Indexicality and the Verification Function of Irreplaceable Possessions: A Semiotic Analysis
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- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Consumer Research
- Vol. 27 (1) , 17-30
- https://doi.org/10.1086/314306
Abstract
Many researchers have noted that special possessions can represent personally relevant events, people, places, and values. Semiotics provides a usefuKeywords
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