2013, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp 103 – 108

Marketing and semiotic approach on communication. Consequences on knowledge of target-audiences

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Correspondence to: Victor Lorin Purcărea, PhD Associate Professor "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 8 Eroilor Sanitari Blvd, District 5, 050474, Bucharest Phone/fax: 021 3180759, E-mail: victor.purcarea@gmail.com

Abstract

Modern marketing puts the consumer and not the manufacturer in the center, the essence of the marketing approach being the conception, the projection and the making of the product, starting from the consumer towards the manufacturer; this resulting in the fact that the product’s marketing approach seems strikingly similar to the semiotic approach of the message.

In the semiotic approach, the message is a construction of signs, which, by interacting with the receiver, produces the meaning. The transmitter (the message transmitter) becomes less important. The focus is centered to the „text” and the way this is „read”, the sense being born when the „reader” negotiates the „text”. The negotiation takes place when the „reader” filtrates the message through the sieve of his cultural loading. A „target public” is a group which is specific to a certain Cultural Loading, a loading which deals with linguistic, logical, psychological and symbolic structures, which get out to meet the message and „negotiates” with the structures similar to it.

When we are thinking in terms of the semiotic approach, we are handling the cultural determinism of communication, using the concepts of Kuhn and Gonseth (paradigm and referential). They open a new path in the market research, in the market segmentation and knowledge of the „target audiences”.

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Article Publishing Date (print): 15-03-2013
Available Online: 25-03-2013

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ISSN Printing: 1844-122X
ISSN Online: 1844-3117
Journal Title: Journal of Medicine and Life

Copyright License: Open Access

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