From Real Tombs to Digital Memorials: An Exploratory Study in Multicultural Elements for Communication

This research is based on a semiotic analysis of tombs and tombstones in order to discuss elements that might be useful for software design, especially of digital memorials. In this research, Saussurean semiotics was considered.

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