"Multimodal Sensory Marketing" in retailing: the role of intra- and intermodality transductions

The objective of this article is to show how sensory marketing can benefit from taking a multimodal and social semiotic perspective. For this purpose, the framework of "Multimodal Sensory Marketing" is suggested. Important pillars for the scaffolding of this framework are intra - and inter...

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Published inConsumption, markets and culture Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 252 - 271
Main Author Lick, Erhard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 04.05.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Comorbidity
Consumer behavior
Marketing
multimodal discourse
Multimodality
Retailing
Semiotics
sensory marketing
spatial texts
transductions
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Summary:The objective of this article is to show how sensory marketing can benefit from taking a multimodal and social semiotic perspective. For this purpose, the framework of "Multimodal Sensory Marketing" is suggested. Important pillars for the scaffolding of this framework are intra - and intermodality transductions. Based on the understanding of retail environments as spatial texts, this article distinguishes between store exterior texts, store interior texts, and customer texts (movements and interactions). The originality of this article resides in the demonstration of how retailers may choose and combine different sensory modes in their meaning making of theme-based retail texts. Intermodality transductions are of particular importance, since they increase the co-occurrence of sensory modes, the intensity of their interplay, and ultimately, may enhance favorable consumer behavior. Transductive links support such transduction processes. Managerial implications and directions for future research are provided.
ISSN:1025-3866
1477-223X
DOI:10.1080/10253866.2022.2046564