfortable with uncertainty, contradiction, and change."
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"We're surrounded by messages. The semiotician asks: How have these been configured?"
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"Cultivate a 'helicopter' view on things, concepts, and problems."
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"Each new semiotics project is an Indiana Jones-type adventure."
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"Semiotics succeeds because of its vast and ambitious scope."
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"Achieving a deep, rich understanding of why we behave the way we do is the most rewarding part of the job."
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"Don’t set off to be a semiotician — instead, let semiotics set you off."
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"It’s a semiotician’s imagination, open mind, and creative ability which are truly rare."
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"Where everyone else sees things, a semiotician sees meaning."
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"A semiotician must have an open heart — capable of appreciating the world beyond one's own perspective."