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The analysis of a sample of characteristic commercial shop signs in today’s Limassol, Cyprus, asserts their anchorage function as syncretic/polysemiotic texts relying upon the synergy of semiotic systems, in their commercial and broader informational function. The study of intersemiosis, i.e. of the translation between pictorial and linguistic semiotic systems and their hierarchy, can provide the basis for an in-depth semiotic study of the socio-economic and historical-aesthetic landscape of the city. This study offers a preliminary methodological separation of sign systems on the shop signs in Limassol, showing up the ways intersemiosis remains the standard historical communication method of shop signs since the advent of mass commerce.

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This page is a summary of: Semiotic Landscapes in Commercial Communication, International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems, July 2016, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/ijsss.2016070101.
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