Possibilities of Materiality: Application of a Peircean Model of the Sign for Building New Brands

Biedziński, Maciej

doi:10.5840/ajs201922245

The American Journal of Semiotics

Volume 34, Issue 3/4, 2018

Applied Brand Semiotics

Maciej Biedziński

Pages 293-311

https://doi.org/10.5840/ajs201922245

Possibilities of Materiality
Application of a Peircean Model of the Sign for Building New Brands

In contemporary marketing practice, semiotics is often considered to be a useful set of tools employed only in certain moments of the brand-building process. One of the reasons for this is that models rooted in dyadic understanding of a sign serve to narrow the role of applied semioticians to that of the expert, supporting a linear transfer of meaning from culture to products and services. This article proposes a framework that regards a semiotician, rather, as a key figure—a figure that I refer to as “the brand facilitator”—in the process of creating a new brand. The approach I present is based on the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and his idea of the sign as a cooperation between three subjects—the object, the representamen and the interpretant—with the object, namely the Dynamical Object, being the starting point for a non-linear, rhizomatic process of brand-becoming or the creation of a new brand. The article offers a detailed explanation of steps needed to complete each of the three main stages of the inquiry, including a material research phase, a cultural research phase and a phase of expressive anchoring. The theoretical framework is supported by a case study, thoroughly describing a process of creating a brand of vegetable pastes introduced in 2017 on the Polish market.

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