Using sing language to communicate in industrial companies : semiotic study

Abstract EN

This paper shades light on the analysis of signs that used in industrial companies as a communication tool.

This study focuses on semiotics that is used by petroleum, construction and chemical companies to communicate with workers for many purposes, like giving instructions, orientations, prohibitory and warning purposes.

System of semiotics is everywhere in the foreign/local companies and it is widespread.

Anyone can see these indexes, symbols and icons on the doors, windows, walls, gates, oil pipes, machines, near wells and in many areas inside the companies.

This study tackles the analysis of these signs in two levels, i.e., connotation and detonation, according to Roland Barthes’s Approach in order to get the core meaning of signs, by studying their pictograms, colors and shapes.