Transcending Semiotics: Toward Understanding Design for Understanding
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In this paper I intend to examine several epistemological difficulties one quite naturally encounters within traditional semiotics, especially when trying to apply it to design (industrial design and product semantics in particular). Disciplines Communication This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/295
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